Thanks for your concern, AP. I’m worried about myself too.

Perhaps I need to shoot the puppy and then eat my own dog food.

First “with all due respect”, then understanding this. I’m worried about you, Ged.

Maybe I need to reach out and arrange a ‘no regrets’ deep dive so that we can get the view from 10,000 feet on this, and head off any risk events when we get further along the journey. Then we can share our learnings by sending out a comms to the rest of the guys on the RACI matrix… yeah?

Suspect they mean “back stop”, as in the person who makes sure that, if no-one else has dealt with issues/problems, the work doesn’t, metaphorically, hurtle to the boundary for four byes.

In other news, the cricketer spotted in Cricket Badger this week contains an old, silly punchline that nevertheless made me laugh out loud given the context in which it was used this time. Chapeau to that contributor and to KC/CB for publishing it.

Maybe they keep wickets, a la AB(c)DV?

We don’t even know what that would mean.

…mind you, so did (does) Adil Rashid.

I note that the Aussies didn’t use a nightwatchman today either.