Cyril looks for his nuts

It's official-this has been a mild winter.
Apparently squirrels partially hibernate, and will come out during mild spells, even during mid winter.
Well I can confirm this, cos Cyril the Squirrel has been spotted and it's only mid January.
This time he was spotted looking for his nuts near the bowling green.
There was no nuts in his bowl...nightmare!
Have no fear, a kind lady member of staff was dispatched to Sainsbury's and his nut bowl was refilled.
There's nothing worse than waking up and finding your nuts have gone.

Tell us what you like or don't like

A guy comes into the club the other day to renew his 2008 membership. He duly pays his £12 (yes it's gone up £2-first rise for about 5 years!) and then says
'Thanks, can you tell me where the toilets are?'
.....and this is the problem we have.
Approximately 1400 members, where the hell are they all year?
WE NEED YOU PEOPLE TO COME AND PUT BUMS ON SEATS ON A REGULAR BASIS!
We can't survive financially if the members don't come and use the facilities, spend money over the bar etc etc.
So why don't you come?
We need to know what you LIKE or more to the point, what you DISLIKE about the club.
Once we find out what you hate-we can put it right (or try to).
If any of these 'ghost' members are reading this, please tell us why you don't come to the club very often.
Just click on the heading of this article, then scroll down to click 'Post a comment'
That would be much appreciated-ta

Carol foils crafty Magpie

Cyril the squirrel has been busy (I know Cyril is male 'cos I've seen him burying his nuts).
This is the time of year when any self respecting squirrel starts to bury nuts for the winter.
It's also the time of year when the bowling green is prepared for the winter months.
It has to be spiked with holes, about 1 inch deep, then dressed with some sort of sand based stuff.
Anyway, Cyril is an enteprising chap, why spend time and effort digging a hole to bury your nuts, when the bowling green has several hundred fresh holes for you to drop your nuts in.
That's what Cyril did! Not soft our Cyril.
However, there was beady eyes watching him from aloft, and there was beady eyes watching the beady eyes.
After the nuts were buried down popped at Magpie and started stealing Cyrils nuts.
Luckily, Carol (one of the WVC staff) had seen this and promptly salvaged Cyril's remaining nuts from the holes, and put them in Cyril's nut bowl.
Yeeess....Cyril 1 Magpie 0......and well done Carol!
David Attenborough.....eat your heart out.

Croats cost

Good crowd in the club last week for the England Croatia European Championship Qualifier.
Fantastic atmosphere as England got back from 2-0 down to draw level, everyone was really getting behind England and then........ouch 2-3, and we are out.
Everyone on a downer, except maybe the Jocks.
As that third Croat goal hit the back of the net, I thought (and this is sad)' My God that goal has just cost this club thousands of pounds in lost takings' (told you it was sad).
Not just our club, but hundreds of thousands of pubs and clubs in England.
No beer fuelled Summer afternoons or evenings watching England trying in vain to progress in a major tournament.
No flags of St George everywhere.
No John Motson wetting himself as England cross the halfway line.
No swearing at an inept England manager and pampered stars.
No getting to the club early to get a good seat to watch the match.
No goading kopites as Crouch misses another sitter.
No increase in bar takings.
Oh God, I'm depressing myself now-what the hell are we going to do???

Adding comments

Someone asked me how to add a comment to this blog.
Just click on the heading of the article you want to comment on-in this case click on the 'Adding comments' at the top of this article.
Then you will see in light blue 'Post a comment' below the article.Click post a comment and you're in!
You can do that on any article.

Woolton .net

Its about time Woolton had it's own proper web site.
Local news, Forum where you can have a rant (eg about the chronic lack of parking space in the village, or why are there so many 86's and 79's but try and get a 78 from town after 5.30pm-no chance. I could go on)
There is even a page reserved for the Village club where someone can publicise upcoming events.One of my pet moans in the WVS is poor marketing of events.
Like the Halloween disco, which the Secretary (Sharon) had put a lot of work in on, but we hadn't advertised it enough.
Actually the disco was brilliant-quality music from 60's and 70's.
The smoking ban has hit us and every club in the UK, as has Tesco's and co selling off cans of lager at less than 50p.How can pubs and clubs compete with those prices?
We have to put on more events to attract our members.