A big thank you even if it did get a little bit too much for me by the end of the evening!

Chaps,
Many, many thanks for a great 50th bash at Finchley CC (thanks for hosting us, Frank). The caricature is a great gift.
But whose idea was it to leave the stumps intact? You've got to make these things look realistic, you know.
Someone's got to tell me who drew it. Everybody else is asking me and all I can say is I've never met the chap.
Your fan mail has been pouring in this week from the other partygoers - 'what a nice bunch of chaps' and 'very jolly people' - and some of these spoke to the Vice-Skip during the evening. My god, the ghost of Thixendale is finally laid to rest.
The cake pictured above - courtesy of Emily Wills, sister of Abigail, PA on the Daily Telegraph when I was there - is almost as good a likeness as the cartoon.
Er, that is, apart from the shot which is highly reminiscent of Stephen's 'over the white-washed garden fence' technique.
Still, the ball has clearly dribbled off the side during the slicing so not a bad result for me. Probably a single there...no, hang on, waiting, WAITING!!
Pity the deluge stopped us giving Frank's Finchley a run for their money on the day.
But let's not be modest about it, as this blog reports, for the first time ever, Cincinnati can celebrate a winning season - more games won than lost and some terrific efforts during the summer.
I'm putting Sunday down as the highlight - your best performance of the season even without a ball being bowled!
See you all at the AGM if not before,
Brendan