Andy Parachute Jump

 Last Sunday Andy went skydiving today at Chatteris Airfield.  ‘Why would you want to jump out of a plane!!. It was supposed to happen last year, or maybe the year before that. He asked me if I would go and take photos. Not being a person to say no to an opportunity like that. 

He had to be at the Airfield at 7:30am and I was to join him after his briefing. As it turned out I did not need to go until noon. 

Beautiful day for it. I spoke to one of Andy’s friends after the jump and he said it was blooming cold up there. As I say ‘Why would you want to jump out of a plane’

Cambridge Half Marathon

Great day out on Sunday supporting daughter Frances and her friend competing in the Cambridge Half Marathon.

All procures taken with the Canon 5Dmkiv and Canon 100 - 400mm series ii lens. I set the camera to Manual  with shutter speed at 1/400th sec and f/6.3 with auto ISO. I hindsight I should have had the shutter speed higher.

Over 14000 participants. I took over 400 photos, many duplicates but managed to choose these as my favourites.  I am not a sports photographer but I do enjoy taking pictures of people enjoying theirselves.

Aiden's First Cricket Match

Aiden's First Cricket Match.

We drove over to Downham Market this evening to watch Aiden (Grandchild 4 of 9) play his first game of cricket. He joined the Ely City CC under 12's a few weeks ago and really loves it. 

This match was with Downham Stow. I think he was quite nervous before the game, quite naturally I think. 

He had quite a fan club on the sidelines as Nicki and family had come down to stay this weekend and decided to drive back after the game.

I am still not quite sure of the rules. It seems each team starts with 200 runs. They bat in pairs for a given number of innings

They score 'runs' but loose  five runs for 'being out'. They can gain runs if the bowler bowls a no ball ie wide.

The opposition, the home team,  batted first. Aiden was one of the bowlers and as a grandfather I was very impressed with his first go in a competition.

At the end of the innings Downham Stow had scored 250 so Ely had to score more then 50 to win. 

Aiden was in the first pair of batters and he scored 12 runs. A good first result I think

It was a close match but Ely won 256 to 250

Well done Ely and Well done Aiden.

I really enjoyed the experience and now looking forward to watching another match, by which time I may know the rules of the game. :)