Off Season Plans: Fitness, Rehab & Training
Here we go again another off season that starts with the need to rehab an injury I have been carrying since the second game of the season and which I …
Season Two: Reflections
Time for some post season reflections again, a season which in many ways mirrored last season, my first playing again after 33 year break between innings. Next Season then, what are …
Season Two: September Round Up
Final month of a very mixed season: dominated again by injury, but when I played I played much better than last season, introduced myself to Staffordshire Seniors, got more clarity …
Season Two: August Round Up
Last month was a very mixed month with the focus being on rehab and getting my mind around my future cricket. To that end August saw me sign up to …
Happy Anniversary Sophie
Really struggle with the fact that it is seven (7) years since we found sweet Sophie on the beach. She was such a pretty girl, into everything and full of …
Happy Anniversary Dinky & The Donuts
Two years since Sands came back with Dinky and The Donuts and what a brilliant two years it has been. Having the opportunity to keep the whole family together with …
The Forty Club
I mentioned in my July Diary that I had played for an invitational team against a Dubai Club and that I was becoming more involved (well aware really) of the …
Happy Birthday Donuts
The Donuts are two (2) years old today. They are all grown up now with their personalities and habits but one think they all have in common is how beautiful …
Season Two: July Round Up
Last month ended on a high, albeit a painful one, so I carried a couple of bruises, sore knees and stiff legs into the first game, my second for the …
Happy Anniversary Tigra
We have had Tigra nine (9) years today. Skinny, nervous and recovering from an awful start to life, within an hour she had found a sofa, Teo and security and …
Happy Anniversary Tito
We have had Tito six (6) years today. Adopted to ensure Tigra didn’t miss Teo too much and to take the pressure off Teo during his last months, and because …
Happy Anniversary Marti
Six (6) years ago today Marti came to live with us, and what an amazing six years they have been. It is hard to know where to start describing him …
Happy Anniversary Kasper
We have had Kasper ten (10) years today and it is fair to say that he and I fell in love at first sight and have remained that way ever …
Season Two: June Round Up
First game of the month was the first game of the season to be rained off. Mixed emotions as wanted to carry on from previous weeks form, but with regards …
Happy Birthday Sophie (RIP)
Sweet Sophie would have been seven (7) years old today and it is so sad that we never got to see her grow up and enjoy life. In her short …
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 …
Happy Anniversary Fleur
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 …
Happy Anniversary Dusky
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 …
Happy Birthday Kasper
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 …
RIP Saidi
It is two (2) years since we said goodbye to our special Queen Saidi, and not a day has passed that I haven’t walked into the bedroom expecting to her …
Season Two: May Round Up
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 …
Yorkshire County Cricket Club NED’s: My Thoughts
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 …
Season Two: April Round Up
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 …
Happy Birthday Fleur
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 …
Happy Birthday Tito
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 …
Happy Birthday Tobi
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 …
Happy Birthday Dusky
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, …
Happy Birthday Moreno
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 …
Season Two: I have a plan
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 …
What Next For England Cricket
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 …
Net Strategy
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 …
Happy Birthday Orla (RIP)
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 …
Staffordshire Seniors Cricket
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 …
Happy Anniversary Teo (RIP)
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, …
Remembering Sophie (RIP)
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 …
Happy Birthday Dinky
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 …