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Bob Lethaby-Leader of Men

The rain backed off for a couple of days this weekend meaning I could lead the Oakley men's Sunday XI in to combat for the first time this season against the might of Farleigh Wallop. To be nominated as the captain of a cricket team at the age of 44 is a proud moment, even if you do take in to account that there were no other candidates for the position. I can ...

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A Letter From the Taxman as the Rich Rob the Poor!

I registered my monthly tax payment to the Inland Revenue a day late last month and got a patronising letter yesterday for my trouble. As Diane Porter, Brian Keane and Karen Langer will recall (or perhaps not) we got stupidly pissed on Diane's birthday on Wednesday 18th of April and when I tried to do the monthly calculation the next day, such was the extent of my ...

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Introducing The “Vac Mach Air” Vacuum Cleaner!!

Since living on my own during the last four years or so, I have found that the Holy Grail in my life is the discovery of a vacuum cleaner that actually carries out the task its elaborate brand name gives it. Of course, I know as well as anyone that the simple solution to vacuum cleaning is to go out and spend over three hundred pounds on a Dyson, but because I live ...

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Cold, Wet & Miserable

For the last few days I have been battling against a tidal wave of depression that is about to engulf me. After weeks of desperately staying stoical whilst searching five day weather forecasts in pursuit of anything resembling a warm dry day, I have now caved in and given up. Two weeks after the start of the cricket season our ground at Oakley resembles the Somme, ...

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I’m Feeling Sorry For Roy!

Despite what I imagine is a very comfortable lifestyle, courtesy of years in football and the £2.5m a year contract he is about to sign, I can't help but feel a bit sorry for what Roy Hodgson is about to endure after agreeing to become the new manager of the English national football side ahead of the "Proletarians choice" Harry Redknapp. If it was not enough of ...

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