We interrupt the cricket coverage to bring you this month’s edition of Stump Watch. Strange how writing a blog intensifies one’s awareness of the passage of time. It was in the first month of this blog’s life (May 2009) that I first complained about the cutting down of this tree. Now it is, at least, a [...]
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Stump Watch for May 2011
Posted in Blogging, Cricket, Nature, Sport, Trees, tagged Blogging, Cricket, James Taylor, Mark Ramprakash, Stump Watch, Trees on May 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Incommunicado
Posted in Blogging, tagged Blogging, Outages, Outrages, Silence, Talk Talk on October 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Apologies, folks (if any). I have been forced off air for the last few days by those rogues at Talk Talk. I must say this organisation seemed to me to function much more efficiently when it was called Tiscali and run by a gang of banditti from their mountain stronghold in the wilds of Sardinia. I hope to be [...]
Exterminate all the brutes?
Posted in Animals, Atheism, Birds, Blogging, Christianity, Life, Media, Nature, Newspapers, Politics, Religion, This England, tagged Blogging, Castration, Daily Mail, Death, Disgust, Eugenics, Life, Martin Amis, Richard Dawkins, Ricky Gervais, Spring, Sterilisation on February 13, 2010 | 9 Comments »
As I think I’ve mentioned before on a couple of occasions (in my Pollyannaish way), this is the time of year when thoughts begin to turn to the Spring, to the return of life to the bounteous earth and so on. In a recent post the poet Francis Meynell was musing thus – “I keep [...]
Backwatersman is unwell
Posted in Blogging, tagged Blogging, Illness on January 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I hope this doesn’t turn into a regular feature – just thought I’d offer an explanation as to why activity on this blog appears to be flatlining at the mo. Hope to be back soon.
And now, a word from our Sponsors (Geo Watkins Mushroom Ketchup)
Posted in Blogging, Cookery, Geo Watkins Mushroom Ketchup, tagged Blogging, Cookery, Geo Watkins Mushroom Ketchup, Sponsorship on October 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
There does seem to be a good deal of debate at the moment about the extent to which bloggers should be compelled to reveal any commercial sponsorship that they receive – see this, for instance, from last week’s Guardian Technology Supplement – this. For anyone who can’t be bothered to click on the link, here is [...]
A brief intermission
Posted in Blogging, Church of England, Cricket, Football, Media, Religion, Sport, TV, tagged Back to Church Sunday, Blogging, Test Card on September 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a busy weekend of sport, as they say on the BBC (one and a half days of cricket and one of football*)- not to mention My Daughter’s Birthday Part 2 and Back to Church Sunday, so I now have a great deal to write about but no time to do so. For any readers who may [...]
“Mention of cat”
Posted in Arts, Blogging, Cartoons, Judaism, Religion, tagged Blogging, Cats, Top Cat on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A snapshot of the search terms that have led searchers after knowledge to my blog during the course of today : as follows – These are terms people used to find your blog. Today Search Views cricketers underwear 2 stornoway guardian 2 englands got talent i could have danced 1 “top cat” judaism 1 que [...]
This might be the last time – Leicestershire v Glamorgan, Grace Road, 4 September
Posted in Arts, Blogging, Cricket, Painting, Sport, This England, tagged Autumn, Blogging, Glamorgan County Cricket Club, Leicestershire County Cricket Club on September 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Long, long, ago – when this blog was just, as it were, a germ at the back of my mind – I intended to keep a diary of all the cricket matches I attended in the course of a season, with comments and so forth. I have deviated rather drastically from the original intention, but [...]
Cricketers’ underwear
Posted in Blogging, Cricket, Sport, tagged Bertie Buse, Blogging, C.B. Fry, Cricket, Harry Pilling, Underwear on July 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
You asked for it – you goddit! As I think I’ve said before, a great deal of the traffic directed to this blog seems to have come from those seeking – apparently – pictures of cricketers’ underwear (prompted by my post of 31 May). I’ve had searches for ”Flintoff in black underwear”, “cricketers in dressing room [...]
Yours truly, Angry Mob – or Mr. Pooter joins the commentariat (reprinted)
Posted in Blogging, Media, Newspapers, Politics, This England, tagged Alexander Chancellor, Blogging, Comment is Free, English politics, Guardian, Mobs, Newspapers, Polly Toynbee, Stephen Fry, Twitter on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s hot topic in the quality prints and elsewhere seems to have been mobs – hashmobs, flashmobs, hatemobs, lynch mobs. You can take your pick of the articles, though Dominic Sandbrook, writing in the New Statesman, offered a historical perspective - Mob rule. I threw in my two pennorth last week – Gately, Moir & Fry. (I [...]
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