On a drizzly afternoon. In a state of mild grumpiness, because I don't do drizzle, whereas Al gets all 'Come on, come on, got to get out in the fresh air' on us. So we dragged ourselves around the Uppark half-term history trail and I attempted to take photos in rubbish conditions for photography. Came home happier than I'd expected: There's nothing to beat enthusiastic, pensioner NT guides to lift the spirits.
Highlight of the afternoon? Standing on the brakes on some B-road, lit momentarily by the sun, as one of these slammed into the tarmac in front of me in a fumbled attempt to catch some small, fleeing rodent. We all feel quite privileged to have seen it,
POST EDIT
I mailed a link to this item to the Guardian's Over-By-Over Commentary on the 3rd test match against the West Indies - and it was subsequently published, resulting in over a thousand hits in the following hour:
" 11.24am: Sky are showing a repeat of an interview with Kevin Pietersen from 2005. He spends half the interview licking his teaspoon and he also thinks he can make an impact for England. I give him two Tests. "There's no reason not to play in a bit of drizzle," says Tim Featherstone-Griffin. "I took my daughters to Uppark in the rain yesterday and it's clear that Abby - age 9 - could teach Johnny Bairstow a thing or two about handling the short ball, despite the conditions..." She's not even wearing a helmet! "
See the following post - The Power of Publicity - for more detail. The motivation was, of course, this picture:
'Abby demonstrates the correct approach to the short-pitched delivery'
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