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The Peewit : an apology2 comments

backwatersman wrote 1 month ago: I realise now that my last post, in which I compared the Peewit to the England wicket-keeper Matt Pr … more →

Tags: Sport, Nature, Birds, Cricket, Peewits, Matt Prior

Mental disintegration through birdsong : some advice for Andrew Strauss

backwatersman wrote 1 month ago: Just the other day I mentioned Stuart Broad\’s revelation that this summer’s Cardiff Tes … more →

Tags: Sport, Nature, Birds, Cricket, Stuart Broad, Bird Impersonators, Peewits, Matt Prior, Andrew Strauss

Cadbury World, and the Bournville Cricket Pavilion

backwatersman wrote 1 month ago: News this week that Cadbury’s is threatened with a hostile takeover by Kraft (not, alas, Kraft … more →

Tags: Architecture, Arts, quakers, Sport, This England?, bournville, cadbury world, cadburys, Cricket

Is Stuart Broad the new Percy Edwards?*1 comment

backwatersman wrote 1 month ago: News in today’s Times of the long overdue autobiography from Stuart Broad (though some might t … more →

Tags: Arts, autobiography, Birds, media, Nature, Newspapers & media, Sport, Ashes, Bird Impersonators

Could Alex Tudor be the new Ken Shuttleworth? More hot transfer gossip from Leicestershire C.C.C.2 comments

backwatersman wrote 2 months ago: Let’s have another go at spreading rumours – apparently Alex Tudor to Leicestershire? - … more →

Tags: Sport, Cricket, Matthew Hoggard, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, alex tudor

Is Hoggs the new Higgs? Hoggard to Leicestershire?

backwatersman wrote 2 months ago: I thought I might try to do a bit of proper blogging this evening and publicise a story because I wa … more →

Tags: Sport, Blogging, Cricket, Matthew Hoggard, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Ken Higgs, Swindon Town Football Club

James Taylor and Will Jefferson : an inaccurate prediction2 comments

backwatersman wrote 2 months ago: A short time ago, in response to a query from a reader about the exact height of James Taylor, and w … more →

Tags: Sport, Cricket, James Taylor, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Will Jefferson

Leicestershire C.C.C. averages 2009 : James Taylor et al.2 comments

backwatersman wrote 3 months ago: Leicestershire averages 2009 For anyone who spotted this earlier, I didn’t mean to publish it … more →

Tags: Sport, Blogging, Cricket, James Taylor, Leicestershire County Cricket Club

The End of the Season : the Kinks

backwatersman wrote 3 months ago: After that brief intermission I feel that I should mark the end of the (cricket) season – whic … more →

Tags: Sport, Arts, Music & Arts, films, Cricket, Music, Kinks, autumn

A brief intermission2 comments

backwatersman wrote 3 months ago: It’s been a busy weekend of sport, as they say on the BBC (one and a half days of cricket and … more →

Tags: Sport, media, TV & Media, Blogging, Religion, Church of England, Football, Test Card, back to church sunday

This Is Your Life EXTREME

backwatersman wrote 3 months ago: One TV programme I’d pay good money to watch would be C.B. Fry (passim – he’s over … more →

Tags: Sport, media, TV & Media, c b fry, Television, this is your life, Charlie Drake

Binge-drinking at Lord's2 comments

backwatersman wrote 3 months ago: All first-class cricket grounds these days have a sign outside saying “Importation of alcohol … more →

Tags: Sport, Arts, media, smoking, Newspapers & media, Biography, Drink, Cricket, Lords

Over-priced pants : Poppies v Altrincham, 5 September

backwatersman wrote 4 months ago: I don’t promise – or threaten – to write about every football match I attend, but … more →

Tags: Sport, This England?, Rugby Union, Trains, Football, Cricket, Rugby, James Taylor, Leicestershire County Cricket Club

This might be the last time - Leicestershire v Glamorgan, Grace Road, 4 September

backwatersman wrote 4 months ago: Long, long, ago – when this blog was just, as it were, a germ at the back of my mind – I … more →

Tags: Sport, Arts, This England?, Blogging, Painting, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Glamorgan County Cricket Club, autumn

Cautionary tales for middle-aged men

backwatersman wrote 4 months ago: Three things not to do over a bank holiday weekend - Don’t – however keen you are to wat … more →

Tags: Sport, Arts, This England?, Poetry & Arts, Cricket, Pubs, James Taylor, headaches, Sunstroke

September's here again (almost): David Sylvian and Beth Gibbons2 comments

backwatersman wrote 4 months ago: A very Autumnal day today, and not in a good way, I’m afraid.  Spent the afternoon sheltering … more →

Tags: Sport, Arts, This England?, Music & Arts, Cricket, Music, David Sylvian, Beth Gibbons, rustin man

White tie and tails : C.B. Fry comes dancing

backwatersman wrote 4 months ago: Talking of ballroom dancing, I see that Philip Tufnell is attempting to follow in the fleet footstep … more →

Tags: Sport, Arts, Clothes, TV & Media, Rugby Union, Football, Dance, Cricket, c b fry

Lounge suits and cocktail frocks : Northamptonshire v Glamorgan, Wantage Road, 28 August

backwatersman wrote 4 months ago: I was afraid I might have jinxed young Taylor with my excitable predictions, but, no – I see t … more →

Tags: Sport, Arts, Clothes, Dance, Monty Panesar, James Taylor, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, Ballroom Dancing, Glamorgan County Cricket Club

The Last of England : a new interpretation3 comments

backwatersman wrote 4 months ago: Visiting Birmingham Art Gallery on Monday, mainly to view the Burne-Jones Perseus series, of which … more →

Tags: Sport, Arts, Painting, Cricket, Birmingham, Painting, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Ford Madox Brown, Roland Barthes


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