Golden Ball / George & Dragon - 25th July 2007

Run Report by Kate

I’m afraid this week we are back to good old English, Aude and Susie are a hard act to follow! Although you could if you wanted read the report below in a Devonshire accent, just a thought?

I think last night was the smallest ‘turn out’ I ever encountered in all the years I have run with the group. 7pm, alone in the windy blustery car park of the Golden Ball, I was consoling myself that I was possibly going to have a lucky escape and I would very shortly be able to further nurse the hangover I had suffered from all day following the highly competitive quiz night at the Prince of Wales, the previous evening. We should have realized how the evening would deteriorate when the first anagrams arrived and we all simultaneously took our glasses out! Alas, a sign of the times! However I did learn one thing, my ability to write and spell diminishes with every drink that I have, much to the annoyance of others. Although we didn’t win we at least didn’t come last and managed to beat the other ‘Andrew Milsom’ team.

Back to the run, with the keys almost in the ignition, Steve seemed to appear from nowhere and my escape was thwarted! Therefore with no map and a vague idea where we were going Steve and I set out, unaware at this stage we had narrowly missed Chris who had run from Radnage. Upon his arrival at the car park, he had seen Steve and I disappearing across the field and then spent the next 10 minutes trying to catch us up. Once regrouped we set off again. Quite a fast run, we arrived back at the car park after 45 mins, whereupon we made a rapid departure for the George & Dragon. Needless to say we sat inside the pub. Conversation was quite diverse, comments about how nice pubs are now people can’t smoke in them, 11+ and Grammar Schools, ‘Asymmetrical warfare', ‘Slackerdemics’, tax evasion and whose round is it?

Next week, 7pm the Three Horseshoes, Bennett End, we may have done this already so apologies if that is the case but neither of us were sure.
See you ALL there!!
Kate