Golf is a good walk spoiled !

This famous quote from Mark Twain is ringing in my ear as I am aching all over from yesterday's game at the Cleveland Golf Club in Redcar.

But! What is it about this game that can get you so addicted?
I am already looking forward to my next game, next week.

Next year, I am hoping to play with my old pals at Battersby Putters Golf Society and I am going to need the practice!

No problem! I only need to work on my Tee shots, using the driver, fairway shots, chips, short game and of course the dreaded putting!

The old excuses come out, I haven't played for 3 months [true, the last game I had was in the unbelievable surroundings of Bonville near Coff's Harbour in Queensland, Australia.]

A slightly different experience and climate to that of Redcar in December, it has to be said!

I am not used to the clubs, [true! I was using a new set of clubs given to Abigail].

It's a new course, [This is also true, I have never played at the Cleveland Golf , a links course.]
The only links courses I have played were near Dunbar in Scotland, more than 15 years ago!

Yet you know it will be worth the pain when you see guys of my age and much older, as fit as lops and flying around the course.

Things can only get better!

50 books to read before you Die, No. 12 Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson.

6 books on the go at once!
But , what a classic!
Without doubt one of my favourite films of all time, but I had never read the book!

Now I can't put it down.

'15 men on the dead man's chest!

Yo- Ho- Ho and a bottle of rum! '

It won't take long to read this book.

Great Ayton twinning Cake Stall

Anita and Sheila selling their cakes in Ayton to raise money for the Twinning Association.

Biet fait mes amies!

Jessica and her Mum in class

A few weeks ago Jessica and her mum and Serge visited us in class. we are discussing our project ' Amigos en Guadeloupe'.

E-Guides Sharing and Sharpening Award - Text from CHIPS [NIACE] magazine December 12th. 2011.

This year's E-Guides Sharing and Sharpening award was presented to Peter Samson from Middlesbrough with Runner up prize going to Elly Swanson of Derby. The awards which were sponsored by LSIS were presented by NIACE's patron HRN Princess Royal at Learning in a Digital World conference.
Highly Commended certificates were also awarded to Simon Waldron, Pamela Goodall, Lynn Preston, Pam Morgan, Theresa Rowland and Dominic White.

Australia August 2011

Fishing in the Creek at Coff's Harbour, August 2011, there is a pelican in the background. Fantastic memory!

Rolando Ugolini and Alan Peacock

Living Legends!

I met Alan Peacock and Rolando Ugolini at Uno Momento in Stokesley.

I thought that he would be fluent Italian, but he has the strongest Glaswegian accent that I have ever heard!

The Princess and I !

A proud day!

November 1st 2011

I was presented the E-Guide of the year Award by Princess Anne at the 'Learning in a Digital World Conference', which was held at the Mary Ward House in London.

Pak Doo Ik

PAK DOO IK

I have found this Spanish version of the famous match at Ayresome Park in 1966 when I was nowt but a kid!