SKIDBY WITH THE SCUMMIES
It was an honour to take on Skidby today with two of the Sunday Night Boys. Along with the Joiner, we finally convinced the Mick Philekson of Burstwick to attend. Like Baroness Orczy’s most famous character he is a hard man to pin down. ‘They seek him here they seek him there . . . . . . that damned elusive Pimpernel’. The alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist , rings true in so many ways for this modern day Scarlet Pimpernel. Always one to quickly know about others, he tends to keep his own business under his hat. A pincer movement of texts from myself and the Joiner saw the Burstwick Battler submit to our cajoling. The Joiner who hadn’t played for over 8 months fancied a game and with Boom Boom incapacitated due to a patella malfunction in the privy, we three met, 8.12 am at Skidby Lakes. Resplendent in his two-tone top, and chequered slacks, the early morning sun glinted off his Lennie Peters designer ...