The girls went off to train while I skied the glorious off-piste with friends.
Dilshan's timing is exquisite and he hits two crowd-pleasing fours, the first with the scoop, the second with a glorious off-drive.
But in the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping broke with Maoist dogma by saying, "to get rich is glorious," setting off a wild scramble that has produced a generation of hungry entrepreneurs.
Australia won by a mere 180 runs at the MCG but his six wickets in the next Test in Sydney helped Australia to victory by an innings and 141 runs, taking VVS Laxman's scalp in both innings, the second after the makeshift opener's glorious 167 off 198 balls.
The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery covered almost identical territory 30 years ago, and Michael Frayn's glorious Noises Off is a far more sophisticated and multi-layered excavation of the chaos that ensues when backstage relationships and monstrous egos spill to the stage.
Adams hit a glorious six off Kabir Ali and progressed to a 37-ball half-century, but it was a procession at the other end as Anderson (2-24), Croft (2-11), Stephen Parry (2-22) and Tom Smith (2-28) shared out the wickets.
They can't possibly address every one of the hundreds of burning questions and puzzling observations fans have about the show after five pulse-pounding years, but they can certainly give it a grand and glorious send off that will keep people talking for years to come.
London 2012 was a glorious one-off, but a one-off nonetheless.
In so doing, it provides the Sundance film festival with a glorious lift-off.
Fans of the original might want to leave the original be, to keep it enshrined as a glorious one-off.
For the good of the nation Lady Barbara must be banished, but Gainsborough could still give her a glorious send-off.
