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Gaitways

Peter March 28, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

That’s torn it! Just a week ago I was at a cricket coaches gathering, exploring and playing lots of fun and relevant games and activities to use in the upcoming summer term when we take our coaching into schools. After nearly two hours of absorbing ...

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Solving

Peter March 26, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

The Cryptic Crossword I like puzzles, and in particular I like crossword puzzles. I have my parents to thank for that little piece of resonant pleasure – both in terms of nature and of nurture. By that I mean as follows:- in nature terms I ...

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A Partridge in a Petri

Peter March 18, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

Growing a Culture I’ve set out on a journey into the unknown.   Well, it isn’t entirely THE unknown, because it is a Cricket Project and it’s a Coaching Project – and I work, ply some of my trade, coaching within the game of cricket. ...

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Let’s give it up for …

Peter March 10, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

Satirist and singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer’s view of the world owed as much to his being a mathematics lecturer as well as to his innate understanding of how to portray the ironies of life. Nothing, especially the sentimental, escaped his eagle-eyed comedic talent. In the song ...

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The Trawler

Peter March 7, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

The Far View If a Taoist sage were to stand on the temple steps and gaze through the stages of antiquity right up to our present day he would notice changes.  Though the fish in the sea are still the same, Man would appear to ...

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The Delusion Conclusion

Peter March 4, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

Framings So I’m sat looking at my reader numbers for this year so far and making a comparison with those of 2013 at the same calendar date – and I’m drawing some conclusions based on certain  criteria. It has a kind of parallel with certain sales or business ...

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Managing our own Intensity

Peter February 23, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

It’s not a particularly well-worn phrase in terms of performance – “Manage Your Own Intensity.” At least, it is not well-worn in the conventional and traditional lexicon of pre-match phraseology. However, yesterday for the team I coach, it was pretty much the only pointer I ...

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Back to Basics

Peter February 13, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

It’s a well worn phrase in all aspects of performance – “Let’s get back to basics,” or “We need to get back to basics,” or any other variations on a theme that you might care to cite.  And there’s usually a reason for these particular ...

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You’ve Been Framed

Peter January 27, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

A right how do you do I’ve had a number of instances in this past week where I’m particularly reminded of what it is I do, or what it is I endeavour to do, or what I say it is in terms of answering the ...

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The Wand or The Baton

Peter January 18, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

Overture I’m an avid lover of all music, all styles and genres, from ancient to modern. Plus I’m an avid lover of language and, like with music, all the nuts and bolts of language. Now the interesting thing about them both is that they are, ...

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