Today we went up to London for an afternoon tea at The Shard, it should have been back in January, but we were in the third Covid19 lockdown.
Some amazing views and a nice afternoon tea.
Enjoy the pictures.
Category: Holiday, trips and events
Holiday, trips and events
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Week 79 – September 17th – The Shard – Part 1
The view from our seat at The Shard. A busy Thames Part of the city of London Tower of London and HMS Belfast. The Peter Pan afternoon tea map menu -
Week 78 – September 10th – Leeds Castle part 2
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Week 78 – September 10th – Leeds Castle part 1
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Week 77 – September 5th – Kent v Worcestershire at Canterbury part 2
More pictures from the first day of the match at Canterbury.
Darren Stevens the legend 
Nathan Gilchrist, good picture Good bowling by Matt Milnes 4-35 and Nathan Gilchrist 5-38, meant Kent were batting mid afternoon.
Zak Crawley at the crease, skipper for this match. 
Zak Crawley leave the first ball of the Kent innings. Kent went on to win this match, to make the final games against Middlesex, a deciding game for the third division title.
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Week 77 – September 5th – Kent v Worcestershire at Canterbury part 1
Myself and Claire went to Canterbury for the 1st day of this county championship match. For a change we had no rain.
Kent won the toss and put Worcestershire into bat, here are some pictures from the day.
Kent final catching warm up before starting the match. 
Daryl Mitchell facing 
Tom Fell at the non-strikers end. 
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Week 77 – August 31st – Greenwich part 2
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Week 77 – August 31st – Greenwich part 1
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Week 76 – August 27th – Knole Park
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Week 75 – August 21st – Men hundred final
For the men’s final we were joined by two people Tom plays football with. Good guys.
Considering my feelings for this version of cricket, it was an enjoyable day out.
Two captains waiting to go and do the coin toss, James Vince and Moeen Ali 
Paul Stirling marking out his crease. 
Paul Stirling on driving Adam Milne ( quickest bowler I’ve seen life since Devon Malcolm) Southern Brave 168-5 in 100 balls (Stirling 61 (36), Whiteley 44* (19)) beat Birmingham Phoenix 136-5 in 100 balls (Livingstone 46 (19)) by 32 runs.
Southern Brave were crowned the first men’s Hundred champions after beating Birmingham Phoenix by 32 runs in an action-packed Lord’s final.
Chasing 169, Phoenix’s Liam Livingstone thrashed 46 from 19 balls, animating a raucous Lord’s crowd with an effortless flow of boundaries, before the game swung in dramatic and unlikely fashion.
Tim David, only brought into the Brave’s squad earlier this week, ran out Livingstone with a 60m direct hit from the deep – the in-form Livingstone agonisingly inches short.
Birmingham still needed another 99 from 55 balls and Brave’s impressive bowling attack closed out the game expertly to make the winning margin far greater than looked likely at one stage.
Teacher-turned-Hundred star Jake Lintott had Moeen Ali caught for 36 from 30 balls.
Ireland international Paul Stirling earlier hit 61 from 36 balls for the Brave before Ross Whiteley’s crucial 44 not out from 19 balls lifted them to 168-5.
Thank you again Tom for arranging this event for me. ?
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Week 75 – August 21st – Women hundred final part 2
Oval Invincibles 121-6 in 100 balls (Van Niekerk 26 (29), Kapp 26 (14), Bell 2-24) beat Southern Brave 73 all out in 98 balls (Morris 23 (26); Kapp 4-9) by 48 runs.
Oval Invincibles stormed to an emphatic 48-run victory over favourites Southern Brave to become the first women’s Hundred champions on a historic afternoon at Lord’s.
After setting a target of 122, the Invincibles bowled out the Brave for just 73 in a perfect bowling performance.
Marizanne Kapp took three wickets in the first 10 balls – the Brave’s top three batters all out without scoring.
And with a 17,116-strong crowd watching on – a record for a women’s domestic match anywhere in the world – the frantic start continued when Fran Wilson’s brilliant throw ran out Maia Bouchier.
Brave, who cruised through the group stages with seven wins from eight, had no answer to the fired-up Invincibles and subsided to a miserable defeat on the biggest of occasions.
Kapp, who also scored 26 in the Invincibles’ 121-6, took the final wicket and looked in disbelief before she was lifted into the air by her wife Dane van Niekerk, the Invincibles’ masterful, inspirational captain.
Mist goes across the pitch during the final first ball bowled by Anya Shrubbole 
The losing team Southern Brave come over for the presentations 
Applauding the winning team Oval Invincibles 
Oval Invincibles in front of the photographers.
