Surveys: What A Way To Kill An Hour

So I'm checking my email, and bango, here's a survey. Supposedly the 'Longest Ever'. So, considering it is a record-breaker, I thought it only fair I copy and paste my answers right here, for everyone to see. Yes, you may be wondering why I emailed it if I was going to put it on here anyway - answer being, I was bored. And, I'd already wasted an hour, so why not 15 minutes more!

Enjoy reading this, and well, maybe you might learn something about me you didn't already know!

Full Name: Scotty 'Too Hotty' McNaughton (na its really Leslie but 'too hotty' has a much better ring to it)

Nicknames: Moose, Scooter (fav with the english), Samwise, Aussie, Tosser.
Sex: Male
Birthday: 18th of Feb 1985
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gemstone: Pft like i'd fkn know!
Eye Color: Blue
Shoe Size: 13 (oh yes, thats right)
Height: 186cm
Innie or Outtie(Belly Button) : Innie
What Are You Wearing Right Now: Kangaroos Polo top and England Cricket Shorts (i know....)
Where Do You Live: Farnham, Surrey. It's in England.
Righty or Lefty: Lefty
Any pets: Several.
Can You Make A Dollar In Change Right Now? Well if you mean Australian Dollar then i can make a shitload of dollars with the conversion rate.
Relationships ----------------------
Who Are Your Closest Friend(s): Jacko, Ashcan, Shelto, Moose, Chrissy Jnr, Metters, Rickster, Morantus, Lloydos. The People.
Did You Send This To Your Crush: Bit hard because lets be honest if I did it wouldn't taste as nice, and I really do enjoy the Blackberry flavour.
Fashion Stuff------------------------------
Where Is Your Fav Place To Shop: Romida
Do You Have Any Tattos or Piercings: Na.

Color: Blue
Number: 18
Boys Name: Ethan
Girls Name: Felicity
Subject in school: Sport and Maths
Animal: Cats
Drink: Cherry Flavoured Coke
Sport: Cricket
Food: Mums sausage rolls
Fast - Food Place: KFC
Month: February
Movie: Baseketball
Juice: Orange
Finger: My Spinning finger, or bird as it is well known.
Breakfast: Coco Pops
Perfume / Deodorant: Lynx 'Click'
Have you ever -------------------
Given anyone a bath: yes
Bungeed: No
Eaten A Dog Biscuit: several
Loved Someone So Much It Made You Cry? i hate this question its so gay but yes.
Broken a Bone: no
Played "Truth or Dare": yes
Been In a Physical Fight: yes
Been In a Police Car: yes
Come Close To Dying: several times with Ricky driving
Once Been In a Sauna: Yes
Been in a hot tub: Yes
Fallen Asleep In School: yes (fell asleep at work once)
Ran Away From Home: no
Broken Someone's Heart: yes
Cried When Someone Died: yes stupid question
Cried in school: yes when our hot substitute teacher had to go
Fell Off Your Chair: Yes
Sat By The Phone All Night Waiting For A Call: yes
Saved Msn Conversations: no thats rude
Saved E-mails: Yes
Made Out With JUST A Friend: yep
Used Someone: hehe yep
Been Cheated On: yep
Done Something You Regret: no regrets
First thing that comes to mind-----------------------
Blue: bop-and-dee-bop-and-dye
Autumn: havent had one in 12 months
What is------------------------------------------------------
Your good luck charm: my orange shorts (now torn and in my cricket bag - travelled all round the world with me)
Stupidest Thing You Have Ever Done: it would be rude to seperate them all
Room Like: Smelly
Last Thing You Said: fk it i just stubbed my toe
What Is Beside You: a window displaying yet another hot english day
Last Thing You Ate: Coco Pops
Have You Ever.....................
Had Chicken Pox: No
Sore Throat: yep
Stitches: no
Broken Your Nose: No
Believe In Love At First Sight: i fall in love 20 times a day so i guess so? haha
Like Picnics: as long as i dont miss cricket or footy
Like School: yeah
What Schools: Fairview Primary, Norfick High, Elizabeth College
Loved Anyone: Yes
Would you:---------------------------------
Eat A Live Hamster For $1,000,000: id be a millionare so yea bring it on
Would You Go To A 'Hanson' Concert If You Had A Free Ticket: id sell them on ebay
Keep Something From Someone You Loved If It Hurts Them To Find Out: try not to
Do You Admire Guys / Girls: yeah, i admire chrissy snr - over 50 and still bowling as well as anybody. and better than me!
The Last Person That Called You: Emily manchant wanting a one on one session (she plays cricket alright dont jump to conclusions)
What Makes You Laugh The Most: watching people fall over and stuff like that
Last person:------------------
You Yelled At: some wanker at lords (he said that mark taylor was a more aggressive captain than steve waugh! wanker!)
Your Loudest Friend: Obi Wan.
Do you/Are You:---------------------------------
Do You Like Filling These Out: great when u have nothing to do yeah
Do You Wear Glasses or Contacts: Steve Waugh specials my friend
You Like Yourself: gotta have respect for yourself dont you surely
Do You Get Along With Your Family: yeah i think i do alright
Do You Do Drugs: panadol is a drug, so is caffiene so i guess yeah i do
Piercings Below The Waist: No
Stolen Anything Over $50: No
Depressed: have been
Final questions ------------------------
How Many People Are You Sending This To: a Plethora
How Many Contacts Are On Your Msn List: 18
What Did You Do Yesterday: Played golf, had 2 one on one coaching sessions then had some tea and whooped the rickster at table tennis. oh and went to the gym.
Do You Want To Get Married: maybe one day if i find the right person
Good driver: sen-friggin-sational.
Good actor: should have won an oscar for my portrayal of a cricketer in 'my uk adventure'.
Good singer: harmonic
Have A Lava Lamp: No
How Many Remote Controls Are In Your House: umm english like their remotes. 3.
Are You Double Jointed: No
Last Time You showered: half hour ago
Took A Bath: jesus, when i was 12!
Last movie you saw in theaters: Omen - shit-house!!!
Sun or Rain: Sun
Scary or Happy Movies: Scary
White Milk or Chocolate Milk: Chocolate
Beer or Dr. Pepper: you cant ask questions like that how can i separate them
Vanilla or Chocolate: Chocolate
Summer or Winter: Summer
Silver or Gold: Gold
Diamonds or Pearls: Pearls
Sunset or Sunrise: Sunsets
Sprite or 7-Up: Sprite
Pants or Shorts: Shorts
Orange or Apple Juice: Orange
Cats or Dogs: Cats
Coffee or Tea?: Tea (the english love that too)
In person or over the phone?: Person
Indoor or Outdoor?: Outdoor
--GUYS ONLY SECTION--
Thongs or Panties: Thongs
Makeup or None: None
Painted nails or not: Unfazed
Straight Hair or Curly Hair: Straight. but i am a sucker for curls
Freckles or None: unfazed
Jewelry or Not: gotta love the bling
Cute or Hot girls: Cute or hot... hmm... id say cute, but that would be rude to the hot girls.
Long or Short Hair: Long. short is cool as long as its not a shaved cranium.
What Do You Notice First About Girls: the colour of their eyes and cup size. (cant knock a bloke for honesty).

Lords, Pretty Nice Ground That Richie.

Gday Everyone!

Well thought it was about time I gave you all another update. To be honest, apart from yesterday, I had not really been up to that much... Other than my desired sport of choice, that is. Which I can finally say, bowling is going well. my action has come together nicely, and I now know what works for me.

Anyway, onto yesterday, when I spent the day at the Home of Cricket... No, not KGV, Lords! Dream come true for me, always wanted to go to Lords, and well had my chance...

... It was yet again another scorcher, 29 degrees, about 20 in the shade, and England battling to win, Pakistan not to lose. But lets forget about the cricket...

...Anyway, got the train to Waterloo, then the tube out to somewhere close to Lords (forgot what its called now - St Johns Wood, thankyou Johnny McCoy!), then walked to the ground. Sat below that hideous big media box thing, but it doesn't look as bad when you are there. The nursery ground is so small, thats the ground at the back, and you can go sit down on the grass and have a picnic. We did, but more beer than food was consumed on the day it has to be said. Now, we decided to go find some shade, Mound Stand, beautiful idea, but you have to have, well your supposed to have your mobile phones switched off in that grand stand, I didnt of course, and didn't get kicked out surprisingly, and at the end of the day I scored quite possibly the greatest piece of Lords memorabilia you couldn't get anywhere - A BBQ apron. Oh yes, an official Lords apron which one of the lovely young ladies working behind the bar gave me on her way out, because, well, to be honest all the boys were pestering everyone for either an MCC tie, a stewards vest, or me of course the apron. I won out, and the boys were extremely happy with my get. The Boys, for the record, were Metters, Chrissy Jnr and Skillsy.

We also got a picture with Rameez Raja, Pakistani commentator, check out my blogs photo album, there should be a couple newbies on there now! A few more coming as well in the very near future, got some great pics of Lords.

Well everyone, apart from that haven't been up to much really, got a few big games coming up, league table is very tight and anything could happen if we win the next couple... And to think, 4 out of 5 games we have lost chasing when we should have won, we should be on top!!! If only that bloody overseas player was any good!

Not long now and I'll be home, look forward to seeing you all soon. Stay Classy!

Stats stats stats...

Stats for all cricket at this point of the season - 22 wickets at 25.68 (Best Bowling 4/21 off 12), 328 runs at 20.58 (Highest Score 59 (52 balls).

The Stench of Petroleum Is All Pervading

Gday Everyone!

Has been a while between drinks so thought I’d let you all know what has been happening. Suppose I can start off by telling you about my unsuccessful 2 days spent at Royal Ascot, in which from 6 races I had 4 winners and ended up 40 quid down – never mind I guess, it’s all about the day (I went on Wednesday and Friday), consumed copious amounts of that great amber fluid and got my bowl of fruit all beer stained didn’t I. Royal Ascot has just been finished with its renovations, and it looked awesome – so did all the ladies who decided they should dress up for the days festivities, I may well add! One of the guys who came with us, Skillsy as he is known, ended up £1500 in front, so its fair to say he was the evening sponsor on both Wednesday, and Friday.

So from there we played and won on the Saturday, made some runs again but now I cant bowl (some if not most of you will agree I never could) and am currently being dispatched to all corners. Most frustrating thing about this is I have had no luck for the first part of the season, and now I’m struggling a bit it makes my figures look even more uninspiring. But, I’m over worrying about it and I’m here for a good time, not a long time, so fingers crossed I get some more wickets soon.

TOUR OF HOLLAND

On Sunday morning (25th of June) I met up with the Frensham Cricket Club for their much anticipated cricket tour of Holland. A 6:30 meet (the earliest morning I’ve had since arriving in this country) followed by a 3 hour bus trip and 4 hours on a ferry, we arrived in rainy old Hook of Holland. Yet another bus to our hotel in Den Hagg, or The Hague as it is known by those Non-Dutch speaking countries (I am now fluent in the language). It is fair to say, on the ferry and upon arrival a lot of beer was consumed, mainly Amstel, which is an ok beer but they give you such a big head (again save the jokes) on your beer it really wasn’t my cup of tea. Figure a 10 ounce glass with half of it being head – exactly, not pretty. That night me and Pagey, Frensham Sunday skipper, headed off to a pub in central Hague, and watched the Netherlands V Portugal match – to which I continually sang “Aussie Aussie Aussie”, and, after almost 80 minutes of trying, and Holland being 1-0 down, we decided that maybe we weren’t going to get an “Oi Oi Oi” back so legged it quick smart back to the hotel.

On Monday (26th), the fixture secretary in Holland called and told us we only had games for Wednesday and Thursday. Sigh. More beer was therefore forced upon us. We went to a beach at a place called Scheveningeenen, really nice beach, pity it was raining and overcast. This aside we still played beach volleyball and quite impressed the boys with my apparent skill yet lack of mobility and jumping prowess. It is fair to say my team won, but in controversial circumstances. We then legged it back to The Hague, and a pub called “Cremers” – one of those smoking/coffee shops. My first impression was that everyone could be arrested if the cops rolled in, some dodgy stuff going on… But, this aside, we set ourselves up with some beers to watch the Australia V Italy match, with full Dutch commentary. Now that was fun. Seeing Kewell limp into the stadium on crutches was devastating – but the way we went out, I was shattered. So, the boys said they would shout me to dinner, take me to a nice big steak house. So, off we set, and after passing 3 steak houses I was beginning to wonder… And when we went round this dark little corner… There stands an Italian, outside his restaurant asking which one of us was Australian, and preceeded to wave his little Italian flag in my face. As angry as I was I couldn’t help but laugh and it turns out the bloke gave me the biggest bowl of spaghetti Bolognese you could ever imagine, with a truck load of parmesan cheese. Fair to say a hole was filled and some of my disappointment waivered.

On to Tuesday (27th) we ventured into Amsterdam. I thought it was going to be dodgy and turns out I was half right – a nice little boat around the dyke showed a fair bit of Amsterdams architecture, which was pretty amazing, houses are literally leaning against the next because the foundations are all rotting as they were made of wood – quite interesting stuff. When we finished our boat cruise we headed into the “Red Light District” – now, we find this nifty little pub, have a few drinks, and then go for a walk, just to see what all the fuss is about. It was truly the strangest, most out of this world thing I have ever seen, literally 3 blocks of pubs and porn shops, and hundreds of doors with women gyrating and shaking their stuff about. Now I’m sorry girls if this offends you, but it was sad, because the seedy underworld rings these girls fall into are something I just don’t wanna think about. They are all drugged up, off their heads and just don’t look like they wanna be there – but would you want to be? I mean they spend all day waving at people, having dirty old men all over them… It really is sad. Still, an eye-opener and if your ever anywhere near there its worth going and just having a look. So we headed back into The Hague for an early night (3am) as we had our first game the next day.

Wednesday (28th) came – and off to play the Hercules Cricket Club we went. They are based in a placed called Utrecht, and it’s a massive complex – 4 tennis courts, clay courts mind you, indoor football centre, indoor nets, 3 cricket ovals and the biggest clubrooms you will ever see. Oh did I mention the 3 hockey courts? We got a win, playing on synthetic, its not real cricket and they were rubbish really, their Aussie didn’t play but he was more of a coach. He does not Dights tho, Michael Dighton the Tassie Cricketer for those of you who don’t know, he is over there apparently, so I got him to pass on a Gday from the Moose. Small World, isn’t it. They put on a massive BBQ with squid (yep, squid) and some of the awesome pasta salad, just like Mum makes it, so that was comforting for both my stomach and the fact I’m missing home a bit. Its weird, I love it here, Europe in general, but still do miss home.

Thursday (29th) and we played Ajax Cricket Club – all that can be said here is coconut matting wickets are the trickiest to bat on, but by gee does it turn. Didn’t matter tho as their aussie made 150 and blasted me to all parts. Was a good club tho, and their opening bowler who is actually a Dutch Rep, for the women’s side… got me out. Caught right on the boundary. Silly, silly Scott getting out to a girl. Mind you, she was quite possibly the best bowler I faced over here. So the tour was over, a big night on Thursday, I actually ate frogs legs and escargo’t at a French restaurant, followed by a bloody long trip home when we arrived on Friday night, and I was buggered. Really loved it though, Holland is great, and I reckon I may even come back here to coach and play at some stage.

Well, this has been a rather massive update, so I’ll leave it here, and update you all at the end of next week with the results and whats been happening.

Until Then, Stay classy.

Moose.