Flintoff, whose first Test taunt at a free-swinging Tino Best to "mind the windows" was memorable, may find he'll be threatening the odd pane of glass himself this session.
Which already distinguishes it from those occasional instances of genuine wit: Andrew Flintoff advising Tino Best to "mind the windows", Ian Healy telling a fielder to get "right under Nasser Hussain's nose" and then ordering him to short extra cover.
The classic example of this approach paying off was in the 2004 Test match at Lord's when Andrew Flintoff urged West Indies tail-ender Tino Best to "mind the windows".
In his only other tour of England in 2004, Best became a figure of fun after getting stumped aiming a huge heave at Ashley Giles just after being urged to "mind the windows" by England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff.
Never mind the broken-windows theory of crime; in the New York of the crack-epidemic eighties the true sign of neglect was a faded tape X on intact but dirty glass, into the Dinkins Administration.
Gregor Schubert, an economics major from Leipzig, Germany, who called 83 Spelman home this year, said he did not mind the way the windows let the world see in.
Forget the rough ride, never mind the roll-up windows — anything was better than having to lug a dozen hay bales to the barn by hand.
It is only in the evening that I don't mind the walls being windows; most nights, I sit looking out of them with Jake, who arrived a few days after me.
Never mind that the window — all the windows — faced a brick wall.
