One of my interests is cricket. BBC Radio 5X have re-broadcast ball-by-ball commentary on the epic Edgbaston Test of 2005 between England and Australia. On Sunday August 7th Australia needed an unlikely 107 runs to win. England only needed to take two wickets.
What’s this got to do with walking? In those fitter days i joined Dover and Thanet Rights of Way Society for a six mile walk every alternate Sunday. The cricket could be watched on free-to-air television, on Channel 4. My dilemma: stay at home to watch cricket, which might be over in five minutes, or join the regular walk.
I compromised: for the first and only time i walked with my Walkman radio. I recall little of the walk, to the north of Hythe. The cricket was rivetting as the Australian batsman, Warne, Lee, and Kasprowicz moved towards an unlikely victory. We walkers were on top of Tolsford Hill with its twentieth century telecom mast and Bronze Age roundbarrows when the end came. Kasprowicz was out, caught Jones bowled Harmison. England won by two runs. And went on to win the Ashes.
Rambling Brummie 