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Sunday, May 18th, The Racqueteers v West Meon

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

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The Racqueteers v Winchester Nepalese

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