Clothes pegs

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Cloudy and breezy.

Very breezy, by the way. Downright windy, in fact, so let's hear it for clothes pegs. Those devastatingly simple but so effective devices which make our lives so much more comfortable and pleasant. I pegged some washing out last night and it was blowing a gale this morning with everything billowing away but the pegs had stuck to their job superbly with only one item blown down (underpants - purple).

It's hard to see this match doing anything other than drifting to a tame draw. The first ball of the day, from Anyon, has just passed harmlessly outside off-stump. Middlesex 124 for 1 -17 behind.