Day 253 - Poppies

Today saw me up in London for a Board Meeting and one of the things I wanted to do was to track down and purchase a poppy for this year's Appeal. I looked everywhere but couldn't find one anywhere: I was looking for one of the smaller pins, rather than the traditional buttonhole.

And then I got to Waterloo Station and I couldn't move but for poppy sellers... There was a bunch of young Royal Marines who were having a great time taking selfies with anyone who was interested: they seemed to be having a high old time!

Time for a quick supper at home and then on to the Club for a meeting. On this occasion, I was sitting down with the Vice Captain, the organizer of the Nations Cup competition and the Captains of the six teams.  This is a competition that is played early in the new year, roughly at the same time as the Six Nations Rugby tournament.

The meeting was arranged to review the 2015 matches in readiness for next year's competition. We had made some changes last time to the way things ran, including increasing the number of pairs playing from 6 to 7, as well as using our Intelligent Golf system to support the managers and to record the results.

We had a good discussion and agreed on a number of ways forward: everybody was very constructive and two Captains had made a special effort to be there. All of this bodes well for next year's Nations Cup...bring it on!