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The wild dogs cry out in the night

Once upon a time in the 1950s three batsmen played for the West Indies. Sir Frank Worrell who scored nearly 4,000 test runs at 49.48 and was the first non-white captain of the West Indies; Sir Clyde Walcott who scored nearly 4,000 runs at 56.68, and Sir Everton Weekes 4,400 runs at over an averageContinue reading “The wild dogs cry out in the night”

Letting the days go by

I was spoiled starting to listen seriously to pop music in the early 80s. After the revolution of punk there was the creativity of new wave and there was a lot of amazing music produced. I only really started to realise this as the decade wore on. The young, new bands become mellower as theyContinue reading “Letting the days go by”

Go Your Own Way

I am a real statistics nerd and I wanted to work out which were the most successful English clubs of all time. The main issue with this was how to attribute points for different achievements. So I put forward a scoring system as follows. The main points were that winning is more than twice asContinue reading “Go Your Own Way”

Though in truth we were at the sea

I would only read science fiction as a child. As soon as I had agency and birthday money I was buying books. That was my ninth birthday in 1974 where I solemnly picked out two Doctor Who novelisations, one Tomorrow People novelisation and a book about the search for the Loch Ness Monster. Dad managedContinue reading “Though in truth we were at the sea”

And it gets higher day by day

We were an outdoors family, whether some of us liked it or not😊 We were scouts, cubs, guides and brownies. We went on holidays to scenic places like the Lake District. In 1977 we camped at Seatoller Farm in Borrowdale, not far from Keswick. When we got to the site there was only one placeContinue reading “And it gets higher day by day”

We let in light and banish shade

I have only had two requests on this blog so far and both were topics that I was already planning on doing. This was requested by my niece Sophie Knowles, who loves Christmas so much she started watching Christmas TV music channels in October – this will be her first Christmas as a Mum andContinue reading “We let in light and banish shade”

We got a thousand points of light

Second year accountancy exams, Professional Examination 1 (PE1) were the real thing. The first-year exams just proved you could go on to do these. Revision courses for the five subjects were in Cambridge again, but at least I had a reliable car, even if it was the cheapest Fiesta imaginable (995cc and no heated rearContinue reading “We got a thousand points of light”

And pull the trigger I’ll be Dead

I have learnt a lot through my ME/ fibromyalgia (described at length in yesterday’s post https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/11/28/got-a-secret-in-plain-sight/ ). Some of it not even related to the condition. Dr Berkovitz talked at length about the brain being an organ like any other in the body. Yet if something goes wrong with the brain people view it inContinue reading “And pull the trigger I’ll be Dead”

Got a secret in plain sight

Dad and I went to Italy in the summer of 2015 and I hoped that would mark the end of my glandular fever problems. I was still weaker than normal, but it was 16 days of Sun and art. It wasn’t to be. Due to circumstances I ended up as Acting Principal for most ofContinue reading “Got a secret in plain sight”

War In Heaven

Some people did not like the Doctor Who New Adventures (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/11/01/lets-all-meet-up-in-the-year-2000/ ) claiming that they were not in the spirit of the program or that the plotlines were too complicated. I think Virgin books got it right as you cannot sustain a book series on a monster of the month in a novel with aContinue reading “War In Heaven”