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, …