Coincidence

So, according to one of last week's blogs, the final test was going to be an anticlimax. Well, Bell did a good job of helping to avoid that earlier on today by getting yet another double hundred for the England team. Shame about the rain at lunchtime, otherwise we could have been looking at another 700+ total. Still, India are five down (thanks to three late wickets from Swann) and looking down the barrel once again. England need 15 more wickets in the final two days to wrap things up, possibly less as one of their top order batsmen failed to make an appearance at the start of their innings.

Today we had a trip out to Bluewater, and it was lovely to catch up with the Pitt family on their way to their week by the seaside. We had lunch at TGI's and then headed off on various shopping expeditions, meeting up for coffee once we'd all found what we were looking for.

My 'must buy' of the day was a copy of the Guardian, as recommended by Mum this morning as there was an interesting article about the mathematician Simon Norton. That's as much of the paper as I've managed to read so far, but the entertaining thing is that one of the books that I bought at the airport on the way to Orlando was called "Finding Moonshine" by Marcus du Sautoy, and it is all about symmetry and group theory, and one of the central characters in the recent history of group theory (one of the authors of the Atlas of Finite Groups), and who therefore gets lots of mentions in du Sautoy's book (including his love of public transport and his fascination with timetables) is Simon Norton. Spooky coincidence.