Author: Paul Johnstone
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2014 Pre-season Party Update
There was a rather disappointing turnout to the pre-season party where events (and apathy) conspired against us, although the food was excellent and plentiful as usual. Thanks to everyone who supplied food, transport and/or organisation, and our hosts at Snitterfield for letting us use their clubhouse. The kids had a great time in the skittle…
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2014 Pre-season Party
Well, doesn’t time fly? We’ve only just recovered from the winter deluge and polished off the last of the Christmas cake and it’s time to start playing cricket again. Personally I think you’d be wise to take the lead of some our elder statesmen who wouldn’t dream of being seen in whites, let alone playing…
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Bragging Rights
It’s not often we get the chance to “blow our own trumpet” as it were, especially given the usual levels of performance on the cricket field, but this weekend’s “Sunday Times top 100 places to live in the UK” has afforded just such an opportunity. Barford has crashed through into the top 100 for the…
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Quiz Night Update
A potentially chaotic evening, thanks to the mysterious disappearance of the Social Secretary and the apparently unrelated double-booking of the Secretary, was thankfully avoided as a roomful of quizzers had their grey cells exercised by urbane Quiz Master Martin Lusby. In the end it was “alright on the night”, as the “Moonies” resumed their winning…
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2014 Touring Teams
An important message from the Tour Secretary: “Thanks to our three valiant captains for agreeing to be ‘king for the day’ (with the exception of Sandy who won’t be aware of this until he opens his email on Monday-but he’s far too polite to refuse!). The Sunday line up invariably changes due to injuries and…
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Quiz Night – Saturday 8th March
After a break of 17 months to allow the social calendar to be optimally rearranged, the Annual Quiz Night returns to Barford village hall on Saturday 8th of March at 7pm. Your genial quiz-master for the evening will be super sub captain and legendary ex-Treasurer Martin Lusby. Please ensure you inscribe the date in your…
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Christmas Drinks – Thursday 19th December
The plaintive cry for Christmas drinks has gone out from the Fixtures Secretary eager to share his views on everyone and everything (he’s probably suffering from sledging withdrawal symptoms after missing the recent Curry Night). This might conceivably incorporate the “Sandy Peirson Memorial Cyclo-Cross Drunken Bike Ride Event”, although other forms of transport are also…
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Barford Dinner Report
A goodly crowd of players and WAGs assembled at Merchant’s in Warwick to celebrate the achievements of the year at the annual end of season dinner. In a notable change from tradition this was held within a few weeks of the actual end of the season, thereby ensuring that the majority of us could still…
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Curry Night Report
An intrepid band of Barford’s finest congregated in Warwick to enjoy an evening of beer and curry. The best that could probably be said about the beer at Wetherspoons was the price and the ale cognoscenti in the group will probably not be returning any time soon. Some hardy souls did try the 99p pint,…
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Curry Night – Friday 8th November
It didn’t take too long for the new social secretary to flex his organisational muscles: “Well the temperature has dropped by umpteen degrees and there is a crisp wind to knock you off your feet. To make matters even more enjoyable (not) the forecasters say it will get worse before it will get any better.…