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June 11, 2007
Picture perfect
While I was out and about yesterday afternoon I stumbled across something so typically English that I almost couldn't believe my eyes....
On a stunning day I came across a village green cricket match. Nothing unusual you may say about that as they occur up and down the country every weekend.
But, this was different had it had all the ingredients one truly associates with the great game and which has inspired so many writers over the year to describe the village cricket match.
There was the village green surrounded by a pond and weeping willows and over looked by picturesque cottages and the pub. Spectators watched from their deckchairs while youngsters scampered around by the boundary and the ice cream van was doing a roaring trade.
It was a truly wonderful sight and took me back to my days when I used to spend Sunday afternoons playing cricket, although never in a setting quite as picturesque as the one I discovered on the outskirts of Esher in Surrey.
Infact I had only gone out to a garden centre to buy some herbs to plant out in the garden but ended up being entralled by the scene I came across.
While on the subject of cricket I can remember in the days before the internet how many a lunchtime was spent in the summer, along with fellow workers, standing by the window of usually a Radio Rentals television shop watching the Test match action.
I only say that because this very lunchtime I spotted several people doing the very same thing in Uxbridge town centre, as they watched England secure victory over the West Indies in the third Test.
As for this week's Gazette, well it's shaping up nicely and we have a potentially cracking story for page three. It's the type of story where the pictures tell you everything and I am sure it will get our readers talking on a subject they are always vocal about.
Posted by aseal at June 11, 2007 3:12 PM