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Deep Extra Covers: Ten Great Cricketing Reads
So, another cricket season has ended and I’ve a fractured thumb to show for it, thanks to the moonscape pitch at North Middlesex CC. However, for cricket lovers in search of a good few reads to pass the time until leather next hits willow in April ...
Is Britain’s “Most Haunted Village” Missing a Trick?
The Kentish village of Pluckley has more than enough to draw punters from an aesthetic perspective. It’s a quintessential Garden of England village chosen for the setting of 1990s comedy, The Darling Buds of May, but it also has the oft-contes...
Revelling in Stereotype
Terrible news from this week’s local Tunbridge Wells paper – it appears to be campaigning to ditch the ‘Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells’ tag! Local people and councillors apparently believe it’s time for the name to be dropped as it makes us T...
Waltzing Matilda: Some Aussie Big Hitters
We’re heading towards a gripping climax to the Ashes series next week, which has made me very nostalgic indeed for 2002, my pommie working visa year in the magnificent, wonderful city of Melbourne. It’s my favourite city in the world, have return...
You Know When You've Been Bongoed
From the Land of the Rising Sun to the Country of the Permanent Cloud Cover, I present to you my new Ford Freda! Albeit with a Ford badge, it's actually also known as - brand managers get ready - the Mazda Bongo Friendee (!). Ford owns part of Mazda ...
Ashes to Ashes: Why 2005 is in danger of becoming the new 1966
It all kicks off again this week, the oldest and fiercest sporting rivalry: England v Australia on a cricket pitch - at stake, a small urn and the most important bragging rights ever known to man.As a cricket lover whose lived in Australia and taken ...

