Threw my shorts in the wash, so it’s back to jeans/ trousers for the rest of eternity. It’s going to be a long winter.
Crossed wires? Cricket is probably the most seasonal of sports, so unless your ground has floodlights (ours' doesn't) or if you like playing in the cold and dark (I don't), you're pretty much done by mid/late September. Our club also has a few rugby union players (including two former pros, the captain of a top uni First XV and the brother of the England captain) and a RFU referee, so those guys tend to turn their attentions to an egg-shaped ball rather than a round leather one at this time of year. Plus the groundsman has already started soiling the square this week (no, not in that way), so even if we could scare up eleven bodies and an oppo, we wouldn't have a pitch to play on. However, as coincidence would have it, it seems that my particular brand of middle-aged military-medium swing/seam bowling is much in demand, because in between my last post and this one, the skipper of the team I played for in the T20 last Friday called to ask if I want to play for them in an indoor league over the winter.
"heavy overnight rain with more storms forecast for the afternoon." - my bad for a curt response that didn't allow any feeble humour out. I should have said "I'm not sure that such weather is seasonal dependant - I'd of thought it could be on any Sunday of the year. Summer included" Anyhoo, moving swiftly on ahem
Yesterday I had a run out to get more miles on the bike before its first service next week. Managed to do 140 miles and took in a visit to Ducati Sunderland to see my mate Stu who works there.
Looking at the route you went right past my door. Please tell me you didn't go through Peterlee .....
