"Too beautiful for words, a virtual Adonis"

There I was, idly perusing the Wiki page of a certain legendary Scotsman, when I became a tad disorientated.

An Edinburgh heart throb

Many of the entries seemed to 'cross' over quite neatly into what I shall tentatively dub 'the greatest Wikipedia page yet to be written', the life, leg before's and legovers of a certain Arboretum legend.

Passages (including the title of this post) such as:

"polled as "The Greatest Living Scot" and "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". In 1989, he was proclaimed "Sexiest Man Alive" by Peoplemagazine and in 1999, at age 69, he was voted "Sexiest Man of the Century""

Not a CRB check in sight 

"then worked as, among other things, a lorry driver, a lifeguard at Portobello swimming baths, a labourer, an artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, after a suggestion by former Mr. Scotland, Archie Brennan.^[20][21] and a coffin polisher."

Another Edinburgh heart throb

Will Hollywood ever realise what it missed?????

Hollywood Legend Pictured In Edinburgh

Family Day Out

It could have been any father out for the day with his boys to watch some cricket at Portgower Place on Sunday. But this wasn't just any family outing. Original James Bond star, McGill Collins, took his boys to the set of 90's blockbuster 'The Masterton Files' and regaled the youngsters with the tale of how he bowled Don Bradman twice with one ball in the semi final.

Young Chuckie McGill (back row, left) was overheard openly questioning his fathers version of events having recently studied the account of a witness to the filming who wrote everything down in a scorebook.

Without pausing for breath, the ageing megastar explained to the first twins he had out of wedlock, EC & CA Hurley (back row centre & middle row centre) how, despite winning multiple Oscars every time he makes a movie, studio bosses keep freezing him out of summer blockbusters and forcing him to turn out in low budget B-movies.

Despite this marginalisation, ‘Cocko’ Collins still manages to direct some independent movies of an evening. He recently cast Bollywood sensation Vikramabawz Groweary in ‘75’, a short film about a street urchin who buys a magical shirt on the internet and turns into a run machine.

Cocko’s other twins, Shane (beard) & Prat Blanchett (back row right) announced they hope to shoot a movie at Portgower Place one day, though due to legal wrangles, all sets have been moved to nearby studios 20^th Century Fettes until further notice.

Geordie McGill (middle row left) appeared to be yet again engaged in his addiction to voicemail interception.

Cocko is probably best known for his role as ‘Mitch McGill’ a Portobello lifeguard in the Scorcese epic Deep Slippy Gully.

Clash of the Titans

Lets hope the weather holds this weekend so Arbo doesn't witness another scene such as this where a fragile old man was forced to arm wrestle a far stronger virile opponent for the amusement of a braying crowd. Disgraceful.

Belter Skelter - Former Crosser Malik helps Tranent secure win

After a series of downpours in the Capital, tonight's T20 clash with Tranent was in doubt not only right until the opening delivery, but almost throughout the whole clash, which was reduced to a 16 overs fixture.

The tourists contained several well-kent faces, indeed, it almost resembled a Holy Cross Select with the Brothers Russell, Josey, McIntosh, Broonster (albeit pending Dougie's arrival) and former Crosser Suli Malik all taking part.



Cross batted first, hoping to get some runs on the board before the rain appeared. After a positive opening partnership from Vikram and Shifty got sidetracked by the rain, Vikram retired (38) to allow Kiwi Matt the chance to get his first taste of Arbo.

With all the panache and footwork of Bambi on Ice, the man from Napier (no, not the Uni!) was slipping and a sliding to his early downfall, skittled by Craigmile for a single.



Michael from the Rugby Club was in at 4 and hung around until another shower - this time forcing the players to the huts.



By this time, Shifty was suggesting CoCo had lost his marbles and he sent Sandy out to keep Michael company. Sadly, this partnership didn't last long at the somewhat soggy and squidgy crease and both headed back to the portacabins within minutes, Michael run out for a duck and Sandy tempted by a fine delivery from Dougie which he sliced it to Craigmile, adding 4 to the total.



Big Andy Killey and Nippun contributed the equivalent of the quantity of slices of bread to make a sandwich - two a piece - and the incumbent Rent Boy Graham was skittled for a duck - highly appropriate given the conditions!



Weatherhead and Malik opened for the Belters. The former had trouble keeping his feet in the quagmire and was eventually undone by a somewhat perverse piece of bowling from Pope - in Town for the Festival - which saw the ball splodge in the mud, hit the bat, squidge and slip onto the base of the stumps and tip the bails. All part of the technique apparently...



Sadly, that was to be the only Cross success, with Malik going on to make 34 before giving way to Craigmile who joined Josey to set up a victory with an over to spare.



Credit to all the players who stuck at it, and to Bimbo for turning up. And a big thanks to Charlie for his understanding when he sees the pics of the wicket....

All the pics now online at Broonster's Facebook