The anti-austerity meeting I attended in Norwich was good but not as good as it should of been, although I enjoyed catching up with people I had not seen in a while. The problems were caused by the chair, who was far too fond of the sound of his own voice and who failed to keep the meeting within a sensible time frame. It took the chair ten minutes to introduce the two speakers, and in spite of a number of people leaving he failed to close the meeting until 9:30, which made two hours twenty minutes – too long.
The moment of cricket history occurred only a few minutes ago as Nick Compton, grandson of the legendary Denis, reached 1,000 first class runs for the season. He missed out by only a day on joining the select company of WG Grace, Tom Hayward, Walter Hammond, Charles Hallows, Don Bradman (twice), Bill Edrich, Glenn Turner and Graeme Hick in reaching this landmakr by the end of May.
Todays View from the Rooftops is a rare shot taken through the sitting room window…
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