Ladies and gentlemen, please allow me to wish a very happy Christmas and groovy New Year to everyone who clicked on to and contributed to the cricket blog during 2007. Best wishes and thanks to you all. Hope you all have a great Chrimbo and New Year. Sadly, it's always a difficult time for me because it brings back some painful memories. I came from a poor family, you see. In fact, one year things were so tight that Mum and Dad gave me an empty box for Christmas and told me it was an action man deserter. Talking of spiny mammals, which I wasn't but I'm sure somebody on this big old globe of ours was at that very moment, even though we are heading for late December the hedgehog that traditionally attends my neighbour's garden for dinner every evening has still not hibernated. IN MID-DECEMBER!! The world is tilting on its axis, is it not? Mind you, I have to say that particular creature is rather unusual. One day last summer I looked out into the garden and there, to my great surprise, was my neighbour playing chess against this hedgehog. "Blimey," I said. "That must be an unusually bright animal." "Not really," said me nabe, "I'm beating him 3-2." Hedgehogs not bothering to hibernate does makes you think the world's gone bonkers but no more so than England's football team being managed by a bloke who can't even conduct his introductory press conference in English, although even that seems entirely sane and reasonable compared to the ECB's scandalously crass, greedy and short-sighted decision last year to flog all live international cricket to SKY, a decision which, if it were possible, will attain even more ludicrous proportions than ever before next summer when, with England's footballers absent from Euro 2008 (all no doubt using the spare time to swot up on Italian) centre-stage will be there to be seized by cricket only for live coverage of the national team to be available only to a tiny sprinkling of the potential audience. Once again, a very happy Christmas to all from me, Mary, my neighbour, her hedgehog and all the goldfinches.
Comments (9)
Worrying times.
Posted by St Tiggywinkle | December 17, 2007 10:22 PM
Posted on December 17, 2007 22:22
I'm just seriously disappointed the hedgehog wasn't winning....
Posted by B. Potter | December 18, 2007 7:19 AM
Posted on December 18, 2007 07:19
The common practise of putting bread and milk out for hedgehogs is mistaken. This food can give them digestive problems.
Posted by A well-wisher | December 18, 2007 8:45 AM
Posted on December 18, 2007 08:45
I wonder what Mark Greatbatch is getting for Christmas?
Posted by The Big Busy Diagonal | December 19, 2007 1:41 PM
Posted on December 19, 2007 13:41
'Groovy'? Why, you is locked in some funky time warp man
Posted by John Revolta | December 20, 2007 9:01 AM
Posted on December 20, 2007 09:01
Great gag about the action man deserter. Not heard that one before.
Posted by B Ding | December 20, 2007 9:02 AM
Posted on December 20, 2007 09:02
Yo. Mint.
Posted by J.Apple-Seed | December 20, 2007 11:01 AM
Posted on December 20, 2007 11:01
And a very merry christmas to you and yours Brian.
Posted by Kim | December 21, 2007 3:16 PM
Posted on December 21, 2007 15:16
Thanks Kim and best wishes to you and yours.
Posted by brian | December 23, 2007 10:59 AM
Posted on December 23, 2007 10:59