Some extra photos from the Charity Day tournament for Treloar's

Many thanks to the 16 players who each contributed to the culinary delight that was lunch and to Sharon and Laura from Treloar's who helped the day run very smoothly.

Thanks also to the various club members who donated prizes for the raffle and those members who bought tickets.

Working out the scoring!

Don employing a new, though not an entirely successful, tactic!

Post match analysis!
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Here are a few photos from the final:

The expensive courtside seats!

Hilary won the  top raffle prize of a HEAD racquet

One of Don's winning raffle prizes!

Rosie basking in her success!

Tennis for Treloar's charity day

£420 raised for Treloar's

This was the first ever charity tournament that Alton Tennis Club has staged.
16 of us took part in a very enjoyable round robin American tournament, with the final ending up as:

Geoff Westall & Rosie Fitt  v Ken McGowan & Gill Ward

Geoff & Rosie won convincingly, so many congratulations to them.

Before the final

Immediately after the final

The winners - Rosie and Geoff (+ Laura)

Geoff checking the wine out!

Here is what Treloars had to say about the day:
 https://www.treloar.org.uk/tennis-for-treloars/

Cycle ride 24th June 2019

The Magnificent Seven???

Ken, John, Jan, Angela, Steve, Geoff & Hilary had a very enjoyable cycle ride today from Alton to Alresford, via the minor roads and tracks. 
Ken,Geoff & Hilary started from Alton and met the others at the top of the forest track in Four Marks.
We had a super lunch at The Globe before heading back home - that bit was harder!

Walk - Monday 10th June 2019

Eight of us (John, Jan, Hilary, Geoff, David, Sarah, Alison, Ken) braved the forecast downpour and enjoyed a lovely walk around the Frensham pond area, followed by an excellent meal at The BlueBell in Dockenfield.

We were all so busy having a good time that I forgot to take a photo of us all - so you will just have to imagine what the photograph might have looked like!

Our "colour" photos for May

Our theme for May was "colour"

Angela - the tropical house at Wisley

John - the watercress festival in Alresford

Sue H - what a difference a spot of colour can make!

Ken - in the royal palace gardens in Aranjuez, Madrid

Ailsa - Stourhead

Don - "bucket & spade" holiday in sunny Paighton

Gaynor

Gill

Kate - display wall in John Lewis, Cardiff

Keith - The St Martins Temple in the Masonic Lodge, Guernsey

Steve - the entrance to Tesco in Oban

Jan - Exbury Gardens

Rosie - colour on the allotment!

......................   and our theme for June is "Doorway"

Photographs on the theme of " a distant view"

Our topic this month was "a distant view". 

Here are the images you sent in - there were a few less than usual, probably because I brought the deadline forward!  So, to make up for that, here is an extra photo of the Pink Moon (though it doesn't and didn't look pink!) or Pascal Full Moon on Good Friday:

Don - ‘Window cleaning office blocks in Houston is not a job for those who suffer from acrophobia’!

Gaynor - somewhere in NZ!

Gill - Frensham Little Pond 

 Helen - Longdown Wood

Sue H - Isle of Wight

Rosie - the view from Longdown Wood

Ken - on a walk near Alresford

Kate - the sunlight uplands from Windmill Hill

Steve - folks enjoying distant views from the Brighton Doughnut 

Jan - view of Penrice castle in the Gower.  You can't see the sea as storm Hannah is approaching!

Ailsa - Port Launey, Mahe, Seychelles.  It is a marine national park.

As it is such as stunning image, here it is again (below) in panoramic view!

John - Swansea Bay (+ Jan!)



........  and our topic for May is "colour" - you get a full month to use this time!  

Our "wildlife" photos for March 2019

Wildlife was our theme for this month:

John - Oxpeckers doing their bit to clean up a giraffe

Ken - Great Crested Grebe at Langford Lakes (near Stonehenge)

Angela - Heron on Kennet and Avon Canal Bath

Ailsa - “There once was an ugly duckling.....”

Jan - a water buck in Tala Game Reserve in South Africa 

Don - a rare visitor to my garden!

Steve - Egret at Avalon Marshes

Keith - sheep and lambs from our bedroom window in the late afternoon sun

Sue H

Gaynor - my pet praying mantis, Jeff

Helen - Bunbun - wild at heart! 

Rosie - "busy bee"

Gill - waiting for food at Lyme Regis

Kate



... and the topic for April is "A Distant View"