Breathless Friday It’s St George’s Day and an array of red & white flags flutter gracefully above the patriotic street parties taking place in the Longlevens suburbs. Or they might be, if anyone realised what day it is. It does seem however, that ...

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Gone Missing Friday Three months ago, at the height of lockdown, one of our own bumped into Tony ‘The Lens’ Hickey in Hatherley Park in Cheltenham. He was busy making the most of the early Spring heatwave, happily photographing the remarkably early-fl...

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Delilah Friday 17.00. Friendship. Camaraderie. Affinity. Fellowship. Solidarity. Esprit de Corps, even – attributes that are the bedrock of The Freemasons, a brotherhood that encompasses the greatest virtues of this amazing thing called life. Never lett...

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Double Negatives The Groundsman’s hoping last week’s fertiliser hasn’t kicked in yet as he’s not shown up due to apparently suffering from a Spring attack of Beri Beri. ‘It’s something I ate,’ he says in the briefest of telephone messages, c...

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Facts ‘You could be sued for libel, you know.’ ‘But do you like the blog?’ No answer. Try a slightly different tack. ‘So, do you like reading the match reports?’ ‘Is that what they are?’ ‘They’re accounts of the week’s events. A bit ...

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Half Term Saturday It’s half term week and Bath are in town. Cooperman has been hunting down his missing t-shirt, but as he’s such a super-pleasant man, he’s forgiven (on this occasion) for being late. Freemason has put the Wolverhampton disappointm...

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Telephone View – Saturday The sun is shining, the sky is blue and there’s a convivial atmosphere in the Royal County of (West) Berkshire. Mind you, (Royal) Wootton Bassett also has a regal antecedent, which tells you all you need to know about thi...

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Questions and Answers Saturday 12th June. It’s 7.30pm and, post-Oxford City, mandatory drug testing and the mini bus journey back up the A40, one of the GPSFA ‘A’ Squad members takes part in a Q & A session at which, contrary to the usual protoc...

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I’m Just A Boy I love playing footy; for me it’s the best. I’m out with my mates, no time for a rest; It’s active and exciting; there’s challenge galore, Can’t wait for the next game; I always want more. I train really hard; that’s how it sh...

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Finale Well, that’s just about it, then. The Final Curtain has descended on the 2020/21 season, almost exactly ten months after it began at the beginning of September and thirteen months after the first trial day during May half term. Here we take a qui...

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