..has passed and here I am wide awake at my computer. Why? I should be in bed. I think I am trying to recover from the trials of the day when it looked like we might win the Test Match against South Africa and all was wonderful and then, as usual, we could not bowl the b*****s out. They seem to bowl us out with ease. Why?
Answer: because they are better players
I remember a football fan being quoted after yet another tournament when our team had been dumped by the South Antarctica Second Eleven or some such, 'it's not the despair I mind, it's the hope'. I am paraphrasing but this is what all supporters of English sports go through, be it cricket, tennis, football or ping pong. We are just SO unreliable.
Anyway, I am off to bed now and have counted up all the entries for the Book Draw and have over forty which makes this one the most successful one yet. Alpaca, Henry and Patchy are fast asleep on the sofa girding up their loins for The Big Day tomorrow.
So I am off too.
