"Must be amazing to be in Australia for the Ashes, what's the atmosphere like? It's an understandable, if slightly daft question. Brett Lee isn't in my house. I don't wake up next to a furious Jonathan Agnew. WHY AREN'T YOU IN CANBERRA, MAX? I'm 850 miles from Brisbane. Apart from me the atmosphere is one of wild indifference amongst the family. The good news is I'm hosting the Guardian Ashes Weekly podcast - now a professional excuse to watch another five"
"2.31pm. A hipster Fitzroy North Cafe. The toss on the laptop. Ben Stokes calls tails. It is tails. Suddenly I panic for Zak Crawley. Twenty-nine minutes until he gets another duck. But he's so tall, surely that will help. Will he leave one outside the off stump? Michael Vaughan is in a McDonalds advert - poking his head over the fence like the neighbour in Home Improvement. I pay for my eggs and cycle to the supermarket."
An England supporter is 850 miles from Brisbane, residing in Melbourne, observing the Ashes with mixed local indifference and personal anxiety. The supporter hosts an Ashes podcast as a professional reason to watch prolonged match play. Morning routines intersect with match coverage: checking the toss on a laptop in a Fitzroy North café, buying groceries, and noting Australian street behavior. The Melbourne heat is described as a windy, buffeting humidity unlike English summer. The toss produces tails called by Ben Stokes. Nervous anticipation centers on Zak Crawley as Mitchell Starc begins his bowling run-up at the Gabba.
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