Author: James French

Ninety-two years ago, and to a limited audience, ‘The Man with the Flower in His Mouth’ became the first piece of televised drama.  This three-character, Italian drama, set in a railway […]

Unadorned, but resplendent, she sits in the golden summer light. She may have travelled a long way, but she arrived and now waits to record triumphs and adversity for years […]

Winter, for cricketers, is a curious season. By the end of the Summer, thoughts of turning out for another game in the increasingly bitter September winds are tough to overcome.  The […]

Cricket is a game of margins.  The thin white line of the crease marking, the barest nick off the edge of the bat, the run chase down to the final ball […]

For those looking out from the Pavilion at Garboldisham on that late-August evening, waiting for their turn to bat, it was clear that the end of the season beckoned. Somewhere […]

For the wise and the elderly sat on the high bench in front of the old, ramshackle pavilion, caked in the patina of the years, nothing is more delightful to […]

Unsurprisingly the damp weather we have all experienced in May and June, despite being good for a lush outfield, has curtailed a few fixtures for all levels at the Cricket […]

The traditional smell of willow and leather, freshly mown grass, and the enticement of a Vitoria Sponge at tea is now mixed with that of Aloe Vera hand sanitiser and […]