Indian Summer

At Haileybury today I had my summer hat out in the sunshine on XX Acre to watch the Junior Colts team in which No 1 son plays win against Kings Canterbury. It was more cricket weather than rugby.

Rare picture of the Archdeacon not in clericals!

The school is in Summer uniform and there is talk of having to cancel next week's games if there is no rain. That in turn led to a conversation on the touch line about when conditions ever cause the rugby to have to be cancelled. Frost - which is of course the same problem as heat: the ground gets too hard; but anything else? No1 Son tells me that there was a match last season which had to be stopped when the fog became so thick that they could not see from one end to the other, and the ball (and the chap carrying it) would come out of the murk unexpectedly. Otherwise, rain, snow, wind they play through it all. After all, as we all know, when you stand on XX Acre there is nothing between us and the Ural mountains.