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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I mentioned in my recent post confirming the return of my Cricket Diary in 2022 that it would be concentrating on my life on the field – over the white …
It’s that time of year already, the official start of Christmas. The tree has been up (and down thanks to the cats) since the 1st of December and the Waitrose, …
Racism throughout cricket, incompetent and rudderless leadership from those responsible for English Cricket, and concerns over the increased focus on the short format of the game. Welcome to the 1960s …
The background to this post is the not unexpected early finish to the first test in Australia for the England Team. Well I say not unexpected, and I am pretty …
Tigra is nine (9) years old today and whilst her body may be a little slower and stiffer than it was, her brain remains that of a nine month old …
Before I started playing cricket again I wrote about my concerns regarding my fitness levels and how well my body would cope, and throughout the season I documented in my …
Not that I need any more cricket kit, but ….. I was looking for a pair of Masuri Pads recently, and I was asked by a couple of people if …
Couple of questions I get asked most weeks playing cricket 1) Do you work for the NHS and 2) Why have you got a Greyhound Sticker on your bat? Answer …
Five (5) years ago we adopted Marti, partly because he has always lived with dogs and we wanted to have a young kitten to grow up with Tito who we …
Nine (9) years today Kasper entered our lives. I was on a pet transport so Sands had the task of hand feeding him, then I took over when I got …
Hard to believe but little princess Sophie would have been 6 today! Pretty, friendly, inquisitive, loved by all, into everything, friendly with the dogs she was a purrfect little girl …
Five years ago today as we walked Teo from the van to the vets to discuss his treatment options for Lymphoma I heard a small meow, which I tracked down …
Eleven years ago today I was in a mates bar in Spain with Sands when she got a call about a dead kitten and an injured kitten that had been …
It is ten years since we walked along the beach in Spain and spotted a small, black, fluffy kitten – Dusky! A large pud he is the most gentle of …
Kasper is nine (9) years old today. He remains a strong character for sure: knows what he wants and usually gets it. He has calmed down over the last couple …
In an early diary entry I ruminated on the fist pump over the handshake. This weekend I was delighted to shake the hand of WIlliam James (maiden century), Olly Mills …
It is a year ago that we said goodbye to Saidi. Moerno’s mum she was part of our life for twelve years, having spent at least three years living on …