Marathon man

Dave Warrick is keen to be selected again next year so he has decided that regular running will keep him fit during the winter months.

One ambition is to complete a marathon, now the exact marathon is 26 miles 385 yards, so Dave has a circular route measured out at Westhill exactly 385 yards long. He runs one lap daily, asked why, he replied that when marathon running, surely those last few yards would be the most difficult.

Blobby's in love

Mr Blobby visited Brading recently and fell in love with Steve's granddaughter Lucy.

The close season.

I imagine all the retired EVERGREENS players are filling their time with their various hobbies. John Grace tells me he is writing an informative book entitled

"The onset of dimentia",

Cynthia says he's started it 7 times on his lap top but cannot find it when he wants to continue ~ oh dear.

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I am reading a great book entitled

"Jersey, a close-knit community",

soon to be followed by

"Cliff walking on the Isle of Wight" by Eileen Dover.

An old EVERGREEN XI

Before one home match last season, skip listed on the board an old Evergreen XI.

It started something like this:

1. Pete Lambourne
2 Matt Ditto
3 Roger Unsworth
4 Tom Ditto
etc.

One player asked if Matt and Tom Ditto were brothers!!! DOH!

MATT LAMBOURNE (Where are they now?).

Matt left school and is now "up the college".

I am hoping I mis-heard him, but he said to my wife

"I go on a maths course Thursday afternoons 1 2 3".

Doesn't sound very difficult Matt.

New players

A couple of new players came to Evergreens last season, playing just a few games and frankly they both worried me.

We had MARK ROBINSON NOWITS ROBERTSON who promptly stole Colin Nigh's long standing bowling record, Mark trooped off the pitch with a 0-69 from 4 overs, never caring how poor Colin felt about this sad business. Colin assures me that he will be doing his utmost to get back that record.

And then there was DAVID BROOKS, well if he's a married man then his wife should worry, all David kept on about in the changing room was "he fancied having Annette Saturday morning" and did any of us want to join him. "The more the merrier" were his exact words. I declined, saying that I had to go to Tesco, I thought he guessed I was lying. (I go Friday afternoons)

Skip ~ what sort of players are we looking for?

Spot betting at the EVERGREENS

The scandal of so called SPOT BETTING has reached the EVERGREENS, players may recall the last game of the season. or more precisely, the last over bowled by Colin Nigh (names will be named and indeed are).

The over went for 19 (NINETEEN), an un-named source informs me that Colin was seen exiting (not to be confused with exciting) a Shanklin bookmaker's the day after the game wearing a big smile and carrying a large money bag.

Colin ~ your teammates would like an explanation.

Rumours have started regarding other players:

Ex postman Geoff Read ought to explain some of his second class deliveries that have gone for bounderies.

How come Steve Palmer missed 6 stumpings in one over?

Inexplicable "Morris dancing" antics on the boundary by skip during the Pompey Supporters' Club game (Will they have 11 supporters next year?), come on Andy, what was that all about?

Merry Roger's running out of teammates ~ accident or planned?