Apologies for not contributing any words to last Saturday’s edition. I am told that that 97 per cent of the country has an internet signal, and I seem to spend a good deal of time in the other three per cent of the land.

Anyway deepest Sussex was where we were and although we didn’t see any snow we sure had our share of rain but did manage to get some walks in. Highly recommend the old railway line out off Chichester, thinks it’s called Centurian Way, very flat. It was also a joy to go to Arundel and re-find the cricket ground. Not been there for many years and clearly it didn’t look too much like it does in high summer, but good to go again.

I think I have mentioned in the past I have a thing about empty sports grounds, be they parks like Arundel or big stadiums, there seems to be something about them, maybe the ghosts of the past rumbling round.

One sports ground I did not enjoy when it was empty was Yeovil Town football club, after a game against Kidderminster Harriers.

Having got my post-match interviews and the like I discovered I had been locked in, and only banging on several doors and shouting out was I released by one of the sponsors of the club.

We also had a couple of nights last week in a place called Hurley which is between Marlow and Henley on Thames. Due to the vagaries of the British weather we were walking in shirt sleeves along the banks of the Thames one day, and huddling next to the heater the following day.

We walked on the Thames Path which goes the compete length of the river from it’s source in the Cotswold’s near Cirencester some 180 miles into central London. Seems like a challenge to me, but maybe not all in one go.

Worcestershire start a three day game of cricket against Oxford University in The Parks next week, might not make that one.