Last year they invited 30 lads back after the Super 4s to pick the squad of around 18 players for the County Squad. I've kept an eye out on that cohort of lads via play cricket and they've played games against Northumberland, Cumbria, Yorkshire, Lancashire and a few others. If it's the same as last year they will be batting, bowling, fielding and doing a 1500m round the track out the back of the indoor nets at the Riverside. My lad has done really well this year. Played about 50 game for his club, including a couple of games for the first team (admittedly they were short with holidays), loads for the 2nd XI and midweek teams. He got a 49 for the 3rd XI Academy team on a Sunday as well. He's had 2 games for his Rockets team and got another 2 this Friday and is loving it.
Very proud of my youngest twin daughters today. They’ve worked hard and managed to get fantastic A Level results. Anna got A*, A*, A* Maths, Physics, Geography Beth got A, A, A Maths, Chemistry, Biology Life starts now for them, good luck!!
My daughter passed her A Levels and is going to study pharmaceutical science at Sunderland. When she was a toddler, I used to take her to the preschool science days at Life in Newcastle. She always said she wanted to grow up and work in a research lab. So proud that she's taking the next step towards that.
Back to talking about my boy. As I’ve said before our only child and son (Tom) is an Avionics Tech in the Royal Australian Navy. He fixes all the electronics components on the MH-50 Seahawks. Up until yesterday he was an Able Seaman. The ranks are the same as the Royal Navy. Anyway he called us last night to say he has been promoted and is now a Leading Seaman, which is apparently the equivalent to an army corporal. It gives him more responsibility as he would expect. He is also sitting some sort of board in the next couple of weeks which allows him to review and sign off on work completed by more junior ranks. So well done Tom. Me and your mam are always proud of you but it’s so nice to see you doing well.
