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Golf "widows"
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LadyScozz | Report | 23 Mar 2015 02:58 |
any more out there? |
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Berniethatwas | Report | 23 Mar 2015 07:37 |
Are you sure it's not 3 days to play one round? :-D |
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LadyScozz | Report | 23 Mar 2015 07:40 |
It's 19th that worries me |
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AnninGlos | Report | 23 Mar 2015 12:07 |
These days it is not so bad for me. When younger and we had young children I used to get fed up with him being off all Saturday afternoon and sometimes into the evening and all Sunday mornings. However as we moved around he didn't play quite so much. Since we moved here and he retired (before I did), he is a five day only member, he was playing three days a week and, with us both being retired that gave us some space. He now at 76 finds that he can't carry so, when it is bad weather and trollies are banned he doesn't play more than once in the week. Trollies are back now so he will probably play twice a week, occasionally three. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 23 Mar 2015 12:29 |
all I can say is just be grateful you've still got him :-) |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 23 Mar 2015 15:21 |
Golf was invented by the Scots as a diversion from watching grass grow which it just about does in Scotland though slowly. It must be the most ecologically unsound and boring activity known. Quite why people devote great chunks of their time and income to it is quite beyond me. |
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'Emma' | Report | 23 Mar 2015 15:39 |
Rollo there are no water shortages here in Scotland |
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AnninGlos | Report | 23 Mar 2015 17:06 |
Rollo, maybe it would be better if you prefaced your posts with 'In my opinion'. Instead of writing them as if they are a known fact. Other people's hobbies are only boring to those who don't share them. I am really pleased that at 76 my other half can still play 18 holes which is roughly 4 miles. Hopefully it keeps him healthy. OK he is tired when he gets home and sometimes 'closes his eyes for fifteen minutes. But, for example today he then did a full load of ironing (something else you don't agree with I remember). |
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LadyScozz | Report | 23 Mar 2015 20:14 |
One story about how golf began.......... shepherds in Fife (near St Andrews) were bored, so they started hitting stones into rabbit holes.......and that grew into a game....... which was hijacked by the US :-D |
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Allan | Report | 23 Mar 2015 23:30 |
Scozz, the aprons are made of either lambskin or a synthetic material depending on how much you want to spend :-P :-D |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 23 Mar 2015 23:51 |
When it comes to Masonic Lodges, it's not surprising if people with similar interests or those linked to a common occupation end up in the same one. Both my father and father-in-law were Masons. They and the majority of other members of their Lodge(s) had connections with heavy engineering. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 23 Mar 2015 23:57 |
oops, my apologies to Masons........ and my grandad who was a HighPoobah, or some such title. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 24 Mar 2015 00:07 |
If its any consolation, my mother would have considered herself a Masonic 'widow' for a number of years :-D |
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LadyScozz | Report | 24 Mar 2015 00:34 |
Det ~ I would if I could, but my body won't co-operate :-( |
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'Emma' | Report | 24 Mar 2015 12:05 |
My father was a Mason and my mother was |
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AnninGlos | Report | 24 Mar 2015 13:05 |
I know very little about Masons but one thing I will say, our good friend (yes he was a golfing buddy of OH) was a Mason. Sadly he died three years ago and you couldn't fault how the masons looked after his widow. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 24 Mar 2015 13:06 |
OH is not a joiner of such things but we have also had friends before we moved here in The Round Table and Forty one club, Rotary and Lions. They all have their funny ways and cliquiness, but we were always made welcome at functions. And all do a lot for charity. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 24 Mar 2015 20:50 |
hmmmmm |
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Allan | Report | 24 Mar 2015 21:39 |
Funnily enough, I was in the Lodge Rooms yesterday and someone had dug out a trophy which is now on display. |