The postal service generally does a very good job on behalf of Lincolnshire cricket, but today a scoresheet was finally delivered for the important Lincs division three game between Outcasts 2nds and Immingham Blossom Way - having taken 12 days to cover that number of miles from the Isle of Axholme to the results secretary's house in Brigg. Perhaps this was due to the postal dispute/industrial action.
Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? Outcasts' captain Ian Fletcher (pictured) could have strapped the envelope to the back of a tortoise - even the type shown on the titles to TV comedy One Foot in the Grave - and it would have arrived in similar time.
The envelope is franked "Birmingham Mail Centre 23.09.09" so it's undertaken a very interesting journey from Th'Isle to the Midlands, then back up to North Lincolnshire. There's also a franking "14 IX" - showing the sheet was, indeed, posted in good time after the match. Just as 'Fletch' assured us it had. Not that we doubted his word.
So the final piece of correspondence arrives for the 2009 season, alongside it being a letter from Lincs League general secretary Mike Savage, including the agenda, and supporting documents, for the league AGM at Rase Park, Market Rasen, on Wednesday, October 21, when important decisions will be made for next season.
No rest for the wicked!
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