15

Chris is the one on the right of the picture!

Yes 15 is the date of my birthday but more importantly 15 is the number of wickets that Christopher Rushworth took yesterday at Chester Le Street.,

Flipping heck!!!!!, well after losing a day to awful weather on Monday, Durham obviously decided that enough was enough and after scoring 392 runs in their innings, Northampton went into bat and were only flipping bowled out for 83 with Chris Rushworth taking 9-52!!!!! What a top boy and once again I wonder why England have never looked to him for any tour ( Lions. A's???).
He was denied a 10 wicket haul by Ben Stokes who took the last wicket in Northants first innings
However as Northants had to follow on the fun didn't stop there!, Chris only chuffing well took another 6 wickets!!!! meaning that he had broken the county record which was held by  Alan Walkers  with 14-177.

What a top boy and his top boy looked equally as proud of his daddy.
Durham won by an innings and a million runs! OK slight exaggeration  but you get the drift.

He is looking in top form for Saturday and that is all that I care about now!. Whoever is sponsoring him £10 a wicket will be having to cough up rather a lot today!!!  But it's all in a good cause.

the excitement carried on well into the evening too. No alcohol involved for Chris though.

Today however see celebrations of another kind when Dame Didi and I return to our former home of Newham Hall in the county of Tykeshire. this has been organised to celebrate my birthday ( which isn't until November) and also for a stroll down memory lane. we are both very excited!

life in super swanky Lady Lainey office is much the same with boys being boys and Lady Lainey getting cross. So no change there then!!!

well after all the excitement of yesterday, I am calming myself down, twirling my orange curls, putting on my second besty frock and heading off to Lady Lainey workville.
short one today but it couldn't get much sweeter!!!