Day 67 - St George's Day

Today was Shakespeare's birthday and St George's Day: about as quintessentially English as you can get. No surprise that there was the annual plea on the radio this morning for the 23rd of April to be declared a Bank Holiday to celebrate England's National Day.  And to be fair, we must be one of the few countries in the world not to have such a public holiday. Even in Scotland, St Andrew's Day is a holiday, for some at least.

So, today, I did the next best thing: a round of golf at St. George's Hill, just across the road from Burhill. I was playing with the Oil Industry Golf Society (or OIGS for short) in their annual spring meeting.

It was great to meet up with a number of friends and former colleagues from the Industry, and also a treat to play the course. The weather started off cloudy but, by half way around, the sun was shining and sitting outside for a drink afterwards it was positively hot. The course was in great shape, though the greens were very hard and a bit bumpier than sometimes.  My score was respectable but I was never going to be near the winner's: 41 point, albeit on his home course, was very impressive!

I eschewed the voluntary 9 holes after lunch to get home in time to go out to the cinema: we went to see Woman in Gold at the Epsom Odeon. Any film with Helen Mirren is worth seeing and we weren't disappointed.