Where did October go?? A phone call from Mark a couple of days ago reminded me that the dinner and dance is only a week away, and I need to get my finger out. There may not be another update before the dinner, but Jacqueline and I are two-thirds of the way through checking the scorebook against the database and once that process is complete then I might update the site again with the partial season report.

Full details of the season closing game with Chiltern Gypsies can be found on the results page along with a two-handed match report and the pertinent elements from the scorecard. The match report represents a first for the web site, since I had not registered the fact that Graham Ward had volunteered to write it and had already written a fair chunk of text myself. Rather than waste it, especially as most of my perspective took a different slant, I decided to combine the two, and I hope the end result isn’t too confusing.

I have added what I anticipate to be the final ‘fiftieth fact’ – since I’ve run out of ideas on things to include. The pie charts resulted from a bit of messing about with the Google Chart API (after reading an article in PC Plus magazine last month) and the positioning of the two chart images may vary depending on your browser and screen resolution. If it looks ugly then my apologies but I was trying to get one chart in the top left corner and one in the bottom right corner, with text flowing nicely around them, but I couldn’t get things to work exactly as I intended and ended up with something of a hack. For the bowlers I’ve also brought the previous ‘fiftieth fact’ regarding seven-fers up to date and added similar pie charts.

You should all have received an email from Simon Fox with details of this year’s dinner and dinner, and if you have not then I suggest that you contact Simon directly to make sure that you don’t miss out on the key social date in the Badgers calendar. For those that need a reminder you can find a precis of those details on the news page.