This is a genuinely wonderful book - not just for cricket fans either - poetic insights into the nature of hero-worship, the dynamics of friendship, and what it means to play (and enjoy playing) team sports.
And beautifully edited.
Highly recommend!
Published today!
'A splendid collection' Ian McMillan
'Catching the Light holds enough within it to stand as a generational book: buy this volume of cricket poetry.' @WisdenCricket Book of the Month
Available now @FairfieldBooks_
🎉 We are thrilled to share that the SLA has been granted £500,000 by the Charlotte Aitken Trust to launch our new Reading Reboot programme. The programme will deliver social book clubs in 100 secondary schools across three years. Find out more: https://t.co/Nszl3gMVgm
This nature recovery craic isn’t that hard once you start... quite modest changes have brilliant effects
And a lot of it is just about sensible landscape/farm design
This sketch makes my laugh like a drain but because of a characteristic as opposed to a punchline. That's what makes it so clever, I suppose. We quote it ad nauseum in our house.
All together now:
What, forty, forty five years??
I want to vomit every time I hear someone from our goverment saying we are going to be world leaders in AI.
What a crock of dangerous BS.
What about being world leaders in looking after our landscapes and nature, looking after our people, looking after our health and our diet?
Mark Z and Joe Rogan talked for nearly 3 hours about masculinity and shooting pigs. There are shorter Wagner operas. But there is much to digest. My column https://t.co/abj826p8wB
Ofwat today unveiled the biggest water price rises since privatisation, when bills rose to fix an underfunded system and meet new enviro standards. So why do we face another crash price-rise three decades later? In this @Telegraph piece, I explain why.
https://t.co/cn5lKxlirD