Vikram Spotted In Aberdeen???

Aberdeen Council appear to have set up some idiot traps!!!

Is anyone willing to admit to this???

I suspect it might have been Vik visiting ex-Crosser Nipun???


The truth must out!!!


BBC Article

YouTube

Autumn Renovation

Successfully carried out by Smudger and his team yesterday.

Smudger leads the way

HX in child labour scandal...

Many thanks to all those who participated: especially Smudger and Shifty for completing the difficult task of scarifying the square the week before-and to the new recruits to the loaming team: an injury free (!) Vikram...and Felicity & Alex.

The Crumbling Face of Italian Cricket?!?!?

Anyone requiring cheering up for the weekend need look no further!!!

After the grim snapshots of the erse end of our decrepit and crumbling institution please enjoy this much more uplifting photo of the erse end of another decrepit and crumbling institution clapping his peepers on the Danish PM.

If this doesn't make you laugh, nothing will.

PS: Her name is Helle Thorning-Schmidt.

It's That Time Of Year Again..

Another snapshot from Portobello

...when I return to a familiar theme and repeat the same old same old.

I've blustered fruitlessly in the past about a dislike of playing our noble game in sub-zero temperatures during April whilst reaching for the BBQ sauce after the last game of the season and soaking up some rays.

Some well meaning souls mutter mitigatingly about seed germination prior to dropping temperatures or of having to share pitches with other sports teams.

But I shall not listen to reason for no man!!! I have a bee in my bunnet and in my bunnet the bee shall stay!!! I feel so strongly about this issue I've never once attended a meeting with it in mind, let alone raised it at a meeting I've not attended.

I don't think we'd have actually managed a game this September as there was a lot of rain about at times that would have put Saturday matches in doubt (good for the fishing though, I've been howking them out good style).

However, we've just enjoyed/endured our hottest September since the thermometer was invented inspiring headlines such as;

'Its Too Hot'
'Why Is It So Hot'
'When Will It Stop Being So Hot'
&
'Coldest October 1st Since Records Began'

Britain-bakes-hottest-October-day-100-YEARS

I have to apologise that this post has been delayed, but it took me a while to decide on a photo from the range available. I'll start reviewing photo candidates for next years rehashed article this afternoon.

Those past 'articles'.
2010
2009

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?

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.

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.

Just Not Cricket

What, no cricket, oh well, are we allowed politics on here? No, oh, never mind, here are some thoughts on the UK Riots (sic) anyway.

A good place to start, Peter Oborne in the Telegraph;

Telegraph Article

Looters and Rioters?

Next up, some Bullingdon photos; I say

“…But within hours of the photo (right) being taken, the 10 young men were wreaking havoc on Oxford, where they were all at university.

One of them, said to be Ewen Fergusson (4), threw a plant pot through a restaurant window and the police were called…”

David Cameron

About the destruction of peoples businesses during the riots;

“criminality pure and simple”

About the trashing of a restaurant by the super rich student members of the Bullingdon Club;

“Like many young people, I did things when I was young that I should not have done and that I regret”.

About Andy Coulson

“I decided to give him a second chance”

About looters and rioters

“Law-breaking has to be punished. One of the heartening things we are seeing now is because the courts have been sitting round the clock we are seeing a much tighter timetable between getting your collar felt by a police officer, going to a police cell, appearing in front of a court and being sent to prison”

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

About the destruction of peoples businesses during the riots;

“This behaviour was criminal behaviour”

About his days in the Bullingdon Club;

“The blissful sponge of amnesia has wiped clean the slate of memory,”

It's not just the tories, top Labour brain, Hazel Blears stands during the school holidays and asks;

“Why are these kids not in school?”

I can’t do her herioic expenses claims justice. Here is a link.

Fill your boots hen

Yup, she's still an MP. Just the sort of person we need to clamp down on people who think they can just take mod cons for free.

Coming soon, the Broonster/Frazerio dream ticket.

THE TRUTH: Noz and Zig's Arbo Adventure

In next Sunday's News of the World...

the story that has shamed Holy Cross Academicals CC.

the true story of Noz and Zig's Arbo Adventure....aka the longest 'pitch inspection' in history...
the drink, the women, the blackouts...the unusual sleeping arrangements....

Annual Holy Cross BBQ - Early Warning!!

In a blatant and gratuitous attempt to grab your attention I'm taking the bold effort of announcing the date for the annual club BBQ early as opposed to the traditional 3 days beforehand.

It seems the fixture list has declared 30th of July to be the auspicious date when all teams play in closest proximity to each other.

As always it is an open event and with this much notice there no excuses for not bringing your partner, kids or friends along. *

* The club accepts no responsibility for the fallout of your partner discovering how and with who you spend so much of your precious summers weekends.

Arbo square successfully put to bed.

Crossers will be pleased to learn that the elite squad of the Facilities Commissar, Pres and cje have successfully completed the task of overseeding and top-dressing the square. Luckily it stayed dry for the duration ... and then rained heavily overnight, which should help the seed germinate.....and now we've got lovely sunshine-perfect
Well, we've thought for some time that there were a few moles in the club....is ffs under one of these??

The team leaders consider getting down to work ....

... but instead decide to employ child labour..!