Northamptonshire v Hampshire, County Championship, County Ground Northampton, 3rd & 5th May 2012 I must be mad. I doubt whether there’s anyone who watches any amount of County Cricket who has not – at one time or another – had this thought. Cricket does drive some people mad, but those are generally the players, especially [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Snow’
Asylum Seekers : Northants v Hampshire
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Cricket, David Willey, Hampshire County Cricket Club, Jack Brooks, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, Rain, Ricardo, Snow, Thomas Octavius Prichard on May 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
One Million Fairly Similar Words For Snow
Posted in Blogging, Flowers, Internet, Media, Nature, tagged Snow, Winter on February 6, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Experts are claiming that this weekend’s snow event is already the best-documented since records began, with almost half a million tweets, fifty thousand blog posts and over a million photographs already available on the internet, not to mention innumerable Facebook updates. A future historian of everyday life, writing from the year 2112, will have this to [...]
The Christmas Robin : Robert Graves
Posted in Arts, Birds, Nature, Poetry, Trees, tagged Birds, Poetry, Postcards, Robert Graves, Robins, Snow, Winter on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was half hoping that we would have a little of the snow that we had this time last year, so that I could illustrate this February poem with a snap of a “murderous robin“. But no – only drizzle – so I’ve illustrated it with a Christmas postcard instead, from Grimsby, as [...]
It’s an Ill Wind …
Posted in Birds, Fruit, Nature, Trees, tagged Apples, Birds, Snow, Winter on December 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The North Wind doth blow And we shall have snow And what shall poor Robin do then, poor thing? One of my neighbours has an apple tree. Every Autumn the apples fall and lie uncollected and I think what a shame it is not to make use of them. Since the snow has fallen, [...]
Two Seasonal Martyrs : Stephen and Wenceslaus
Posted in Christianity, History, Religion, tagged Boxing Day, Christmas, Families, Martyrs, Saints, Snow, St Stephen, St Wenceslaus on December 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Boxing Day. Particularly now most of the traditional sporting calendar has been snowed off, the thoughts of the Christian world turn inevitably to martyrdom. St Stephen (whose feast day this is) was the first martyr, stoned to death by a Jewish mob, incited by Saul of Tarsus (later, of course, to change his name and [...]
Frozen Architecture : December, by Helen Hunt Jackson
Posted in Arts, Poetry, tagged Helen Hunt Jackson, Little Bowden, Poetry, Snow, Winter on December 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I wonder what Helen Hunt Jackson has to say about this weather … Helen? December The lakes of ice gleam bluer than the lakes Of water ‘neath the summer sunshine gleamed: Far fairer than when placidly it streamed, The brook its frozen architecture makes, And under bridges white its swift way takes. Snow comes [...]
East Midlands Today : Fox Trapped in Snowdrift
Posted in Animals, Nature, This England, tagged Foxes, Incensed Mum, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!, Snow, Winter on December 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the snowbound East Midlands, a fox had to be rescued by the emergency services after becoming trapped up to its neck in a snowdrift – A spokesman for the Taxpayers’ Alliance commented – “At this time of austerity this is a grotesque waste of hardworking taxpayers’ money. Surely this fox could have [...]
White Buildings … in Little Bowden
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Church of England, Religion, tagged Church of England, Churches, Little Bowden, Snow, St Nicholas, Winter on December 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“In the snow all buildings are white” – old Czech proverb. St Nicholas, Little Bowden in the snow. ( This image is available for use on Christmas cards etc.)
Approaching a half century at Fairfield Road
Posted in Arts, Cricket, Nature, Poetry, Sport, Trees, tagged A.E. Housman, Catkins, Cricket, Market Harborough, Snow, Trees on July 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Play at Fairfield Road was interrupted briefly yesterday by a freak snow storm – Actually, no – it’s a heavy shower of catkins. I am uncertain as to which species produced them, though in an ideal world I suppose it would be the Cricket Bat Willow (Salix alba ‘Caerulea’). What it is not, I think, is [...]
The Lonely Spy : Lori and the Chameleons
Posted in Arts, History, Memory, Music, tagged Bill Drummond, Dave Balfe, Liverpool, Loneliness, Lori and the Chameleons, Music, Russia, Snow, Spies on February 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
On a slightly lighter note something about the return of the snow put me in mind of the following single which I recently rediscovered – literally so, as it was at the back of a cupboard. I was always very fond of it and its sister single Touch, which has a Japanese theme. Lori and [...]
