Cricket

Have you heard of cricket?

It’s a long game…

Two teams hit a ball.

Try to knock it over the boundary.

Two players run between stumps

On the playing surface

Between the two wickets.

A bowler bowls a ball fast or slow

Seamers, googlies, bouncers, catches.

The bowler tries to hit the wicket

Two short bales lie on top of three stumps.

That’s the wicket.

Hit the bales and knock them off?

Or knock over the stumps

Player is out.

11 players to a side

Two play

10 field

1 bowls

Collect runs to win.

1 point running between stumps

4 if the ball rolls to boundaries.

6 if the ball flies out over the boundary.

That’s cricket in a nutshell..

Highest score wins

Don’t get your leg before wicket…

It’s a very big nutshell…

Esther Chiltons weekly word prompt

Tests……..a short poem….
Tested to destruction
But you keep going
Ploughing on into the future
Maximum effort to pass
Even by one point.
Tested for healthiness
Bounced and bumped and pushed
Given medicine that may transform
Be a “cure”
Test positive, or negative?
The result depends
On interpretations
May you all pass.

Retirement!

What is your career plan?

Playing mahjong

I’ve worked long and hard

Given work some welly

Retirement would be fine

I mean resting and learning

New things.

I’m semi retired now

But I’m below retirement age

Which keeps moving on

I would have retired four years ago

Except they changed the rules…

Ah well at least I can.