The Weddings Over, Now Bring on the Baptism |
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Pie Club History |
Now have you ever missed out on something that you really wanted to take part in because if you have then you will have lots of sympathy with KK and myself who were invited once again to judge at the 2006 extravaganza only to find out the terrible news that neither of us could attend due to prior engagements. KK and myself both play badminton at Greetland along with long serving member and Pork Pie Topgafferboss Kevin Booth. After finding out we could not attend in 2006 we swiftly decided to take up the matter with him to ask for a postponement to a more suitable date (March is always a busy month for both of us and anyway we didn’t want to miss out on any possible free gratis Timmy Taylors Golden Best). We tackled him during a badminton session break but perhaps picked a bad time to mention it as at that moment he seemed more interested in attending to the pie and peas that he had brought for tonight’s supper and also because ‘Cautious Carol’ the badminton clubs organiser, treasurer, secretary and chief bottle washer was waiting to collect his subscriptions. It’s typical that the very night he had chosen to treat us to supper we needed to press him for a postponement, still we donned our sponsored tee shirts and set off into battle to lobby him vigorously. We had a good case and with our persuasive manor we were sure he would have no option but to agree. Yes a slight delay for our benefit was not a lot to ask for or so we thought---we thought wrong!!!
Well, I have to say we had some strange looks from the rest of the badminton crowd as we retired to a quiet corner and tried to come up with ideas that would cast iron guarantee us an acceptable March 2007 date. We didn’t know how far in advance the dates were confirmed but we knew we only had a few months to come up with a ‘cunning plan’ to move the competition back a month to April. We tried persuading, pleading, bribery, plying with alcohol and even saying that if he moved it back we would buy him a huge 45 gallon drum of mint sauce but he just shook his head, closed his eyes, waved his arms, mumbled, turned and walked away (you try doing that). Then we suddenly had a brainwave and thought hang on, he has set a precedent by postponing it for family reasons. With that we chased after Kevin at pace with some swiftly conjured up soft toys giving instructions to pass them on to brother Stuart and his lovely wife Joanne in the hope of encouraging some pronto paediatric passion that would necessitate a March Christening and delay the competition to our advantage. At this moment we are still awaiting the results!!! Crustily yours's Dilapidated Dave (irregular pie judger).P.S. If you normally attend the pie competition and find that you are expecting a happy event next March don’t blame me just get on the phone and tell Kevin!! |