Whatever the weather we people in Bakewell believe in hanging Aussie cricketers out to dry.
‘Cheltenham’s the next stop’ shouts the bloke on his mobile to his girlfriend. I was brought up in Cheltenham, saw my first first class cricket at the College Ground during the Festival in short trousers in awe of Tom Graveney and [...]
Will there be any play tomorrow? It’s rained all day as the pic on Platform 3b at Derby makes plain. Yet the sun starts to shine as soon as the Cardiff train pulls out. We go past Burton, home of Bass, brewers of IPA, the classic British beer, brewed to bottled for shipment to the [...]
Flintoff mission to miss thermos bumble lee’s ponting skier caught out agnew antipodes…
….so what is the opposite of inside out? Outside in?? No. Right way round, of course.
Today’s cricket front-pager in The Sprats Grauniad is Freddie missing the bus to visit Ypres last weekend. (If you want to look at cricket, poetry and war, try [...]
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month we commemorate those lost in two world wars, the first of which was the war to end all wars. Poets write about war. Homer’s Iliad is the story of Troy, the Trojan Horse, Paris, Achilles, and Helen the fairest of them all. Perhaps [...]
