Tagged: Cricket

The highlight of my weekend just gone is difficult to choose – DJing to 3 people, a gift of a tea, publishing my autumn weather forecast, a visit from my Parisian delight, an evening at the Oakford and some amazing semi-drunken southern fried chicken – Chicken Cottageis the chicken you need by the way.  Not to mention it was a 3-day weekend, I had a pie and booked Eurostar tickets to Brussels to I can go admire the European Union buildings. But for novelty and the fact that it suits my new boring lifestyle, Sunday in Sonning was just the …

My Dad once told me during my early teenage years that the two most fascinating things in the world were politics and cricket. I didn’t believe it at the time.  How could anyone enjoy a game that went on for 5 days? But during my early 20’s I used to have a lot of time to kill – these were the days before broadband, when I only had 4 television channels (albeit 4 more than I have now) and I had monstrous hangovers every weekend from drinking large bottles of vodka. Laying in my rickety single bed, nursing pounding hangovers, …

No, not my blog, before you think I have really gone way over the top with the whole ego thing (yes I do control the weather before you ask but that isn’t enough to have the most important website in the world). Cricket. Yes. England vs India. If we win the series by two clear tests, then England will become the best test cricket team in the world. India are currently ranked the best. I cannot see it happening.  It is a huge challenge.  India are fantastic at cricket but England are as good now as I have ever known …