Our old friend Steve Cook has flown all the way from England to come and stay with us. We’re a convenient staging post for his real reason to be in Australia – to follow the Ashes cricket as a fully paid-up member of the Barmy Army! He’s even got the official Barmy Army songbook with him.
The book contains literary gems such as:
“He bowls to the left, he bowls to the right. That Mitchell Johnson, his bowling is shite”
Check out more songs at the Barmy Army website.
Steve has been preparing himself for the fray. He disappears off to Brisbane tomorrow for the first test and is taking along a custom-made banner to show off his roots.
He bought the flag in Sydney and Vivienne Jones volunteered to add the lettering. Christopher Jones helped by printing out some letter stencils and I helped by interfering with ideas about the lettering layout! So it was a real team effort.
I’m not sure how many TV watchers will know where West Deeping is, but maybe they’ll look it up when they see the banner.
