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…
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…
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…
The First U10 Tournament: A Case Study in Heat, Hope and Sudden Existential Collapse
Disclaimer This blog entry contains tennis, parenting, child psychology, modified balls, a compass draw, some mild heat exhaustion, and the sort of emotional volatility usually reserved for international…
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…
The Dragon Tour Called. Naturally, We Drove to Frome.
Disclaimer This is a light-hearted family sports diary, not an official LTA tournament report, a parenting manual, or a peer-reviewed study into the emotional volatility of eight-year-olds holding…
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…