Before checking the Dressing Stations behind front lines at Headingley, I’d like to say how marvellous it was and is that there is an Ashes Festival in Leeds www.ashesfestivalinleeds.com. I would say that since they asked me to close the official reception this Tuesday, which I did with http://www.ashespoetry.net/2009/08/03/safety-in-numbers/ written the evening before. It seemed to [...]
The papers are full of it. Shock, horror, people drink at test matches. This is also known as lazy journos not looking for a story. Richard Whitehead ‘The Thunderer’ in The Times is perhaps the worst http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6736701.ece
“Those not used to these occasions might think they have slipped into a Hogarth canvas.” My fourteen year old daughter, [...]
Odd test match, this. Were it not the Australians, nor being one-nil up in the series, nor the memory of 2005, most people would say it was a pretty dull affair, more or less ruined by the weather. Which would be more or less true, certainly from half-an-hour prior tea on the last day, when [...]
