He shares it all with a menagerie that includes half a dozen horses, three dogs, two ducks and a turkey.
Has there ever been a case of an English batsman making his Test debut, collecting two ducks and keeping his place for the next match?
In place of the oval mirror in the upstairs hall, there was a framed painting of an old mill beside a brown pond with two ducks.
His form subsequently declined and against South Africa last summer he only scored 40 runs in five innings, including two ducks, prompting him to resign the captaincy before the final match of the series.
And with the tourists hoping for a similar upturn in form after losing the first three ODIs in this series, several under-pressure England players put in good performances in Adelaide, notably wicketkeeper Matt Prior, who recovered from two ducks at the top of the order to hit an attacking 67 from 58 balls, which featured eight fours and a six.
After the NCAA selection committee turned some heads for seeding Oregon so low, the Ducks dismissed two favorites by a combined 30 points in San Jose.
Bopara hit 34 on Test debut in Sri Lanka 14 months ago but was dropped after recording three successive ducks in the two matches that followed.
The NHL hosted two fixtures between the Anaheim Ducks and the Los Angeles Kings at London's 02 Arena in 2007, but French bemoans the fact the English capital is not represented in the GB professional league.
Perry's impending free agency could have forced Anaheim to consider trading its top goal-scorer to avoid losing him for nothing, but the Ducks now have their two cornerstones signed for the foreseeable future.
Swans, ducks and fish frequent the property's two rectangular lakes.
After the Islanders denied LaFontaine a credential for the game, Burke instead provided a ticket for LaFontaine, and the two continued their meeting in a suite reserved for the Ducks' owners.
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One trick they employed was for two people to set off across the field, then one person ducks into the hide while the other walks on.
The two duck-tour operators in Hot Springs have stopped operations for the moment, but the ducks that trundle round elsewhere will continue to do so as long as federal law allows.
But teams like the Carolina Hurricanes, Phoenix Coyotes, Tampa Bay Lightning, Anaheim Ducks and Columbus Blue Jackets would still have trouble making money unless they went at least two rounds in the playoffs.
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Getzlaf set up Bobby Ryan's tying goal and Selanne's tiebreaker 1:04 apart in the waning minutes, and the Ducks rallied for a 4-2 victory over Chicago in a meeting of the NHL's top two teams.
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