The Under 15 cricket team I am running has this season had unprecedented success to date this year, winning eleven out of eleven games played so far in a season that is consisting of no fewer than eighteen fixtures in just over two months. We entered in to the North Hants league two teams consisting of virtually the same players, the idea being that the better players get to do all the bowling and batting at the higher level and ...
This week I have turned my attention from the great cricketer AE Stoddart to Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin no less. Galton came to my attention when I read a piece about 2011 being exactly 100 years since his death aged 89, an age which must have been quite a staggering achievement back then considering wars and disease etc etc. Amongst other things, Galton became well known for his work that included standard deviation, ...
As I feared, Sunday was a complete an utter washout, wrecking the North Hants top of the table clash between Kingsclere and Oakley under 15's as well as the much anticipated and long awaited Sunday afternoon fixture between Broughton and Old Hurstonians. The rain commenced at 7.00am and never relented, resulting in the whole day resembling one of late October rather than early June, with the temperature peaking at a tragic twelve centigr...
I treated Harry to a day out in London for his birthday on Thursday and what a fun time we had, even if, as is the norm in the life of Bob Lethaby, not everything turned out according to our plans. On arrival at Waterloo we decided that we would do what every tourist does and go on the London Eye. We had done this many years ago when Harry was very young and I am sure I remembered it being a value for money experience. Age has obviou...
My dear old friend Stewart, who specialises in the type of dry pessimism that has helped mould me in to the man I am today, sent me this weather article this afternoon. If you are a lover of sunny weather may I suggest that you turn off your computers now;"The middle part of summer may be characterised by shifting fortunes? Just when you think we've got it cracked it'll may turn on us, with some pleasantly warm conditions being ...