POLISH PLUMBERS

It's sad to have to post a truism, but my Polish worker has done everything right.

Meanwhile A Flintoff can't hack his $1.5M tag for the IPL and K P Pietersen has top-scored with only 37 (and only one game to go).

I really can't wait for my day out at the Ashes to see these people have a go.

Harrumph.

Cricket

Now the season has started, we find the usual silly pitches. It can't be right that Taunton allowed 500 for Warwickshire and 340-something reply for Zummer carrot crunchers (Vic Marks, prop).

Looks like draws all round with each county going just for first-innings bonus points.

I can't wait to get down with the traditional flask of soup and shiver my way through a day's play.

You can send me a fish paste sandwich if you want.

Labour party can't get it right

Cooking for Easter

Easter means lamb; has done for ages; you've just got to eat it. (Sorry veggies.) The lamb of the Jewish Passover became the Christian Paschal Lamb, whereby Christ is the lamb of God. This adoption of a Jewish tradition into the church has always struck me as weird. Why take on something done by the "perfidious Jews" (to quote the Good Friday liturgy) when the early church had ditched many of the Jewish dietary laws (see Acts)?

I suspect it's linked to springtime and rebirth as celebrated in pagan traditions. You can add eggs to that as well.

Anyway, as the first lamb of the British season is available, I'll be cooking a butterflied leg of lamb, marinaded in lemon juice and spices.

And as Michael Vaughan plays for MCC v Durham I'll be checking out his form for the forthcoming struggle against the convicts.