Disappointing Start I have only been on this site for a few days, and so far it has been somewhat disappointing. When I saw the app advertised I thought, this could be a good place to write a few blogs and hopefully make new friends who have similar interests to me, and upon posting my first blog, I received comments which were insulting, I thought this app was for civilised human beings where everyone could get along and help each other, but no, I have now realised that people on here are the same as everywhere else. I don't want to be subject to insulting comments from narrow minded individuals, this will be my shortest blog as I feel that I need to get my point across, as some of you have been vile to me in the short time I have been on here.

Small Miracle So if you read my last blog you will understand the amount of disappointment in the British weather especially on Saturdays. Well, yesterday I was proven wrong. All week the weather forecast was set for rain yesterday, all day long I might add! With a heavy heart I went up to the club expecting to go home shortly after. Upon arrival, I was told that the game was not called off yet, but they were waiting for an hour or so to see if the rain stops, even though it said rain all day. 2pm approached and in one last stroll onto the pitch I noticed a tiny bit of blue sky in the distance and to my delight it kept on coming towards us. To my delight the clouds parted and blue skies and warm temperatures arrived, everyone was pleased about this as most were all ready to go home. It turned out to be a good day for me but also a bad one, as I made 77 runs whilst batting, in a team innings which seemed to struggle early on and after I was caught. So the second innings began and the clouds rolled in again, very dark rain clouds, and to my disgust, the heavens opened, and heavy rain fell from the sky. Fortunately, the rain lasted around 10 minutes and we were able to continue with the match, it turned out to be an unhappy experience in the field for me as I came on to bowl, nothing was going right, wide balls, and struggling with line and length. After 3 overs of what can only be described as dross, I noticed a sharp pain in my knee and an ache in both of my legs. I carried on and it became gradually worse. Towards the end of the game it came to the point where I couldn't walk but on occasion I had to run for the ball which ironically was less painful than just moving my legs. Thankfully, we won the game and to my delight the opportunity to go home and rest my legs which was a godsend for me. I hope that they are fine for next Saturday for a vital game against top of the table Wilmslow, the weather is set fair for Saturday so hopefully it will stay like that.

A First Attempt?... As this is my first attempt at ranting about the things that are important or relevant to me, I should warn the unlucky few that the opinions expressed in these blogs are mine and feel free to argue about them with me. So... To start with I will talk about something that is very relevant to me, the weather, I know it is uncontrollable but still it feels like it is always against me. As a cricketer I depend heavily on the weather as for some reason we cannot play in the rain, so during the summer months, April to September my eyes are fixed onto various applications for the weather on Friday nights, this has become somewhat of a ritual for me. Anyway, to the main point of this blog, the unfortunate story of summer 2014, I cannot deny that the weather has been very good for the last two months and we have just had supposedly the hottest July for many, many years. But what they fail to tell you in these optimistic weather forecasts is that most Saturdays have been very wet, I don't mean a bit of rain here and there, I mean torrential rain where it has not stopped for a whole day. I will not be the only cricketer who feels somewhat demoralised when Sunday to Friday is wall to wall sunshine, and then on Friday night an overpaid and lets face it, overly happy moron in a cheap suit tells us that it's "not looking good" for the weekend, no what they mean is Saturday. I will take you back to summer 2013, where the summer was perfect, we had very little rain and a lot of sun, also very good weather consistently on Saturdays. I shall reiterate what I said earlier, we cannot control the weather but seriously, someone must hate me, it's rained most Saturdays this summer, one example which I found to be like a kick in the crotch, two weeks ago now (i think) Monday to Friday we had temperatures of 25-28 degrees, so optimistically I looked at the forecast for Saturday and what did I see? Thunderstorms, chance of rain- 100%, when breaking it down to the hourly forecast, it rained from the early hours to 9pm, and to its credit, it lived up to the forecast, it rained and rained. It has come to the point now where the summer is beginning to turn into autumn, so the weather is expected to deteriorate so as you can imagine, my expectations are not very high anymore, but I would like to go back to last week, our friends on the BBC said "3 weeks of Mediterranean weather"... It lasted 3 days now we are back to dreary grey clouds constantly, not that I am complaining, now I have something to moan about on a daily basis. So I will end this first attempt at a blog, I hope the few that find this enjoyed it, I will hopefully become more accustomed to writing like this in the near future so I hope I have not put you off for #life.