10.5.13 - The sign that lies (and the arrival of the Adcocks)

The event of the 10^th was the arrival of Nicola and Cathy for a good 9-day stint in Hong Kong – welcome to our second and third guests! However, you will probably get plenty of photos of them over the next few days; and the ones we got on our first night showed the group posing with gin/cocktails, which were neither exciting nor flattering.

Furthermore, as you can tell from the photo, I got a chance to get a game of cricket in…at the beautiful Hong Kong Cricket Club itself, featured in glowing terms previously.

Thanks to Richard again for putting me onto his friend John who plays for the University, because he thought to ask me to step in when HKU was short.

In short – the game reached 19 overs before rain stopped play (and this sign stayed up to taunt us for hours), but I did get a bat and notched up 15. Not bad.

The rain threatened all day. Annoyingly for a cricket ground, the bowl of hills and its altitude mean that when rain arrives it tends to ‘settle’ and not stop until it is rained out.

Or so say the old hands. The weather here, in truth, is so wildly unpredictable that the forecasts change by the hour and are seldom correct. Instead, much faith is put in intuition, especially from those who have been around longest and therefore ‘just know’  – cue much squinting at the sky, sniffing the air, feeling the humidity, sucking of teeth and finally proclaiming, witch-doctor-like, “Hmm, I think this is in for the day”.