Angus McCubbin

[Angus McCubbin @AngusMccubbin]

Swifts back this morning in GL12 @GlosBirds

[Angus McCubbin @AngusMccubbin]

@JamesLucasIT Brexit

[Kingswood Village Cricket Club @KVCC_1978]

Great atmosphere up at the playing fields for Phase 1 of Chairman’s Day with an interclub youth game.
Rejoin us at 1pm for the seniors game: Team Barnes v Team McCubbin for the Pat Harty Trophy…
Bar open all day and Hog Roast at c7pm. Tickets still available and all welcome 🐷🍺

[Kingswood Village Cricket Club @KVCC_1978]

And if you can’t make it.
Here is the livestream link

https://t.co/O1BQRfvntm

[Kingswood Village Cricket Club @KVCC_1978]

🏆🏏 Pratt Cup final v @HillesleyCC this Wednesday evening at the John Hawkins Ground, @hawkescc1984 🏆🏏

Supporters welcome 👍🏏 🍺 🟢🟡

[Kingswood Village Cricket Club @KVCC_1978]

Mid-Season Newsletter from co-Chair @glosflyhalf

🏏 Square Refurb update
🗓️ Save the Date (18 Aug) for the re-arranged Chairman’s Day followed by Hog Roast 🐷

(More on both 2follow & we’d be delighted to hear from past KVCC players who’d be keen to play that afternoon, DM us!)

[Angus McCubbin @AngusMccubbin]

@Parody_PM The Grifters

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Glastonbury Festival has opened its gates, kicking off that special time of year where, for 5 wonderful days, London contains 15% fewer twats

[Grittleton CC @GrittletonCC]

The club due to play at Grittleton tomorrow (Sun 16 June) are unable to raise a team.
Are there any clubs within reach of us (easy access from J17 or J18 of M4) in a similar position?
Friendly, non-league village side looking for similar ability team. Pitch, team & teas ready!

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

You've set us free.

[Grittleton CC @GrittletonCC]

@KVCC_1978 @WillimanDan GCC fall short of the target, 135 all out.
Couldn't have lost to a nicer bunch - thanks @KVCC_1978 for a great game played in fantastic spirit.
Refreshments needed 🍻
Williman 42, Charles Carrington 22, Perkins 16 & Clay 12

[Kingswood Village Cricket Club @KVCC_1978]

Our Friday Night youth training offering starts TONIGHT 😎☀️🏏
After last weeks 😢☔️, we look forward to welcoming so many local kids & their families to the field & (re) introducing them to cricket…and for the third year running we are FULLY BOOKED
🏏 Refreshments available 👍

[Angus McCubbin @AngusMccubbin]

@antibes_jlp for the week. Beautiful and very relaxing.

[Cricket Shouts 🏏 @crickshouts]

We all know someone who would still bowl to the leg side here 😂❓

[Lewis Ludlow @LewisLudlow94]

@stephenjones9 @TimesSport Wrong! We played more games than anyone during “the break” and don’t be so disrespectful to them players! Couldn’t be prouder of the boys in that game to come away with a point, showed proper @gloucesterrugby fight!

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Retweet if you think Lee Anderson is a brainless gobshite.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Dursley Ladies Rugby @DursleyLRFC]

Join us on Sat 23rd March

[Kingswood Village Cricket Club @KVCC_1978]

Signs of Spring?! 👀🏏
🟢First cut ahead of @GlosCricketFdn #getsetweekend on 23/24 March (more on that to follow…)
🟡2024 Fixture list all but complete!