I looked at the weather forecast last weekend, and managed to get a last-minute booking. For a week’s holiday at home. A week of sunshine, warmth, all the windows wide open, a breeze through the house, my feet happy in Birkenstocks, linen dresses getting an outing, coffee in the sunshine in the old churchyard opposite St John’s and Trinity (could almost be in France), swimming in the local pool, reading, quilting, and listening to
I know very little about cricket but as always found your post so interesting. I loved the clip, a real fit of the giggles is a wonderful thing! The Reference Librarian I once worked with told me a true story about some young lad running home excitedly telling his Dad "Fred Trueman spoke to us"! What did he say asked the father...? "Get off my bloody wall" was the reply 😂
I love reading your work. :) I haven't read The Second Act but it seems interesting. It reminds me of Julia Louis-Dreyfus' interview with Jane Fonda who explains her 85-year life as occurring in three acts (on the podcast Wiser Than Me). Such a lovely way to think about life. After hearing that episode I followed the recommendation which was to write out what happened during my first act of life, then to read it again like you're reading about a separate character and summarize what characteristics were displayed by this person. Kind of a cool exercise.
I have never understood cricket but I loved reading this-and that black and white photo in the ploughed field is stunning and my new screen saver thank you as ever for your lovely post each week (and Persephone dailies ❤️)
Brilliant! I love TMS, the chat the cakes etc and that clip is an all time favourite. My husband played cricket for some years when we lived in France. So my Sunday afternoons were often spent serving up teas with a little knitting on the side. I remember some young French lads who played for our team who thought that jam tarts were the best thing ever! Thanks, another great article. xx
Oh Jane, this is priceless! I don't know beans about cricket (I'm a Yank, sorry) but the YouTube commentary is precious. And I look forward each week to seeing what Beatles artifacts you've discovered. Beatles forever! Sure makes me long for the time when the Beatles ruled, and when people played croquet and cricket.
I have never been able to 'get' cricket despite being brought up with constantly on TV as my Dad loved it. It is still the sport he loves the most. I enjoyed your article and loved the picture of the boys with their home made cricket stumps using plastic bottles.
What a wonderfully disparate assortment of images riffing on the theme of cricket—I really love the Abbey Road parody! I had forgotten the cricket scene in The Hopkins Manuscript, one of the funniest and most terrifying books I’ve ever read.
Cricket eludes me. But I could listen to the commentary all day. It is lyrical and often hysterical. And what’s not love about hearing someone having a rip roaring laugh?
Another lovely read while sitting at a car boot getting rid of stuff! I am not a huge cricket fan but also love the cake discussions on test match special. I also loved Harry Thompsons book, Penguins Stopped play. A delightful book about playing cricket on every continent.
By coincidence I picked up my order of the newly published paperback edition of David Kynaston's "A Northern Wind" yesterday from my local bookshop, and got as far as the abolition of the distinction between gentlemen and players, with all the attendant huffing and outrage from retired colonels. Did you know that a cricket ground was a major location in a post-apocalyptic fiction series? BBC's "Survivors" from the late 1970s. The two part "Lights of London" from Series 2 in 1978, features The Oval cricket ground as the refuge of the London pandemic survivors who have stayed on in the capital. There are shots of the ground as a very large allotment.
Thanks Jane, I really look forward to reading your blog every week. Always interesting and informative. I would never have thought that I would find cricket so exciting. I love the way you combine art, facts and links, but today I laughed out loud at the commentary at the end, listened to it twice. What a tonic. Thankyou
Really enjoyed this!! As an American with a British husband, I’ve completely fallen in love with cricket - it is absolutely the best sport to knit/sew/spin to.
Usual great start to a Sunday - as a Cricket aficionado am wondering if you’ve ever here of the Bramble Bank match that takes please annually effectively *IN* the Solent - worth a look if not https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-66694639.amp
I know very little about cricket but as always found your post so interesting. I loved the clip, a real fit of the giggles is a wonderful thing! The Reference Librarian I once worked with told me a true story about some young lad running home excitedly telling his Dad "Fred Trueman spoke to us"! What did he say asked the father...? "Get off my bloody wall" was the reply 😂
I love reading your work. :) I haven't read The Second Act but it seems interesting. It reminds me of Julia Louis-Dreyfus' interview with Jane Fonda who explains her 85-year life as occurring in three acts (on the podcast Wiser Than Me). Such a lovely way to think about life. After hearing that episode I followed the recommendation which was to write out what happened during my first act of life, then to read it again like you're reading about a separate character and summarize what characteristics were displayed by this person. Kind of a cool exercise.
I have never understood cricket but I loved reading this-and that black and white photo in the ploughed field is stunning and my new screen saver thank you as ever for your lovely post each week (and Persephone dailies ❤️)
Brilliant! I love TMS, the chat the cakes etc and that clip is an all time favourite. My husband played cricket for some years when we lived in France. So my Sunday afternoons were often spent serving up teas with a little knitting on the side. I remember some young French lads who played for our team who thought that jam tarts were the best thing ever! Thanks, another great article. xx
Oh Jane, this is priceless! I don't know beans about cricket (I'm a Yank, sorry) but the YouTube commentary is precious. And I look forward each week to seeing what Beatles artifacts you've discovered. Beatles forever! Sure makes me long for the time when the Beatles ruled, and when people played croquet and cricket.
I have never been able to 'get' cricket despite being brought up with constantly on TV as my Dad loved it. It is still the sport he loves the most. I enjoyed your article and loved the picture of the boys with their home made cricket stumps using plastic bottles.
What a wonderfully disparate assortment of images riffing on the theme of cricket—I really love the Abbey Road parody! I had forgotten the cricket scene in The Hopkins Manuscript, one of the funniest and most terrifying books I’ve ever read.
I’m on a train reading this so l can’t listen to your clip but I know what it is and it is making me laugh even thinking about it.
Another book about cricket- this one in NYC! Netherland by Joseph O’Neill. Highly recommended!
Cricket eludes me. But I could listen to the commentary all day. It is lyrical and often hysterical. And what’s not love about hearing someone having a rip roaring laugh?
Crick-lit! Love it
Another lovely read while sitting at a car boot getting rid of stuff! I am not a huge cricket fan but also love the cake discussions on test match special. I also loved Harry Thompsons book, Penguins Stopped play. A delightful book about playing cricket on every continent.
By coincidence I picked up my order of the newly published paperback edition of David Kynaston's "A Northern Wind" yesterday from my local bookshop, and got as far as the abolition of the distinction between gentlemen and players, with all the attendant huffing and outrage from retired colonels. Did you know that a cricket ground was a major location in a post-apocalyptic fiction series? BBC's "Survivors" from the late 1970s. The two part "Lights of London" from Series 2 in 1978, features The Oval cricket ground as the refuge of the London pandemic survivors who have stayed on in the capital. There are shots of the ground as a very large allotment.
Thanks Jane, I really look forward to reading your blog every week. Always interesting and informative. I would never have thought that I would find cricket so exciting. I love the way you combine art, facts and links, but today I laughed out loud at the commentary at the end, listened to it twice. What a tonic. Thankyou
Really enjoyed this!! As an American with a British husband, I’ve completely fallen in love with cricket - it is absolutely the best sport to knit/sew/spin to.
Usual great start to a Sunday - as a Cricket aficionado am wondering if you’ve ever here of the Bramble Bank match that takes please annually effectively *IN* the Solent - worth a look if not https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-66694639.amp