When he's camping out, the tent goes dark as he turns the lamp off but when his wife turns up the lamp is back on.
On several occasions, Arthur refers to the outfield as the 'pitch', something a cricket groundsman would never do. The pitch refers exclusively to the strip 66' (22yds) by 10' on which the game is played. The remainder of the field is referred to as the infield, outfield, or simply 'the field'. He also mentions the field's perimeter. This is always called the boundary, also a mistake no cricketer would ever make.
Calls a pedestrian cylinder mower a gang mower, gang mowers come in sets, 3,5,7 etc hence the term gang.
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What was the official certification given to Arthur's Hallowed Ground (1984) in the United Kingdom?
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