Ashes Poetry

Everdismal Fletcher was more dismal than ever. Inside his gloomy hotel room he wondered how he could revive his own and his team’s spirits for the last two Tests. His Christmas Eve stocking lay empty. ‘A test indeed,’ he said to himself ‘we need poetry!’ Turning to his regular bedside companion “The Coach’s Story: Ashes [...]

21nd December 2006, Fremantle

Don’t think I’m the right bloke to talk about spending Christmas anywhere. Someone who’s a lapsed atheist of jewish descent isn’t go to go overboard on the holy trinity son of god born in Bethlehem thing.
By and large I’m a pretty jovial chap most of the year, but Christmas with its enforced [...]