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ChrisR
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I decided to start reading from the end of the alphabet, and am truly happy I did so. This story (written way back in 2003-2004!) is absolutely wonderful. It's a gentle tale, written quite beautifully. One of the later chapters includes perhaps the most perfect description of love I've read.
On the challenging side, there are some sport scenes that are a bit tough to understand. They play a game like baseball, what with bats and balls, but it includes a hat trick, which surely must be hockey. Perhaps they were playing baseball on ice! What fun! 
Enjoy.
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timmy
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You made a good choice of author. A Pure and Honest Heart starts here and you have prompted me to re-read it. I even picked up some of Zambezi's typos and corrected them.
I should explain the laws (not rules) of Cricket to you. These are the ins and outs of the game:
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.
When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out.
Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.
There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
[Updated on: Wed, 21 January 2015 16:37]
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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ChrisR
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Thanks for the explanation. I now understand the enormous number of pubs in town!
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timmy
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See, we have to go in to the pub when we get out at cricket.
I hope you have let Z know you like the tale and that there is a thread here. If I remember correctly he is the first online person I met in real life, and that was in bizarre circumstances, too.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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ChrisR
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Message sent. Thanks for the reminder. Wasn't sure if he was still around after a decade!
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ChrisR
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One quick addition. I've been in tears for the last half hour. Go to Zambezi's story shelf and click on the link he provides to give the meaning behind his story. Perhaps I'm the last person on the planet to ever see and hear this, but... just go!
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timmy
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The other tales are worth a read, too. I wish he'd write some more.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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"Quote:"ChrisR wrote on Thu, 22 January 2015 02:03One quick addition. I've been in tears for the last half hour. Go to Zambezi's story shelf and click on the link he provides to give the meaning behind his story. Perhaps I'm the last person on the planet to ever see and hear this, but... just go!
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Seconded!
And I want to mention that Z's stories are very good, and should be mandatory reading. His writing more should also be mandatory.
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timmy
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I wondered if more cricket might amuse you? We cater for several tastes!
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