There are limited delegates spaces available for the Institute of Groundsmanship (IOG) free Turf Care Maintenance event at the Sports Park Weetwood, University of Leeds on Thursday this week (12 March).
Organised by the IOG Yorkshire Branch the event will be opened by Twickenham head groundsman Keith Kent and IOG national manager of the Grounds and Natural Turf Improvement Programme – Jason Booth.
Delegates will then split into groups for educational presentations on aeration, mowers, grinders, synthetic brushes, seeds and fertilisers.
For more information and to register for one of the FREE delegate places please email: events@iog.org or contact Louise on 01908 312 511.


A groundsman in the village of Worplesdon in Surrey, was flushed one morning recently to discover someone had attached a toilet, cistern, sink and loo-roll holder to a bus-stop. 

Gaynor White, Worplesdon Parish Council Clerk, told Get Surrey she "couldn't believe it". She told the local news site, “I received a phone call just before midday and the groundsman said ‘you will never guess what I have found'. I have been the parish clerk for 15 and a half years, and I have never seen anything like it - it is hysterical really." Unfortunately the installation, which of course was not plumbed in, had to be removed when one commuter decided to make use of it. You wait for one number two to come along . . . 

Nerds across the world, such as the editor of this newsletter, were given a mighty scare last week at the news that Harrison Ford had crashed his vintage plane onto a golf course in California. Once the news emerged that he was battered but doing OK we could all breathe a sigh of relief and mutter that he shouldn't be flying anything without Chewie at his side and enjoy this picture: