Abbey Cricket Tour RIP

Sad news has been received that Tour 2011 has been cancelled due to insufficient numbers. Perhaps not a great surprise as many of us get older and drift a little further from peak physical fitness but sad nevertheless.

No further updates to this Tour Blog are planned but the Tour Facebook site remains live & kicking so all is not totally closed off and hopes for future reunion events remain. Until then, from the Editor, it's been great fun, I wish you all the best for the future and I'll hope to bump into most of you at some time in the not too far distant future.

All the very best - Seamo

February Caption Competition - We Have A Winner!

Following the now traditional online poll, the winner of the February Caption competition is 'PKD'.

"Did you mean to bowl Noursey from that end, Dad?"

February Caption Competition - Online Poll

Thanks to those who entered the February Caption Competition and you are now invited to choose your favourite caption and vote for the winner in the latest Online Poll.

This month's entries are as follows :-

A. Pete felt that his captaincy was being looked down upon

B. "Did you mean to bowl Noursey from that end, Dad?"

C. "It'll take more than a bag of Monster Munch for me to tell you how to get out of this one, Dad!"

D. "Right then - one bag of sweets and Seamo opens up the hill"

E. North Devon is hit by revelations of Abbey CC spot fixing allegations involving the payment of sweets!

F. Disappointed locals trudge home as a young fan is consoled with some sweets following much confusion over the Marillion reunion gig!

G. "I want long hair like that bloke"

H. "No, no, no I said Robbo and a bag of Werthers Originals"

I. Not even a bag of Dolly Mixture is going to entice Newbs to throw his wicket

February Caption Competition

It's been a while but you are invited to enter the February Caption Competition.

To enter just leave your entries as comments at the bottom of this posting or on our Facebook page and entries from both will be combined here for the traditional Online Poll to follow to select a winner.

Entries by close of play Sunday 27th February please. Good luck to all!

Pub Shock For Mick!

Mick will not be pleased as The Swan pub - so convenient next door to the tour hotel - has been taken over and reinvented as The Riverbank Bistro!

Boost for Kings Arms Business!

One suspects a change of ambience - and clientele - as a result!

Santander CC Website Launched

For those interested, there is a new Santander CC website covering the activities of the MK-based club. It has been set-up under the auspices of  Play Cricket so existing Play Cricket members should be able to logon and request membership of the Santander CC site. Non-members will need to register with Play Cricket first.

Santander CC

Fixtures, results and general news is promised plus statistics so one assumes that PKD is still alive & well!!!

For the avoidance of doubt, the tour will forever remain the Abbey Cricket Tour and rebranding will not be occurring!

North Devon LocAle

A LocAle initiative has been launched in North Devon, designed to recognise pubs that sell beers brewed locally. A LocAle beer is one that is brewed within 30 miles so that includes beers such as Cotleigh and Dartmoor, but it is also interesting to note that there are now no less than seven breweries in North Devon itself :-

• Barum (Pilton, Barnstaple)
• Baskervilles (Yelland, Fremington)
• Clearwater (Torrington)
• Country Life (Abbotsham, Bideford)
• Forge (Hartland, Bideford)
• Jollyboat (Bideford)
• Wizard (Ilfracombe)

Still some to try then before we pack up tour for good!