Happy Anniversary Tobi
Six years ago today I spent 90 mins releasing a very small, very grubby, and very stubborn Tobi out from a car engine on the side of the road near …
Six years ago today I spent 90 mins releasing a very small, very grubby, and very stubborn Tobi out from a car engine on the side of the road near …
Twelve (12) years today Sands brought a badly injured, scared and frail little Fleur home. It was touch and go if she would lose her leg, or indeed have to …
So it is is eleven (11) years today that Sands and I went for a early evening walk on the beach and came back with a small, black, purring kitten …
Kasper is ten (10) years old today. A purrfect time to look back at some of the early photos we have of the little fella. As you will see it …
If last month was a mixed start to the season then May has been very mixed, very frustrating and very rewarding. Fair to say that following my limited involvement in …
At the Yorkshire County Cricket Club AGM on May 28th members will be asked to vote on a number of new Independent NED appointments, a few ‘housekeeping tasks’ but not …
A mixed start to the season! It was a nailed on certainty that after all the winter nets, the analysis of my game, the talking rather than doing that in …
Our little (literally) girl is twelve (12) years old today! Fleur arrived small and vulnerable and she has remained that way. She is a very small cat, with a huge …
Somebody please try and tell Tito that he is six (6) years old today and not 6 months! I think the pictures speak volumes for what an idiot (loveable) this …
Tobi is six (6) years old today. We still call him Baby Cat because when we adopted him we assumed he would remain the youngest, but he is no longer …
Not sure how but today Dusky is eleven (11) years old. Rather like the man himself it has just crept up on us! He is a remarkably laid back cat, …
Moreno is sixteen (16) today! He remains the most amazing cat. Externally he has hardly aged at all, and whist old age and arthritis have slowed him down and made …
I have a plan, well several actually, for Season Two and they involve wearing tights! I think that anyone reading the diary last year will have worked out that it …
A lot has (and is) being said about the future of England Cricket, and as usual lots of symbolic comparison to the deckchairs on the Titanic are being made. This …
I write this at the beginning of my first week without any nets planned since I started the winter Members Nets at Edgbaston on 18th November (and I could have …
Beautiful little Orla would have been fourteen (14) years old today which highlights just how long ago we lost this lovely lady, but just how much of a change she …
Returning to the cricket field last year, aged 57 after a 33 year break, I wrote several times that I had set myself the target of paying Seniors Cricket for …
Nine (9) years ago Teo came into our life, and turned it around for the better in so many ways. Can’t begin to say how much I still miss him, …
It is six (6) years since we lost our sweet Princess Sophie, the most gentle, happy, loving little cat you could ever wish to have in your life. It still …
Our reclusive, beautiful mummy cay, Dinky, is three (3) years old today and she will spend it doing exactly what she always does: whatever she wants! She remains very war …
This amazing cat is six (6) years old today. He is by far the most versatile cat ever: he loves the older cats, the kittens, the dogs, people in fact …
I have become slightly obsessed (no surprise I know) with watching cricket on TV not so much out of any interest for the actual games, but for the detailed technical …
Teo would have been thirteen (13) years old today. He was a very special dog and an extremely special friend that I miss each and every day. Please take a …
Oscar aka Big Pud has been with us for thirteen (13) years today, a very lucky 13 for us and it has to be said for Oscar who was saved …
Hard to believe that it is only four (4) years since we adopted Hollie as she seems to have been with us for longer than that, yet at the same …
I have written several times with my thoughts regards Development Cricket – a term used in this context for the introduction of junior crickets into senior cricket – and it …
Should probably start by saying that I passed my ECB Core Coach Course at the weekend. This is the new course replacing the old Level Two and no longer required …
I have been trying to write this post for a while but every time I thought it was ready England and/or the ECB shot themselves in the foot again. Mens …
You could argue that nothing symbolises the way that cricket has moved on than when a classic, understated, established brand adds funky to their stable. Say hello to the Gray-Nicolls …
Prince Charmin is ten (10) years old today and if ever a cat landed on their paws and was a puurrrfect fit it is this superstar. He has simply been …
I am a Full Member at both Yorkshire and Warwickshire County Cricket Cub and from that fact alone you would get extremely good odds on me being white, the wrong …
Sweet Saidi would have been seventeen (17) today and it is fourteen (14) years since we adopted her. We lost her in June 2020 and these posts do not get …
Here we go again, my 35th Dry January in a row! If ever a sentence made me feel old. I can remember the first year I went dry, my first …
In a recent post I discussed the Edgbaston Indoor Nets and what a great insight they had provided as to how the pros train, and given me some thoughts not …
I will talk about the impact the indoor nets, and specifically the coaching, has had on my own game in a separate post. In this view from the boundary edge …