A few pictures of me in full flow on Friday as part of The Two Severn Bores.

In the most turgid of seasons for the Mighty Hatters we now have a distraction of a trip to Wembley in April. So I will be there cheering them on. Just about given up on the league season-I can’t go tomorrow because we are looking after our grandsons for the weekend- it will be more fun than the football!

I did my usual visits to Wick Court on Wednesday and Thursday-birdwatching and story telling- this time it was with young people from Camberwell.

Off a bit later for our Two Severn Bores performance of legends of Merlin. Hopefully might have some pictures to show.

Dan and I (The Two Severn Bores) have been rehearsing tonight we are performing again on Friday. We are actively searching for venues for new gigs- anyone reading this and can help please get in touch.

Now my “injury from India has cleared up I have now started playing padel again with my friends from the Gloucestershire Seniors Cricket – it is a good game to play.

I inadvertently deleted my last post about Spring! Sorry! I had gone on about frogs, birds although I missed out flowers and trees. I’ve included the frog pictures from my pond again. On the bird front I went to look for the alignment of the planets on Saturday night- unsuccessful but I was treated to competing Tawny Owls hooting and best of all a Bittern booming (seems early to me!)

Last night we drove to the theatre in Malvern to hear Professor Alice Roberts talk about her book called Dominion. She was superb – an articulate speaker (just like she is on TV but humble with a lovely touch of dry humour. The theatre was packed.

After my travels I was back at Wick Court today to take young people from Baguley Hall Primary School  (Manchester) bird watching. It was a delightful day and I was charmed by the lovely enthusiasm of the young people. We saw a good variety of birds. I will see them again tomorrow for a story telling session.

I have to say I have been tired since my trip! It has been helped that I’m now on anti-biotics – I have an infection in my shin from where I got hit by a cricket ball (sadly I dropped a catch the injury rubbed it in!

Football has been disappointing and my team are stuttering although I may have a Wembley trip to look forward to. Fingers crossed for next Wednesday.

Lovely weekend back in “Old Blighty”. We had the delight of our grandson Robin’s third birthday party! It was great fun and he thoroughly enjoyed it!

Luckily it meant I avoided watching The Mighty Hatters on Saturday- the way they are playing means they are not so mighty at the moment!

Some pictures below from India featuring yours truly. Two are me storytelling at the orphanage we visited the cricket one is me needing assistance with my boot laces at Pune my back was giving me some trouble! Interestingly that venue was where our accommodation was so we had breakfast and walked down to the pitch!

Now back home after a fortnight playing cricket in the sub continent. We played eleven games altogether which was an amazing testament to our endurance at our age! We played against significantly younger teams and we managed 4 wins which was encouraging. The last game was at Shivaji Park in Mumbai which is an amazing experience there is always 5 or 6 games going on plus all sorts of everyday life! The boundaries overlap so the fielders are all mixed up!  Dogs, bikes vendors drift across where you are playing. Nobody is surprised by this! It is the biggest open space in the great conurbation of Mumbai (22 million plus people live in the city). The picture below i found on the internet. We won the game and guess who had his first bowl in India (after three years) and got a wicket with his first ball? Another followed in the same over!  I also batted for a while so the body was wreck at the end- the temperature was about 36 degrees! My legs are very swollen still as a result of the heat and the toil! So I now want to be classified as an allrounder!

Our intrepid band of brothers won our third game of the Tour in India! Today we played a team with a few teenagers and only 2 over 40!! Our average age is 62.5 years!!! It does make a significant difference especially the fielding! So we were understandably chuffed!!! There is a rumour I might get a bowl tomorrow and open the batting!!!

Really hot out here in Pune! As the oldest member of the team I have managed to cope! It is the running that hurts!

A couple of random pictures below of the traffic etc! The guy in the first picture is drinking out of a teapot!

Believe it or not but the intrepid Gloucestershire Seniors won their second successive match in India. It did help that three quarters of the opposition were the same age as us! Therefore 4 much younger players than us.I

I promise more photos soon.

I write this blog yesterday but forgot to post – we lost today!