CRICKET


Held over several days, the Fair features


headliners The Darkness and Foreigner this year. Jethro Tull, Mott The Hoople, ZZ Top and


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All the way from Memphis - Mott The Hoople on stage at last year’s Ramblin’ Man Fair


Held over several days, the Fair features headliners The Darkness and Foreigner this year. Jethro Tull, Mott The Hoople, ZZ Top and Scorpion have all played the gig in past years.


It’s a Family Affair


Still officially self-employed, Howard admits it’s “a tough balance” to manage his other business commitments as The Mote alone is “a full-time job” with three squares to look after. Enter the family as willing assistants. “My partner Elina started working with me


last year, marking out wickets by hand painting them, putting out boundary ropes, rolling and mowing. This season, she has got her first wickets out from start to finish and recently produced a fine wicket for the first XI. Five-year old William rakes and clears up while his mum’s on the tractor.” “Living onsite is the key to me being


flexible. I can use the sprinklers later at night at the coolest time of the day, for example, to most benefit the grass, then come out of the house to turn them off - and I can begin rolling as early as I Iike.”


Scorpion have all played the gig in past years


Even with that key advantage, Howard turns to other volunteers when needed to keep everything functioning. “Angus Fordham saved my bacon last year by keeping the cricket squares irrigated in the hot spell day after day.”


In fact, volunteers are a vital element of the maintenance mix. “We have plenty of strimming to do and spend a day a week tackling the surrounds, with help from Bob Purfitt, a retired policeman and rugby club member”.


In his seventies, fellow volunteer Bob www.gostd.com


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