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He came to prominence for Kent when making his debut for Kent in an Ashes summer. and Kent's match against the touring side happened to take place just before the first (?) test and three of the Aussie fast bowlers were being tested to narrow down their choice in preparation. DB-D scored a fine...

Couldn't she get Sunak to give her an honour for Services to Literature? Oh. hang on, I saw one of her books in a charity shop and it was dire beyond belief!

I've lost my stick! I know it's indoors somewhere, but I'm darned if I can find it. It'd be pretty catastrophic for me if I only had the one, but luckily I've two others, three if you include the spare I have in my car just in case. Lest you think I'm a little profligate, the one I've misplaced...

P.S. I've forgotten what an iron looks like.

You're really old when, a day after your 'new' player arrives, you think that is the old player!

Which means the passengers pay for the misdeeds of the management - until directors/senior management are sacked or even imprisoned (in appropriate circumstances) nothing will change. By the way, I'm in no way suggesting that anyone in this particular case should be jailed, but heads should have...

Deja vu all over again. England Women end 10 behind Australia Women after the first innings, then Australia score 257 in their second innings. England are thus left to score 268 to win - what chances a 2 wicket victory? :smile: I wondered why Sam Curran opened the bowling for Surrey in their...

Guaranteed!

With you on that.

Rehan Ahmed, the leggie who made his test debut in Pakistan, has been added to the side for Lords. Wood must certainly come in, Foakes certainly won't and I'd be amazed if Ali is risked even if pronounced fit. In the end, Lords not being a spinner's paradise, Root may do the honours. I'd like to...

Don't know if it's generally realised that until Monday there had been 10 occasions in Ashes history since 1926 when a team had won by either fewer than 25 runs or by three or fewer wickets and on each occasion the winner had been England! On that basis alone, Australia deserved to win. Khawaja...

One that did occur in a film of that era was the following exchange; Male doctor : big breath Female patient, lisping : yeth, and I'm only thirteen Questions would be asked in Parliament should such a thing be broadcast now!

One of the double deckers on the Mousehole just before noon, totally empty, was flying along the Promenade Penzance bound and had gone past the Wharfside entrance as I came on to Ross Bridge, the vehicle behind it, but I was sticking to the 20 limit. Stupid driving.

It was most likely an AEC Regal RF class: if it looked something like the icon above it's all but certain. There are very many in preservation, including in LT country area or Green Line livery. They date from the early 1950s and the very last one made it in service into the 1980s!

As a bookseller, I was once asked ''do you remember a book with a pink cover and had a bit about Cornwall in it you had when I was last in here ten years ago?'' He seemed surprised when I answered in the negative. A photo or reg number would almost certainly identify the vehicle, or its type at...

I'd still make the point that almost anyone voting Sinn Fein is aware that in the event of their candidate willing they won't be represented at Westminster, so must be reconciled with that. A P.R. voting system might at least allow a change to that scenario, but I don't see either Sinn Fein or...

I can't do links and in any case can't get the 28 minute programme to play for me but ''The Making of Pat Cummins'' by Kayo (Fox Cricket) appears by googling.

The Stormont parliament doesn't require an oath of allegiance to the monarch, thus allowing Sinn Fein to take their seats, and it is arguably part of the U.K.'s continuing governance of Northern Ireland, so I'd still say the Oath of Allegiance is the main stumbling block. They still stand in...

Being a fast bowler makes him very different for a start. I doubt he'll do an Imran Khan and seek to lead his nation, but he seems to be doing a pretty good job on the cricket field. He's almost certainly more of an intellectual than Ben Stokes, but then with all due respect that wouldn't be too...

The Camborne and Redruth constituency has announced the Conservative candidate to replace George 'Useless' Eustice at the next election, and it's the Cabinet Member for Transportation at Cornwall Council, a 26 year old by the name of Donnithorne (sorry, forgotten his first name.) Given the...