Day 71 - The Old Pretender

No golf on the agenda today, but still kept busy... there was the draw for the Anglo American plate to organise, checking with all participants that they up for it, solving some Intelligent Golf problems and some thank you letters to write to people who have been kind enough to donate things for the Captains' Charity (though more welcome!).

Dinner was an early chicken curry - a very tasty Murgh ki kadhi recipe from a Keith Floyd book on India (I can remember when he started his restaurant in Bristol before he developed his TV persona!).  We had the pleasure of daughter and boy-friend for dinner as well, which was a treat.

An early dinner as we were off to a lecture at the Esher Adult Education centre on James Francis Edward Stewart, the Old Pretender. When we walked into the room where it was to take place, I couldn't help but recall the single mums' SPAT scene in About a Boy, for I was to be the only man in the audience...

The lecture itself was fascinating: like so many of my generation, the 17th/18th centuries were not part of my O'Level history syllabus and I had never before really understood how James II, William&Mary and Anne all fitted together, yet alone who Bonny Prince Charlie was... That is all clear now and I look forward to the next time I am watching University Challenge and a question comes up that I will now be able to answer...