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 …
Lockdown 3.0: How Was Your First Week?
I ask because I am a little concerned that I missed the memo cancelling the Lockdown. Walking the dogs back in March in our allotted hour per day we bumped …
Lockdown 3.0: What Different From Previously
Here we go again then, yet another Lockdown. I think this is Lockdown 3.0, but who knows with all the various tiers that we have accelerated through in recent months? …
2021 A Year Of Emotional, Financial and Social Austerity
As I write this Brexit is done, and the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has been approved, and will join the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine being rolled out throughout the UK. With a …
Memberships v Members Bonds
Same Old, Same Old best sums up the Government, Public and Business approach to the relaxing of what the UK called Lockdown. I say it that way as I don’t …
COVID-19 Diary: Week Eleven
My intention when I started this weekly diary was to summarise any impact the Social Distancing Rules had on our life, and those closest to us. I have to say …
COVID-19 Diary: Week Ten
As I write this Dominic Cummings is trying to dig himself out of a hole that he created, and in many way sums up the handling of the COVID-19 crisis: …
COVID-19 Diary: Week Nine
A different week for sure as although there has only been a very small relaxation in the social distancing guidelines (well small but illogical and as ever poorly communicated) it …
COVID-19 Diary: Week Eight
Writing this between the announcement last night from Boris, and the detail and clarification to be issued to Parliament this afternoon – which a cynic may say has given them …
COVID-19 Diary: Care Homes
Up front, to start with, for the avoidance of ANY doubt, let me be 100% clear – I am 100% against Care Homes for all cases other than those where …
COVID-19 Diary: The New World
I have said before that I doubt that very much will change post COVID-19 as the pressure will be on to return to ‘normal’ as quickly as possible. I mean …
COVID-19 Diary: Sport Without Spectators (Audio)
Is sport really sport without spectators? For the fan it’s more than just a game: Bragging rights after a win, downing a few pints with your mates after a loss, …
COVID-19 Diary: Week Seven
Another week, with much reference to Groundhog Day, which makes little sense as aren’t most days, weeks, months “the same”. Surely we are at our most comfortable within the structure …
COVID-19 Diary: Time To Null & Void Sport (Audio)
Some thoughts on what should be done with sport (clue is in the title). Government needs to be more decisive and show some leadership. Sporting bodies need to stop thinking …