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Been lovely playing in shorts a few times this week after some pretty miserable weather. Golf has been pretty much as usual 3 or 4 really bad holes racking the score up. Similar this morning front 9 double on 2 and 4 and a mare in a bunker on 6. Then it got better played 7-9 ok 3 pretty tough holes. Then came back in 32 it's a par 35 of the whites but the 17th is a 4 of the yellows https://www.alloagolfclub.co.uk/the-course/course-tour/hole-17/ ridiculous par 4 if you hit a really good drive you still have 200 to the green and there is a ditch right in front of it so par is 34. Eagled 13 https://www.alloagolfclub.co.uk/the-course/course-tour/hole-13/ with a pitch from about 40 yards one bounce hit the pin and dropped in  Parred every other one. had a few good looks but most happy with 12 and 14 having to hit big draws round trees as I had pulled drives to the left. There's a game in there somewhere.

Off to Burntisland on Saturday for a 4 man scramble but I'm getting an early pick up as we have our usual Friday night game of cards might not be in the best shape  but looking forward to it never played it before and even if we stink the views of of the Firth of Forth are meant to be lovely and the course although not long everyone I have spoken to have really enjoyed it. 

Too hot for me today. Even nine holes was too many. 

Total Eclipse of the Heart is one of those tracks that always gets blood pumping a little faster and causes me to sing out loud at the top of my voice if it comes on when I'm driving.

RIP Bonnie Tyler.

"Together with blaming foreigners for their failures in life-so much easier than looking at yourself"



So so true.

good stuff doobs

I'm looking forward to Longniddry Seniors on Wednesday. Hopefully get a bit of run on a links course and the greens aren't too difficult iirc. And its also stableford, so a blob isn't the end of the world.

well nothing whatsoever about that proved correct 

I lived in that constituency until recently.

It is a largely rural seat. Clacton is a town of about 50,000, but most of the rest is rural villages.

It is a bit of an odd area. It is almost entirely White British, but a fair few of the older residents feel they were pushed out of London by Incomers. Together with blaming foreigners for their failures in life-so much easier than looking at yourself

He divides opinion, but strangely he is more popular in the rural villages than in Clacton. Likes to pop in the rural pubs-won't see him in Jaywick any time soon.

Assuming he is allowed to seek to evade (or at least delay) scrutiny by the relevant authorities by temporarily ceasing to be an MP, we have the faintly ridiculous prospect of a man seeking to get the backing pf people with no knowledge of his wrongdoing to evade expert independent scrutiny.

His previous "debanking" now becomes much clearer. £Millions from crypto and convicted fraudsters, houses bought with cash...

Man of the people, my arse. Would rather trust Binface

I'm venturing out myself tomorrow armed with both a new hat and a new swing thought.

What an amazing game golf is. You've been playing for 60+ years and you can still have a "New" swing.

The trouble is Tom my new swing-thoughts are usually remembering what I've forgotten..

any value around on Countbunface in the Clacton By-election? asking for a friend (anyone that knows me know i dont have any friends)

Just can't see it.  Will be the obvious protest candidate, but too many people in Clacton don't see Farage for what he is.

Arthur Fery v Cobolli today, centre court. Wildcard to quarter finalist, well done young man although his last match against Dimitrov was a tough watch as I wanted them both to win. He stands a good chance today as I think he has won their only previous meeting (first round Aussie Open).

Brilliant this.  Every game he plays he fights for everything. LTA deserved to be knocked for many things, but definitely got the wildcard right with him.  Could be now be in the same position as Chwalinska before Wimbledon.  Don't know when the cutoff is for the Citi Open, but wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't even high enough to get in the qualifiers.  Obviously gets in the US Open, and won't need many more points to be seeded there.

Would love to see him smash up Zverev.