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I used to read old pre war books on cricket tours undertaken all those years ago, together with any other ancient cricket books, including Wisdens, I could find in dusty old secondhand bookshops. I have got a copy of ‘My Cricketing Life’ by Don Bradman, complete with his autograph.

Yes, the smell of garden supply shops and the like. I can still remember the smell of Isteds, a bare flooboarded, rather gloomily lit shop in London Road Bognor that sold seeds from large open sacks, plant bulbs, and all kinds of other gardening and hardware paraphernalia, that I can’t recall...