Keeping it in the Family

Goodness gracious me!


Whatever you do, don't look back or shake your head. Yikes! hope they didn't hear you.


They didn't, the brunette was too busy gasping in horror as well. Now that I think about it maybe it probably wasn't worth the gasp, but on face-value it was certainly shocking.


You be amebo sef, how you take hear that kind thing?


Not my fault Sandy and Brunette were standing astride the parking structure entrance, gisting. Would have stepped around them, but there was no room and Brunette stepped back like.....


Pass through and partake in this sharing of “knowledge” abi? Your “branch and chop” mentality don put you for trouble.


Actually more like she didn't really want to hear what Sandy had to say, of course Sandy chose the moment of my passage to blurt out “she's dating her step brother and lives with her mom”. The revealed relationship seems incestuous but on further reflection step siblings aren't necessarily blood relatives, thus incest is no longer an issue or is it? And with the Stuebing and Karolewski case in Germany as well one wonders how common such relations are? Let's not forget mom who has "lost" her husband and daughter to the other woman.

CSI:Kingston

Found the perfect location for a new CSI series. Kingston, Jamaica. Pakistan loses a Cricket match to Ireland, don't ask me the rules, and are knocked out of the Cricket World Cup. A few hours later the team coach Bob Woolmer is found half-naked and unconscious in his hotel room. He is eventually confirmed dead at a hospital despite attempts to revive him. Fast forward a few days and the police declare his death to be a homicide, courtesy broken bones in his neck consistent with manual strangulation. The entire Pakistan team has had their DNA sampled, some members were questioned and have since left for home. Odds are the Jamaican police recovered viable DNA not belonging to Woolmer from his body and are now looking for someone to match that against. One is curious to see if his death is tied to the Pakistani defeat and inevitable betting that would have accompanied it.

Unconnected or not its a further black eye for Cricket especially given its virtual marriage to match-fixing. The sport remains incredibly popular in the nations/regions that play it, England, India, Pakistan, the Caribbean, South Africa spring to mind but mainstream sport it arguably is not. I do remember seeing a few hardy fellows at my secondary school in Lagos partake in the sport and kept wondering why anyone would run around in those uncomfortable looking leg pads carrying a not-lightweight bat. It did not catch on and something about Cricket still says “fading sport”.