Rain will play a big part in this match. We should have started the series earliar. Those one day games and TV money are important but not as important as this.

Freddie and Peterson have got to get right amongst them in the morning. They have got to go after Tate, make him lose his confidence. It's a good batting pitch in good weather but speeds up with a bit of moisture. Showers are predicted on Saturday and lets when the Ossies should be in the crease if all goes well tomorrow.

But anything could happen in this brilliant series. We could be all out by lunch..

This is national Organ Donor week. So if you're too hard up to make a cash donation to ABC, how about giving a little of yourself to others? If you think carefully you should be able to find an organ or two that you don't use much. Arsenal fans, try the head area, Catholic Priests, try looking lower down. I'm sure that between us we could find enough parts to make several complete people, or at least a good casserole.

Details of how to give are on the BBC website.

If you scroll down to the bottom of any page on ABCtales now, you will find a Google searchbar.

You can use it to meet all of your search engine needs without having to leave the ABCtales.com site, because all searches open in a new browser window!

Don't say that we don't try and make life easier.

Also has any tried the bookmarks yet? I'm finding them dead useful to tag stuff I want to have a look at later, or stuff I have to remember to email to a friend.

Cheers,

Mark Brown, Editor, www.ABCtales.com

Hi all,

I have been reading some fantastic writting in ABCtales, and wanted a way in which to show my appreciation for it, this seems the quickiest. Pls feel free to rate others!!

Enzo: "Bedtime in Winchmore Hill" 10/10
Absolutly loved it, especially the ending, great!

Enzo: "Untitled Self Indulgence" 10/10
Again, amazing writer, amazing stuff, very strong ending.

Brighton Rock: "Love, in the name of Stop" 10/10
Short, simple, stunning. Thank you for something so beautiful

This is just an extraordinary piece of writing - evocative, subtle and original:

http://www.abctales.com/anna_tempt/real_love_and_doors

I commend it to you all!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1555761,00.html

An opinionated and wrongheaded article appears in today's Guardian, attacking both aspiring authors and respected children's author GP Taylor. Just who does this columnist think he is? What an arrogant fool.

What do you guys think?

There that got your attention.

Eeek. That was interesting, so I read it twice.

How does it work? Of course unfaithfulness goes on all the time, under the guise of 'open relationship' or otherwise. I'm not a particularly jealous person but the thought of my girlfriend 'being imapled by someone else' (to shamelessly quote myself) is unappealing to say the least. It gives me a feeling in the stomach that nothing else can.

well I know it's football but so what? If you don't like it then read something else.

MICHAEL (Even shorter in real life) Owen should be donning his red shirt any day now but something in the background of my Anfield dreams says he won't.

I love using this - and find some great pieces from years gone by.

Do have a spin around with it - and please flag up the really good ones you find so that we can all enjoy them again.

Just copy and paste the url from the top and put it into here - the site will automatically make it into a link.