Golf afternoon postponed

Due to slightly unforseen circumstances this Fridays golf day has been slightly postponed. Watch this space!

Making Waves

Were RCAHMS aware that their advert for their Open Doors day event (which focused on sporting/ leisure buildings; existing and lost) related to a significant ...er incident in the addled mind of a veteran Crosser history of HCACC?

Dumb Brittin

Too obvious

It appears that not everyone in our Grate Cuntry is as clevur as yuo and me.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01529m9/Pointless_Series_5_Episode_18/?t=37m39s

Club Night 23rd September

You may have heard that Gerry's band has run out of Sanatogen and will not be able to play tomorrow. Mercifully, that is true. So we have made a slight change to the evening's entertainment.

As originally billed, King Kerr will be telling some tall tales about the mighty Cross of yore, after which we will be showing the recent cult cricket movie "Fire in Babylon" about the day McGill dived in the field and landed on the box of matches in his pocket (or was that "Fire in Nylon"?).

In spite of this clear upgrading of the entertainment fare, the entry price has been slashed to a mere £2, for which you will still be getting a run at Mandy's excellent finger buffet.

See you there!

Fair play to the 2's and 3's...1sts...er

The table for the 2011 Fair Play awards have been released. Full league tables available here

The 2's and 3's are also near the top of the 'all divs' table here. 

Congrats to the 2nds and 3rds. The 1sts may need to have a think about why we slipped so far from our placings in previous seasons. 

ESCA Awards for Two Crossers

Two Crossers up for ESCA end of season awards: http://tinyurl.com/5wq8crd

Post-season maintenance

[The Grounds Commissar writes]

It's that time of year where we need to do some post-season maintenance on the Arbo square. This involves spreading 80 x 20 kg bags of loam over the square. This year, there is an added complication, because the loam has been delivered to Peffermill and not Arbo. Therefore we need:

1) People with cars (and even better, trailers) to transport the bags up to Arbo.
2) Volunteers to carry the loam to the Arbo square and spread it.

Weather permitting, we're want to do this on Saturday afternoon, with the bags of loam being picked at Peffermill from 12.00 onwards. Depending on reasonable numbers, we should be able to transport the material up to Arbo by 1.00, with the loam spreading finished about 4.00.

This is an important job. The Arbo square has improved greatly in recent years and we want to carry on that improvement. So, if you can spare an hour or two on Saturday, please do this important thing for the club. If, due to bad weather, the operation is cancelled, an all points e mail will be sent out.

Don't leave it to others, get stuck in.
Looking forward to seeing many of you on Saturday,

Smudger
Grounds Commissar.

Another date for your diary...no live band this time

A reminder that there is a ESCA meeting regarding the proposed restructuring of Scottish cricket on Thursday (Sept 15th) at Myreside -starting at 7.30.

The focus of the meeting will be on the The National Reconstruction Report  HERE

Clear Your Diaries - Friday 23rd September, Arbo, 7pm till Bedtime

Crossers, it gives the Management great pleasure to announce a Club Evening of which Jake and Elwood would be proud.


Making a very welcome return to Arbo will be former Club President and underarm leg-break legend Chris "the King" Kerr. Chris has agreed to regale us with tales from the days of rampant substance abuse and embarrassing facial hair. Now who wouldn't be interested in that? According to Chris, if you can remember the Seventies you're old enough to have forgotten them, so he will no doubt be bringing back some memories long since emotionally blotted out by the Club's senior players. As a congenial raconteur of great wit, King will delight Crossers of all ages and IQs.


A tough act to follow, for sure, but headlining our Crossational evening will be none other than the Grandaddy of Groove, the Veteran of Vibes, the Gerryatric Plank-Spanker himself and his ensemble of other folk whose children have stopped paying the maintenance.


Watch out for these kicking covers of venerable British Rock:


"Dazed and Confused"


"Ramble On"


"I'm Alive!?!"


"Who Are You?"


"Magic Bus Pass"


"Back From the Dead" and


"When I was Sixty-Four".


Mandy has kindly agreed to supply a suitably extravagant finger buffet (with all the crusts cut off) and a jumbo bag of Werther's Originals. The bar will of course be open for Horlicks and Lucozade with a two-for-one on Harvey's Bristol Cream.


Entry for over-21s only at a cost of only four pounds ten and six (or a fiver for cash). Come one, come all, because it's coming to all of us one day.

Caption competition

Footage of GT's helmet discovered

http://youtu.be/BhTN8eayySY

but both batsmen seem to be using it? How come?

Top Runs

In response to public demand, here is a list of top 1st XI run makers (league). Do check for possible errors.

Those wondering about the absence of CA Smith...he's currently 10 short of the 1000 mark! (990 at 17.68) -if only he'd turned some of those 2's into 3's....

Photos and Golf day

No it's not EC's score from his last round at Prestonfield, it's the £'s worth of damage done to some poor punters car as a result of a snap hook.

None the less he's keen to sort out a golf day for Friday the 30th of September. Let me know if you are keen and we'll get the ball rolling towards the hole.

On another note, a few photies from the last couple of weeks of the season are available here

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=Bainbro&target=ALBUM&id=5647510398104887249&authkey=Gv1sRgCL7niIiAieiEpAE&feat=email
None of that on field nonsense just good behind the scenes action.