One of the biggest competitions of the year
If you’re one of the 180 members who signed up to play on Sunday, then please click here to read the format and details for the day. It’s going to be a lot of fun.
I always remember the first time I played in this event. I was led astray by Brian ‘Simmo’ Simmonds who sadly has now passed away. I was sitting on his table for the lunch and Simmo being Simmo brought along a flying monkey toy which makes a horrendous noise when you threw it. We’d had a few glasses of wine (hard to believe I know) and we were getting a little more adventurous throwing this toy and so, for some stupid reason I decided it would be a good idea to throw it at Stuart LaFrenais who was sitting on the next table, I completely missed him (not easy in itself), I also missed his table and watched in horror as it landed in the middle of another table across the room. I immediately knew I’d made a mistake as Ian Avory suddenly stood up not looking very happy. I quickly hid and thought I’d get my coat and P45 on the way out. I’d been at Tyrrells for just under a year and was really enjoying the job so decided to do the decent thing. I sheepishly wandered over to the table in question and spoke to Ian, the flying monkey had knocked over a glass of red wine…All over his wife Phyllis. I felt terrible, I apologised profusely and offered to pay for any dry cleaning and thankfully they both took it very well and accepted my apology. Brian and everyone on my table thought it was hilarious and took the mickey out me for the whole afternoon. It topped my day off when Nicky noticed Ian and Phyllis leaving that she was on crutches at the time, well done Rob. Welcome to the Christmas Competition at Tyrrells, but beware of flying Monkeys! |