Housing developments.....

Bonjour!

Well, where to begin??? It's been a continuation of painting, cleaning, scrubbing, washing, hoovering, discarding, clearing and filling!!!! But, the house is definitely coming along now and we are all set to move in properly this weekend. I have a drive a bloody 'gert' big van all over the place all day to pick up and drop stuff off. The excitement is that it is all nearly over and the trainisition will be complete. I have been staying there most nights as it is closer to work which is nice as I get more sleep when I am on an early shift. It's all good and very exciting.

Back to the golf, inevitably! I played my penultimate competition of the year last Friday in the South Region Assistants and Trainees Championships at good ol' Clandon Regis!
The morning round was going smoothly until the last 6 holes in which I managed to reel off 3 double bogeys to finish with 82 which was very disappointing and didn't leave me particularly motivated for the afternoon.
I began the afternoon pretty well though and was -2 through my first 7 holes on the tough back-nine there and then made 2 bogeys to turn in level par. Then I played a couple of sloppy shots but generally reasonably steadily for +2 on the front-nine to shoot 74. I decided that I had to be delighted with this, as I finally managed to shoot a reasonable score in a tournament for the first time this year and it felt like a stepping stone. I have one pro-am left in a couple of weeks at Seaford Head Golf Course and it would be great if I could play well. We will see. Once the move is over I have a couple of weeks to prepare myself properly.

That's about everything I think. Ta Ra!!

Kent Open and the NEW HOUSE!!!!

I won't dwell too much on the Kent Open aspect of this blog. All I'll say is that I shot 78 (+6) in the morning in very tough conditions which marked my best score in competition this year and then abandoned my afternoon round after 9 holes due to abysmal weather and also the desire to avoid the golfing demons emerging as I was beginning to feel it. For perhaps the first time ever in my golfing career, I've got my temporament well managed on the golf course so I wasn't gonna allow one bad round to ruin all the good work I've done lately. Hence, I felt abandonment was my only option in this case (and my playing partner was happy to oblige also).

I played 36 holes on wednesday this week. I shot 70 (-2) in the morning at Hollingbury and then 77 (+5) in the afternoon at The Dyke. To have a +3 total for the day felt pretty good as I haven't been performing very consistently of late and managed to keep a double bogey or worse off my card the whole day.

So, to the big big news. We have now finally exchanged, completed and done on our house!!! We even have the keys and been in and started cleaning. This is mega exciting as it has been such a long time coming. The house is great! It's such a weird feeling to walk in and think 'I own this!' but it's very cool. I spent the night there last night which was awesome. My first night in my first house - woohoo!! And thus the moving process begins. I am going to start painting this weekend hopefully and then we will get furniture soon and begin to get everything in. We are in a nice road in a nice area and the whole place seems very peaceful which is always a relief when you move somewhere new.

Anyways, this is all still in the embryo stage so I'll try to write weekly to document the progress.

Till next time....