Well, I've been looking forward to today since late last year when I bought the tickets.
I was due to head off up to Leeds with my mate Cliff, to see England v The West Indies in a one day cricket international.
The weather forecast looked bad, so we didn't even set off, and sure enough, the game was called off at 1-15 this afternoon without a ball being bowled. The only ducks today were feathered.
All was not lost. We did enjoy a nice lunch at The Star Inn, West Leake instead, thanks Cliff, my shout next time. We sank a couple of pints of one of my beers, I had Duck Eggs and Black Pudding on Toast, and Cliff had a Ploughman's Lunch (as an aside the Ploughman was furious!)
So, here are the tickets, before they go back for a full refund. We are lucky that the cricket authorities do refund money if play is abandoned.
This is now about to become the UK's wettest June since records began 230 years ago in 1782. Let me put that into some sort of historical context. If my history is correct, this was 7 years before George Washington became the first president of the United States and 6 years before the first convict ship sailed from England to Australia! In that time Great Britain has had 9 monarchs and 64 Prime Ministers (including those re-elected after losing power for the pedants in my family). In that time, mankind has invented the Steam engine, the lathe, the match, the jacquard loom, the light bulb, the telephone, the aeroplane and the motor car.
The most consistent thing in all of that time is that us Brits/Limeys/Poms/Rosbifs still moan about the bloody weather!
Sure our weather is a great talking point but we can never rely on a decent day! Glad your match was called off officially & you can get your money back. Would have been a terrible journey on the motorway!
Hahaha... Sorry about the cricket. When we have bad weather I usually remind myself they it could be worse, we could live in England :) great shot to show your day Sean... Better luck next time. Now I have the major in faulty towers in my head saying, "I took her to see India, at the oval."
