A real Aussie Sheila?
Would you know what it takes to be a real Aussie Sheila - firstly that you can't blag your sports knowledge, and secondly that women can't be trusted with a barbeque and should stick to making salads instead?
The Ashes starts on Wednesday, so to better understand our rivals we challenged our Shelagh to see if she could cut it as a proper Aussie Sheila.
John Torode teaches Shelagh how to be a Sheila
To get her started, Shelagh went to get some top tips from Masterchef presenter, John Torode.
Find out how she got on here:
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PLEASE tell me you aren't going to do a cricket phone in tomorrow morning!
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Shelagh - Masterchef presenter? Give me a break. I watch the whole programme once with disbelief. The sneers - the diresion - the patronising!
I see a good Welsman is one of the contestants in the final - with a Middlemiss and a who cares as the makeweight! (The Wright Stuff refers).
And as for Aussies - they and me have unfinished business. Not ALL Aussies but a select few. The Ashes? The Ashen more like - and that is just me.
No worries!
The Gloom that is Portugeuse got a heroes welcome in Spain? I love the Spainish but am afraid their football fans are just as forgiving as ours if someone can play brilliantly on a football field.
I do not forgive so readily and would have loved to introduce him along the lines -
"What would you say if we had a player who wants not to play for our team? What would you say to a player who seemingly sulks on every occasion he is taken off. Who claims he is a slave - allegedly whilst being paid several Kings Ransoms per? Who claims loyalty one week and has bolted the next?
What - you would say welcome? Well this IS your lucky week............. lol
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The main thing to note here is that Shelagh often visits her family in Australia so why didn't she know all these tips anyway? The BBC could at least have tried to find someone who had no Aussie links to experiment with. You only have to meet a couple of Aussies to hear their stereotypical views of us and then answer them, as expected, accordingly. I think the BBC should have paid for her to go to Australia and present the Breakfast programme from there so we could keep up to date with how they think the Ashes are going, from day to day.
I am so pleased that the great cricket fan Victoria Derbyshire is presenting her programme from Cardiff tomorrow. She the person who couldn't name an Aussie cricketer apart from Shane Warne, a few months ago. Remind me to avoid her Roadshow outfit as I am going to be there.
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On the moan-in, whether immigrants do or don't get preferential treatment, it is a common perception - and there has to be something that creates that.
Also, the EHRC doesn't have an agenda, right? SO, no whiff of leaning in their report, then? Coincidence that it comes out as Gordon desperately tries to get re-elected, shortly after the BNP get a couple of MEPs on the back of peoples apparently-unheeded concerns over immigration.
Yep - all just a coincidence.
Call me a cynic but...
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Tempus you're a cynic! I agree about the source of the report btw. They aren't biased in the slightest!
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You know me too well. Zelly! It's funny but I become more cynical as each day passes - especially after Wednesday lunchtimes.
Can't think why...
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In my experience the typical Aussie woman is not only able to prepare what she considers to be greatest pavlova ever.....(which is prepared according to a family recipe and contains a secret ingredient......which is generally vanilla)
While she is doing this she is able recall every test match wicket taking ball bowled by Shane Warne, present an almost convincing history of the pav (omitting to mention that it does originate from NZ), whilst suggesting that i should get over Trevor Chappell's decsion to bowl underarm at Brian McKenchnie, thus providing him the opportunity of scoring a six off the final ball of ODI
Not only is she able to all of the above,she is able to do it whilst consuming at least 5 tins of VB
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