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The Great Cloister, Gloucester Cathedral

Kent vs Gloucestershire

In the final game of the RLC group stages, @gloscricket sneak into the QF with a comfortable win over @Kentcricket at Beckenham

Thursday 12th August 2021 – The Royal London Cup at The County Ground, Beckenham This was to be Kent’s last game for 15 days. Despite the recent attempts to lengthen the season, starting now in early April and the last games almost knocking on October’s door, cricket is a summer sport. Granted, our recent wet and wild weather may not feel particularly tropical but that’s not a rare occurrence…

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#Beckenham #Gloucestershire #Gloucs #Kent #RLC

Suss v Gloucs: Higgins and Wiese bag five-fors

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Explaining ourselves: Mr Wemyss: Wool and war; skylarks ascending and flying nightingales

As ever, I suggest you read the introductory post to this series, for background.

And, as always, as Chris Ramsey notes, Never, Ever Read the Comments on any links. People Are Barking Mad. Utter Psychotics.

When I was young, fathers and uncles had mostly been in Malaya, or Korea, or Aden. Older fathers and uncles yet, and grandfathers and great-uncles, had beaten Hitler. And there were a few old men and women about who had put paid to the Kaiser and his lot of Those Same Damned Germans.

Haunts of ancient peace want defending, at times, and the most idyllic places and the most unlikely folk may have seen and done the most extraordinary things. And because, upon and in a small island from which one can see the Continent, these had been national hours of peril and glory for all, in a way in which Americans cannot understand, these things were unexpectedly nearer, sometimes, in place, as they were surprisingly near in time.

So it has ever been: one of the great British continuities. The price of the persistence of pastoral is always paid in blood. And the foundations of peace are in trade and agriculture.

There is something archetypal, a sort of Platonic ideal, to the Cotswolds: RVW’s native region, all cider-with-Rosie and Laurie Lee, beloved and peaceable, rurally idyllic....

Well. We shall see.

We begin in what I for one yet call, as, ‘Sissiter’:

The great ACT in Cirencester.

Next,

Dame Penelope admires the Cotswolds beyond;

and finds, even here, the echoes of war. The nightingales defended RVW’s larks ascending:

The Flying Nightingales.

But, then, as Alec Clifton-Taylor reminds us, the region has always been

… keen as Tewkesbury mustard.

Next week, we take a wee walk in the North Countree. For certain values of ‘wee’.

#explaining ourselves posts #gloucs #the cotswolds #dame penelope keith #alec clifton-taylor #RVW #wool #trade & transport #agriculture #war #laurie lee

Payne and Klinger fight Gloucs corner Gloucestershire 183 and 133 for 4 (Klinger 43*) lead Leicestershire 218 (Robson 62, Payne 5-36) by 98 runs…

#corner #fight #Gloucs #Klinger #Payne

Klinger, Taylor tons power Gloucs to fourth-innings target Gloucestershire 364 for 6 dec (van Buuren 172*, Miles 60*, Roderick 60) and 320 for 5 (Taylor , Klinger ) beat…

#fourthinnings #Gloucs #Klinger #power #target #Taylor #tons

Gloucs in charge against Northants Specsavers County Championship Division Two, Bristol County Ground Gloucestershire v Northamptonshire, day one Northamptonshire 134-7: Crook 43*; Shaw 4-38 Gloucestershire: Yet to bat Gloucestershire 2 pts, Northamptonshire 0 pts …

#against #charge #Gloucs #Northants