“No
Physicists Here”
|
Oxford. June 24, 2003. Oxford. May 19, 2015. Oxford. Aug 12, 2020. The dates may have changed,
but we’ve all been here before. Many times before. It’s that match you
remember despite a ball never having been bowled. It’s
the one of wasted petrol and dashed aspirations, one where decision making
can cause rifts in the ranks. It’s the one where the
weather doesn’t play ball and communication can sometimes go uncommunicated. It’s the one where passers by look out through rain
splattered windscreens at the sad and ridiculous sight of grown men in
discoloured whites, dodging in and out a pavilion as water pours from the
roof.
Fatherly advice concerning drinking. It’s
the one where everybody knows the outcome but refuses to admit defeat, where
multiple weather apps are ignored as they tell you you
are screwed. “We’ve put aside the time and driven here, so we’ll hang it out
to the bitter end.” It’s the one where the grim inevitability of the fucking
obvious is ignored by all. * Harwell Campus is world renowned for it’s
science and technology, but on this damp and thundery summer’s evening there
certainly wasn’t “any physicists in sight.“
‘The Intelligence
Inspector’
* - Joke recognition by M. S. Rundle |
