The games of cricket between Ken and me in the front garden in which we used as a wicket the bottom portion of the Poplar tree where horizontally some knots were very conveniently located. The path between the steps and the front door was at a sufficiently good length from the tree to act as the point from which we bowled. There was probably not the regulation 22 yards between the wicket and the path but then the 'pitch', which contained not a single blade of grass, was a barren, stony patch which might have had difficulty reaching Test Match standard. However, the pitch had advantages over the more conventionally grassed ones allowing, because of its very good draining qualities, play to commence immediately after any downpour and, further, allowing us to play almost all the year round. When, on the 15th March 1952, we removed to our new stadium at 1 Farmstead there was, unfortunately, insufficient room to enable us to transplant our wonderful cricket pitch.
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