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Ey up! Heavy rain in Driffield means my umpiring today has been cancelled.. pah! The Over 60s are a nice bunch .. I know a lot of them as well so missing out on a catch up and a cricket tea.... PAH! I fear that I will have to get a hearing test. I too had measles but years working in Engineering hasn't helped. One fitter at Leeds used to stamp numbers into the ends of a particular item.. using a large metal stamp and a very large mell hammer.. hevhad ear protectors on.. we didn't always have them.. standing close to guns even with protectors on wasn't good for the ears either. Handy when umpiring though.. players assume you are deaf anyway. No cricket means I have a free day.. could involve muddling or gardening.. Enjoy your day! Baz now located in the mushroom shed..

Ey up! Nice day yesterday umpiring a very nice friendly game at Escrick Park..the home of the Yorkshire Gentlemen. A bit of fun, some serious bowling and batting and.. it was dry! Not sure what I have been organised to do today.. yet! Enjoy your day! Baz

Ey up! Sunny morning here, fingers crossed it stays that way. As part of my cricket umpiring retirement I am still doing odd games (mainly friendlies) for a while to help to get away from cricket teas... these are, at least in Yorkshire, a thing of great nutritional value. I have a busy week coming up as I am venturing North for a couple of days to catch up with history (a quick trip to Beamish is involved). Time for my mugatea! TTFN! Baz

Was it from the Karachi ( or K) by any chance? Baz

Pete could have taken his layout to Warley but chose not to. Baz

Didn't see one last year but we did try the Mowe pick as per @jjb1970 s suggestion. Brilliant place! @monkeysarefun that platter looks nice. I noticed that an australian acquaintance was ar Crab Shack in Wellington Harbour recent where the staff wear t shirts telling everyone "We have Crabs" But tye food is very nice including the huge green lipped mussels and orange ruffle.. Baz

Have you ever got north of the M25 recently? Obviously not as your very broad brush view needs to be revised pdq. Why? In Leeds and other cities, towns and villages, I am certain that the choice of foods.. generally available prepared by at least first generation visitors (as in Chinese, Thai, Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani and both Greek and Turkish) as well as Italian restaurants serve food just like it says they are described. I didn't notice any majore differences on my travels. Unfortunately I await a visit to a local Japanese restaurant to check it out. Our local chefs may not be too pleased about your views.. Food in Switzerland ( on my business vists) was never really that exciting...even when prepared in the General in charge of Army caterings Castle! Baz

Ey up! Presenting to a group of muddlers today. They are expected to try turinng clean things into dirty things.. should be fun! No major aches and pains from yesterday. Good! But it reinforces my decision to longer umpirevleague cricket.. Time for a bacon sarnie (or so my tummy tells me!) Hope all of our missing ERs are well. Baz

I have.. but did this as a favour.. everyone is very short of umpires. No league cricket umpiring just special occasions.. Baz

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Cricket was umpired. It was very cold.. Baz at Headingley. The ground was quite soft.. but.. as we left.. they were watering the square. All club cricket has been postponed around here..... Baz

Ey up! Attended an umpires meeting last night. All was going well then I had to explain the concussion protocol. It's been in place for 2 years but few bothered about it. Now it has been restated.. the message is.."do exactly what the protocol says". Very easy you would think... nope any excuse not to do it was trotted out.. answer was the same "for legal reasons JDI" Eventually it was accepted.. boy didn't realise how stupid people can be. Off to Headingley to umpire two T20s shortly. The weather may reduce this to 1 T20 and a T10. Me? I'll umpire whatever the coaches ask me to do. Have as good a day as you can! Baz

Ey up! Busy day ahead Including (hopefully) a pleasant time zooming with some like minded people. Teams is an awful package.. Microsoft have now 5aken it out of Office. Big problem is its old and creaky. Using it for interviews means it's hard to pick up on body language. I have used it for this purpose but I prefer face to face interviews. Time to geronwithit as O have a lot to do! TTTFN Baz

Me and my big gob...by some use of more electricity we approached Leeds Station 5 minutes early.. held by a signal.so ended up 5 minutes late..pah! Which meant I missed a bus and spent 11 minutes waiting for the next one... PAh! I attended a panel interview for a post in the civil service. I was asked questions which I wasn't allowed to answer.then I had a sensible interview and got a role at JET..it caused a problem when one of the interviewing panel in the UKAEA was asked why I hadn't been selected. He thought I knew diddly squat..to be told I had all the right knowledge and technical ability to run rings round him.. Baz

Late this morning. Late tonight.. LNER at its best.. ie carp... Azuma back is causing a lot of discomfort as is a fellow passenger who can't be bothered to blow his nose.. @polybear never ever had a cake with candles on! Had to take pies ans peas in in Barrow on pay days and birthdays. Long day and we didn't achieve enough to say its bèn a good one. Sleep well all! Baz

Ey up! Late and Never Early has got off to a bad start. 5 minutes late leaving Leeds and now held by a signal check near South Emsall.. frabjoy! Nice pictures @Gwiwer but the Leeds.. York..Scarbados Coastliner route is voted most scenic route regularly. Off to Lourdes (the ECB need a financial miracle or two!). Meeting to be had on line tomorrow when I can get Zoom to cooperate . Have a great day! Baz

The weather is creating chaos. Game today cancelled but games on Friday have been moved to Headingly.. ooh err! Pictures will be taken as momentoes.. In other news.. preparation for tomorrow's meeting has been completed.. May have to join via Teams due to uncertainty about train travel pah! Visited the MRS and checked out some Repairs/improvements we have done. Yippppppeeeeedddddoooo! It works.. but another problem has been identified. Pah! Time for slow cooked beef and veg for tea.. lovely! Baz

Ey up! Yesterday was weird weather day.. but I now have a no cricket umpiring day today. Problem is.. I have a cricket meeting at Lords tomorrow.. so its preparation day. Train tomorrow is a concrete seated Azuma badly organised by the Late and Never Early Railway.. aka the Civil Service. @polybear we either travel from Leeds Bradford (10 minutes by taxi) Manchester (1.5 hours by bus/train) but I only used to park at LBA for day trips to London.. not cheap but never had a problem..perhaps you need to move? Her indoors hosted a recorder group meeting last night so.. no TV sound to be used... not a problem.. I did my prep for Saturday's meeting. Time to get on with breakfast. Have as good a day as you can! Anyone heard from @Ian Abel recently? Baz

Filled in and returned our "Risk" document for the show. Chapel has been repaired and some minor modifications undertaken and tested. Stock is just about there.. all we need now are some joining instructions and we are ready to go! quick pic of the ICI Hoppers on Chapel

so far today we have had heavy rain, wind, hailstones/snow balls from the sky, bright sunshine but its blowing a hoolie and is flipping cold (about 3C) PAH! Game tomorrow cancelled .. pah! Disgruntled Baz!

Ey up ! Guess what? It's chuckinitdarn..what a surprise! NOT! our first car.. Bessie.. was a mini in Tundra Green and had a very small engine in it of an A series type. Could trundle along at 60 but didn't like going up hills. Today will involve a Zoom meeting plus a trip to the MRC to replace our water carrier which self destructed on Saturday.pah! At some point I need to put together a short presentation on making things dirty, hopefully the attendees will enjoy it along with the opportunity to have a go themselves. Time fo my mugatea and then.. to infinity and beyond.. Baz

Ian, If you don't post on this thread it will hibernate all on its own, Best regards Baz

Managed to get the grass cut before it rained.. good for grass cutting Pah! For chuckinitdarn.. Baz

Ey up! A reasonably successful day yesterday, some wire strangling was achieved. I need to check it out on Monday afternoon. Tit for tat never solves anything.. Ttfn Baz

And self lubricating unlike squeaky nickel silver ones. Baz Ps and sir knows why I hate nickel Silver pickups