As you know I do not take part in the blame game. The game I do try to play is Cricket. So far it has been a washout, with similar portents for this Saturday. Petts Wood's ground was waterlogged. There is another Cricket Club called 'Petts Wood Tudor'. In the days before Quantitative Easing when we were Gravesend CC 4ths rather than the 5ths no matter which one of the two clubs we were playing, we always seemed to go to the wrong ground.
As part of my contribution to Mr Cameron's Big Society, known now as the Great Ticketless British Public, I went to the Play-Cricket Website to prevent you from making the same mistake. Petts Wood CC play at The Willett Recreation Ground BR5 1PE and Petts Wood Tudor CC play at the Willett Recreation Ground BR5 1PE. There are explanations for the same ground being the wrong ground which in fact is the right ground as we are about to hear from Mr Osborne with regard to the Economy.
Petts Wood Tudor also play at Box Hill School, though I would have remembered if we had played there. If the 4ths' fixtures of yesteryear mirrored the ones of today's 5ths, then Pluckley CC who we are due to play on Saturday could well be responsible or are to blame as Mr Osborne would say. Pluckley is the most haunted village in England and so would not be averse to casting a few spells on fellow fixture secretaries causing dispersions with aspersions.
Clearly action needed to be taken. I have instructed our players to meet at the Bat & Ball at 12.45pm on Saturday and to bring either a crucifix or some garlic. Of course this could all be academic as since the introduction of the hosepipe ban by the water companies together with their installation of a water meter for our house, it hasn't stopped raining and if Pluckley have used up their spell allocation on cloud dispersal, it is likely the game will not go ahead.
It was reassuring to see on Petts Wood Tudor CC's Play-Cricket Homepage that they referred to Petts Wood CC as 'Our Old Friends'. I'm sure it is reciprocated. I seem to remember all those years ago a little degree of frostiness between the Clubs. Maybe I was wrong, after all it would have been April. I see this season they are both in Division 1B West of the Kent Regional Cricket League. Next season I'll look out to see if there's a 'Petts Wood Plantagenet' Cricket Club on the Play-Cricket website which would give an indication of some tasty games this season at BR5 1PE.
I'll do what I can if our game does go ahead on Saturday at Pluckley so that any ghoulies and ghosties with time on their hands don't put a plague on either of your houses.
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