May Be

....or maybe not, was it an interesting month?

Well it started off really well with a busy weekend involving the golf clan, The Visionaries, having Sunday lunch at The Red Fox in Thornton Hough. This village was built by Lord Leverholme for his management while he build the Port Sunlight village close to his soap factory for the blue collar and other ranks. I then played in a charity golf day organised by Rob Palmer of Sky TV fame. He raised over £20,000 for Stick'n Step a Cerebal Palsey charity. well done Rob.

House viewings were scattered throughout the month, but nothing is jumping out at us, and the stock level seems very poor at the moment with people sitting on their hands as they wait to see how the World energy crisis resolves itself.

SWMBO and I did attend A Question of Sport , the stage show, and while Matt Dawson and Phil Tuffnell were good value, the four local football players they had were a bit sub. 

I did manage to plan out another Cultural Tour of Liverpool for the golf gang but we will probably have to wait until September to explore the hostelries as the year gets busy from here on in.

Nothing much else to report except I got food poisoning which precluded me embracing our French golf colleagues who were over to play for the Roberts Cup. I will have to wait until next year but the England team did win for a change....maybe because...... 

Winners circle

 That is a title I have not been able to use for a while, but on Monday I managed to win the first round of the Senior Summer competition with a nett 69. I went round the front nine of Wallasey in a gross 38 or two over par albeit from the yellow tee's. That was progress for me as my golf has definitely been suffering due to too many invitations to play. Unfortunately it was back to reality in the second round when a nett 77 meant I came third overall and was unable to get my name on the silverware, or qualify for the Champion of Champions next season.

There are still a few opportunities to do that though with the Autumn event starting next week together with the Wintergreen and Winter knock-out to follow.

Mixed golf was again to the fore this week as my partner, Norma,  and I were again pipped at the post at the final hole in our latest Winter league match to take our record to a very consistent played three, lost three!! I played with a different lady partner in the mixed foursomes on Sunday though, but that did not go any better. well done to Rob and Bo Palmer for winning the event though. Some luck must have come to somebody that day though as our resident seagull deposited on the prize table!!

That someone may well have been me.  Norma and I broke our duck on Wednesday  when we beat the Ratcliffe's in the Winter league to drag ourselves off the bottom of the table, and then I was part of the winning team at the Visionaries event at Ormskirk. Ormskirk was set up wonderfully well, the sun shone and my team played OK golf which turned out to be enough to triumph.

So a few season highlights all crammed into a short space of time. The joy of the game is seeing how long it can be maintained for!!