Day 358 - Dinner Time

When arranging for golf today, I made the plea to the group with whom I play: "can we please have a day without some wind?".  I was unaware that I had any superhuman weather controlling powers up my sleeve but I am delighted to be able to report that it worked...  We played our 18 holes of golf today in conditions that would be welcomed in the middle of spring, let alone in the first week of February - a gentle breeze and some warm sun accompanied us around for most of the time.

This cannot be the only reason for it, but the quality of golf was also very high too: we were two 4-balls and had a match between the teams, with the best three scores counting on every hole.  My team (Jan, Steve, Jon and I) managed to return a card which was the equivalent of 8 under par (116 Stableford points) and thought we had aced it... in the end there were only 2 points in it though!

As we were leaving the Club after lunch, there was a steady stream of Ladies, all dressed up in their finery, coming to attend their AGM. Today therefore marks the final day of Diana's Captaincy as she hands the reins over to her Vice, Sally.  Diana has been great fun to work with and can take a lot of satisfaction from her year - and she gets to put her feet up tonight!

I, however, am still on duty: tonight we had the Men's Committee Dinner where the outgoing Captain gets to say thank you to all those who have served in the past year.   He may also invite a few guests of his choosing: I was delighted to be able to ask Colin, Roland, Bryan and Martin to fill those slots as their friendship through the year(s) has helped make my time at Burhill so special.

The meal itself was delicious (smoked salmon, beef fillet and tarte tatin) after which Steve gave a very kind speech thanking me for my year as Captain, after which I was presented with a silver salver as a memento.  I then got to say my own thanks to all those present, for which I used some Lego men as a prompt.

I was then surprised to receive another gift from Colin who had prepared a word cloud from all my Blog entries this year: apparently, he had to download more than 100,000 words... a frightening thought!