TURF LIFE
A view from the dug-out
Touching news from the Oxford Mail, who report that a playing field, used by Freeland Football Club and Freeland Cricket Club will be renamed in honour of a groundsman who died in a car crash last year. Father of three, Les Hole, spent his evenings maintaining the village field and pitches which will now be renamed the Les Hole Playing Field. Mr Hole’s eldest son Simon told the paper, “He did so much work for the football and cricket club. He was down there every night from April to September.”
 Great to hear of a superb initiative out of the United States which recognises those who serve in their military as well as those who serve their communities across the country - The Toro Co's “American Hero program.” Under the offer, current or former military members, firefighters and police officers are eligible to save 18 percent off the manufacturer suggested retail price of Toro landscape contractor equipment. A great gesture.
Warm regards to 'legendary' groundsman Colin Howard, who This Is Local London reports, is retiring from the Douglas Eyre Sports Centre in Walthamstow after decades of looking after pitches for both famous football stars and local school children. Colin, 68, who is swapping his 34-acre domain with a tractor and 12 football pitches for a house in Colchester with an 80ft garden, told the local paper, "I love it here, I love my job."
And in 'romantic' news The Daily Mirror reports that hotel groundsman Andy Cameron, proposed to his girlfriend, Kayleigh Hawthorn, a receptionist at the Erskine Bridge Hotel in Renfrewshire where they both work, by mowing 'Marry me?' into the grass.
Kayleigh told the paper, “We went to work as normal – me on reception and Andy to cut the grass. Then he texted me to ask if I’d go up to the fifth-floor lounge to see if he’d missed any patches. When I got there and looked out the window, I saw he’d cut out ‘Marry Me?’ in the grass. Then he walked out of another door and proposed with the ring and I said yes."
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