Want to buy new Cricket stuff? Good Luck!!!
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 …
Cricket Diary: the Siesta is back.
Gooseberry Ice Cream. Parents 60th Anniversary. Siestas. Two totally different losses, The Hundred & Bat Refurbishment. Who needs Spain eh!? A frustrating weekend playing no cricket on what was the …
Cricket Debate: I Couldn’t Care Less Who Wins The IPL & The Hundred Should Recognise This.
I love watching the IPL but have no interest at all in who wins, which is strange for me because as a rule I don’t watch sport unless I actually …
Lockdown 3.0: Preparing For Re-Entry
Last Lockdown 3.0 post, and hopefully last Lockdown post ever – you and me both – as this week welcomed the first milestone on our release back into the wild …
Lockdown 3.0: Impact Of COVID-19 on an (anti) Social Drinker
Earlier this year, at the end of January surprisingly, I completed my 34th consecutive Dry January, not that it was called that when I started! To be honest whilst I …
Supporting The NHS This Cricket Season
I am returning to the cricket field this year for the first time in 33 years, aged 57, I am going to donate money to the NHS for every run …
Lockdown 3.0: 1% is a big FAT F*** You to the NHS, and us!!
I clapped them, I stayed inside for 12 months to save them, I even understood when they saved Boris, all the time getting angrier and angrier that successive Governments had …
Twitter Sphere: Cats, COVID-19 & Cricket
Whilst Cats, COVID-19 and Cricket have dominated by Twitter feed this week (not unusual to be fair) by far the most important, and distasteful, issue has been the cyber bullying …
Lockdown 3.0: VDay In Site
Vaccination Day looms. My father has had both of his vaccinations (Pfizer), my mother her first (Oxford) with the second scheduled for April, and Sandra her first (Oxford) with her …
Lockdown 3.0: Vaccinate, Vaccinate, Vaccinate!
Am beginning to think that Twitter should introduce some for of pre sign up test (to ensure people can read) and maybe some entry level of intelligence could be set …
Lockdown 3.0: It’s A Lifestyle Virus!
A recurring criticism (from me at least) of the handling of COVID-19 by the Government here in the UK has been the reluctance (am being generous) or the inability (nearer …
Lockdown 3.0: It’s a vaccine, not a cure!
Another week in Lockdown completed, and while the end is still nowhere in site in terms of a full, unfettered return to the wild, the light at the end of …
Lockdown 3.0: What will your “new” normal include? And when?
Another week ticked off, but as to how many more we face who knows? Certainly not this government, or social media, or the so called experts expressing their opinions on …
Lockdown 3.0: What COVID-19 Has Taught Us About Broadcasting Cricket
Back in March 2020 as the UK entered it’s first, and let’s be honest only thing remotely like a, Lockdown much was made of the opportunity for a ‘new’ normal: …
Lockdown 3.0: White, Middle Class and Middle Aged – The New Endangered Species!
Lockdown 3.0 continues, as does life, in a well established pattern now. The “trick” it seems is to do less and take longer doing it. To be fair this is …
Lockdown 3.0: How COVID-19 Has Changed My TV Viewing
Like many, I suspect, I have watched a number of old films again since March 2020, but somewhat ironically not Groundhog Day. No real reason why not, I enjoyed the …