A Letter to Santa
It’s the Wing Centre here and as you know I always write you a letter at this time of the year to let you know what I would like to find in my Christmas stocking on the 25th. Like most boys I usually have a good hunt around the house, checking under the beds in the spare room, up in the loft and in various spare corners to see if you have left anything for me.
Lately I’ve also taken to checking the deleted e mail on the computer to see if there is any clue to what you have been up to. Not a thing so far though the fact that you have apparently relocated from Greenland to Amazon which is much further away, could be the explanation for the fact that nothing has as yet arrived at my house.
Never mind and if you already know what I’m getting then OK, but if not I’ve taken the trouble to include a little list of what I would like if you could possibly manage it. I have also put in a few requests for my friends just in case they haven’t got round to writing to you themselves:
The main present I would like this Christmas is for the Glen to win another cup.
The last one we won was great crack and everyone went round to EJ’s for the party. We are not really bothered which one we do get to win as long as we get to take it home with us and are allowed to put it in the trophy cabinet which has been looking underutilised. At least, we have the Macdonald Cup in the cabinet already but that is always in there.
That big cup with the wee mannie on top of it looks like it would probably be too big for the case, unless we broke the wee fellow off which we would probably have to do to fit it in. It would not cause any problems with the Camanachd because we know a guy in Glasgow who can fix the mannie back on without any fuss. Whatever you think yourself: it doesn’t make any difference to us*
*ps We have had Mr Reid and Geordie busy building a much bigger trophy cabinet as you can see in the picture but we probably aren’t going to need it unless we get the big one.
Could you also get that Neil Paterson guy to relocate to the Glen so he could take more pictures of our guys playing? Some of the players’ mams are saying that his photos solve their Christmas problems because the guys just like seeing themselves in A4 size snaps and want copies for their bedroom walls. It makes them feel like real sportsmen too and that cannot be a bad thing.
Please, please Santa can you
make the lights come back on in our electronic roadside sign. We don’t know
what has happened – somebody, probably Garry Mac must have been very bad for
you to switch them off but as far as we know he has promised to be good. At the
Shinty Dance he was on his best behaviour and that can be vouched for by at
least three people if not four.
The club would also like a
sound system fitted to the pavilion so that when the team comes out of the
dressing room on to the field we could have the traditional club music playing
–Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass
“Little Spanish Flea” (you youngsters can find it on Youtube) – and it would
remind us how old Ali Mac used to gallop round the Borlum Riding Centre without
a saddle, on the back of a big grey horse to the sound of that tune as he drove the other beasts out of the shed
on to the field so the boys could train amongst the sharn. The sound of that
music would bring back many happy memories to the old guys- and every time the
Glen scored a goal, which mightn’t be often, we could have a wee burst of Herb
and the boys.Our sponsor George Edwards of Loch Ness Cruises is a good friend of the club so Santa please would you arrange for him to get a new camera in time for the start of the tourist season. His old one is broken and anyway it did not seem to take reliable pictures- and our other sponsors as well such as Druimba also need some help. They were not permitted to proceed with their wind-farm over the back of Abriachan but perhaps you could make it possible for them to put in for a new site up the top of Queen Mary’s Rock and over on to Herd’s Hill.
Some people might complain that a wind-farm will spoil the view but then you cannot eat scenery and in time you will grow used to whatever you see and learn to appreciate the beauty of man’s works. And anyway the sponsorship money makes the view much easier to appreciate.
Could you also get the club a new rebound wall? When we were wee, we used to have gable ends on our houses and our mams didn’t mind us firing a ball against it. Nowadays most gable ends have glass windows in them and modern mams don’t want the glass broken or the flowers trampled on- so a rebound wall at the field would help the little guys in the club practise hitting the ball as it comes back to them. Ideally every house in the glen should have a rebound wall in their gardens and perhaps that is something David Sutherland should think about when he puts the new houses in on the fields behind Poachers. In fact if he does not do that, then that is as good a reason as any for refusing him permission to build.
Anyway thanking you in advance - and I'll tell herself to leave open the front of the multi-fuel stove on Christmas Eve otherwise you will never get down the chimney at all.
Wing Centre
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