Day 80 - JumbleBee

No golf today - and just as well as it was raining and blowing and generally looking miserable...

I had planned an admin day, but first I had promised to take Kathryn to the local station. Which I did. Once home, the phone went and I was back in the car to pick her up: no trains running into Waterloo for the foreseeable future. We ended up driving to Wimbledon to allow her to continue her journey to the V&A using the Underground instead.  The whole episode brought back memories of my commuting life and the joys of arriving at a London terminus only to be confronted by a series of "delayed" or "cancelled" trains notice. Oh, happy days!

At dinner last night, I had been asked if I had regretted taking early retirement: this was yet another reminder as to why I had been able to respond so emphatically with the "No" that I had...

The afternoon was spent working on Jumblebee: this is an on-line silent auction site which I have planned to use to generate some funds for our Captains' Charity. I have set up a web page at http://www.jumblebee.co.uk/Burhill2015 and will launch it in the next few days: I hope that it will reach as many members as possible and not be too poor an imitation of the "real" charity auctions that we have had in previous years.

I have detected a bit of push-back from members of the golf club about there being too much pressure for charitable donations and hope that this solution will tackle that issue...