*ding-dong* I pause the test match that I have been watching to quickly hunt for the door key to see who has so rudely interrupted my viewing. I open the door to reveal a small, wizened-looking man of indeterminate age. He carries a satchel and a clipboard. Not a good start, I fear. “Hello?” I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cricket’
Cold Caller
Posted: August 1, 2011 in DomesticTags: Cold Caller, cricket, Electoral Register, interruption, MORI
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The Sporting Year
Posted: December 30, 2010 in Christmas, SportsTags: 2010, Ashes, chistmas, cricket, FIFA, Goodwood, Inter, Ryder Cup, Sport, Tottenham, Twenty20, Wimbledon, World Cup
12 Blogs of Christmas: #5 When I originally wrote up my proposal for this Twelve Blogs series, I deliberately put my porting review of the year in just after the end of the fourth Ashes test in Melbourne. I thought it might have inspired me to write something about the cricket. How right I was. [...]
So This Is Christmas
Posted: December 26, 2010 in ChristmasTags: Australia, boxing Day test, chistmas, cricket, England, fourth test, MCG
12 Blogs of Christmas: #1 Boxing Day, 2010. I’m sitting here with that post-festive feeling that I would guess quite a few you of you are enduring right about now, where the after-effects of Christmas excess sit slightly too snugly under the jumper. That was my fortieth Christmas and, as has been the case for [...]
Cricket, Christmas & Computers
Posted: November 25, 2010 in Countdown, HaikuTags: Andrew Strauss, Ashes, Australia, Christmas, cricket, England, Peter Siddle
The News in Haiku #23…. “Snow is falling. All Around me. Children playing, One month till Christmas” So, after months of getting more and more excited about the Ashes and weeks of believing the hype that the English were going in as favourites, it took precisely three deliveries before Strauss slapped a ball straight down [...]
Not Quite Love
Posted: November 17, 2010 in Countdown, HaikuTags: Ashes, Australia, Brisbane, cricket, England, First Test
The News in Haiku #17…. “Ashes excitement As England prepare well For Aussie onslaught” Apart from all the usual “loves” that people rightly proclaim for family members and things genuinely dear to them, there are another set of loves that exist at a kind of back-up level as well. A Championship kind of love, relative [...]
Expect Fireworks
Posted: November 5, 2010 in Countdown, HaikuTags: Ashes, Australia, Bonfire, Brisbane, cricket, England, Fireworks, test, Western Australia
The News in Haiku #5…. “Did Mister Woolas Make false statements? Probably. Expect fireworks.” I only sent one tweet yesterday. This is probably the lowest daily volume of tweetage for over a year: I really must find some more things to chat about. Anyway, the best news of the day is that it is Friday, [...]
Start The Party
Posted: September 24, 2010 in CountdownTags: blogging, cricket, resolutions, writer's block
“Nobody knows where my Johnny has gone, Judy left the same time, Why was he holding her hand, When he’s supposed to be mine.” Barbara Gaskin, “It’s My Party”, 1981 My brain has turned to mush. I apologise to all regular readers who clicked whatever link they found to arrive here but I cannot for [...]
Placeholder
Posted: September 23, 2010 in CountdownTags: Ashes, cricket, England, Pakistan, Placeholder, squad
“Well, he looked down at my silver chain, He said: ‘I’ll give you one dollar’, I said: ‘You’ve got to be jokin’, man, It was a present from me mother’” 10CC, “Dreadlock Holiday”, 1978 We have a thing at work, which I am sure is not unique to where I work, called a “Placeholder”. This [...]
Day Twenty-Nine – Highs n Lows
Posted: August 29, 2010 in Countdown, PhotgraphyTags: "spot fixing", cricket, England, Lords, MCC, Pakistan, photography, scandal, test, test match
Today, I went up to “the home of cricket”; a.k.a. Lords; a.k.a. Marylebone Cricket Club or The MCC; a.k.a. “HQ”. When my brother called me a couple of weeks ago to say that he’d managed to get some tickets I was chuffed because (a) it has been a great series of test match cricket, and [...]
The Day The iPhone Died
Posted: June 22, 2010 in CountdownTags: apple, Australia, cricket, England, ios4, iPhone, iTunes, luddite, rose bowl
11:42pm – I have returned home in just the nick of time from the Rose Bowl stadium in Hampshire where I watched the first of a one-day international cricket series between England and Australia. Rather marvellously, England won thanks to a remarkable innings from my new favourite cricketer, Eoin Morgan (103 not out). It was [...]
