Comments on: Anyone for Cricket in Croatia? https://www.themarionfsblog.com/anyone-for-cricket-in-croatia/ Sharing a personal adventure together Sun, 16 Aug 2020 09:53:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Marion Fuller-Sessions https://www.themarionfsblog.com/anyone-for-cricket-in-croatia/#comment-686 Sun, 16 Aug 2020 09:53:58 +0000 https://www.themarionfsblog.com/?p=15575#comment-686 In reply to Teresa Motley (nee Hetherington).

Cousin Teresa, I was so pleased and interested to hear from you, which you would not have guessed from my delay in replying! We have been having a difficult time with my husband John in hospital with an infected disc in the spine, not diagnosed for a worrying length of time. However, he is home now, with three months of IV antibiotics to look forward to! He is still quite frail and ill, so my time is not completely my own at present as you can imagine. And a hoped for return trip to Vis not possible – for various reasons – at the moment!

I was so interested to read about your connection with the Hostes. My mother was Rachel Hall nee Gartside-Tipping. Her mother was Jane Margaret Hoste, daughter of Major-General Dixon Edward Hpste and Mary Scott. I think we share great great grandparents – The Rev Dixon Hoste and Magaret Stanforth; Willim Hoste will have been our mutual Great Great Uncle. I hope I am not talking nonsense, different generations sometimes with rather similar names find me easily confused… And of course I am assuming we are the same generation which is probably ridiculous.

If you’d be interested please do get in touch privately via the email below. I would love to hear more about you and your family, and I know my brother (John Douglas Hoste Hall) would too. And perhaps you know more about Lady Harriet? I have found very little information about her. And have you heard about William Hoste’s daughter Priscilla

]]> By: Teresa Motley (nee Hetherington) https://www.themarionfsblog.com/anyone-for-cricket-in-croatia/#comment-684 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 19:36:25 +0000 https://www.themarionfsblog.com/?p=15575#comment-684 Dorothy Burrows contacted my mother after my father Derick Henry Fellowes Hetherington died as she was a cousin of his and had some street artist sketches that were found in a locked trunk belonging to Lady Harriet Walpole and she thought my mother might like to have them.
On a subsequent occasion m y elder sister was holidaying in Vis with her family and had been given a book on the Hoste family history. Their land lady seeing it in their rooms organised a surprise candlelit welcome when they returned that night for the descendants of Hoste who had defended them against Napoleon.

The invitation to play cricket in Croatia was passed on of course but tall ships and sailing not cricket occupied my sons and nephew at that time, decade or so ago now and they are all busy with their young and lock down at the present time.
Thank you Marion I have enjoyed the dipping into the past quite by accident as I attempted to talk cricket with a friend the other day and thought to google the Hoste cricket match to see if it was still on going after all this time!

]]> By: Marion Fuller-Sessions https://www.themarionfsblog.com/anyone-for-cricket-in-croatia/#comment-521 Sun, 20 Oct 2019 19:16:13 +0000 https://www.themarionfsblog.com/?p=15575#comment-521 In reply to Majid.

Masjid, I recommend you contact https://www.frozentomatoevents.com/about. They will be able to advise you. I hope you go and hope you have fun!

]]> By: Majid https://www.themarionfsblog.com/anyone-for-cricket-in-croatia/#comment-515 Wed, 16 Oct 2019 08:52:16 +0000 https://www.themarionfsblog.com/?p=15575#comment-515 Hi
We are cricket club based in UAE can some one guide if we want to travel and have a cricket tour.
Thanks
Majid
Majid.bashir@hotmail.com

]]> By: Marion Fuller-Sessions https://www.themarionfsblog.com/anyone-for-cricket-in-croatia/#comment-421 Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:39:05 +0000 https://www.themarionfsblog.com/?p=15575#comment-421 In reply to Andrew Frazer.

Andrew! We were so delighted to hear from you, and even more delighted to discover you had played cricket on the Hoste cricket ground/vineyard on Vis.
Sorry about the delay responding. It arrived just as I was transferring the blog site to another host and everything came to a bit of a standstill for a while.
We would love to hear more news from you. Do you ever go to the OB reunions?

]]> By: Andrew Frazer https://www.themarionfsblog.com/anyone-for-cricket-in-croatia/#comment-420 Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:22:36 +0000 https://www.themarionfsblog.com/?p=15575#comment-420 Marion, I stumbled across your blog, searching Bramcote teachers I used to know. I was a pupil 78-84.
I was lucky enough to play a game of cricket on that Vis ground, back in 2014. I was on a sailing trip with a group of ‘Dads’ from St Peters school York, where my daughters attend. We just met the guy who runs it at the port and the next day we had a match on. We lost a few balls in the vineyard but it was a fantastic day. I do hope you and John are well.

]]> By: Marion Fuller-Sessions https://www.themarionfsblog.com/anyone-for-cricket-in-croatia/#comment-417 Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:42:29 +0000 https://www.themarionfsblog.com/?p=15575#comment-417 In reply to Sally Cathie.

Sally, how lovely to hear from you! I do recommend Croatia, and Vis in particular. It was the most lovely holiday, and an interesting one, but a bit too far from S. Africa to be practical for you to consider.

]]> By: Sally Cathie https://www.themarionfsblog.com/anyone-for-cricket-in-croatia/#comment-416 Sun, 28 Oct 2018 11:45:07 +0000 https://www.themarionfsblog.com/?p=15575#comment-416 Lovely to read your blog again Marion – always so interesting. It soulds like a quaint part of the world to enjoy, as you did, at your leisure. Lovely piture John, considering the unstable boat surface. I look forward to more of your interesting posts Marion. Stay well both of you. Sally

]]> By: Marion Fuller-Sessions https://www.themarionfsblog.com/anyone-for-cricket-in-croatia/#comment-415 Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:52:19 +0000 https://www.themarionfsblog.com/?p=15575#comment-415 In reply to Ruth F-S.

Do darling! We want to go back too.

]]> By: Ruth F-S https://www.themarionfsblog.com/anyone-for-cricket-in-croatia/#comment-414 Fri, 26 Oct 2018 04:15:38 +0000 https://www.themarionfsblog.com/?p=15575#comment-414 How fascinating Mum. I want to go!

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