Weekend Sporting Marathon – Part Two: Cricket, Calculators and the Mid Wessex Cricket Gods
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Calendar Collision, Cricket Edition
Disclaimer This blog entry contains references to junior sport, parental logistics, sun cream application under mild protest, and the emotional consequences of a closed cricket shop. No Upper…
Half-Term, Heatwaves and the Annual Migration of the Cardboard People
Disclaimer This blog contains junior cricket analysis from a parent who still thinks “pairs cricket” sounds like something involving fruit, casual weather commentary from someone born in Germany…
From Frome Forehands to Ilminster Off-Stumps: A German Explains Cricket, Badly
Disclaimer This article contains cricket terminology interpreted through the eyes of a German father who still thinks “16 overs” sounds like an instruction manual, “wides” should probably come…
How Not Paying for Parking Ended in a Cricket Bat
Disclaimer No legal advice is offered here, merely the ongoing documentation of middle-class administrative errors, youth sport escalation, and the financial impossibility of having hobbies in 2026. A…
A Medically Questionable Bank Holiday with a Tennis Racket
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From Tonsils to Top-of-the-Table Cricket: An Ilton Away Day in Beaminster
Disclaimer This blog contains family sport, parental confusion, cricket terminology used with varying degrees of confidence, and a German attempting to understand overs, wickets, deductions and why there…
Ilton Cricket Club Chronicles: When Parents Get Drafted
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The Week Cricket Started by Not Starting
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Another Sport? Apparently We’re Doing Cricket No
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