BRIGG CRICKET FAN TAKES A RARE BREAK

If you were wondering why Brigg Blog has produced so many posts today there's a simple reason.
The editor, who would normally be umpiring in the Lincolnshire County Cricket League, is to enjoy an early evening friends & family BBQ and has therefore "cried off" from his scheduled fixture at Hibaldstow, starting at 1.30pm and scheduled to finish about 7.30pm.
It's very rare, almost unique, for us to be not doing a Saturday shift at the Scunthorpe Telegraph AND failing to umpire on the same day.
Hibaldstow is one of the best playing surfaces in the county. Some would say it's THE best. 
We went there to umpire late last season and our former Brigg Town team-mate, left-arm seam bowler Garry Dixon, had baked some beautiful bramble pies for tea, using fruit he picked while out and about. He's been back playing at Hibaldstow for a good many years.
We scored our final half-century batting at Hibaldstow in a Lincs League game - the season before retiring - and once took six wickets there during a Sunday game.
More interesting, though, was being run out by a fielder lurking behind the ground's famous tree, which is well inside the boundary. Happy memories!