Cricket season again……I love it.

My first year of blogging I posted this post The Mysteries of Cricket.  It was January 2012 when Australia was playing India in a test series.  Looking back at some of my old blog posts, this is my seventh year blogging, I came across this post and thought it was worthy of a reblog.I love…

Cricket and craft. . . .summer is here

The first series of One Day Internationals in the cricket has just finished and we are about to embark on a Test Series with Pakistan.  I love when the cricket is on as I can justify sitting down to watch it by doing some knitting, sewing or crocheting. While the ODIs were on I managed…

Two recent reads

I have finished reading Rod Laver a memoir and Parky my autobiography.  One book borrowed from my sister and the other from my older brother. Rod Laver was given to me after I finished reading the Andre Agassi biography.  My sister thought that I would like to read the life story of another tennis great,…

Walking in the wolds. . . .Tuesday travels

While we were staying in Yorkshire we spent a great deal of our time walking in the countryside.  We were fortunate that there were so many wonderful spots to walk to and the fact that there were also several pubs scattered around the countryside made our walks even more enjoyable. Our first venture was just…

Rugby/cricket followed by cycling/cricket

Once again I was spoilt for choice with my sport watching. Last night I had a split screen with rugby and cricket then followed by cycling and cricket.  My sister reminded me that there was also golf from St Andrews, but I am not a follower of golf.  I did see pictures of a great…

Too many choices!

Last night I had such a dilemma as there were too many choices of sport on television!  I was interested in: the rugby, All Blacks versus Argentina Tour de France- Stage 13 Test 2 The Ashes – Fortunately the rugby was on earlier than either the cycling or the cricket so I was able to…