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I'm just worried that too much stats in the main blog might turn people off looking at it? I noticed that edlad has put a counter in his main blog and has a link to uploading a counter for your own blog but I couldn't figure out how to use it, but I'd like to because this blog at the moment seems to have a fair few viewers and I link to the master blog frequently because the master blog includes images and diagrams and is visually more interesting possibly? So it'd be nice to see how many people look at my main blog.
I'm just worried that too much stats in the main blog might turn people off looking at it? I noticed that edlad has put a counter in his main blog and has a link to uploading a counter for your own blog but I couldn't figure out how to use it, but I'd like to because this blog at the moment seems to have a fair few viewers and I link to the master blog frequently because the master blog includes images and diagrams and is visually more interesting possibly? So it'd be nice to see how many people look at my main blog.
someblokecalleddave
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End of the weather
Here in the UK we've just had a run of about 10 days where the weather has been amazing. Back to back blue skies and as hot as 28 degrees centigrade which is 10 degrees or more warmer than the average for early May. It's not unknown to have 2' of snow and be sub zero as late as April 20th (see weather stats for SE England Aprill1993) so this weather has been most welcome! Needless to say we'll be probably looking at droughts later in the year if it keeps up and already the Met Office has been suggesting we're on track for the warmest May on record and now doubt warnings of global warming and global melt down.
But tonight there's a low moving in over France which is currently over the Channel and tomorrow we'll have some serious rain. Walking home from work tonight I noticed that my practice wicket on "Local Field" was looking a bit grassy and needing a trim and was unable to get over there earlier to cut it. What with the rain the growth will be accelerated and I might lose control of the grass length and have to resort to cutting the bloody thing again with hand shears! so just now at 10.45 at night I've just gone over there with my mower and mowed it in the dark ready for the deluge!
I went over to "5 Tree field" where I practiced in the early part of spring and at the end of the winter. The grass is pretty long and there's no evidence of the Asian blokes having been playing over there. Last year at this time I'm pretty certain they were over there almost every night. It'd be nice to have a practice wicket over there as well just on the off chance that I could encourage them as I'd planned to get involved with playing with cricket balls, but it's just too much what with my real team and all the practice I need to do on getting my Leg Break fully sussed. But I am tempted.
End of the weather
Here in the UK we've just had a run of about 10 days where the weather has been amazing. Back to back blue skies and as hot as 28 degrees centigrade which is 10 degrees or more warmer than the average for early May. It's not unknown to have 2' of snow and be sub zero as late as April 20th (see weather stats for SE England Aprill1993) so this weather has been most welcome! Needless to say we'll be probably looking at droughts later in the year if it keeps up and already the Met Office has been suggesting we're on track for the warmest May on record and now doubt warnings of global warming and global melt down.
But tonight there's a low moving in over France which is currently over the Channel and tomorrow we'll have some serious rain. Walking home from work tonight I noticed that my practice wicket on "Local Field" was looking a bit grassy and needing a trim and was unable to get over there earlier to cut it. What with the rain the growth will be accelerated and I might lose control of the grass length and have to resort to cutting the bloody thing again with hand shears! so just now at 10.45 at night I've just gone over there with my mower and mowed it in the dark ready for the deluge!
I went over to "5 Tree field" where I practiced in the early part of spring and at the end of the winter. The grass is pretty long and there's no evidence of the Asian blokes having been playing over there. Last year at this time I'm pretty certain they were over there almost every night. It'd be nice to have a practice wicket over there as well just on the off chance that I could encourage them as I'd planned to get involved with playing with cricket balls, but it's just too much what with my real team and all the practice I need to do on getting my Leg Break fully sussed. But I am tempted.
someblokecalleddave
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I've just put a counter in my blog a la Edlads main blog, so that'll be interesting to see how many hits I get. I seem to get loads on here which is weird because I'd say some of the others are a lot funnier and very well written. Maybe mine makes all the rest of you feel like you're all quite sane within your cricket madness? :laugh:
I've just put a counter in my blog a la Edlads main blog, so that'll be interesting to see how many hits I get. I seem to get loads on here which is weird because I'd say some of the others are a lot funnier and very well written. Maybe mine makes all the rest of you feel like you're all quite sane within your cricket madness? :laugh:
someblokecalleddave
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Yeah - that as well!
Here's todays and yesterday's insanity and grumpy olde bloke report! :laugh:
Friday, May 16, 2008
Not so good
07.50hrs Thursday
The weather has closed in and we've got overcast skies and the threat of rain. As yet the ground is still try and the rain is in the South West and over the southern half of the country (Kent and Sussex). I got up too late to walk to work via the wicket to check to see the affect of last nights nocturnal activities, but i'll check it out on the way home tonight.
Today's the last of the Ofsted inspections of class activities. So far I've not been seen and the closest I got to one was the woman stuck her head round the door and was looking at the facilities and then left. I've been prepared in the ridiculous manner that they expect for all of the lessons so far, but this mornings is the one I'm least prepared for as I have to cover stuff which is not in my subject area. We have to do tutorial sessions each week. Everyone on the planet knows that in tutorial sessions you basically conduct one to one sessions with students and help them with their work and general issues surrounding deficiencies. Somehow you're supposed to see and do this with 18 of them in 1 and half hours. In reality you're lucky if you manage to get through 4 of them simply because they all having some kind of aggro or problem. But in Mickey Mouse world in every lesson we're supposed to deliver lesson content to the whole of the class and today it's scheduled to be disability awareness and issues that surround attitudes and laws relating to disabilities. The thing is the students have come to socialise - whoops sorry learn photography and the last thing they need to be doing is wasting time learning stuff that doesn't help them attain their main qualification in a direct manner. Okay so it may mean that if they're taught this stuff they may be better more rounded people, but surely that kind of stuff is taught by the parents?
Later 17.00hrs - did that and survived. The lesson as expected didn't go down that well, there were several individuals that wanted to speak to me one to one regarding thier work. Despite that some of them filled in the worksheets and did the research but since then it's all gone in the bin - it's not part of their accredited course. A pointless wasted exercise.
So now it's 17.25hrs and I'm typing on the train and the world as of tomorrow will return to reality. I reckon we all did pretty well and that our dept may even get a grade 1. As for the whole college I reckon we'll retain our grade 2 status. We'll see, but there's been consequences that I may talk about later in the month, but one of them is terrible and relates to people suffering from stress. It's raining and overcast and a great deal cooler and I feel good for having gone out last night and mowed the practice wicket. The weather for the weekend looks fairly grim, but there has been an indication that as the weekend develops it improves, so fingers crossed. Doesn't look so clever as regards getting over the field on Friday evening with the boys though.
Friday 12.15
Dry but overcast damp in the air. Been spinning the ball all morning but no bowling, watched a bit of the Ashes in Oz last year or the year before when we lost like dogs, good watching Warne get them massive big leg breaks very impressive. Went outside the house and tried bowling a few up against the wall I can get massive amounts of turn on the ball but the line and length with this new "backspin approach" isn't there yet so the ball was flying all over the place. I need to get out on a field somewhere, so hopefully tonight the rain will hold out and I'll be able to get over to Blackshots with Alex and some others? My little - un Joe (Aged 6) has noticed that I'm now spinning the ball backwards into my body rather than from hand to hand and he's asked why? Which is good as it's meant that I was able to explain it's what he needs to practice if he's going to be Englands Shane Warne when he's older. He likes the idea of being Shane Warne and has been picking up different balls and trying to spin them back like I am at the moment. It'll be interesting to see if either of them want to go over the field and join in with the colts again tonight? I think Ben the older one will if he thinks it means he'll end up going to bed later, but Joe might go because I think he is interested in playing cricket and does enjoy it and he's mentioned Neil our captain a few times and has obviously remembered his name. In fact this morning watching the news and the report on Eng v NZ I asked him (referring to M. Vaughn).
"who's that bloke Joe"?"Don't know Dad"."That's Englands captain Michael Vaughn"."No it's not.... Our Captain's called Neil Samwell"?
So maybe he though that the practice last week at Grays was an England team practice or something??!!
Now that I'm getting the ball to turn to off when practicing outside my house, it's spinning so much that it's ending up in the bushes everytime I bowl which is a real pain in the jacksy and I'm going to make more effort to practice further afield which is aggro. In an ideal world I'd be able to practice in the manner that I was able to last weekend - bowling it back and forth to someone. It was interesting that in discovering what I needed to do, my mate Thomas was also discovering that he was able to do the same and seems to be in the process of changing his bowling to spin rather than seam bowling.
The thumb.
The injury sustained at the match in Loughton still hasn't got better, so I'm still unable to bowl Flippers or Gippers which is a pain. It's got better slightly but if I put pressure directly on the area that was obviously hit it still hurts, so it seems like there's going to be at least another week maybe two before I'm able to use it to put Flipper type spin on the ball.
17.00hrs
We did it - the Govt have gone and overall the college got a "Good" which is what we had last time. There was a bunch of additional stuff saying that our dept almost a grade 1 which is exceptional - the grades being 1 - Exceptional; 2 - Good; 3 sufficient and 4 Poor. We were let down by the fact that the attendance this week overall was 65% and that the building is designed badly and hinders learning, both things that are totally out of our control as teachers. I'd say that 80% of my students have no interest in photography whatsoever and my attendance is around about 75% on average so I reckon I don't do too bad considering.
The weather's holding out so far - still dry and overcast so hopefully there's a glimmer of hope for some practice tonight and hopefully little Joe will come along too, maybe even Ben we'll see. The weather looks as though it may rain over the weekend but Sunday looks fairly promising with some sunshine and the possibility of showers. I had a look on the internet for info on the next team we're about to play - Loxford or somewhere and it looks like it's somewhere round Ilford (East London) on the very borders of Essex. I asked last week what the area was like and Neil said it was okay but nowhere near as nice as the last place we played.
Friday 21.22
Gutted - as soon as I walked up the garden path both Ben and Joe came running up saying "Dad we don't want to go to cricket tonight, we'd rather stay here". Initially I thought that they'd been brainwashed by Michelle, but it panned out over dinner that Michelle was actually trying to get them to go, but neither of them were up for it. Joe almost did change his mind but then asked Ben if he was going to go and Ben said no and that was it Joe swapped back again. I still intended to go on my own, but then sensed that might be problematic and opted not to go. But I still needed to get some practice in as I've not bowled all week and after the weekends positive new approach to bowling Leg Breaks and it seemingly working really well I desperately needed to get out on some grass with some balls and try it out. So suggested that we go over to the "Rec" and play on the outfield, they were both fairly up for that but not specifically with cricket in mind. I chucked all the gear in the back of the car including theirs in the event that they did change their minds. I wasn't that pleased with going to the rec as it's on a slant (The outfield) but at least it's flat. Got there and set up and Joe wicket kept and Ben mucked about in some adjacent long grass. But what with Joe being at the other end I wasn't able to fully concentrate and my bowling was pretty crap. The ocassional ball was okay with some nice turn, but the flight, length and line was pretty much all over the place. What I need to do is get out on a field on my own for a couple of hours or with someone else throwing the ball back and forth to each other with some stumps. The whole thing was pretty frustrating with no rythymn or anything. Tried a few flippers and found that I can do them with a bit of back spin now and also tried bowling wrong uns in a different way and that worked as well and looked quite affective. All these things need loads of practice and that's not really going to happen till the school holidays which is still weeks away.
Tomorrow I'll be gagging to get out on a field and bowl Leg breaks, but I don't want to really p**s Michelle off, so I've got to be diplomatic and bide my time, but I do need to practice before Sunday. I certainly need to practice before the match as well otherwise I'll have the same problems that I had last weekend.
Yeah - that as well!
Here's todays and yesterday's insanity and grumpy olde bloke report! :laugh:
Friday, May 16, 2008
Not so good
07.50hrs Thursday
The weather has closed in and we've got overcast skies and the threat of rain. As yet the ground is still try and the rain is in the South West and over the southern half of the country (Kent and Sussex). I got up too late to walk to work via the wicket to check to see the affect of last nights nocturnal activities, but i'll check it out on the way home tonight.
Today's the last of the Ofsted inspections of class activities. So far I've not been seen and the closest I got to one was the woman stuck her head round the door and was looking at the facilities and then left. I've been prepared in the ridiculous manner that they expect for all of the lessons so far, but this mornings is the one I'm least prepared for as I have to cover stuff which is not in my subject area. We have to do tutorial sessions each week. Everyone on the planet knows that in tutorial sessions you basically conduct one to one sessions with students and help them with their work and general issues surrounding deficiencies. Somehow you're supposed to see and do this with 18 of them in 1 and half hours. In reality you're lucky if you manage to get through 4 of them simply because they all having some kind of aggro or problem. But in Mickey Mouse world in every lesson we're supposed to deliver lesson content to the whole of the class and today it's scheduled to be disability awareness and issues that surround attitudes and laws relating to disabilities. The thing is the students have come to socialise - whoops sorry learn photography and the last thing they need to be doing is wasting time learning stuff that doesn't help them attain their main qualification in a direct manner. Okay so it may mean that if they're taught this stuff they may be better more rounded people, but surely that kind of stuff is taught by the parents?
Later 17.00hrs - did that and survived. The lesson as expected didn't go down that well, there were several individuals that wanted to speak to me one to one regarding thier work. Despite that some of them filled in the worksheets and did the research but since then it's all gone in the bin - it's not part of their accredited course. A pointless wasted exercise.
So now it's 17.25hrs and I'm typing on the train and the world as of tomorrow will return to reality. I reckon we all did pretty well and that our dept may even get a grade 1. As for the whole college I reckon we'll retain our grade 2 status. We'll see, but there's been consequences that I may talk about later in the month, but one of them is terrible and relates to people suffering from stress. It's raining and overcast and a great deal cooler and I feel good for having gone out last night and mowed the practice wicket. The weather for the weekend looks fairly grim, but there has been an indication that as the weekend develops it improves, so fingers crossed. Doesn't look so clever as regards getting over the field on Friday evening with the boys though.
Friday 12.15
Dry but overcast damp in the air. Been spinning the ball all morning but no bowling, watched a bit of the Ashes in Oz last year or the year before when we lost like dogs, good watching Warne get them massive big leg breaks very impressive. Went outside the house and tried bowling a few up against the wall I can get massive amounts of turn on the ball but the line and length with this new "backspin approach" isn't there yet so the ball was flying all over the place. I need to get out on a field somewhere, so hopefully tonight the rain will hold out and I'll be able to get over to Blackshots with Alex and some others? My little - un Joe (Aged 6) has noticed that I'm now spinning the ball backwards into my body rather than from hand to hand and he's asked why? Which is good as it's meant that I was able to explain it's what he needs to practice if he's going to be Englands Shane Warne when he's older. He likes the idea of being Shane Warne and has been picking up different balls and trying to spin them back like I am at the moment. It'll be interesting to see if either of them want to go over the field and join in with the colts again tonight? I think Ben the older one will if he thinks it means he'll end up going to bed later, but Joe might go because I think he is interested in playing cricket and does enjoy it and he's mentioned Neil our captain a few times and has obviously remembered his name. In fact this morning watching the news and the report on Eng v NZ I asked him (referring to M. Vaughn).
"who's that bloke Joe"?"Don't know Dad"."That's Englands captain Michael Vaughn"."No it's not.... Our Captain's called Neil Samwell"?
So maybe he though that the practice last week at Grays was an England team practice or something??!!
Now that I'm getting the ball to turn to off when practicing outside my house, it's spinning so much that it's ending up in the bushes everytime I bowl which is a real pain in the jacksy and I'm going to make more effort to practice further afield which is aggro. In an ideal world I'd be able to practice in the manner that I was able to last weekend - bowling it back and forth to someone. It was interesting that in discovering what I needed to do, my mate Thomas was also discovering that he was able to do the same and seems to be in the process of changing his bowling to spin rather than seam bowling.
The thumb.
The injury sustained at the match in Loughton still hasn't got better, so I'm still unable to bowl Flippers or Gippers which is a pain. It's got better slightly but if I put pressure directly on the area that was obviously hit it still hurts, so it seems like there's going to be at least another week maybe two before I'm able to use it to put Flipper type spin on the ball.
17.00hrs
We did it - the Govt have gone and overall the college got a "Good" which is what we had last time. There was a bunch of additional stuff saying that our dept almost a grade 1 which is exceptional - the grades being 1 - Exceptional; 2 - Good; 3 sufficient and 4 Poor. We were let down by the fact that the attendance this week overall was 65% and that the building is designed badly and hinders learning, both things that are totally out of our control as teachers. I'd say that 80% of my students have no interest in photography whatsoever and my attendance is around about 75% on average so I reckon I don't do too bad considering.
The weather's holding out so far - still dry and overcast so hopefully there's a glimmer of hope for some practice tonight and hopefully little Joe will come along too, maybe even Ben we'll see. The weather looks as though it may rain over the weekend but Sunday looks fairly promising with some sunshine and the possibility of showers. I had a look on the internet for info on the next team we're about to play - Loxford or somewhere and it looks like it's somewhere round Ilford (East London) on the very borders of Essex. I asked last week what the area was like and Neil said it was okay but nowhere near as nice as the last place we played.
Friday 21.22
Gutted - as soon as I walked up the garden path both Ben and Joe came running up saying "Dad we don't want to go to cricket tonight, we'd rather stay here". Initially I thought that they'd been brainwashed by Michelle, but it panned out over dinner that Michelle was actually trying to get them to go, but neither of them were up for it. Joe almost did change his mind but then asked Ben if he was going to go and Ben said no and that was it Joe swapped back again. I still intended to go on my own, but then sensed that might be problematic and opted not to go. But I still needed to get some practice in as I've not bowled all week and after the weekends positive new approach to bowling Leg Breaks and it seemingly working really well I desperately needed to get out on some grass with some balls and try it out. So suggested that we go over to the "Rec" and play on the outfield, they were both fairly up for that but not specifically with cricket in mind. I chucked all the gear in the back of the car including theirs in the event that they did change their minds. I wasn't that pleased with going to the rec as it's on a slant (The outfield) but at least it's flat. Got there and set up and Joe wicket kept and Ben mucked about in some adjacent long grass. But what with Joe being at the other end I wasn't able to fully concentrate and my bowling was pretty crap. The ocassional ball was okay with some nice turn, but the flight, length and line was pretty much all over the place. What I need to do is get out on a field on my own for a couple of hours or with someone else throwing the ball back and forth to each other with some stumps. The whole thing was pretty frustrating with no rythymn or anything. Tried a few flippers and found that I can do them with a bit of back spin now and also tried bowling wrong uns in a different way and that worked as well and looked quite affective. All these things need loads of practice and that's not really going to happen till the school holidays which is still weeks away.
Tomorrow I'll be gagging to get out on a field and bowl Leg breaks, but I don't want to really p**s Michelle off, so I've got to be diplomatic and bide my time, but I do need to practice before Sunday. I certainly need to practice before the match as well otherwise I'll have the same problems that I had last weekend.
mas cambios
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One way may be to try to turn your practice into a bit of a game for your boys, it may get their interest up and also means they can come with you, which may earn some brownie bits with your wife?
Also, have you got any wind/air balls? Would mean that you could practice with the boys a bit more and the softer ball may mean that they can get more involved?
One way may be to try to turn your practice into a bit of a game for your boys, it may get their interest up and also means they can come with you, which may earn some brownie bits with your wife?
Also, have you got any wind/air balls? Would mean that you could practice with the boys a bit more and the softer ball may mean that they can get more involved?
someblokecalleddave
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Yep - do all that already. I think the main problem was the session last week which was their first session at my clubs colts was run by just one bloke on his own. There was supposed to be at least 2 of them and there was a lot of boys of varying abilities so -
1. They were all waiting ages to get a turn.
2. My boys probably felt they were a little bit out of their league what with some of the boys being very good cricket players for their ages.
I'm not too put off, I just have to be cautious not to force them into doing this, otherwise they'll not want to do it. I'll try again in a couple of weeks and see what kind of a reaction I get and even if it means they don't come round to the idea for another year I'm not that bothered because in the meantime they'll play with me and their mates and at school.
It's a lost cause with Michelle - she just thinks cricket is the work of the devil, if either of them went on to become international players I'm fairly certain she'd still think it was the worst thing that had ever happened to our family!!!
Yep - do all that already. I think the main problem was the session last week which was their first session at my clubs colts was run by just one bloke on his own. There was supposed to be at least 2 of them and there was a lot of boys of varying abilities so -
1. They were all waiting ages to get a turn.
2. My boys probably felt they were a little bit out of their league what with some of the boys being very good cricket players for their ages.
I'm not too put off, I just have to be cautious not to force them into doing this, otherwise they'll not want to do it. I'll try again in a couple of weeks and see what kind of a reaction I get and even if it means they don't come round to the idea for another year I'm not that bothered because in the meantime they'll play with me and their mates and at school.
It's a lost cause with Michelle - she just thinks cricket is the work of the devil, if either of them went on to become international players I'm fairly certain she'd still think it was the worst thing that had ever happened to our family!!!
mas cambios
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You may be right with Michelle! You need to be playing cricket before you meet them, then you have a (small) fighting chance of playing! It's the time element as much as the cost I find. Football for example isn't so bad as you can be done and dusted in 3 hours, whereas cricket is something like 8 hours or more.
I'm lucky in that my g/f is fairly understanding as I tend to play both Saturday, Sunday and midweek, practice at least once and then take coaching sessions for the juniors once or twice a week. This would be seriously curtailed if we had kids though.
Have you ever tried taking Michelle along with you or is that definite no no?
You may be right with Michelle! You need to be playing cricket before you meet them, then you have a (small) fighting chance of playing! It's the time element as much as the cost I find. Football for example isn't so bad as you can be done and dusted in 3 hours, whereas cricket is something like 8 hours or more.
I'm lucky in that my g/f is fairly understanding as I tend to play both Saturday, Sunday and midweek, practice at least once and then take coaching sessions for the juniors once or twice a week. This would be seriously curtailed if we had kids though.
Have you ever tried taking Michelle along with you or is that definite no no?
someblokecalleddave
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Last week was the one they should have gone along to. The place was stunning and relatively close to where I live - it was so good I'd be tempted to take them all there for a day out or at least an afternoon looking around. But without prior knowledge of the place I didn't know what it was going to be like. Because I'm new to the team all these venues we're visiting are a new experience, but they're teams we play against year after year, so next year I'd say they'd be daft not to go along with me. But until I've seen them all myself I'd run the risk of dragging them along to places that might not be conducive with hanging around for 8 hours in? We're playing a game with team based near Ilford, our captain said it's a nice ground but it's a case of what's beyond and near the ground that Michelle and the kids can go and see and get involved in?
Last week was the one they should have gone along to. The place was stunning and relatively close to where I live - it was so good I'd be tempted to take them all there for a day out or at least an afternoon looking around. But without prior knowledge of the place I didn't know what it was going to be like. Because I'm new to the team all these venues we're visiting are a new experience, but they're teams we play against year after year, so next year I'd say they'd be daft not to go along with me. But until I've seen them all myself I'd run the risk of dragging them along to places that might not be conducive with hanging around for 8 hours in? We're playing a game with team based near Ilford, our captain said it's a nice ground but it's a case of what's beyond and near the ground that Michelle and the kids can go and see and get involved in?
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Fantastic news for G&CCC
I logged on to my email account last night and had some brilliant news! For some strange reason some Woman had decided that I was to be the beneficiary of her will. Being the nice bloke that I am albeit agnostic I thought that if she's giving me this money I'll donate £100,000 to my cricket club so that we can have a new pitch in Orsett. What's this all about? you're no doubt wondering? Here's the story so far.... This is the email I got last night.....
From: Mrs. Mary Johnson.** Copse Hill,Wimbledon,SW** 0NE, London,United Kingdom.
My name is Mrs. Mary Johnson, I am a dying woman who have decided to donatewhat I have to you/ church.I am 59 years old and I was diagnosed for cancer forabout 2 years ago, immediately after the death of my husband, who has left meeverything he worked for. I have been touched by God to donate from what I haveinherited from my late husband to you for the good work of God, rather thanallow my relatives to use my husband hard earned funds ungodly.Please pray thatthe good Lord forgive me my sins. I have asked God to forgive me and I believehe has because He is a mercifu l God.I will be going in for an operation in less than one hour. I decided toWILL/donate the sum of £10 MillionGBP(Ten Million Great Britain Poundssterling) to you for the good work of the lord, and also to help the motherlessand less privilege and also for the assistance of the widows. At the moment Icannot take any telephone calls right now due to the fact that my relatives arearound me and my health status. I have adjusted my WILL and my lawyer is awareI have changed my will you and he will arrange the transfer of the funds frommy account to you. I wish you all the best and may the good Lord bless youabundantly, and please use the funds well andalways extend the good work to others.Contact Person:Barr Teddy WillaimsE-mail: barr.teddywilliams**@jmail.co.zaand tell him that I have WILLED £10 MillionGBP (Ten Million Great BritainPounds sterling) to you and I have also notified him thatI am WILLING that amount to you for a specific and good work. I know I don?tknow you but I have been directed to do this. Thanks and God bless.NB: You will be entitled to 40% while the balance will be use by you to helpthe work of God and the less privilege?s will appreciate your utmostconfidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished as I don't wantanything that will jeopardize my last wish.And Also I will be contacting with you by email as I don't want my relation oranybody to know because they are always around me.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Mary Johnson
So I replied..........
Cheers!
I'll be looking forward to it in the post. Hopefully it's all going to be used notes. If you could cash the money in for Gold and send gold instead. Send via Fedral Express or someone like that. If no-one is in leave instructions for the driver to go round the back and tell him to throw it all over the back gate. If you think the gold is too obvious I will take cash as long as it's UK pounds sterling or US dollars. Put it in a good sturdy box and the same applies if I'm not in.
I'm so glad you're doing this for me because I'm totally skint and I've got children and this may now set them up so that they go to a good school and get a good education. With the money I'll also donate £100,000 to a local cricket team so that they can buy the lease to a piece of land and make a new cricket pitch and pavillion.
Cheers
Dave Thompson.
Then this morning as quick as a flash I got a reply this morning from her lawyer......
Dear Dave Thompson,
I am Barrister, Teddy Williams a barrister to Mrs. Mary Johnson latehusband I was directed by Mrs. Mary Johnson regarding your e-mail yousend to her for you been her next of kin to execute her late husband willas you know very well that she is not in a better position in any wayto respond to your e-mail due to her present condition medical treatmentin Barnes Hospital, South Wimple Way, SW14 8SU, London, England First i will like to welcome your interest to be her next of kin to iwill like to execute her late husband will that is to say Mrs. MaryJohnson is putting all are trust in you to execute her late husband willand I know that you will not let her down or disappoint her.Before we proceed, I will like to update you that you must be areliable and truthful person to execute her late husband will and you mustdistribute her late husband fund of £10 Million (Ten Million Great BritainPounds sterling) with a Finance company in Europe to the lessprivilege/orphanage in your country she will be directing you to as time goeson. And you must show one or two prove showing that the fund is welldistributed to the less privilege and the work of God. Note that at the end of this transaction, after you have receive thefund been transferred to your account through the Finance company you areentitled to 40% of the total money while the balance will be use tohelp the work of God and the less prevelege in your country she will be directing
you to as time goes on be inform that before i direct you to Financecompany you must get back to me with your full details. Processing as thenext of kin(NOK).
1. Your date of birth
2. Your place of birth
3. Your Occupation
4. Any valid identity card
5. Full name
6. Tel numbers
7. Contact address
8. Sex
Upon receipt of this e-mail, I will then direct you to the Financecompany for the facilitating/processing of the fund transfer to youraccount in your country. Note: i am not demanding any money of form of payment from as herbarrister for service and directive i will be rendering to you because ihave been fully paid by my late client and all we need is to comply withour directives to make sure your funds is fully transferred. I await your prompt response.
Yours in Service,
BARR TEDDY WILLIAMS .+44 7045722***
So in reply to that I've said.......
Ted,
Cheers for responding so quickly, I can't give you any of those deatils as there are so many people that are working scams on the internet, but if you're giving the money away I certainly wont be saying no to it. So if you can put it in a suit case and then put the suitcase in a black plastic bag and take it to Blackshots playing fields in Grays, Essex. You can drop the money off at the cricket pavillion at 2.30pm on any Sunday. You don't have to identify yourself and you can be as discreet as you like. Simply walk up to the pavillion building and place the money where the lawn mowers and score boards are. Cheers in advance and thank you for your genorosity.
Dave.
So with a bit of luck in the next couple of weeks some bloke will be dropping £10,000,000 off to me at the cricket club. So any cricket club members reading this - don't forget if you find a suitcase or 2 with £10,000,000 in it or bars of gold that look like 10 million quids worth - it's mine. I'll pay for the new pitch and I'll pay for a big party as well and I'll take everyone on a world tour as well - and we'll do all the best cricket pitches and beaches for a year, maybe go and meet Shane Warne and have a session in the nets with him? (We'll donate £100,000 to a charity of his choice if he accomodates us as long as it nothing to do with animals - especially cats).
Anyway - on a more mundane front while I'm waiting to become a multi millionaire, it's rained all day so I've not been able to practice. I've just realised I can build my own indoor nets facility as well when this money comes through? Tomorrow though is supposedly starting sunny so I may get out on one of the fields and have a bowl? Let's hope so.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Fantastic news for G&CCC
I logged on to my email account last night and had some brilliant news! For some strange reason some Woman had decided that I was to be the beneficiary of her will. Being the nice bloke that I am albeit agnostic I thought that if she's giving me this money I'll donate £100,000 to my cricket club so that we can have a new pitch in Orsett. What's this all about? you're no doubt wondering? Here's the story so far.... This is the email I got last night.....
From: Mrs. Mary Johnson.** Copse Hill,Wimbledon,SW** 0NE, London,United Kingdom.
My name is Mrs. Mary Johnson, I am a dying woman who have decided to donatewhat I have to you/ church.I am 59 years old and I was diagnosed for cancer forabout 2 years ago, immediately after the death of my husband, who has left meeverything he worked for. I have been touched by God to donate from what I haveinherited from my late husband to you for the good work of God, rather thanallow my relatives to use my husband hard earned funds ungodly.Please pray thatthe good Lord forgive me my sins. I have asked God to forgive me and I believehe has because He is a mercifu l God.I will be going in for an operation in less than one hour. I decided toWILL/donate the sum of £10 MillionGBP(Ten Million Great Britain Poundssterling) to you for the good work of the lord, and also to help the motherlessand less privilege and also for the assistance of the widows. At the moment Icannot take any telephone calls right now due to the fact that my relatives arearound me and my health status. I have adjusted my WILL and my lawyer is awareI have changed my will you and he will arrange the transfer of the funds frommy account to you. I wish you all the best and may the good Lord bless youabundantly, and please use the funds well andalways extend the good work to others.Contact Person:Barr Teddy WillaimsE-mail: barr.teddywilliams**@jmail.co.zaand tell him that I have WILLED £10 MillionGBP (Ten Million Great BritainPounds sterling) to you and I have also notified him thatI am WILLING that amount to you for a specific and good work. I know I don?tknow you but I have been directed to do this. Thanks and God bless.NB: You will be entitled to 40% while the balance will be use by you to helpthe work of God and the less privilege?s will appreciate your utmostconfidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished as I don't wantanything that will jeopardize my last wish.And Also I will be contacting with you by email as I don't want my relation oranybody to know because they are always around me.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Mary Johnson
So I replied..........
Cheers!
I'll be looking forward to it in the post. Hopefully it's all going to be used notes. If you could cash the money in for Gold and send gold instead. Send via Fedral Express or someone like that. If no-one is in leave instructions for the driver to go round the back and tell him to throw it all over the back gate. If you think the gold is too obvious I will take cash as long as it's UK pounds sterling or US dollars. Put it in a good sturdy box and the same applies if I'm not in.
I'm so glad you're doing this for me because I'm totally skint and I've got children and this may now set them up so that they go to a good school and get a good education. With the money I'll also donate £100,000 to a local cricket team so that they can buy the lease to a piece of land and make a new cricket pitch and pavillion.
Cheers
Dave Thompson.
Then this morning as quick as a flash I got a reply this morning from her lawyer......
Dear Dave Thompson,
I am Barrister, Teddy Williams a barrister to Mrs. Mary Johnson latehusband I was directed by Mrs. Mary Johnson regarding your e-mail yousend to her for you been her next of kin to execute her late husband willas you know very well that she is not in a better position in any wayto respond to your e-mail due to her present condition medical treatmentin Barnes Hospital, South Wimple Way, SW14 8SU, London, England First i will like to welcome your interest to be her next of kin to iwill like to execute her late husband will that is to say Mrs. MaryJohnson is putting all are trust in you to execute her late husband willand I know that you will not let her down or disappoint her.Before we proceed, I will like to update you that you must be areliable and truthful person to execute her late husband will and you mustdistribute her late husband fund of £10 Million (Ten Million Great BritainPounds sterling) with a Finance company in Europe to the lessprivilege/orphanage in your country she will be directing you to as time goeson. And you must show one or two prove showing that the fund is welldistributed to the less privilege and the work of God. Note that at the end of this transaction, after you have receive thefund been transferred to your account through the Finance company you areentitled to 40% of the total money while the balance will be use tohelp the work of God and the less prevelege in your country she will be directing
you to as time goes on be inform that before i direct you to Financecompany you must get back to me with your full details. Processing as thenext of kin(NOK).
1. Your date of birth
2. Your place of birth
3. Your Occupation
4. Any valid identity card
5. Full name
6. Tel numbers
7. Contact address
8. Sex
Upon receipt of this e-mail, I will then direct you to the Financecompany for the facilitating/processing of the fund transfer to youraccount in your country. Note: i am not demanding any money of form of payment from as herbarrister for service and directive i will be rendering to you because ihave been fully paid by my late client and all we need is to comply withour directives to make sure your funds is fully transferred. I await your prompt response.
Yours in Service,
BARR TEDDY WILLIAMS .+44 7045722***
So in reply to that I've said.......
Ted,
Cheers for responding so quickly, I can't give you any of those deatils as there are so many people that are working scams on the internet, but if you're giving the money away I certainly wont be saying no to it. So if you can put it in a suit case and then put the suitcase in a black plastic bag and take it to Blackshots playing fields in Grays, Essex. You can drop the money off at the cricket pavillion at 2.30pm on any Sunday. You don't have to identify yourself and you can be as discreet as you like. Simply walk up to the pavillion building and place the money where the lawn mowers and score boards are. Cheers in advance and thank you for your genorosity.
Dave.
So with a bit of luck in the next couple of weeks some bloke will be dropping £10,000,000 off to me at the cricket club. So any cricket club members reading this - don't forget if you find a suitcase or 2 with £10,000,000 in it or bars of gold that look like 10 million quids worth - it's mine. I'll pay for the new pitch and I'll pay for a big party as well and I'll take everyone on a world tour as well - and we'll do all the best cricket pitches and beaches for a year, maybe go and meet Shane Warne and have a session in the nets with him? (We'll donate £100,000 to a charity of his choice if he accomodates us as long as it nothing to do with animals - especially cats).
Anyway - on a more mundane front while I'm waiting to become a multi millionaire, it's rained all day so I've not been able to practice. I've just realised I can build my own indoor nets facility as well when this money comes through? Tomorrow though is supposedly starting sunny so I may get out on one of the fields and have a bowl? Let's hope so.
mas cambios
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If you want to donate a small amount to simplyCricket we won't say no!
It really must have been your lucky day, to think a random stranger leaving you all that money in their will! :laugh:
If you want to donate a small amount to simplyCricket we won't say no!
It really must have been your lucky day, to think a random stranger leaving you all that money in their will! :laugh:
someblokecalleddave
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But this does have a sinister side to it, if you were a bit slow off the mark and maybe a church goer and someone who tends to see the good in people you could be drawn into it as many people are. The fact that there's phone numbers, email addresses and seemingly legitimate addresses makes it sound vaguely plausible - who knows what kind of response you'd get if you were to call one of these numbers, or check to see if the hospital details were correct etc? What's peeved me is that I've looked for somewhere on the internet in order that I can report it, but the general feeling you get is that there's so much of this crap going on that none of the authorities have got the man-power or resources to deal with it, which is a real shame. All I can do to get back at this berk is send him emails and try and waste his/her time. Maybe I should get his/her hopes up and send a batch of false bank details names etc?
Oh yeah and if the suitcase does turn up - how much do you need or would you like to come on our world tour with us?
But this does have a sinister side to it, if you were a bit slow off the mark and maybe a church goer and someone who tends to see the good in people you could be drawn into it as many people are. The fact that there's phone numbers, email addresses and seemingly legitimate addresses makes it sound vaguely plausible - who knows what kind of response you'd get if you were to call one of these numbers, or check to see if the hospital details were correct etc? What's peeved me is that I've looked for somewhere on the internet in order that I can report it, but the general feeling you get is that there's so much of this crap going on that none of the authorities have got the man-power or resources to deal with it, which is a real shame. All I can do to get back at this berk is send him emails and try and waste his/her time. Maybe I should get his/her hopes up and send a batch of false bank details names etc?
Oh yeah and if the suitcase does turn up - how much do you need or would you like to come on our world tour with us?
mas cambios
Active Member
someblokecalleddave
Well-Known Member
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Top link Mas! Although I may have already gone too far and they might not take me seriously, but I may try it out with some ropey accounts numbers and stuff!
Yep you're on the tour then if the money turns up, in the meantime though I need your account details to secure a deposit to book the plane la la la la la !!!!! :laugh:
I just looked at the forum on the website link, some of the threads have over 100,000 viewings and it's a freaky site full of weirdo's but they do seem to be doing a good job winding these people up!
Top link Mas! Although I may have already gone too far and they might not take me seriously, but I may try it out with some ropey accounts numbers and stuff!
Yep you're on the tour then if the money turns up, in the meantime though I need your account details to secure a deposit to book the plane la la la la la !!!!! :laugh:
I just looked at the forum on the website link, some of the threads have over 100,000 viewings and it's a freaky site full of weirdo's but they do seem to be doing a good job winding these people up!
someblokecalleddave
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If this seems a bit disjointed and random or you want to see the pictures check out the blog in all it's glory at www.mpafirsteleven.blogspot.com
The Land of a thousand cricket pitches......
Grays & Chadwell CC V's Loxley Falcons
As far as I'm concerned I bowled crap again. Admittedly not as many wides as last week, but a few none the less. The wicket was one of those really nice looking ones - all compressed mud and no grass and I think they were all saying that it was good for bowlers especially if you can get the ball to spin. I always think they look lovely and smooth like the tarmac I practice on a lot and get Hockey balls to turn a country mile - but here in the reality of a cricket match it seems I can barely throw the ball from one end to the other let alone make it spin and turn. My thumb has got better now and I'm able to bowl flippers and with Lee earlier I was getting them to turn quite nicely, but here in the glare of the spotlight I felt apprehensive and bowled only what I can describe as cautiously - trying not to repeat the wides of last week. Anyway so as not to bore everyone - I didn't get a wicket at all and was batted all over the park especially when the ball went down the legside. I've still got lots to learn. Some of the "Wanna be" Wrong uns turned slightly and they kept getting hit towards Super Dave but over his head or along the ground most of the time. He was in a position between Silly Mid off and extra cover (Might be mid off)? Some of the balls also went up in the sky and in the direction of Mid wicket but always a bit short or over their heads.
More impressive was my fielding today - I stopped a few shots with some dives and caught some dude at square leg who looked like he meant business. He hit the ball and again like last time it seemed I had loads of time to think about it - ooh s**t here it comes and I'm quite close so this is going to hurt like hell, I had started to move in the wrong direction bodily but somehow I kept my head in line with the ball and just stuck my hands out where I thought it was going and caught it nicely as I fell away to the ground backwards. So that was okay. That was a ball off of Lee's bowling who then went on to take another wicket and Lee's noted to be a Part time bowler. In fact Lee took their main batsman who was on 93 with a ball that went through his legs and caught leg stump.
Super Dave took his wickets bowling Leg Spin - he'd bowled all the overs in his spell up until the last 2 or 3 seam balls but then turned to bowling leg spin and took out one of the openers and then bowled the next bloke out on a golden duck "I've been reading your blog Dave and tried some of your techniques"! Neil also took two, one of which Lovejoy caught and I think the other he bowled clean, but I don't remember the deatils.
They finished on 221 with wickets in hand. A better result than last year when we played them as they made 250 +. So now we were chasing. Within a matter of minutes one of our openers went on his second ball - John Buckley. Chris and Nick Buckely stuck it out for a while but we could see right from the outset that the run rate was slow and they were keeping us pinned down with less than three runs an over. Nick was next caught making way for Lee. Lee was there for quite some time with Chris hitting a few fours, but still the run rate was low and the game was disappearing out of our grasp. Chris was next to be replaced by Bobby who played alongside Lee. Then Lee went to be taken over by Danny - Danny hit some fours, but we were in need of a Dave Skeels innings, but he wasn't with us today. Then our lot started to fall like flies Rhys? was next and I had to stop taking pictures as it looked like I was going to get a bat. Rhys went fairly soon to be replaced by Super Dave. By now I'd Almost got all my gear on and we lost another wicket and we were on on the 37th over of 40 and Lovejoy said I could go on in place of him, but I couldn't get my bloody leg pads sorted in time and said for Lovejoy to go on and he did. So once again I missed my chance to bat - not that I'd be likely to make any runs let alone impact on the game, but then as Super Dave said later - "You're only ever going to get better by doing it".
We lost 221 - 161 which is apparently slightly better than last year, but they did have the services of a really good fast bowler Danny apparently asked his if he could slow down a bit because he couldn't even see the ball it was that fast.
In bewteen my umpire duty which I screwed up a bit - I should have given a no-ball for a shoulder height beamer that Lee had to fend off, I used their practice wicket and bowled far better on that. Although I still can't bowl Leg Breaks despite all the optimism recently and seemingly being able to do it on concrete with seamless balls? Talking to Super Dave after the game he was saying that I'd improved massively since last year and he was making direct comparisons with "The Wizard" it seems that they've been winding him up saying that I'd moved ahead of him in the potential dept pointing out that I can get the ball to spin both ways. If I could get a bit more speed I'd be inclined to say I'm in the competition and try and prove the point, but all the time I'm so slow I'd say he's still got the edge, but the bowling figures will no doubt be the proof. So I wonder how he got on today as he played with the Sunday 1st XI?
So more work to do - faster and more accurate. I think the thing I was doing wrong today was that I was trying to bowl down the sides - trying to get a bit flash and get the ball to turn in. I reckon and I think Super Dave said to do this I'd be far better off just bowling straight at the stumps and if it turns that then may force an error and if it doesn't turn the batsman has to do something with it?
If this seems a bit disjointed and random or you want to see the pictures check out the blog in all it's glory at www.mpafirsteleven.blogspot.com
The Land of a thousand cricket pitches......
Grays & Chadwell CC V's Loxley Falcons
As far as I'm concerned I bowled crap again. Admittedly not as many wides as last week, but a few none the less. The wicket was one of those really nice looking ones - all compressed mud and no grass and I think they were all saying that it was good for bowlers especially if you can get the ball to spin. I always think they look lovely and smooth like the tarmac I practice on a lot and get Hockey balls to turn a country mile - but here in the reality of a cricket match it seems I can barely throw the ball from one end to the other let alone make it spin and turn. My thumb has got better now and I'm able to bowl flippers and with Lee earlier I was getting them to turn quite nicely, but here in the glare of the spotlight I felt apprehensive and bowled only what I can describe as cautiously - trying not to repeat the wides of last week. Anyway so as not to bore everyone - I didn't get a wicket at all and was batted all over the park especially when the ball went down the legside. I've still got lots to learn. Some of the "Wanna be" Wrong uns turned slightly and they kept getting hit towards Super Dave but over his head or along the ground most of the time. He was in a position between Silly Mid off and extra cover (Might be mid off)? Some of the balls also went up in the sky and in the direction of Mid wicket but always a bit short or over their heads.
More impressive was my fielding today - I stopped a few shots with some dives and caught some dude at square leg who looked like he meant business. He hit the ball and again like last time it seemed I had loads of time to think about it - ooh s**t here it comes and I'm quite close so this is going to hurt like hell, I had started to move in the wrong direction bodily but somehow I kept my head in line with the ball and just stuck my hands out where I thought it was going and caught it nicely as I fell away to the ground backwards. So that was okay. That was a ball off of Lee's bowling who then went on to take another wicket and Lee's noted to be a Part time bowler. In fact Lee took their main batsman who was on 93 with a ball that went through his legs and caught leg stump.
Super Dave took his wickets bowling Leg Spin - he'd bowled all the overs in his spell up until the last 2 or 3 seam balls but then turned to bowling leg spin and took out one of the openers and then bowled the next bloke out on a golden duck "I've been reading your blog Dave and tried some of your techniques"! Neil also took two, one of which Lovejoy caught and I think the other he bowled clean, but I don't remember the deatils.
They finished on 221 with wickets in hand. A better result than last year when we played them as they made 250 +. So now we were chasing. Within a matter of minutes one of our openers went on his second ball - John Buckley. Chris and Nick Buckely stuck it out for a while but we could see right from the outset that the run rate was slow and they were keeping us pinned down with less than three runs an over. Nick was next caught making way for Lee. Lee was there for quite some time with Chris hitting a few fours, but still the run rate was low and the game was disappearing out of our grasp. Chris was next to be replaced by Bobby who played alongside Lee. Then Lee went to be taken over by Danny - Danny hit some fours, but we were in need of a Dave Skeels innings, but he wasn't with us today. Then our lot started to fall like flies Rhys? was next and I had to stop taking pictures as it looked like I was going to get a bat. Rhys went fairly soon to be replaced by Super Dave. By now I'd Almost got all my gear on and we lost another wicket and we were on on the 37th over of 40 and Lovejoy said I could go on in place of him, but I couldn't get my bloody leg pads sorted in time and said for Lovejoy to go on and he did. So once again I missed my chance to bat - not that I'd be likely to make any runs let alone impact on the game, but then as Super Dave said later - "You're only ever going to get better by doing it".
We lost 221 - 161 which is apparently slightly better than last year, but they did have the services of a really good fast bowler Danny apparently asked his if he could slow down a bit because he couldn't even see the ball it was that fast.
In bewteen my umpire duty which I screwed up a bit - I should have given a no-ball for a shoulder height beamer that Lee had to fend off, I used their practice wicket and bowled far better on that. Although I still can't bowl Leg Breaks despite all the optimism recently and seemingly being able to do it on concrete with seamless balls? Talking to Super Dave after the game he was saying that I'd improved massively since last year and he was making direct comparisons with "The Wizard" it seems that they've been winding him up saying that I'd moved ahead of him in the potential dept pointing out that I can get the ball to spin both ways. If I could get a bit more speed I'd be inclined to say I'm in the competition and try and prove the point, but all the time I'm so slow I'd say he's still got the edge, but the bowling figures will no doubt be the proof. So I wonder how he got on today as he played with the Sunday 1st XI?
So more work to do - faster and more accurate. I think the thing I was doing wrong today was that I was trying to bowl down the sides - trying to get a bit flash and get the ball to turn in. I reckon and I think Super Dave said to do this I'd be far better off just bowling straight at the stumps and if it turns that then may force an error and if it doesn't turn the batsman has to do something with it?
someblokecalleddave
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Gipper update
(With pictures - http://mpafirsteleven.blogspot.com/2008/05/gipper-update.html)
I'd noticed the last couple of days that my practice wicket was growing to the point that it needed to be cut. So just after sundown I went over there with the mower and gave it a trim. I also cut the long grass another foot towards the uncut end.
Having cut it, it was still fairly light and I was tempted to throw a few balls, so I took the mower home and collected some balls and a set of stumps. You can see how close the field is to my house in this ariel image below.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=51.565777,0.426144&spn=0.001421,0.005386&t=k&z=18
The practice wicket is on the football pitch that you can see here in the botton right hand corner where the trees are casting a shadow. My garage is at the bottom of the image right next to the cluster of houses in the bottom centre here. See the red cars just to the left of these and slightly lower beneath the text that says "Images". This is the very same garage that was home to the only ever case of a Steatoda Grossa in Essex http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=steatoda+grossa&btnG=Google+Search&meta= It was a biggun!
So anyway being wary that there might be more of them around I got the stumps and went and threw a few balls as dusk fell. Initially I just threw a few top spinner, these went okay but I'm looking to bowl Leg breaks so gave those a go and nothing. With my thumb getting progressively better and being able once more to click the ball out of my fingers flipper style I thought I'd give the Gipper a go.
I threw 16 up there and 12 of them went okay turning acutely, so I might start looking at it again now with a view to getting it moew under control. If I could repeat what I did tonight on a regular basis I'd say that I might be ready to unveil it to the public in a match situation where we'd already batted and established an unasailable lead and were clearing out the last 2 bunnies with overs in hand and no chance of them catching up. It was going so well I'm hoping that Friday will bring fine weather in the morning and I might get an hour or so on the field before work?
The balls that I was pitching very wide down the legside were hitting the off stump just about or going wide as in the diagram here.
Admittedly it's still ridiculously slow and sometimes it bounces 3 times to a roll and would go for a no-ball, but when I do get it right it looks like a wide which then turns viciously. I desperately need to bowl it on a wicket and see what happens.
Gipper update
(With pictures - http://mpafirsteleven.blogspot.com/2008/05/gipper-update.html)
I'd noticed the last couple of days that my practice wicket was growing to the point that it needed to be cut. So just after sundown I went over there with the mower and gave it a trim. I also cut the long grass another foot towards the uncut end.
Having cut it, it was still fairly light and I was tempted to throw a few balls, so I took the mower home and collected some balls and a set of stumps. You can see how close the field is to my house in this ariel image below.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=51.565777,0.426144&spn=0.001421,0.005386&t=k&z=18
The practice wicket is on the football pitch that you can see here in the botton right hand corner where the trees are casting a shadow. My garage is at the bottom of the image right next to the cluster of houses in the bottom centre here. See the red cars just to the left of these and slightly lower beneath the text that says "Images". This is the very same garage that was home to the only ever case of a Steatoda Grossa in Essex http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=steatoda+grossa&btnG=Google+Search&meta= It was a biggun!
So anyway being wary that there might be more of them around I got the stumps and went and threw a few balls as dusk fell. Initially I just threw a few top spinner, these went okay but I'm looking to bowl Leg breaks so gave those a go and nothing. With my thumb getting progressively better and being able once more to click the ball out of my fingers flipper style I thought I'd give the Gipper a go.
I threw 16 up there and 12 of them went okay turning acutely, so I might start looking at it again now with a view to getting it moew under control. If I could repeat what I did tonight on a regular basis I'd say that I might be ready to unveil it to the public in a match situation where we'd already batted and established an unasailable lead and were clearing out the last 2 bunnies with overs in hand and no chance of them catching up. It was going so well I'm hoping that Friday will bring fine weather in the morning and I might get an hour or so on the field before work?
The balls that I was pitching very wide down the legside were hitting the off stump just about or going wide as in the diagram here.
Admittedly it's still ridiculously slow and sometimes it bounces 3 times to a roll and would go for a no-ball, but when I do get it right it looks like a wide which then turns viciously. I desperately need to bowl it on a wicket and see what happens.
mas cambios
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Re: someblokecalleddave's Blog
I meant to post this before the latest update, but with regards to your match bowling - as negative as it may sound I would really work on putting the ball on the stumps as suggested for now.
Keep working on the usual line in practice and putting the odd there in a match, but look to have the majority on the stumps, will give you a better chance of a wicket.
I meant to post this before the latest update, but with regards to your match bowling - as negative as it may sound I would really work on putting the ball on the stumps as suggested for now.
Keep working on the usual line in practice and putting the odd there in a match, but look to have the majority on the stumps, will give you a better chance of a wicket.