![]() Berserk Vikings couldn’t have done a better job on Lindisfarne. One separate to the Aussie professional Twenty20 cricket circus meandering towards a conclusion with its Hurricanes and Renegades. And saw the wood splinters, the confetti of paint scabs and a kaput latch. Wary of what had got up the spinebill’s fine, curved bill I looked to the ajar front door. Where, from the leafy alder tree, the small bird’s long, tinkling staccato, a piping, turned to explosive twittering. The tweetup fruitless, the coffee on her, I wended back home. An awkward distraction from her having no real project budget and me flatly unwilling to do owt for nowt. Leaving the house an abandoned look.Īt a cramped pavement table outside an anodyne laneway cafe near Flinders Street Station the Gippsland high-flyer chuckled prettily about cute echidnas and catching yabbies. For which, due to a rare lack of trains, I took the car. I’d be back to the topic of backyard angst later. Then closing the laptop lid I left the device amidst my desk clutter. Instead I tapped: The grass is high as a galah’s eye. You’ve got off lightly,” I soothed.Ī week ago, hidden in the unruly lawn, the spotted turtle-dove had sun-basked. ![]() For his inexplicable loss – the latter part of the tail. The day’s Herald Sun, however, got a scrunch.įinding Pad-Toes the garden gecko gawping across the threshold, I offered consolation. Though happenstance can ignite effing and blinding, by sheer self control I capped a sailor’s gob. ![]() Little did Metro know the true nature of aggro its tinkering of sleepers, ballast and whatnot had had on us. “Metro sincerely apologises for any inconvenience caused.” Words now empty as the missus and my time-worn renter. Big Bash And Happenstanceįor someone who opts for public transport the spun out closure of the Frankston Line had me huff-puffing at the resultant PR. Yours truly has also found time to be full-time dad, a television news cameraman, part-time college lecturer, a part-time school teacher, and an occasional broadcaster on BBC local radio.Ĭurrently living on Guernsey in the Channel IslandsI now admit to poddling through the lighter side of life’s rich tapestry relieved by never having been bankrupt. And in 2005 I became the first Englishman to win a documentary film award in the Republic of Moldova. ‘Dragons – The Story of a Country Parson’ was broadcast on British television in 1999. More recently, a novel 'Bats and Belters' wheedled itself into bookshops in 2014 and was followed by 'How to Survive in Staffordshire' in 2016.Īs a self-taught documentary filmmaker I've made a good many titles. Early efforts 'How to Survive in Somerset' and 'Another Somerset Century' sold nicely and acted as encouragement. Since 2008 ten or so published books have been written and illustrated by myself. Instead, I've preferred to eke out an existence in the English rural custom of self-employment. For the past twenty years I've just about managed to avoid wearing a tie to work or getting grubby. I do what what I do for the sheer love of it having abandoned the lawyer lark and squeaky-bum-time in Libya. Happy in knowing life’s lighter side is free and can be found daily has me 'out there' encountering all sorts. Put simply, Zum Beamer is the blog of a West Countryman who plays bad cricket. The defeat to Oly Town is the first time the Ballard FC franchise lost a game in the month of June.As a name, Zum Beamer suits - ‘Zum’ being a native's epithet for the county of Somerset and ‘beamer’ defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as: “a ball bowled directly at a batsman's head without bouncing (regarded as unsporting)”. Perez found himself with the ball inside the 18 yard box and slotted the ball into the net and Oly Town stole a win from Ballard. Taketo Onodera made a run down the right sideline and found the head of Jeremy Opong who was a halftime substitute for Ballard.īallard couldn’t quite get the go ahead goal, and with four minutes of added time looked to escape with a draw and remain unbeaten.īut Dante Perez had other ideas for how the game should end. ![]() Ballard got the equalizer they had worked so hard for in the first twelve minutes. To start off the second half the Bridges had a huge surge in energy and quality putting a lot of pressure on Oly Town. Oly Town midfielder Federico Russo received his second yellow of the match which resulted in a red card and Ballard would have a man advantage for the rest of the game. In the waning minutes of the first half a window of opportunity presented itself to Ballard.
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