King Edward VI School, 21 May 2025 Scorecard The serene playing fields of an august educational institution are not quite the place for slapstick, but we had more than our usual share of comic moments at King Edward VI school, on Wednesday night. There was Alex, who tried to turn one around the corner and instead sent it high and loopy one to Shep at … Continue reading Wednesday, May 21st, The Racqueteers v Vikings CC
Scorecard West Meon in May is a wonderful thing. ‘The unresting castles’, as Philip Larkin put it – talking about the trees, you understand – ‘thresh / In fullgrown thickness’. They’re full of birds, too. Rooks cawing and scuffling, greenfinches wheezing, and chiffchaffs chiffing and chaffing away with near-maddening persistence. As the Racqueteers took to the field, a trio of red kites were riding the thermals overhead; later, a lone egret drifted by like a small ghost. (I am able to … Continue reading Sunday, May 18th, The Racqueteers v West Meon
Thursday, May 15th North Walls, 16 May 2025 Nepal is famously one of the only countries to have successfully resisted colonisation by the British, having fought us to a virtual stalemate 200 years ago. Today, Winchester is the happy beneficiary of that unique moment in history. The British began recruiting the opponents who had so impressed them into their own, new “Gurkha” regiments. Later, many Gurkha soldiers retired to the UK, … Continue reading The Racqueteers v Winchester Nepalese
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