Day 85 - All the Time in the World

Last day when I needed to stay home to see the tidying up of our new cabling into the house. First thing this morning, there looked a lot to be done and I was quite concerned. By lunchtime however a couple of hi-vis-jacketed workers had completed their task and had done a great job. My scepticism proved to be totally unfounded as they took great care to relay cobblestones and brick paving as well as re-grouting tiles and relaying them (flatter than when they removed them!).

I shall be writing a letter of thanks to Basil, the CEO of UKPN, to thank him for his organisation's work (and no, I had not contacted him in advance so was not receiving any type of VIP service... shame on you for even thinking so!).

All of this meant that I was stuck at home on what turned out to be one of the nicest days of the year: gentle winds, blue skies and warm temperatures would have made entering the month's Stableford competition a real pleasure. On the other hand, there are some pretty intensive golfing days to come, so a day's rest is probably no bad thing.

Instead, I spent the morning making use of Mr Google's services, looking for a UK provider of golf course clocks.

Let me explain: the Burhill Members' Fund has run up a surplus and the Committee have agreed that we should table some ideas for this to be spent on. One possibility is that we install a set of proper clocks on the first tees of both courses, with a view to helping with punctuality and pace of play.

My first port of call was to contact Omega and Rolex to see if they could help, but this drew a blank as they reserve their large clocks for sponsored tournament use only - or at least that is what they told me! After some inspired detective work, I managed to track down a UK company who have just started acting as agents for a North American exporter and I am now waiting to see what sort of costings emerge...