 Missy's Mail 11
I have been given a challenge. Life for one M. Higgins has certainly become interesting and I have been asked to write about it. The premise of Missy's Mail is indeed to write about the off-field happenings of the club, but with 90% of Gordon's players living comparatively boring social lives, perhaps my anecdotes are what is needed for the 11th instalment of the mail. There are only so many stories I can tell about Tiddles and they all usually end the same way - with a happy ending.
Michael D. on the D-Floor
However one must be careful. My parents hosted a dinner party a couple of weeks ago, and apparently their guests were big fans of Missy's Mail, they were able to tell them about all that I had been involved in. This gets me to thinking that you never know who is reading what you write. Hopefully not many lawyers. Kelly and Sweeney excluded. Besides, maybe it's time I got a dose of my own medicine. But alas, I had written about 1200 words about my own experiences over the past few weeks, however they were so scandalous that I'm sure no self respecting editor would allow for his or her website to post such readings. So it will have to be the usual. Good times.
The Howitt residence was the setting for the annual 2nd grade get together (I presume next year it will be the annual 5th grade get together after Hoppa takes over the reigns from the ageless Dave Gray), and what a resounding success it was as per usual. Rod "Rod Hokin" Hokin and John "Speak of the Devil" O'Neil-Fuller took out the coveted bocce tournament, receiving a fiercely sort after pen from Ed Howitt Senior's work. Some of the other boys decided to give a former test cricketer a ring to book him to speak in front 500 university students, which was well received by all involved and Longhurst survived a close call with death with a cut toe after he was body slammed by Jordy "Bear" Holmes in the pool.
 How he's managing to finish the season with such a savage injury is a true testament to the Pom's character. Only JOF, Jordy, and myself made it out to the Cross that evening. I found myself in Bondi later that morning, not nearly enough aid...but that's all I can say for now.
Careful Missy! Don't get too close to that toe
Jordy Holmes celebrated his 22nd birthday (he claims 22, I think 48 is perhaps more realistic) on Saturday night with an evening distributed between the Mosman Hotel, and Hotel Cremorne aka Minsky's. A handful of Stags participated in the festivities including Longhurst, Cubbage, Michael D., Livermore, and Higgins. I don't care what you say about Dave Michael, the man can dance. I spent a good 2 hours with Dave on the D-Floor inside Minsky's. The problem was that the place was dead and there wasn't a single soul on the D-Floor with us. The only time we left the floor was to head to the bar to drink either JagerBombs or Vodka Red Bulls. I think I ended up back in Bondi later that evening as well.
Injuries can come at inopportune times. You never know when your body is going to give in to the stresses of life. Sam Hinton obviously wasn't expecting to strain his rotator cuff from lying on the couch. But he did.
1st graders must be in tip top condition at all times, not unlike The Cougar - Barry Dawson. Unfortunately for Hint-Dog the story worsens. I have it under good authority that Hinton was in a daze and couldn't move himself from a self inflicted One Tree Hill Marathon on DVD - thus causing some stiffness in the right shoulder. So bad was his injury that he was unable to field for the 2nd day of the clash with Mosman. Well, so he claims. I could have sworn I saw Hint-Dog queuing up outside JB Hi-Fi's for the release of One Tree Hill Season 2 on DVD. Matt "The Cake" Michael got the phone call early on Sunday morning. Luckily his night on the booze was rather sedate in comparison to that of previous evenings.
Nick Medcalf was the first choice for the Hinton's replacement as I understand it after having a mixed day in 2nd grade the day before. Tillsy as he is affectionately known, scored a match winning 51* in the first innings and then taking 4-20 odd ending any hope Mosman had of chasing down Gordon's total. When he returned to the dressing room he and John "Damien" O'Neill-Fuller had lost a substantial amount of money which had been taking from their wallets. Not only this but Medders discovered the half eaten banana which Reg had put in his shoe during the luncheon interval. Poor old Medders. Couldn't have happened to a worse bloke.
 Speaking of bad blokes, Craig Knight has left the club for at least the next 4 years to pursue his university studies in Western Australia. I was not aware that he was leaving for so long until just recently when I had the chance to have a chat with him. I sincerely wish Craig the best and hopefully he will return to the club in the future. Craig has been a stalwart of sorts for Gordon, and he's one of the guys that everyone in the club knows. Everyone except for Craig Simmons.
Hinton's weakness... One Tree Hill
It was fantastic to see some non-regular patrons of the Greengate frequent the famous Hotel on Sunday evening, with a little temptation from Falk and Wilson of course. No doubt the big hit were Beau Casson's white pants which he obviously stole from the set of Miami Vice as Sam "One Tree" Hinton so rightly pointed out. My memory of the evening is hazy to say the least; I had not been home from the night before when I re-started to drink on Sunday. I think I saw the Moth there with the lovely Heidi. It almost goes without saying. Doesn't it. If you see one, you invariably see the other. Wouldn't be surprised if Heidi starts training the boys down at Chatswood Oval on a Thursday afternoon. Although, I suppose if they are out socialising I don't have a problem with it. But it must be difficult for the Moth sometimes - what with me there, his first love, and Heidi, his second prize*. Thanks again to Tiddles and AJ Falk for putting money behind the bar. A good time was had by all.
So for the 3rd time this season Gordon has one all 6 grades. Mosman being the latest to join Wests and Blacktown. What about Dave Millar's colts? Surely paying $1.05 for going back to back titles. 3rd Grade is back where they belong, holding outright 1st place. 5ths are looking as good as they ever have and 2's and 4's a still in there with a fighting chance. It's an exciting time of year.
*please don't call me Heidi or give me hate mail. The Moth loves you**.
**Sorry Moth. Missy
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