Sussex Interclub HFT - Round 4 Sunday 3rd June

[biggles]

Well done the Swallows crew who helped lay out the course today. Mostly ready for tomorrow - especially for our esteemed course checkers, to show me what's wrong

i knew there wouldn't be many of us working, but hadn't counted on perhaps my most HFT savvy 'senior' calling in sick with man flu (hope you're felling better soon, Dave), and others with unexpected family commitments.

As a result, the woods section - all 23 lanes of it - were put together by yours truly and young Eli. Sadly, he'd dressed for the occasion in knee length shorts, which left me to hack my way through the 6 foot high nettles and brambles inside the wood. Rarely have I cursed stings so much; just as well I wasn't paying per oath, as I'd surely be a poor man by now Gerry and Stu have constructed the field lanes, so I shall have to check these especially carefully first thing. While they had my detailed instructions to hand, they are both known to 'stray' from rules - just for the fun of it

After that amount of effort by the four of us, I can assure you that - perhaps never as stringently as before - Rule 7 will be invoked to the max.

I suppose we should be happy that the rain held off for pretty much the whole day, but it started soon after I got home, so I would not be suprised to find that obstacles beaten or hacked down will have miraculously grown or bounced back overnight, and the odd overhanging branch dipped by a foot or three.

Apart from feeling knackered, I'm now showered, fed and watered and won't be long before I get my head down. Just got to make sure the laptop is charged and slice up all the scorecards.

Should anyone arriving at 8am notice that I'm not around, PLEASE CALL me. It probably means I've overslept

See you shortly.

Biggles