Handicapped

One of my relations used to call me a purple-faced spastic when I was stupid or displeased him; usually the former. He wasn’t woke.

Thursday, Bum Day

Yesterday’s Wordle had me stumped until I thought of using American spelling.

Join a Craze

I prefer to call it a craze rather than mass hysteria. My first craze was when I was at prep school.

Baily’s Cream

The Times this morning has a picture of the Holcombe Hunt in Lancashire. Not to be outdone BB roving reporter, Angela C-C, took this picture; better composed than the one in The Times and reminiscent of a Munnings.

Needle Time

If you read Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack or live in Wagga Wagga you will remember James (“Jim”) Higgs, OAM. He is a leg spinner who played for Australia in twenty-two Test matches. The late, great and lamented Murray Hedgcock would have known him.

Polemics

Many years ago I was instinctively anti hare-coursing. It seemed cruel to kill hares as a sport and there was plenty of polemic literature to reinforce my prejudice.

Yellow Sam

It seems rather like buying ones own furniture to build ones own castle, nevertheless that is what Richard Bellew did in 1472 – 1479 at Bellewstown.