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They're the ashes of a burnt cricket bail that represent the death of English cricket at the hands of Australia …so I take it this means England lost , rather than that cricket has become less popular or stopped being played in England and/or with the English variant of the rules (which is how I in...

A double-sharp observation.

*flatly meows*

Hi ratgirl!

*looks all around me* Ooh, where?

Ah.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(I still have no idea what you're actually talking about.)

Adamorning

Good mornzzzz.

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Wouldn't the rain wash away the ashes?

I don't know enough about cricket to know what that's referring to.
We just have baseball here, and I don't even pay that much attention to that.

Night.

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Whose ashes, and what were they a prize for?
And why were someone's ashes a prize for something?

Day.

*footballs*

*joins in with a "good afternoon"*

*watches*

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