Let me record the extraordinary month of December 2011, when our tennis was only interrupted for a mere two half-days. From my records over 14 years, the average number of days lost in December comes to about 6; so the one day of last year makes it by far the driest over this period. A reward perhaps after very rainy Decembers in the previous years of 2009 & 2010, but we certainly enjoyed all those blue skies! After a day of rain yesterday, we are again fortunate with a sunny sky........ you may have also watched beautiful evening skies. Here's a record of the last evening colours of the old year......
No doubt I was too busy playing tennis rather than describing what was happening in the Club these last weeks. Parents of younger children will remember end of term festivities; there were Laura's hockey matches - red, the prominent colour worn by many; you can see some of them below as buns & cakes were enjoyed.....
On a literary note now; some of you will have already read at least one of Robert Camuto's books on wine & vineyards, & the more recent one by another of our authors, Peter Wise, on an interesting medical scientist, Claude Bernard. Yet a new author has arrived on the courts under the pen-name 'George Cavendish': you will find copies of his thriller, 'Riviera Terminus' in the Club Office, & you may even find out his real name one of these days.
But, above all, don't forget to get some vigorous tennis in to start the year on the right foot; & then, of course replenish your energies after all that running about........ in your Club Restaurant!
Bon appétit!
