Pairs - March 2025

 This month's topic was "pairs" - here is what you have sent in:

Don - having played countless cribbage games with my (now 95 year old) Father-in-law over the past 50 years he always refers to 2 pairs as ‘Paddy’s orchard’ (or 2 pears!!)

(for reference only 4 points scored)

Ken - a pair of ceramic pears on sale at the Long Barn

John - a pair of trees

Gill - a pair of swans on the river at Alresford

Gill - two of the five ducklings my daughter was looking after

Kate took these three photos in Redfields Garden Centre - "Gardening weather at last. 

Pairs of gloves, pairs of shoes and pairs of pairs of pruners!"

Sue - 3 pairs of chairs looking out to sea in Tenerife

Gaynor - three photos from her recent trip to Oman:

You might have spotted that there are a few less participants this month - perhaps the topics are getting harder, people are getting busier or enthusiasm is gradually starting to wane which, after 70 topics, would hardly be surprising!  

Let's see what April brings - with our topic of:

"Corners"

WIT - 24th March 2025

Today was the 8th time we have played for the little trophy and we welcomed a few new people to the format and the competition:

As usual we drew the pairings at random at the start, resulting in the following pairs:

Paul & Anna

David and Caryl

Brian & Gill

Ken & Jo

The individual scores, after the round robin matches, were close - with the one set final ending up as:

Brian & Caryl v Ken & Gill

The finalists - Brian & Caryl v Ken & Gill

and, after what proved to be a very long and competitive final with lots of deuces, the final score was 7-5 in favour of Brian & Caryl!

The winners - Brian & Caryl - congratulations!

KIT - March 2025

We welcomed Kish today to his first ever KIT - the other players were:

Andy, David, Ken, Rosie, Emma, Gill and Angela.

The results, after the round robin matches, had two people tied for the second place for both the ladies and the men - so those finalists had to be decided by count back.

The usual one set final was then played:

The finalists - Gill & Andy v Rosie & David 

Congratulations to David & Rosie (winners for the 2nd KIT in a row!)

Wood - February 2025

 This month's topic was "wood"

Rowan & Eden - wooden elephants at Waddesdon Manor

Sue - "at the beach"

Meanwhle, Ken was a little closer to home, at Chawton House 

(and in much lower temperatures!)

John - the rather heavy cover to the air-con unit in our room at the Tanjong Jara hotel, which crashed down from about 9ft above at 3am in the morning! 

(Dungun on the East Coast of Malaysia)

John - a wooden sign!

Jan - John's collection of wood

Jan - a Cannonball tree in Malaysia!

Meanwhile, Don was in Thailand:

Don - wood maintenance on the decking around the pool

Don - wood carvings in the local market

Don - "the 3 wise monkeys" carved in wood

...... and here is Gill's version of "the 3 wise monkeys" from her trip to India!

Gill - three more photographs from her trip to India:

Sue - an interesting wooden structure at Los Silos, in the North of Tenerife

Keith - a wooden cross on a church in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote

Gaynor - Isaac Newton’s tree, Cambridge 

(missing, the Chinese with apples on their heads!) 

Gaynor - wooden dhow, royal yacht, Oman 

Gaynor - travelling and camping supplies, Oman

Kate - three photos from my visit to Welford Park near Newbury and it’s wonderful Snowdrop Wood(s). Spectacular! 

.... and to finish with, Steve takes us on a tour around a wonky wooden house near Congleton.  So wonky, he says, that it could make you feel seasick!

That's all for now folks!

 

...... apart from to tell you that our topic for March (number 70!!) is

"Pairs"

WIT - 24th February 2025

Today we had to cope with last minute illness as well as both rain & bright sunshine!

Many thanks to Patti for stepping in at the last moment to replace Tess.

This made for a line-up of:

Kish, David, Ken & Rob + Carey, Patti, Caryl and Gill

It was great fun as usual in the round robin matches with the final ending up as:

Carey & Rob v Caryl & David

The finalists - David, Caryl, Carey & Rob

...... and congratulations to the winners - David & Caryl

KIT - February 2025

Despite the dire weather forecast for this morning we decided to play - and were rewarded with almost no rain!  It was very cold though and I thought we did well to play! It was the right decision and we all had a lovely time, with lots of long rallies and closely fought games - and nobody slipped over!

The eight people playing today were:

 Andy, Arthur, David and Ken + Emma, Rosie, Caryl and Carey

The round robin matches were very competitive and the final this time ended up as:

David & Rosie v Arthur & Caryl

The 4 finalists - Caryl, Arthur, Rosie and David

It was a close final (and very enjoyable to watch from the warmth of the clubhouse!), with Rosie and David winning 6-4.

Congratulations to our two winners - Rosie & David!