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A SUITABLE SUBJECT FOR A BEST SELLER!

The following article is about the strong desire to begin writing but agonising over the subject matter that actually gets you started.

Everyone has at least one book in them so it is said. I myself have several which in the past have been so deep in me they have failed miserably to get out.

The closest I have yet come to producing my masterpiece was when several years ago I researched thoroughly the 1902 Cricket Season during which Gilbert Jessop crouched his way to a lightening hundred against the Aussies and Wilfred (Rhodes) and George Herbert (Hirst) "got em in ones".

Strangely enough when I mentioned the subject matter to my friends few shared my enthusiasm for that particular cricketing year which I found odd. So the writing was shelved.

My literary ambitions were stirred again some weeks ago however when during post match analysis and recriminations which take place every Friday afternoon following our weekly tennis doubles one of our number announced that he was writing a book.

The subject of his book is dear to his heart. The very heart that will soon stop functioning because of the subject of his book i.e.; The Full English Breakfast' .His remit is to eat the said meal at every establishment serving it from Ilkley (the small Yorkshire Dales Spa town where we reside) up the A65 to the Lake District. My spread bet is that his arteries will clog up somewhere between Gargrave and Austwick.

Fired with enthusiasm and a spirit of competition engendered by my friends undertaking I ruminated over the subject of my own best seller. Obviously obscure Cricket Seasons were out as were slow suicides in greasy spoon cafes (that's been cornered).

What about an epic built around the Friday doubles; it has everything drama, passion, a cast of unusual characters. However the potential sales figures of four were a little off putting. It could be five as Leverite fills in when Spicer is away in Dubai, Hawaii, Thailand or for the weekend in Rome or Barcelona or when Simcock is on his cycling holiday to Sheffield.
Spicer is a Dentist and Simcock is a Teacher, which is a career note for any youngsters reading.

Another week went by and Friday arrived. After another high energy, exciting and skilful display of tennis, the group before us left court and we trudged on. Three tardy sets later we maintained our incredible fitness levels with several pints of John Smiths Bitter and some reassuringly expensive imported lager for Spicer, the name

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