New Year 2011

Carolyn Tuthill reports:

Well it is now almost 15th January 2011 - New year could be officially over (although Dan Dyas always says this on June 1st!). Two weeks ago on New Year's Day we had a good turnout at Kirdford and played in very mild conditions considering how cold and snowy it had been only the previous week. The members who attended were in good spirits (some more so than others) and much kissing and hugging was going on under the guise of wishing each other a Happy New Year! Unfortunately wires had got crossed and Linda & Karl did not realise that 1st January was a Saturday and that we would be playing, which resulted in us having no lunch! Never mind we could all do with losing a bit of weight after the excesses of Christmas. One player excelled themselves by being fannied twice - it was thought that it would be appropriate to award her with the Fanny Trouphy - Quel Dommge - it has disappeared! so, who has it? Please return it forthwith. I know you will be dying to know who is to be the new recipient of the trophy - it is Ingrid aka Santa's little helper, the elf!

Ian is in the process of arranging the playing teams for the coming year - let's hope that we do a bit better than last year!

Here's to a happy and successful New Year!

The Euro Cup

Mike Kateley reports:

"Unfortunately the team of Mike, Christine, Ian, Sonia, Carolyn and Ingrid, were soundly beaten by Sandown and Shanklin in the second round of the Euro cup on Sunday 9th January, played at Kirdford. We infact only won 1 game of the 7, this was a tripple of Ian, Carolyn and Ingrid. Many of the other matches were close encounters and if luck had favoured us we could have had a better result. The IOW team were very pleasant people and an enjoyable day was had by all, they were very impressed with our set up and have promised to return."