Yesterday

[wellinghall]

Yesterday afternoon was rather incredibly frustrating, due chiefly to being locked in a car park, and having to make our way back home by foot*, bus, a long wait at Temple Meads and train. But it did have one consolation - a name-check on Test Match Special :-) I sent them an email just before we left the house, got in the car, turned the radio on, tuned to 198 metres, and almost the first words they mentioned were my name!

*Despite my twisted ankle.

Comments

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

How annoying. How did that happen and where is the car now?!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Bl**dy council not telling people what time the car park would close! I had to get a taxi over at lunch today and get it.

[(Anonymous)]

At least it wasn't stuck in Mitcheldean, which was my original thought, but yes, very annoying. Hope you are going to complain. *hugs*

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see what you mean. Yes, now that would have been frustrating!

I sent them a stiff email on Sunday evening (which I haven't had a reply to yet), and talked to them yesterday when I went to pick the car up (when they got rather stroppy). I shall see what (if anything) they say in reply to the email.

[widsidh.livejournal.com]

So what was the cricket email then? :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

"Jon, Simon

I have always understood Beamer to be a corruption of Beaner, ie a ball aimed at the bean or head.

Best wishes

[wellinghall]"

It was a contribution to their lunchtime session on the meaning and origin of cricketing jargon, and they had just said that they didn't know where Beamer came from.

[widsidh.livejournal.com]

Interesting
(I'm a word-geek after all!)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Me too (although only at an amateur level!)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

And cricket is full of interesting words. Even the name of the game itself. Did it start when one shepherd tossed a stone to another, who then hit it with his crook ... or "crooked it"?