Marshalling his troops - Pitchcare

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Ready, steady, cook ...
Knotweed!
ANTHEA Gerrie, writing in
The Independent on 9 June
2010, featured chef Dino
Paviedis at Terre á Terre
restaurant in Brighton
preparing a Knotweed and
Wild Garlic Soufflé.
Olivia Reid, of the restaurant,
explained that an
environmental consultancy
got in touch to see whether
they fancied cooking with
knotweed.
She describes the taste as
“lemony and zesty”, others as
having a fresh rhubarb taste
with the texture of asparagus.
“It produces a wonderful
liquor when braised and
works really well in a
compote made with
raspberries and ginger - a
very versatile weed.” Best of
all, she says, is the knotweed
and shallot jelly served with
Sussex slipcote cheese.
However, knotweed will never
The ‘Blue’ Lagoon?
SEATON Carew Golf Club, in
Hartlepool, has distanced
itself from stories that a
production crew was caught
shooting an ‘adult’ film on
their course.
They admit a film crew was
found in the early hours of
the morning, but say there is
“nothing to support the
rumours” that it was a blue
movie.
Head greenkeeper, Tony
Cartwright, found the film
crew in the early hours of
Saturday, June 26, during his
round of morning
inspections. He spotted
bright lights on the 10th
green, known as the Lagoon
hole, and went over to
investigate.
He discovered a group of half
a dozen people, ranging in
age from 35 to mid 50s,
filming on the green at
152
I don’t believe it!
The not so serious side of the industry
make it permanently onto the
menu of any restaurant, as it
is illegal to grow, harvest and
dispose of, so supply would
be a problem for a catering
kitchen ... and demand,
probably!
Oh well, back to those good
old hedgerow staples of
nettles, elderflowers and
blackberries.
around 4.00am.
Tony explained: “I was doing
my early morning checks of
the greens when I spotted the
bright lights. There was a
man dressed in golf clothes
on the green, alongside
another man wearing
ordinary clothes and a pair of
bright orange boots. It looked
like they had been there for
around an hour, and there
was a group of people sitting
on a nearby wall, too.”
“Everybody was fully clothed,
but it was still quite a strange
thing to come across, I have
never seen anything like it in
my time.”
The film crew were politely
asked to leave, says Tony. “I
explained that it was private
land and asked them to leave,
and they packed up and left
shortly after in a large van.”
Art for art’s sake ...
WHEN Boughton Loam
received an order for ‘2kg of
white bunker sand’ you could
have excused Sales
Coordinator, Richard Chinn,
for checking the calendar to
make sure that it was not 1st
April, and then consigning
the email to ‘deleted’ items.
However, on further
inspection, it turns out that
this ‘little’ order was rather
high profile. It came from a
London framers who were
preparing an exhibition of
work by artist Jonathan Yeo,
to be shown at a top venue in
Beverley Hills, California,
organised by Lazarides.
The sand was to be used for
the internal frame of one of
the works featuring Tiger
Woods, and ‘had to be right’.
The main frame was astro
turf!
The order was placed in
sealed plastic bags and sent
off in a jiffy bag, with the
framers only charged for
PERHAPS not quite so high
profile, except in PC Towers
of course, a recent trip to
Slovakia for the Turf
Education conference, where
our esteemed Managing
Director, Dave Saltman, was
speaking, resulted in this
masterpiece.
The artist, who has to remain
nameless because, quite
honestly, we can’t spell it, was
producing caricatures of some
of the dignitaries at the
conference.
This one has found pride of
place in Dave’s new office,
although our suggestion of
framing it with a bit of
Molineux turf and discarded
football studs was not
received too well!
For you information, the
Oxford English Dictionary
describes ‘caricature’ as: a
postage. Sadly, for Richard,
his request for two
complimentary first class
tickets to LA was refused, but
Boughton did get a mention
in the exhibition catalogue,
which was entitled ‘Porn in
the USA’. And, if you want to
know why, check out
www.lazinc.com, or get out
your magnifying glass!
... funny for God’s sake!
picture, description, etc.,
ludicrously exaggerating the
peculiarities or defects of
persons or things - and who
are we to argue!