A long drive, a good day, but no cigar at Nottingham.

The 2½ hr drive and overnight hotel were all not in vain despite our loss to Nottingham Croquet Club on 27 April by 1-5 in our National GC Inter-Club Competition.
 
The positives were their excellent lawns (new last year) and hospitable welcome and convivial atmosphere during the day.
 
We should be proud of our performance against such low handicaps, -3, -2 and zero but we had a good few narrow results with half going to 7-5 or 7-6.
 
Our courageous team was Ian Shore, Rick Lilley, Michael Bowker and Richard Peperell.
 
There is always next year and if we meet Nottingham again, we will be playing at home.

​Richard Peperell