Turf Side Up TURF SIDE UP! The not so serious side of the industry Socks for Christmas?
A FOOTBALL match had to be abandoned after botched line markings left the referee seeing double.
Council groundsmen ended up painting double lines on the pitch in Edinburgh after some of the markings failed to join up.
Fearing conflict on the pitch, referee Paul Robertson cancelled the game between Edinburgh side Tynecastle and Midlothian side Whitehill Welfare and reported the blunder to the East of Scotland league.
Whilst the error was It tastes like cut grass!
NO surprise, really, as this chocolate has a grass filling!
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disappointing for all concerned, especially as the February weather had already caused a couple of postponements, perhaps even more disappointing was the fact that the reporter was wearing Christmas socks for the photo opportunity!!
Floody nuisance!
IT’S a funny old world; parts of the UK receiving hosepipe bans for April, and Forbes Golf Club in New South Wales, Australia, submerged in floodwater and closed for at least three weeks.
Lush island greens were surrounded by shimmering water hazards and, as the waters eventually subsided, staff were left with a big clean up as silt and debris was strewn across the course, and several gravel walkways had been washed away.
Greenkeeper Charlie Haynes and Forbes Golfers Association (FGA)
It’s creator, Dominic Persoone, a Belgian who calls himself the ‘Shock-o-latier’, is a master of the unusual and, during their recent jaunt across the ‘lowlands’ for their BBC2 Bakeation series, the Hairy Bikers met up with the man who, as well as grass, has produced flavours ranging from bacon, fried onion and tobacco leaf, to a tequila and salt concoction he calls a shocktail! He even produced a contraption for the Rolling Stones that allowed them and their party goers to sniff chocolate - old age eh!
Hairy Biker, Si King, described the taste as being “like the smell of cut grass”.
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Just in case you are
considering having a go, the grass clippings need to be turned into a puree first - after you have removed the dog poo and bits of cleat, obviously!
Can we have our ball back?
ENGLAND Women’s cricket players had been preparing for their Twenty20 series against New
committeeman Jeff Haley assessed the damage and reckoned it would take at least a further week to get the course playable again.
Come fly with me ...
IMAGINE the scenario. You’ve been invited to ‘perform’ at the Dennis/Sisis seminar on the Isle of Man. You’ve spent hours preparing a Powerpoint presentation. You’ve even gone to bed early so that you can be up at the crack of dawn to drive to Liverpool’s John Lennon airport.
As you queue at security, you are asked for your passport, and duly hand it over. 152 PC APRIL/MAY 2012
It is then that you are told that the photograph bears no resemblance to you - hardly surprising, as you have presented your wife’s passport. Yours is at home on the kitchen table.
Fortunately, after much extracting of the urine by the other queueing delegates, and some general grovelling, our Laurence was allowed on the plane as his driving licence looked a bit like him!
Zealand at Lincoln, just south of Christchurch. The ground has “a quintessential English feel to it, with its white picket fence and carpet outfield,” according to opening bowler Isa Guha.
During training on the outfield, a stray ball rolled on to the wicket the girls were due to play their first game on. It was timed to perfection as the groundsman happened to be rolling the
The groundstaff help England get their ball back
pitch at that precise moment and, as a result, the ball was firmly ‘pressed’ into the pitch - on a perfect length!
Fortunately, the groundstaff were experienced in repairing such damage, as they had previously rolled a pair of sunglasses into the surface!
Boycs on Yorkshire CCC
“I have been a player, captain, committee man, board member and now president. I have done every job apart from gateman and groundsman.
I don’t mind being a gateman. I can count money. But I’m not going to be groundsman. You get your hands too dirty for my liking.”
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