Soggy weather, soggy moods

It's been truly horrendous weather recently, with gale force winds and lashing rain nearly every day. It feels like Dementors are on the loose in Lincolnshire and no-one is safe from their icy grasp. To add to the bad feelings in general, the Goldsbroughs suffered a burglary, I got done for speeding and Charlotte has been rattling through reports which gives her no free time whatsoever. I was slightly cheered by the appearance of small frogs in the garden, but to be honest, on the whole I feel a bit down with it all. Its also likely that Boston away will be cancelled on Sunday, creating a bit of a cricket vacuum.

So whats in store. Well, its happy birthday to both Nick and Jon this weekend - so its going to be raining booze and probably a couple of meals out as well. I just hope we don't get flooded out of our houses and end up living up trees like a load of dirty apes. I really don't fancy using flint to fashion a prehistoric club and then chasing after weird amphibian beasts, that are the only creatures who can survive the new climate of permanent rain and bogs. I bet they'd taste disgusting anyway and electricity would be right out. So no TV or PlayStation either, which would be rubbish.

Please let it stop raining soon!!!

Another Thirlling Victory!

A weekend of torrential rain meant that the pitch at Heighnton was somewhat soggy. As Duncan Clark put it, you can put your thumb into the pitch, up to your elbow! However, we played and despite looking like a sponge that a dog had been chewing on, there was a surprising amount of bounce. Expecting to be bowled out for around 40 - we made 138, with nibsy top scoring with 58 (ish).

Bowling we created lots of pressure but very little in the way of wicket taking opportunities. It didn't matter in the end though, as we squeezed the oppo out in the last over, they fell 5 runs short with 6 wickets in hand!

It was excellent to feel as though we were winning those close games that were real battles!

Bad Back!

Been on holiday to Sardinia with Charlotte and really relaxed for the first time in absolutely ages. This may explain my lack of blogging! Lots of eating (seafood), drinking (Martini) and sleeping (in a bed)! Felt great until last weekend when I played cricket on a bad back - which meant that on Monday I couldn't move! Very embarassing shuffling round work, but took 4 - 7 so actually happy to take a bit of pain for the greater good. We beat Nocton by only a couple of runs, so all was good but it did go down to the wire and we could have lost even off the last ball of the innings.