Good news. Sources from the south-west suggest that Warwickshire's championship visit to Gloucestershire next season will not be at Bristol (the most charmless cricket ground in the history of the world, nay universe). Sadly, it's not Cheltenham the Bears will be heading for but Gloucester is still a lot groovier than Bristol.
Aye - grandparents. When my Nan used to visit she always used to bring me a banana. Like it was a real treat. She'd always beam as though she was handing over the biggest thrill in the world. I felt like saying "Nan - rationing finished decades ago yer silly old bird. Bananas are two-a penny". Never did though. Bless 'er - she kept her teeth in a half-pint glass at night.
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Good news indeed. It'll turn square at Gloucester for our demon spin-twins Salisbury and Botha.
Laker and Lock? Pah!
Posted by Kev R. | November 6, 2007 1:09 PM
Posted on November 6, 2007 13:09
When my Nan was 85 she drank half a bottle of brandy on Christmas day. The resultant vomitting fit caused her false teeth to fly across the room with such force that they knocked the shade off a lamp.
I've always wished Id been holding an empty beer glass at the time because, if Id been quick enough, they'd have landed in that - which would have been some trick.
A week later, she was arrested for drink driving on New Year's Eve.
She liked Gloucester.
Posted by kim | November 6, 2007 1:45 PM
Posted on November 6, 2007 13:45
Anyway, what happened to Archbishop Frobisher and how is his egg whisk?
Posted by Paul | November 6, 2007 2:09 PM
Posted on November 6, 2007 14:09
Last time I went to Gloucester there wasn't a ball bowled. Chucked it down it did.
Posted by Dr Foster | November 6, 2007 4:36 PM
Posted on November 6, 2007 16:36
Another thing about Nan - whenever me and me brothers were having anything resembling an argument she'd say: "Watch out, there's a policeman outside". OK, it worked the first time but we pretty soon worked out that there was not, in fact, a member of the constabulary stationed permanently outside our house. Silly old moo!
Dear old Nan. Bless 'er! Actually we argued quite a lot. We had nothing to do, you see. No toys. I came from a poor family. One year things were so tight that mum and dad gave me an empty box for Christmas and said it was an action-man deserter.
Posted by brian | November 6, 2007 5:31 PM
Posted on November 6, 2007 17:31
All due respect Brian, you sound like my gran in this blog - she is going senile.
Posted by Loopy Juice | November 6, 2007 7:00 PM
Posted on November 6, 2007 19:00
Lets hear it for all Nans everywhere. And Grandads. They're lovely.
Posted by Kind Dog | November 6, 2007 11:59 PM
Posted on November 6, 2007 23:59
You have used that old chesnut too many times, in fact enough times for an army of Action Men to desert.
Posted by Jane Hyatt | November 7, 2007 10:34 AM
Posted on November 7, 2007 10:34
What goes in out, in out and smells of wee? A gran doing the hokey-cokey.
Posted by Joker in the pack | November 7, 2007 1:05 PM
Posted on November 7, 2007 13:05
My Nan was fantastic. Her dad was a coalman who lived to be more than 100 and her brother died at the age of 113. When Nan was 103 she could still thread a needle without wearing glasses. She always had a go at the ITV Seven and had a particlarly good record at Kempton Park.
Posted by Sidney Gooch | November 8, 2007 9:45 AM
Posted on November 8, 2007 09:45
Leicestershire-based sources suggest Warwickshire have got a one-dayer at Oakham next season.
Posted by brian | November 8, 2007 10:46 AM
Posted on November 8, 2007 10:46
My Nan saw Glamorgan v Nottinghamshire at Swansea in 1968.
Posted by Zak Lace. | November 9, 2007 4:25 PM
Posted on November 9, 2007 16:25
Not a lot of facilities at Oakham school unless they have improved. But nice place.
Posted by Jane Hyatt | November 14, 2007 12:10 PM
Posted on November 14, 2007 12:10
Does a big loss matter to Ashley and his team? They are, after all, only the cricket section of the great big ugly corporate machine that warwickshire ccc has become.
Posted by Bear with a sore head | November 26, 2007 12:42 PM
Posted on November 26, 2007 12:42
You've got to look at the big picture.
Posted by Inkey the one-eyed man | November 26, 2007 3:55 PM
Posted on November 26, 2007 15:55