Since the date was announced for the end of season do, a few players have offered "entertainment".
SO WHAT ARE THE POSSIBILITES???:
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BOB FREER says he will do a solo karaoke entitled "10 of Bob Marley's greatest hits". ("with a very convincing accent/make up" says Bob). You'll find out
"Who shot the sheriff" and.... who shot the deputy!
"Shouldn't be missed" says wife Nancy.
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DAVE GRIFFITHS has volunteered a talk about
"Traffic jams I have been caught in",
reflecting his life as a Southern Vectis bus driver. If this proves popular Dave says he could hire a double decker DPX 883W and give the talk whilst being driven around South Wight. Steve Palmer says "Can I pretend to collect fares? I have a conductor's badge"
Apparently, Dave's other offering is entitled "Stuck for an hour at Coppin's Bridge" and is a talk that lasts 3 hours ~ how does he do it? ~ fear not, he won't.
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RALPH ABBOTT would offer a talk entitled
"House re-wirings that I have done in Wroxall 1995-1998"
This replaces his earlier suggestion, a discussion/slide show of
"Electric plugs from around the world", all collected whilst on holiday. The Cuban 5-pointer is an excellent example of "what we are missing in Europe", adds Ralph.
Ralph will be bringing along copies of his first book
The wired and wonderful world of electrics
he says that he is more than happy to autograph copies for team members.
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DAVE WARRICK claims that his computer presentation about the
"History of the lawn mower"
would be welcomed by one and all.
An alternative would be Dave's enthralling talk on
"Bush trimming for beginners" with its "cutting hedge technology".
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COLIN NIGH claims that the audience would be intrigued by his talk on
"Odd customers I have met from the north of England",
with some humorous anecdotes. I have seen Colin's collection of 20th century plastic money bags, if they weren't so rare and valuable Colin would have brought them along. Private viewings in the back room of his shop can be arranged, says Colin
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JOHN DEAR suggests that a few excerpts from his book
"4 decades in teaching ~ the Dear Mr. Dear letters"
would be welcomed by team mates. John has kept hundreds of letters from parents and re-printed them in a concise book along with copies of replies made by him.
Examples:
Dear Mr. Dear, Our Jehovah was absent and away (double unattendre ed.) from school because he's been poorly and vommitting (sic). Do you know if he had carrots with his school lunch Monday?
Yours, Ms Waite
John received a letter of complaint suggesting that two of his PE teachers had verbally bullied a child, and would he investigate.
Dear Mrs. Lane, I have interviewed Wayne's PE teachers and it would appear to be a misunderstanding on his part. It was a cross country run and showers were forecast, Wayne, well, is not ideally built for running or, indeed any sort of physical exercise and when he overheard the two teachers talking about "heavy wayne" he obviously misinterpreted that statement.
Yours sincerely, John Dear.
Another example of parents' gratitude.
Dear Mr Dear, I am sure you remember my twin boys, Eric and Derek (Merrick) who left your school 7 years ago. Your final comments were "and I am sure they will go a long way" proved to be spookily prophetic. They are both in Zanzibar doing VSO work. Yours sincerely, their mum Derica Merrick
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GLENN MORLEY has a larged collection of bats and believes that his talk about the development of the cricket bat since 1880 will be of interest to all us cricketers. Glenn ~ a bat's a bat to most of us. I'd rather you told us how they make balls round.
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GEOFF READ contacted me asking if I thought whether teammates would be interested in his presentation "Things I have got jammed in letter boxes",
the short answer is "No, I don't think so", the long answer is "You're having a laugh, no I don't think so."
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JOHN GRACE shouldn't have given me lifts home as he will surely regret telling me a few secrets! Now retired for a number of years John informed me how he helps wife Cynthia a lot more with housework. He has managed to combine his life long interest in origami and ironing tea towels. It may sound bizarre and a bit out of Blue Peter, but John, working with tea towels, a hot iron, sticky back plastic, double sided tape and endless imagination has some amazing artistic presentations dotted about his house, I hope John gets the vote to show us how it's done on club night.
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Perhaps some players take their cricket a bit too seriously, sometimes the family takes second place. It must be love if your wife really wants to hear about your 1-37 off 4 overs and your 7 singles before being run out (again).
Bunny won a tidy sum in the lottery and decided to impress his team-mates by having "my man to drop me off at the wicket".
Skip Andy Morris can look at the squad and only admire the combined experience of hundreds of years that the players possess. The soon to be produced 
The word "retirement" doesn't come into the mind of most Evergreen players, we are sure that John Grace (see action picture)^^^ will be around for ever.
Most Evergreen players are "retired", in other words, not in paid employment. Roger Merry still works and seems to spend a great deal of time in court, he can be found fielding in the deep waiting for the ball or even for a 'phone call.
Colin Nigh (my middle name is perfection) says he learnt all his cricket skills from his enthusiastic headmaster (Mr Whackwell) at Burchmore Secondary Modern.
It is an age old tradition that any player scoring 50 or more should buy a jug of beer so that team mates can celebrate his success. Sadly, a few players have found ways around this. Just recently, two unnamed openers put on a wonderful 110 for the first wicket (which itself had Charlie Brown scouring the record books). One decided to run himself out on 46, and his partner (in cricketing terms) stayed on 47 and went as far as blocking the last few deliveries of our 20 overs. 
It may not appear obvious, but during the close season, most Evergreen players make sure that they practice regularly. Jeff Geoff Read Reid would always offer to take his grand daughter out in the pram for "target practice". Well done! The practice has certainly paid off this season.
Most of the Evergreens' squad have seen better days in the field (mainly in years starting with 196-). However, all players are adept at utilising their vast array of skills to stop/slow down/ (and even) catch the ball. Here we see ex-footballer, Ralph Abbott, using skills honed at Wroxall to help catch a member of the opposition.
