I don’t believe it! The not so serious side of the industry
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Hunting, shooting and WORK!
EXCUSE us a bit of self indulgence but the Pitchcare staff do like to see their faces in print occasionally ... although, after this report, they may change their minds! A recent jaunt to deepest
Shropshire for a ‘strategy’ meeting gave the PC head office staff, and their various outworkers, the opportunity to get
together for a bit of team building. The two
days included clay pigeon shooting, fly fishing
tuition, target
shooting .... oh, and work! As you would expect our
editor, Laurence Gale, rushed around like a child fed exclusively on blue smarties! There were some surprises in the ‘sporting’ stakes with Web Developer Alastair Battrick landing the largest fish, a 5lb Rainbow Trout. Dan (shop) Hughes spent every available spare moment trying to catch something and was so delighted with his one and only ‘tiddler’ that he actually kissed it.
Clay pigeon shooting gave everyone a bruised shoulder along with evidence that even a barn door was safe when John Richards was taking aim! Target shooting was a little more restrained but it would not be
prudent to say whose image was on
Top: Alastair Battrick. Left: Dan Hughes. Below: Dave Saltman fly fishing
‘Girl’ on a motorbike?
IT took Robbie, the Greenkeeper at the Charteris Bay Golf Club in New Zealand, 54 years to pluck up the courage to tell people about his true identity as a woman. For most of his life he had been cross-dressing privately at home, fearful that somebody would discover his secret.
the West Coast as a female last year, he realised there was no going back and, in December, he began life afresh as Rebeka, after sending letters to the golf committee and friends announcing his new identity. There is one traditionally
During a week’s holiday on
male passion Rebeka has not shaken. When she is not sitting astride a ride-on mower cutting the greens, her transport of choice is a gleaming, black Suzuki SV1000S motorbike!
No forking smoking!!!
the target! Needless to say, everyone’s aim was good. The large tin of Quality
Street was the domain of Ellie Tait and Christine Johnson (mainly) whilst some wag (thanks Loz) suggested that Pitchcare Peter looked like the new England coach Fabio Capello - so why the long face after winning the first game? And finally, it was a first works outing for baby Max Saltman who, at just five weeks old, still offered more sound advice than some of the
assembled workforce!
IT appears that Colchester United FC are having trouble persuading their fans not to smoke during matches at their Layer Road ground. The stadium announcer has tried various threats including electrocution, being made to listen to Will Young and being hung from the floodlights - all have apparently failed to discourage the smokers.
No ball games!
Top: Peter (Capello) Britton. Left John (mind that barn) Richards. Right: Nicky and Max
108 Saltman ... ah
THE parish council of Collingbourne Ducis, a small village on Salisbury Plain, have had an attack of the ‘Laurence’s’ but not even our Loz could have come up with this gobbledegook. The following is from a sign put up in the village’s recreation ground outlining its use. Why use three words when fifty eight will do?!
So, during half time in the match against Southampton, he enlisted the help of the groundstaff with the following ‘off the wall’ announcement: “Anyone caught smoking at Layer Road will be buried in the centre circle by the forking groundsman, with only their head showing, and left there during the second half.”
Where the Council set apart any such part of the ground as may be fixed by the Council and may be described in a notice board affixed or set up in some conspicuous position on the ground, for the purpose of any game specified in the notice board which, by reason of the rules or manner of playing, or for the prevention of damage, danger, or discomfort to any person on the ground, may necessitate the exclusive use by the player or players of any space on such part of the ground - a person shall not in any space elsewhere on the ground play or
take part in any game so specified in such a manner as to exclude not playing or taking part in the game from the use of such space.
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