Weekend Sporting Marathon – Part Two: Cricket, Calculators and the Mid Wessex Cricket Gods
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Frome, Fast4 and the Curious Case of the 2–2 Toilet Break
Disclaimer This article contains junior tennis, extreme temperatures, competitive parents pretending not to watch, repeated visits to a coded toilet and an England football match in which defending…
ROSIER: After ERCP, Does Every Gallbladder Still Need to Go?
Disclaimer This article contains gallstones, randomisation and the mildly disturbing suggestion that “we have always done it this way” may not meet the methodological standards of evidence-based medicine.…
Congresbury, Consolation Draws and the Quiet Art of Not Imploding
Disclaimer This article contains junior tennis, NHS staffing shortages, temperatures incompatible with British life and one brief reference to ERCP. No gallbladders were removed during the tournament, although…
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…
Longleat, Monkeys, Wolves and the German Concept of Sensible Heat Avoidance
Disclaimer This blog entry contains safari animals, NHS-adjacent heat exhaustion, mild automotive trauma, and a child navigating a maze faster than most adults navigate an NHS printer menu.…
Green Belt, White Stripe, and the Ancient Art of Last-Minute Revision
Disclaimer This article contains references to childhood sport, Taekwon-Do, cricket training, Korean terminology, parental observation, and the dangerous illusion that revising theory two days before an exam is…
A Weekend Without Cricket, Apart From the Cricket
Disclaimer This article contains swimming, IKEA, Swedish meatballs, cricket pathway observation, competitive tennis, heat management, emotional regulation, weak serving, defensive excellence, and one child changing from cricket kit…
The Cricket Form, the Private School Question, and Other Ways to Make Sunday Morning Expensive
Disclaimer This article contains cricket, Microsoft Forms, secondary-school catchment theory, parental overthinking, speculative economics, and the dangerous suggestion that an eight-year-old who can hit a tennis ball and…
Ilton v Beaminster: Eleven Wickets, One Cold Morning, and the Brief Collapse of Dorset Optimism
Disclaimer This blog entry contains cricket, mild parental exaggeration, statistical enthusiasm, and a completely unnecessary amount of emotional investment in children throwing balls at wooden sticks. No Beaminster…