Martin Taylor

Patience at this time of year , 10 days since we last rolled but fab conditions for it today and the week ahead 🥳

Just under 7 hours to to our first ever floodlit junior football game, super excited 🥳 Bar open from 6pm , BBQ on , all welcome . ⁦@AchillesYouth⁩ @parkers-pitches

Achilles youth U13s have their first ever game under lights in Tuesday night at @CopdockOlCC Come and have a watch at this team as they battle to win the league Bar is open & @Copdockcoach is even getting the BBQ on. Get your football fix on Tuesday 10th March

Top work bud 👏

Sun shining lovely 😻 second pass of PSR then a good verti to clean out and stand up 🥳🥳😎 ⁦@CopdockOlCC⁩ ⁦⁦@suffolkcricket⁩ ⁦@ParkersPitches⁩

And so the annual PSR programme begins , one pass today no ballast in yet so all good if a little 🥶, roughly 19 to go when conditions are correct ⁦@CopdockOlCC⁩ ⁦@suffolkcricket⁩ ⁦@ThurlowNunnEAPL⁩ ⁦@ParkersPitches⁩

First cut in 6 weeks for obvious reasons , sticky and slow but well worth it 😎 ⁦@SuffolkFA⁩ ⁦@ParkersPitches⁩ ⁦@CopdockOlCC⁩ ⁦@AchillesYouth⁩

Ground soft as putty but we are on tomorrow🥳 will look better after a remark , pray for no more rain , may take a long stud ⁦@AchillesYouth⁩ ⁦@SuffolkFA⁩ ⁦@suffolkcricket⁩ ⁦@ParkersPitches⁩ ⁦@CopdockOlCC⁩

Well said fella 👏👏

Cheeky sorrel with the Denis today to try and open up ahead of another 4 days rain ☔️🙈. Should start PSR by June at this rate 🙏 ⁦@CopdockOlCC⁩ ⁦@suffolkcricket⁩ ⁦@ThurlowNunnEAPL⁩ ⁦@ParkersPitches⁩

Lovely people can’t say enough good things 👏👏

Very sticky but sun shining and we are off and running 🥳 ⁦@CopdockOlCC⁩ ⁦@AchillesYouth⁩ ⁦@SuffolkFA⁩ ⁦@ParkersPitches⁩

@LSavage0407 @CopdockOlCC @suffolkcricket @ParkersPitches @ThurlowNunnEAPL All good bud yes next week looks kinder to us groundies 🤞

@Copdockcoach @CopdockOlCC @suffolkcricket @ParkersPitches @ThurlowNunnEAPL Have been unable to this week. And with plenty of rain forecast tomorrow I have missed a good opportunity. Try again next week 🙏 Hope you are well mate!

Late Xmas present for the square , finally able to get on , drag , worm cast pitch and cut at 25mm ⁦@CopdockOlCC⁩ ⁦@suffolkcricket⁩ ⁦@ParkersPitches⁩ ⁦@ThurlowNunnEAPL⁩

Lovely day 1 of Xmas camp at Ipswich school , hope day 2 is as much fun 🥳🥳 ⁦@suffolkcricket⁩ ⁦@CopdockOlCC⁩ ⁦@IpswichHead⁩

Fab to be able to sit down with the best grounds team inc our awesome partners ⁦@ParkersPitches⁩ . These guys do so@much tysr so many people don’t see , be lost without them👏👏😇🥳 ⁦@CopdockOlCC⁩ ⁦@AchillesYouth⁩ ⁦@SuffolkFA⁩ ⁦@suffolkcricket⁩

Messy but absolutely neccessary . ⁦@AchillesYouth⁩ ⁦@CopdockOlCC⁩ ⁦@SuffolkFA⁩ ⁦@suffolkcricket⁩ ⁦@ParkersPitches⁩

Out and about on a Saturday morning, seeing window cleaners up first thing getting on with the job. Plumbers and electricians starting work. Cafe owners, opening for a busy day. Publicans, preparing for the weekend Christmas rush. Such a brutal contrast to the army of jumped-up little civil servants and politicians in Whitehall who have already clocked off the Christmas - the ones who implement the tax, devise the nonsense regulations, make the life of small business owners absolute hell. They don't care about dividend tax rises, or VAT thresholds, or IR35, or mountains of bullshit HR rules. They don't understand, they don't care. Comfortable work environments, absolutely zero accountability, total job security, great pensions, no targets. Nobody EVER gets fired. The out of office reply in regular use, of course. Work from home a few days a week. Maybe head in for drinks once a week, but that's at a stretch. Don't even try and contact them past 15.00 on a Thursday. These busy little bureaucrats have embedded themselves into the system, building it so that their own pompous role seems irreplaceable. Honestly we need to drag these people into the real world. The world of Saturday morning work. Weekend work. ANY WORK. Freeloaders gliding through life on the back of productive Britain. I'm with the cafe owner. The publican. The window cleaner. The plumber. The electrician. THEY deserve our respect and our gratitude. They're the ones who make this country work, not the pretentious empire-building desk-jockey in central London. A total reset is required.

Thx fir your very kind words bud

So last dance pre Xmas then a much needed 3 week window to do sone much needed recovery work , enjoy all… ⁦@AchillesYouth⁩ ⁦@CopdockOlCC⁩ ⁦@ParkersPitches⁩ ⁦@SuffolkFA⁩ ⁦@suffolkcricket⁩