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2008.07.18: Flee
2008.07.18: Botha the Shinemeister
2008.07.18: Sow
2008.07.18: So tired
2008.07.18: A walrus disappointed in love
2008.07.18: Pat Holland's stabbed equaliser at Notts County
2008.07.18: Whose foot is that?
2008.07.18: Welcome to Uxbridge!!
2008.07.18: Geoff Pike's volley against Liverpool
2008.07.18: Saps at Sea
2008.07.18: Two big red things and a yellow thing
2008.07.17: Sybil
2008.07.17: Two feathers
2008.07.17: Elegy on a country churchyard
2008.07.17: Woakes gets straight amongst 'em
2008.07.17: Martin's first bat for the Bears
2008.07.17: "Please, please - not the chicken hutch..."
2008.07.17: Turning up at the edges
2008.07.17: Crab apple
2008.07.17: Rain and a wicket
2008.07.17: A hero
2008.07.16: Lonely in London - her hairy legs and mine
2008.07.16: Potteries
2008.07.16: Slightly greater length
2008.07.16: Stripes and a crescent moon
2008.07.16: "Not terribly great entertainment..."
2008.07.16: Moderately jumbiflic
2008.07.16: For four
2008.07.16: Gidman stays at Glos
2008.07.16: Maddy is out
2008.07.16: Bat
2008.07.16: Uxbridge
2008.07.01: Troughton rests his plates
2008.07.01: Troughton prepares
2008.07.01: Troughton watches approvingly
2008.07.01: No respite for Troughton
2008.07.01: Troughton still out
2008.07.01: Troughton goes
2008.07.01: Troughton 19 from 45 balls - and still motoring
2008.07.01: Troughton is off the mark already
2008.07.01: Bell 200
2008.07.01: Many a tear has to fall
2008.07.01: Thump, thump, thump
2008.07.01: Help is at hand
2008.07.01: Love and peace
2008.06.30: Pots and pans
2008.06.30: Agonising Poonia
2008.06.30: Another dodgy digit
2008.06.30: Billy the Cobweb
2008.06.30: Powell perishes
2008.06.30: Penguin profile
2008.06.30: Hat-trick of stumpings
2008.06.30: Chaffinch City 1 Nightjar Rovers 1 (extra time being played)
2008.06.30: Grated carrot
2008.06.30: Glos - chin of glass?
2008.06.30: Ossock Rotation Facility
2008.06.30: Martin strikes
2008.06.30: Resting Tim
2008.06.29: Basket of snakes
2008.06.29: Wyatt Earp
2008.06.29: All the lights twinkling in Marylebone Road
2008.06.29: Gloucestershire progress halted by rain
2008.06.29: Flower-class corvette
2008.06.29: Stretch
2008.06.29: Jelly
2008.06.29: Strange 'd'
2008.06.29: Gloucestershire to bat
2008.06.26: Bell for Warwickshire
2008.06.25: The scoreboard
2008.06.24: Botha, Troughton, earwax, dunk-tank.
2008.06.23: Dangerous business this captaincy
2008.06.22: The Matrix
2008.06.19: Twenty20 has just got better
2008.06.16: Food for thought from a superb museum
2008.06.11: Match abandoned
2008.06.11: A row of white buttons across a green track
2008.06.11: Hakan Yakin
2008.06.11: Glad I remembered to put the cat out
2008.06.11: Rain stops play
2008.06.11: Mist over the hills
2008.06.11: Staccato
2008.06.11: Team news
2008.06.11: Twenty20. Let's rock and roll.
2008.06.09: Include me out
2008.06.09: Troughton settles it
2008.06.09: A double blow
2008.06.09: The letter O
2008.06.09: Shadows lengthen
2008.06.09: Private Sheep - sponge farmer
2008.06.09: Martin work permit through
2008.06.09: Tea
2008.06.09: The bails fly
2008.06.09: Tree Preservation Orders
2008.06.09: The new Botham
2008.06.09: The breakthrough
2008.06.09: What place is this? Where are we now?
2008.06.09: Lunch
2008.06.09: A good player
2008.06.09: Dallas Moir
2008.06.09: Leadbeater strides out
2008.06.09: The world is slightly mad
2008.06.09: And six owls
2008.06.08: Nifty Westy and Trotty torpedo Hempy
2008.06.08: Sea urchins
2008.06.08: Rocks with sinister eyes
2008.06.08: Macrame for beginners
2008.06.08: Let's do some livin'
2008.06.08: Pot and kettle
2008.06.08: Monty Rumble
2008.06.08: Anyon's six-for
2008.06.08: Get this man an audition
2008.06.08: Kingdom of Heaven
2008.06.08: Woakes strikes
2008.06.08: High and handsome
2008.06.05: The mighty oak
2008.06.02: Match drawn and flies
2008.06.02: All your precious photographs and all your favourite dreams
2008.06.02: A breathtaking catch
2008.06.02: A wicket falls
2008.06.02: Eskimo in the desert
2008.06.02: Fish
2008.06.02: Very slight rain stops play
2008.06.02: 50,493,196 buzzing insects
2008.06.02: Still a glimmer
2008.06.02: A lamp-shade swinging round Peter Butterworth's head
2008.06.02: Evelyn Waugh
2008.06.02: Tahir takes two
2008.06.02: Canal restoration project
2008.06.02: Apples
2008.06.02: World of Good
2008.05.31: 4.55pm next Thursday
2008.05.30: Still frolicking
2008.05.30: Green shed
2008.05.30: Ally's army
2008.05.30: The Maginot Line
2008.05.30: This is county cricket
2008.05.30: Bad light causes a temporary cessation
2008.05.30: Alvin Martin's own goal at Wrexham
2008.05.30: Tahir, wicket, cuttle fish, morris dancing
2008.05.30: Carter, wicket, cuttle fish, country dancing
2008.05.30: Alice B. Toklas
2008.05.30: Huge test for Westwood
2008.05.30: Spearman Rhino
2008.05.30: Tight early overs
2008.05.30: Gloucestershire to bat
2008.05.29: Salisbury still out
2008.05.25: The optimist
2008.05.24: Hairy jute twine
2008.05.24: 153 pegs
2008.05.24: Middlesex edge towards safety
2008.05.24: The silent servants
2008.05.24: Smalls on public display
2008.05.24: Game on
2008.05.24: Replace them frequently
2008.05.24: Advantages and disadvantages
2008.05.24: Anyon strikes
2008.05.24: Clothes pegs
2008.05.23: A draw appears to beckon II
2008.05.23: The Weaver's Tale
2008.05.23: Harold Wilson and a cormorant.
2008.05.23: Trott briskly takes a wicket
2008.05.23: A rarity
2008.05.23: Intelligent cricket
2008.05.23: Paddle
2008.05.23: "Stop fidgeting or I'll take that hamster away".
2008.05.23: Moo
2008.05.23: Scrambled egg
2008.05.23: Nine nines including a nine from Giles.
2008.05.23: Bears race in front
2008.05.23: Neither one thing nor the other. Or even the other.
2008.05.22: Grim news on the skipper
2008.05.22: Custard creams
2008.05.22: Evil
2008.05.22: Cheese, I think
2008.05.22: Crested Grebe 1 Woodpecker 1
2008.05.22: Grated beetroot
2008.05.22: It happens so often II
2008.05.22: Gradual advance
2008.05.22: Out among the swedes
2008.05.22: A plate of sandwiches
2008.05.22: A wicket falls
2008.05.22: Old Nance
2008.05.22: All day in the sun
2008.05.22: Bird scarers in the 19th century
2008.05.21: Bertie Wooster
2008.05.21: The National Football Museum
2008.05.21: Blundering Crusaders
2008.05.21: Lily of the Valley
2008.05.21: Fridge defrosting operations
2008.05.21: Three for Maddy
2008.05.21: An exciting passage of play regarding a stapler
2008.05.21: Fridge magnets
2008.05.21: Bobby Kellard
2008.05.21: Turning out to be a bit of a tough morning...
2008.05.21: Willow Warbler 2 Chaffinch 0 (aet)
2008.05.21: Small white triangle
2008.05.21: Zondeki limps off
2008.05.21: Carter not selected
2008.05.20: Exactly 100 years ago...
2008.05.18: Horns
2008.05.18: Wisconsin beef cow-calf
2008.05.18: Anyon comes, as they say in appalling cliched fashion, to the party.
2008.05.18: Woakes nips in with one
2008.05.18: Take the udder firmly in the right hand
2008.05.18: The charge is on
2008.05.18: Milk churns stacked by a barn
2008.05.18: Udder clamp
2008.05.18: A grain of hope
2008.05.18: They'll have to bowl well
2008.05.18: Holstein heifer
2008.05.18: British Fresian
2008.05.18: Offal
2008.05.18: Hooves
2008.05.18: Cow's forehead
2008.05.18: Self-inflicted wound
2008.05.18: Pork pie
2008.05.18: A proper scoreboard.
2008.05.18: The Bears bat
2008.05.15: Legal advice
2008.05.11: Make your voices heard
2008.05.09: The A to Z of walrus feed
2008.05.09: Two goats making their way through a narrow doorway
2008.05.09: Val Doonican
2008.05.09: They didn't 'arf need that
2008.05.09: Cake of goats
2008.05.09: Derbyshire edge into the ascendancy
2008.05.09: Chess
2008.05.09: Botha wastes no time
2008.05.09: Urn
2008.05.09: The Two Ronnies
2008.05.09: John Hurt
2008.05.09: Gerhard makes a phone call
2008.05.08: Exit stage left (clutching a goat)
2008.05.08: Sieve
2008.05.08: Alf Roberts
2008.05.08: Keith
2008.05.08: ...Cook's...
2008.05.08: ...ankle...
2008.05.08: ...bone...
2008.05.08: ...is...
2008.05.08: ...connected...
2008.05.08: ...to...
2008.05.08: ...Keith...
2008.05.08: ...Cook's...
2008.05.08: ...foot...
2008.05.08: ...bone.
2008.05.07: Seventeen threes
2008.05.07: Cracking entertainment
2008.05.07: "It's hard to say really"
2008.05.07: The Chelsea Drug Store
2008.05.07: The History of Clocks
2008.05.07: Plates
2008.05.07: Answer me this...
2008.05.07: Three chiff-chaffs, two peacocks and a seed warbler
2008.05.07: Captain Powdered Milk II
2008.05.07: Winterbourne Bishop
2008.05.07: A goldfinch and a yellowhammer
2008.05.07: Derbyshire will bat
2008.05.02: Man and bin
2008.05.02: Scintillating Denouement II
2008.05.02: Alfie Bass III
2008.05.02: Gums
2008.05.02: Ted Heath's teeth
2008.05.02: Pot-holing in Uruguay
2008.05.02: Ermintrude the cow
2008.05.02: The cathedral strikes
2008.05.02: The motions
2008.05.02: Marble Arch via Pall Mall
2008.05.02: Deal or no deal?
2008.05.01: Mildred's desire to better herself
2008.05.01: Hamster in the wind
2008.05.01: Butterfingers
2008.05.01: Cromwell's Mule
2008.05.01: The Declaration
2008.05.01: Bohemian Hamster
2008.05.01: Carter 50
2008.05.01: Crackerjack pencil
2008.05.01: Anniversary (nearly) ton
2008.05.01: Botha and Salisbury go and fresh fish
2008.05.01: Where's this game going?
2008.05.01: The argument shop
2008.05.01: Trott and Ambrose continue to build diligently
2008.05.01: Don't get me started...
2008.04.30: 193.3 overs
2008.04.30: I'm dreaming of a white hamster
2008.04.30: Solid progress until an interruption caused by rain
2008.04.30: Bridge Over Troubled Hamster
2008.04.30: A hamster named Sue
2008.04.30: Bell to play on Monday
2008.04.30: 1.45pm start
2008.04.30: A further delay
2008.04.30: Ruby don't take your hamster to town
2008.04.29: A magpie
2008.04.29: Powell is out
2008.04.29: Westwood goes
2008.04.29: Never in doubt
2008.04.29: Noah and Nelly
2008.04.29: Resumption
2008.04.29: Twenty-five stone of former Iranian head of state
2008.04.29: Westwood offers no stroke
2008.04.29: Controversy - the sequel
2008.04.29: Controversy
2008.04.29: Three blokes on a towel
2008.04.29: Heavy
2008.04.29: Six or seven
2008.04.29: Now the bad news...
2008.04.29: He's done it at last
2008.04.26: Huddersfield v Walsall
2008.04.25: Arbroath Novelty Rock Emporium
2008.04.25: Wind in the Sales
2008.04.25: Cuckoo
2008.04.25: T.
2008.04.25: Daggett strikes
2008.04.25: Northamptonshire's steady progress
2008.04.25: They nest low
2008.04.25: A very good morning's work.
2008.04.25: Follow-on avoided. So who's the other?
2008.04.25: The Kybosh
2008.04.25: Fighting back
2008.04.25: Arbroath Tandoori
2008.04.25: Grim news
2008.04.24: Arbroath Public Library
2008.04.24: Now I'm no expert...
2008.04.24: Darkness descends...
2008.04.24: June Whitfield
2008.04.24: Now that is a surprise...
2008.04.24: The cruellest way
2008.04.24: Early turbulence
2008.04.24: Innings over. Farce continues.
2008.04.24: Trout mousse
2008.04.24: No rain stops play
2008.04.24: The eighth Beatle
2008.04.24: Roughed up
2008.04.24: A poor start
2008.04.24: Dry at the moment
2008.04.23: The Close
2008.04.23: Six of the best
2008.04.23: Mouse
2008.04.23: Four churches
2008.04.23: Tea
2008.04.23: The captain strikes a blow on behalf of his team
2008.04.23: Carter unfurls a good 'un
2008.04.23: Zondeki strikes
2008.04.23: A lively start
2008.04.23: Maddy calls incorrectly
2008.04.23: Lunch then cricket?
2008.04.23: Activity
2008.04.23: Rain and a very irritating big white triangular thing.
2008.04.18: Please folks, get involved with this...
2008.04.18: The close. Not an entirely profitable day for Warwickshire
2008.04.18: Bad to worse
2008.04.18: Sines and cosines
2008.04.18: 482 to win
2008.04.18: Daddy was a bank robber
2008.04.18: Gloom descends
2008.04.18: Competition time
2008.04.18: Andrea Temesvari
2008.04.18: Fantastic news and not so fantastic news
2008.04.18: Should I cool it or should I blow?
2008.04.18: Worcestershire make steady progress
2008.04.18: Cold. Very.
2008.04.17: They could have done with a Frank Field-type exponent of the bowling art
2008.04.17: More for Moore
2008.04.17: Doris Luke
2008.04.17: The procession continues
2008.04.17: Yootha Joyce
2008.04.17: Parker perishes
2008.04.17: Poonia strikes a debut half-century
2008.04.17: Mallard
2008.04.17: Neck
2008.04.17: Gimme Shelter
2008.04.17: Richard O'Sullivan
2008.04.16: Advantage Worcestershire
2008.04.16: Jones the Sixth
2008.04.16: Kabir strikes early
2008.04.16: All are out
2008.04.16: Moore century
2008.04.16: Termite
2008.04.16: The press should be ashamed of themselves
2008.04.16: Eh?
2008.04.16: Maddy masterstroke, Trott triumph.
2008.04.16: Hick goes
2008.04.16: Daggett all-ten bid fails
2008.04.16: Daggett on for all-ten
2008.04.16: Professor Plum in the billiard room with the candlestick
2008.04.16: Tiptoe
2008.04.16: Paul clinches it
2008.04.16: The toss
2008.04.15: In the Bears' way over the next four days...
2008.04.14: What lies ahead...
2008.04.10: No internal wall
2008.04.09: The Parks. The postscript.
2008.04.09: It's a draw
2008.04.09: Tight lines
2008.04.09: Shades of the great Carter/Spires stand at Hove
2008.04.09: Bronze ram
2008.04.09: Botha returns a second time
2008.04.09: Frost in runner drama
2008.04.09: Bronze pole-top in the form of an elk
2008.04.09: A self-inflicted blow
2008.04.09: Bronze weapon with a frog-shaped socket
2008.04.09: The lunchtime situation
2008.04.09: Bears wobble
2008.04.09: "You might have to go outside and get a hook on it"
2008.04.09: Chasing 316
2008.04.09: Sawdust and Ernie Wise
2008.04.08: Chasing 337?
2008.04.08: "He sneaked it in while nobody was looking"
2008.04.08: Trott strikes with a magnificent delivery.
2008.04.08: The Scissor Sisters
2008.04.08: Ah, at last...
2008.04.08: Oxford start solidly
2008.04.08: 13....in front of 13
2008.04.08: Sunlight and snow
2008.04.05: The international cricketer, 2008-style.
2008.04.01: The Beagle
2008.04.01: A bit of severe treatment
2008.04.01: Pretty feckless stuff
2008.04.01: Nothing at all
2008.04.01: Oooooo Mr Grimsdale
2008.04.01: The impressive Daggett
2008.04.01: 246 for 3.
2008.04.01: The new vice-captain strikes a half-century
2008.04.01: Hundreds and thousands
2008.04.01: Bayleaf the gardener
2008.04.01: Carter rather slow
2008.04.01: Well done Worcester
2008.04.01: Swotty Simkins
2008.03.31: On
2008.03.27: A shard
2008.03.25: Lunch to be scrapped?
2008.03.20: "G'night John-boy..."
2008.03.18: Make cricket beautiful
2008.03.13: Dog, lamppost, sofas, county cricket - ooo me back.
2008.03.10: Up Periscope - with Eddie Waring.
2008.03.07: The Seagull Trophy
2008.02.19: 16,997 runs, 722 catches and 156 stumpings.
2008.02.18: Toe
2008.02.18: Gerard Depardieu, Darren Maddy, a seagull and Kabul.
2008.02.08: Ian Bell
2008.02.06: "Oh what will the 2008 season bring for the Bears?"