Author: James French

Readers, in the dark days of February and March, before the ritual of the clock change, may have look forlornly out of the kitchen window at the saturated ground and […]

It’s a time-honoured ritual within the Cricket Club that transgressions of a minor nature throughout the season get logged away in Tim Gilbert’s little red book, only to re-emerge in […]

Extending the theme of Laskey’s poem, ‘alert in the heavenly deep, beyond the boundary of sleep,’ one might imagine that there is a pitch that needs rolling so that the […]

There are some known and well-understood principles at Walsham Le Willows Cricket Club; a lot of them focus on the established etiquette of how to play the game fairly and […]

And so it was on that Sunday afternoon earlier in June, when Finn Daly was, once again, giving the assembled masses another in his excellent series of topical lectures.  Finn had […]

Keen readers of the Observer will know, no doubt, that the Walsham cricketers are a cerebral bunch.  Wander, as one might, into the home changing room before a match, pick your […]

Those writers that might prophesise with a pen would predict followers of  Walsham Le Willows cricket hold a palpable sense of ebullience for 2023.  The fallow months of winter, interspersed with […]

It will, no doubt, amaze many readers to learn that the members of Walsham Le Willows Cricket Club are avid followers of Greek Mythology.  In fact, many of our matches follow […]

In the autumn of the cricket season, with September approaching and the football pitch ominously bearing down on the carefully curated square, it’s the start of the reflection on the […]