Timothy Thwaites is in a patriotic mood on the mound at Sabina Park last Friday. - photo by LeVaughn Flynn

If we stop to think about the activity-filled recent days and nights, there should be many tired and sleepy people at the offices around the island this week.

Visiting Australians have a grand time after the cricket match at the Veranda last Friday. - Colin Hamilton/freelance photographer

Tanya Blake gave quite a few Australian blokes a sight to behold on the mound last Friday. - photo by LeVaughn Flynn

Miss Jamaica World Yendi Phillipps was a hit with young Jamil Johnson at the Spruce Up 2 launch by the Ministry of Tourism at the Old Hospital Park on Gloucester Avenue last Wednesday. - photo by Janet Silvera

Lois Robinson (centre), a Mandeville-based management consultant, has the attention of Jason Henzell, managing director of Jake's Hotel and Cottages in Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth, as they chit-chat during a break at the eighth staging of the Calabash International Literary Festival. Looking on is Ivy Lawson, a relative of Robinson. The festival ended on Sunday. - Photo by Noel Thompson

Jamaican poet Edward Baugh seems oblivious to a conversation being held between his wife, Sheila (right), and friend Linda Gambrill at the eighth staging of the Calabash International Literary Festival. - Photo by Noel Thompson

Jamaican movie star Paul Campbell (right) makes a point to Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett and has Michele Rollins in stitches at the Spruce Up 2 launch at the Old Hospital Park in Montego Bay last Wednesday. - photo by Janet Silvera

Headley 'Dellmar' Samuels (right) presents copies his work to the Gleaner's Editor-in-Chief Garfield Grandison, at North Street, Kingston, recently. Copies of Dellmar's latest book are available at Sangster's Book Stores. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer

Executive director of the Jamaica 4-H Club, Lenworth Fulton (left), hands over a 10-pound New Zealand white rabbit to president of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, Senator Norman Grant, at Agrofest 2008, held at Jamaica College, last Saturday. - Peta-Gaye Clachar/Staff Photographer