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 …
The Changing Face Of Cricket Commentary
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 …
Time to stop selecting and start building the Test Team
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 …
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 …
Twitter Sphere: Anger All Around Us.
I have, thankfully and by design, been very quiet on Twitter this week. That is not to say that Twitter has been quiet or that I have not been aware …
COVID-19 Diary: Impact on Brexit
Before the EU Referendum if asked what I would thought/would vote I would happily express the view that I would like to vote Leave. Living in Spain at the time …
England Test Cricket
Cricket has come a long way since I started playing and watching in the 1970’s. For the record I was a better watcher than player, although I had my moments …
Talk To Me
In 1974 I saw Michael Crawford in Billy (the musical based on Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse) at Drury Lane, London. In fact to be precise I saw him twice: …
Six Months Back In The UK
Six (6) months today we walked through the doors of The Cottage. I wrote before about the reasons for basing ourselves back in the UK so I wont repeat them …
UK is not European
I am interested as to how European the ‘typical Brit’ feels, because as far as I can tell the UK is remarkably un-European. Most months our ALStrays Pet Transport business …
What Is Wrong With A Referendum
Why don’t governments want to offer referendums. After all they were happy enough to accept the views of the public when they were elected, so why aren’t they prepared to …
Hard To Find Any Sympathy
So 18 million Brits aren’t able to afford a holiday this year and I have to say I find it hard to get too excited about the fact, or to …
Kevin Pietersen Is Too Selfish
Just watched Cricket Writers on TV and the introduction to the Sky coverage of the test match and am somewhat amazed at the praise being heaped on Kevin Pietersen! Sure …
Romanian workers in Britain send home £500,000 every day.
It is no secret that the Eastern Europeans have a great work ethic, and are more then willing to ‘go without’ themselves in order to send money back home, and …
Recent Purge On Email Accounts
I wrote recently on my Almerimar Life site about a de cluttering project that we had started. This was (and is) aimed very much at the physical side of life; …
Sheep Rule 80% of Twitter
There have been a number of articles recently around the fact that 80% of twitter accounts have less than 10 followers. While some have blamed Spammers and other ‘squatters’ I …