Good Morning Early Birds

[murraymints]

Good Friday morning birdies xx and it's pooooring Doon...indoors with paper for me. Have a good one whatever you are doing xx

[Chipchopper]

Oops sorry Minty
I was a bit quick off the mark!
Hope it stops raining soon for you

[Buenchico]

Good morning, Minty.

It's beautifully sunny here. It was meant to stay dry throughout the night, so I hand-washed some shirts yesterday evening and hung them out to dry. Of course, just a few hours later it really chucked it down ;-)

[trainboy]

Morning minty xx same here very wet will go for paper without the boy as it is not nice. Same here for me inside Inthe dry.have a nice day anyway xx

[murraymints]

morning Chip xx could not get a signal earlier..wonder if something somewhere is flooding ? have a good one and you take care too

[murraymints]

morning Chris xx ah well 'tis always the way ! they will be extra rinsed ! off to bed wi'ye noo ! lol sleep tight xx

morning TBxx think it must be the same everywhere today..enjoy a quiet one with Benji xx

[Buenchico]

Very unusually for me, Minty, I got up about an hour ago!

I had a tiring day yesterday, ticking loads of things off my "to do" list, so I collapsed (still fully clothed) onto my bed at about 8.30pm (only to hear the rain pounding down on my washing outside a few hours later). So my day is now a more normal way round. I'll probably be shattered by the time I've got to run the Friday evening quiz thread though!

[DTCwordfan]

Morning all, got a risk of the occasional shower down here but set fair otherwise. Hoping it stays dry in Manchester for England to further their lead against Ozzie's mob and perhaps get them batting again by about 3pm...if it's dry in Manchester then it should be on the Wirral for the golf. A hell of a hole on the 17th with that new par 3. Played there just after 9/11 and it was in a 30mph wind gusting 60 - with a couple of my American colleagues, we were over for a global meeting and the club signed us in as their guests...we just happened to have had our golf clubs with us, having played a match against our ad and pr agencies the preceding sunday..... Got to the clubhouse afterwards for sarnies and a beer or two -and then found the club had picked up the tab as their contribution to helping we stranded refugees out.

[murraymints]

Goodness ! Chris well done ! Hope you manage everything without getting too pooped

[murraymints]

morning DT xx hope it stays dry for the golf..but...

[DTCwordfan]

tomorrow is when it looks grim for the cricket and golf, rain all day at Hoylake, wind not too bad at 10-15 gusting a little, ditto Old Trafford. That's why England have to score 150-200 rapidly - with 6 wickts still standing, get the Ozzies in and then hope that sunday allows some play, the forecast being 40 percent shower risk if some mop-up of wickets is needed and, possibly, a small run chase. Then to the Oval for the decider.

[murraymints]

It seems that the bad weather always waits for the sporting season to start !

[DTCwordfan]

Of course - but the the Open needs some wind otherwise links courses become much easier with the ball running as it does when the fairways are hard...when Rory M won at Hoylake in 2014, I think he played 14, then about 520 yards with a driver and wedge....this year they've upped it to 620

[murraymints]

I am not so keen on links..cross winds and balls on the beach . I must have deposited a small fortune on the shores at Nairn ! lol

[murraymints]

I suppose the reservoirs needed filling ..so must not complain..but it is summer..I think !

[DTCwordfan]

I love it...much better than parkland golf...the wind acts as a distraction to thinking about the swing - played my 'best' rounds with a hoolie such as an 82 at North Berwick with the wind, a north-westerly at 30 gusting 50 mph...it was as hard downwind as upwind as one had to get the ball to stop or at the 13th when one comes over that wall in front of the green. My drive was out there at 320 and I couldn't use a wedge from 80 odd yards in as the wind would have taken it off over the back - a little chip with a 7 iron and heart in mouth stuff just to clear the stone wall. The 15th, the Redan, was interesting too - a half-swing chip 6 iron for 180 on to the first spectacle and let the ball run out and down on the wind to 12 feet on the second spectacle. Missed the effing putt though!

[murraymints]

lol DT..that last foot is the most important shot !!

[murraymints]

Have you ever played Dingwall DT ? a charming wee course with an honesty box at the starting hut/box ..may now have gone the way of Persimmon homes...

[DTCwordfan]

No I haven't - use to have country club membership at Tain as we would holiday up there, played Dornoch, Golspie, Brora, Wick, Portmahomack, the Carnegie @ skibo and Bonar Bridge....

[murraymints]

many nice courses dotted around up north !! Dornich is a bit wild in the wind ! lol

[murraymints]

Dornoch !