Gone! So, I suppose we have to admit that the cricket season is over and the football season has begun. A little known fact – at least I’ve never heard Alan Hansen allude to it on Match of the Day – is that the earliest use of the word “soccer” recorded in the O.E.D. is in a letter [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Summer’
Out Of A Misty Dream Our Path Emerges For A While …
Posted in Arts, Cricket, Football, Poetry, Sport, tagged Autumn, Cricket, Ernest Dowson, James Taylor, Poetry, Summer on September 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Summer Pleasures They Are Gone …
Posted in Arts, Cricket, Poetry, Sport, tagged Autumn, Cricket, John Clare, Loughborough CC, Market Harborough CC, Nick O'Donnell, Poetry, Summer, Tom Wells on September 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A little later than usual, a poem for September. This rather chose itself. When I was at the Chesterfield Festival the other week, fielding in front of me on the boundary was Jon Clare, the promising Burnley-born Derbyshire all-rounder. In September’s issue of The Cricketer, which I happened to be reading at the time, there was an [...]
Stump Watch for August 2011
Posted in Nature, Trees, tagged Autumn, Cricket, Little Bowden, Stump Watch, Summer, Trees on August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ain’t it funny how time slips away? Well, not especially – but here we are at the end of the month once again, and so it’s time for Stump Watch. It’s not quite visible here, but it was raining gently when I took this photograph. In the far distance, the eternally optimistic groundsman prepares the [...]
It’s That Time of Year !
Posted in This England, tagged Christmas, Market Harborough, Pubs, Summer on August 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Three Swans, Market Harborough, Sunday 14th August – (though it’s been up for a while) … Only 130 looting shopping days to go …
Enjoy Yourself – It’s Later Than You Think!
Posted in Cricket, Sport, This England, tagged Autumn, Cricket, Harvest, Kibworth, Leicestershire, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, MCC Universities XI, Rob Taylor, Summer on August 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Leicestershire 2nd XI v MCCU Universities XI, Kibworth, Thursday 11 August 2011 “The fact that even in the 1750s the vast majority of matches took place in the early part of the summer suggest that enough of the players were farmers or labourers to make it very difficult to raise teams during haymaking (which normally [...]
Dry, Sterile Thunder at Grace Road
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Cricket, Kenneth Clarke, Kent County Cricket Club, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Summer on August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Leicestershire v Kent, County Championship, Grace Road, 3rd August 2011 “There is not even silence in the mountains But dry, sterile thunder without rain” Unfortunately, August isn’t always as attractive as Edward Thomas’s vision of it. Today at Grace Road the outfield was dry and sterile – and the day throbbed with catharsis [...]
August, by Edward Thomas
Posted in Arts, Literature, tagged Brampton Valley Way, Edward Thomas, Little Bowden, Summer on August 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Still no sign of a permanent replacement for Helen Hunt Jackson, but, to welcome the new month, here is some prose from a poet. This is from an essay ‘August’, by Edward Thomas. It was originally published in the volume ‘The Heart of England’ in 1906. “I have found only two satisfying places in the world in August [...]
Picnic, July 1917 : Rose Macaulay
Posted in Arts, Flowers, Nature, Poetry, tagged Poetry, Poppies, Rose Macaulay, Summer, War poetry on July 5, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I haven’t yet been able to find a permanent replacement for Helen Hunt Jackson as a purveyor of monthly poems, but here is a guest poem for July from Rose Macaulay. Macaulay was a prolific literary journalist and the author of numerous novels (none of which I’ve read, I’m afraid). Before the First War, she was a [...]
Gentlemen and Players at Lord’s
Posted in Cricket, Sport, This England, tagged Cambridge University C.C., Cricket, E.H.D. Sewell, Lord's, Oxford University C.C., Paul Best, Summer, Zafar Ansari on July 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Oxford v Cambridge, Lord’s, 26th June 2011 “To the modern reader who is too young to have seen the pageant of Lord’s at its best, i.e. in fine weather on Eton v Harrow, and Oxford v Cambridge match days, it is not easy to convey much, if anything, of the aesthetic pleasure which the sight [...]
There Was Not One Which Knew That It Was Dying
Posted in Arts, Birds, Music, Nature, Poetry, Trees, tagged Ballooning, Birdsong, Little Bowden, Summer, Trees, W.H. Auden on June 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We interrupt our coverage of the rain cricket to bring you some poetry, this time from W.H. Auden. One of my pleasures on these long June evenings (except when it’s raining, of course) is to sit outside the back door with a glass of Lidl’s finest and observe the movements of the clouds and birds in the [...]
