Two days into The Ashes first test and England have collapsed beyond much hope. I actually woke up at 04:40 this morning and tuned in for 15 minutes. A silly thing to do. England had just lost a string of wickets for not many runs at all, then that fella from the local rag – who’d been chipping in with… Read more →
What a treat. The finest of contests, the ultimate of sport, The Ashes. I’ll not bang on about it too much. Actually, I probably will. I can’t afford to stay up all night this first test though as I’m too busy in the daytime at the moment but I’ll no doubt catch the start and the end of the days… Read more →
I nearly went to two things today. First, the cricket. I had tickets for England v Australia ODI at Headingley but I didn’t go – mainly because when we got the tickets, months and months ago, I thought it was a Saturday match. It wasn’t until recently, that I worked out it was a Friday match, and, given the fact… Read more →
I was lucky enough to be able to enjoy an afternoon in a pub today. Eirene (my lovely, and very tolerant wife) took care of everything else whilst I tottered off to drink Guinness and watch The Ashes in HD. We (my mate ‘Skip’ (so called thank’s to a seasons’ cricket team captaincy at The Blues Bar (center of the… Read more →
The Ashes themselves are a 15 cm tall thimble of a trophy, who origins date back to a small add placed in The Sporting Times in the summer of 1882, where Australia essentially rubbed England’s noses in a defeat. The story goes that after placing the above small ad, the Australians symbolically burned the bails and saved the resulting ashes… Read more →
This post is in danger of being the thing I’ve tried to avoid so far with my blog 365 project – a blog about my lunch. Thing is though, I’ve not done a lot other than food today. After a bit of ball wanging for the dog on’t Stray I went to Waitrose for supplies and got a bit carried… Read more →
For ages now, my follower count on twitter has floated at just under 500 followers. At the time of writing this, it’s on 500 (hoopla!). That’s around 100 followers per year, just over 1 new follower for every 12 tweets and a ratio of 2/1 follower/following ratio. I like twitter. It’s so simple yet you can drill down into the… Read more →
Experimental blog post.. I got a new hat today. I got a new camera today. I watched a video featuring a cricketing hero today. I watched a video featuring a photography hero today. Both of them surprised me for the same reason. If you’d like to read a blog about me discussing The New Hat, click here. If you’d like to… Read more →
Henry Blofeld talks about the seasons of his life.. and a bit of cricket. Myself and 3 of my cricket buddies went to see Henry Blofeld at the Harrogate Theatre last Friday. ‘Blowers’ is a stalwart commentator for the BBC’s Test Match Special. To me, he’s got the most crickety voice in the world*. His voice is to cricket what Murry Walker’s… Read more →
We’ve been in Wales. Mainly camping at Poppit Sands (pictured above), exploring North Pembrokeshire, Cardigan and an involvement in King Lear at St. Dogmaels Abbey (the boys were in it). More to follow on those bits. In summary, great time, lovely people, was over far too quick. After that Eirene and the kids stepped over the St. Georges to see… Read more →
From one end of the entertainment spectrum – watching Sophie’s end of term ballet show in a hot, packed Ashville hall on the Saturday – to a hot packed Old Trafford cricket ground on the Sunday watching England play Australia in a One Day International match. Impressive to watch ‘best in the world’ performers – the cricketers were great too. Setting… Read more →
I was lucky enough to do a lot of my favourite activities over the past 5 days or so. Thursday – went to watch the cricket at Headingley with a lovely bunch of people. ‘My’ team (Yorkshire) won one of it’s key matches of the season – they beat arch rivals Lancashire by 17 runs in a confident win. A… Read more →
A big thanks to Ed for sending over the fantastic guide to the Ashes suppliment. As you can imagine, I’m really looking forward to tomorrow (and the following couple of months of said game). Just got myself psyched up for the first day of perhaps the most iconic of contests by watching this fantastic round up by the Test Match… Read more →
Watching cricket. The australian (v india ) boxing day test. Very nice setting !
For the last few hours I’ve been riveted to the cricket. 2 shock results in the world cup – firstly Bangladesh, the clear underdogs beat the might of India, but that pails into relative insignificance with the Ireland result, who beat Pakistan. The world ranking 4th , ex world cup trophy holders have been knocked out of the ICC world… Read more →
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