I turn round, and there are four workmen watching me and they said ‘Carry on Miss. We’re enjoying this!’, and I said I bet you are.
Hazel Druett
I was doing cricket one day with my group of kids. Nearby were the goalposts and every year the council would come to take them down and put them up and this day they’d come to take them down. I’m talking to my group of kids and explaining to them all how to play cricket and I turn round, and there are four workmen watching me and they said ‘Carry on Miss. We’re enjoying this!’, and I said I bet you are. There’s me trying to teach a group of seven-year-olds who have never played cricket before how to play And I’m showing them these are the stumps and this is the bat and these are the bails and you have to bowl the ball and whack the ball away and one girl is holding the bat up in the air and I said ‘No, no you hold it down like this to protect your wicket. Get your elbow up and you’re going to whack the ball like that. So remember, put the bat down.’ So she just lay it down on the floor! And the workmen said ‘You’ve got your work cut out there Miss!’