MORE TALES FROM NUMBER ELEVEN – HOW NOT TO BAT

COME IN, NUMBER ELEVEN, YOUR TIME IS NOW

  Big Norman Graham (left) and Kevin Jarvis (right), two of Kent’s better bowlers and lesser batsmen       The 1976 Wisden, in its summary of Kent’s year in 1975, summed up by saying, “Much will depend on the fitness of Graham and the ability...
MORE TALES FROM NUMBER ELEVEN – HOW NOT TO BAT

THE  BLAKERS OF KENT

If you take a stroll down the promenade at Hythe, between the fish restaurant and the Imperial Hotel, you will pass a bench which has a small brass plate “dedicated to the cricketing Blaker twins, Barbara A. Hamilton April 1913 – April 2005, and Joan R. Smith...
MORE TALES FROM NUMBER ELEVEN – HOW NOT TO BAT

MRS. COWDREY’S MARMALADE

This time of year, I am told, is a good time for marmalade-making. Where you get the oranges from in mid-February with the Coronavirus doing its worst, and everybody who isn’t in quarantine trying to limit their carbon footprint, I have no idea, but don’t let me stop...