K sera sera

Hassocks 0 K Sports 2

First up, I now run a little Youtube channel and you can have a walk around this ground and watch a few clips from the game here    https://youtu.be/z6rCUGABAo4

Following the railway timetable fiasco, our half hourly service into London is now only every hour. Despite the fact that you now get 8 carriages instead of 4, I still did not manage to get a seat. On arriving at Kings Cross, there was clearly some kind of event going on as there were people everywhere and lots of security types with high viz jackets. It seemed to be something to do with Harry Potter but I'm not sure what. Platform 9 3/4 is an amazing money spinner, it doesn't matter when you go, there are always crowds at least 25 deep waiting to have their photo taken.

I had a 45 minute wait at St Pancras, most of which i spent people watching down on the platform. People are strange at times, let's just leave it at that.
I had a young Asian girl next to me who spent the majority of the journey to Hassocks on her phone, talking to a friend about a property she was going to view. After about 45 minutes, she announced that she thought she was going to take it. The tension leading up to this had been almost unbearable from a one side of the conversation perspective, yet how she could suddenly make this decision without laying eyes on the premises, baffled me somewhat.

I took a slight wrong turning out of the station and ended up in the high street. Not overly long with a handful of shops including a Sainsbury's. I actually bought a wrap from Marks & Spencer and had that as my lunch on the train, definitely a sign of being middle aged.

The ground is only a 10-15 minute walk. AS so often this summer, it was a beautiful day and the perfect surroundings to be at. The ground has a bank at one end giving you a nice raised view, there are a few wooden benches littered around the ground, there was a smallish clubhouse with a tea hut, a stand with about a 100 seats. Lovely views across the Downs (Why are they not called Ups?) where you can see two windmills that sit hand in hand next to each other, charmingly known as locally as Jack and Jill.

The game itself was a fairly even affair, although Hassocks had not cutting edge. K Sports won it with a low drive on 41 minutes and a lob on 87 minutes.

The perfect location for a warm, summer day.