A Message from Bert ( plus videos)

“Over the Winter, the Maintenance teams have not been as busy on the Green as last year. A lot of this was due to the Green being frozen, or too wet to work on. However, we are now very close to the Green opening, and the playing season starting. With this in mind, we undertook a Spring Maintenance day last Friday. Seven of us attended. Several people could not come because of very good reasons, but they were there in spirit.

On the day, heavy showers were forecast for 2 pm, so we started at 9 am. The work involved scarifying, clearing the moss, cutting, spiking, fertilising, edge trimming, clearing ditches and putting the mats back in. 

As the Co-Ordinator for the group, I was very pleased about how many people turned up, their commitment, and the spread of skills across the team.

We did hit a slight problem with a drain valve on the Water tank for the Sprinkler system developing a leak. We are anticipating fixing this imminently, but given the weather, the Green is not currently crying out to be watered.

I want to single out two people from the team for special mention. The first is Ian, for his immaculate timekeeping. The second is David, for his immaculate and hypnotic command of Big Bertha, our motorised Spiker. Well done both, and thank you to all the team for their work, time and commitment. Remember, we can always use more volunteers.

…and yes, we did finish before the skies opened.