Tracey and Gwyn met the cheerful group at Parkinson's Cricket. Alex had brought a new gadget today: a bowling machine. The group batted the balls into the ceiling, the lights and the curtains. We finished with tea and biscuits.

Tracey and Gwyn met the team at Derbyshire Cricket Foundation for their summer (haf) holiday Holiday Activities and Food session. The weather was typically summery as expected: it was haf o hyd after all. We had a nature treasure hunt, animal encounters (with a tarantula, ball python, bearded dragon and more), a light lunch and an art session.

About to help at DCF’s holiday event for children, A. said that we needed food hygiene level 2 and arranged a course, saying that it was a brief online one. There were many, many computer problems! Noticing that the descriptions online of level 2 said that it would take over 3 hours, a start time of 08:06 seemed appropriate to finish by high noon. It took until half past seven and two emails to the course provider!

There’s 13 hours to go until the event starts …