Normal service re book reviews will be resumed tomorrow (am discovering Patricia Cornwall) now that the Test match in South Africa has just finished. I have sat all day in a state of nail biting tension watching England, who at the start of the day looked dead in the water, hanging on for a draw. We needed over 400 runs to win, no way would we do that, or bat out a day and a half. Almost impossible, at least for the England cricket team of yore, but we did it. However, being England we never do things easily and by the time we came to the last ball of the match, we had the situation where a tail ender, Onions, had to fend off the last ball (having nearly been out the previous one) in order to save the match. Up comes the South African bowler with spectators covering their eyes and shrieking and Onions let the ball go and we had drawn the match. This means we go into the Test next week, one up and even if we lose the next match we have not lost the series. Be even better of course if we could win it to really say that we were the best, but we Brits will settle for whatever we can get. We are pragmatic that way. The next person who says to me that cricket is boring will be dispatched pretty quickly I can tell you. Simply great stuff.
So as my nerves are too shattered to write coherently, I am showing you some more pics which I took this morning. Glorious day, blue sky but bitter cold and I went to feed the ducks and then walked up to my local supermarket to do a bit of shopping, a walk that normally takes 15 mins, took me half an hour each way this morning but I felt really glowing when I came back indoors. I ploughed through the fresh snow as the older stuff is already becoming impacted and will be treacherous by tomorrow.
So far have been sitting out the Big Freeze nicely but need to see if I can get the car out of the car park in the morning and go over to check on The Aged Parent……
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