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Sunday 1st December 2019
On Sunday, the annual Digby Tap Pie (well Rillette) Competition was held. Some interesting and unusual rillettes were produced and although there was a shout of tactical voting, Steve was declared the overall winner.
When told of this, his wife Ginny was beside herself as the last thing she had told Steve, as he left the house, was ‘do not win that b****y’ trophy!!!’ How apt!
Another fun filled day up at Royal and Ancient Folke Golf Club ended with Sheridan being crowned 2019 individual winner. The team prize went to Sheridan, Skip and Dai.
Luckily Steve at Folke GC arranged the weather again as sunshine followed the groups around all day.
There was some great golf interspersed with some dreadful play! However the day will be remembered for some bad driving, of the buggy kind…landlord Olly had his clubs run over by his team mate and driver broken whilst an ex landlord of the Mermaid had buggy rage and broke a tee marker!
Our thanks to all at Folke and also to all the players that made it such an entertaining day.
On a glorious Thursday evening the Tap and Rose & Crown rocked up to Compton House CC for the first test. Luckily the Tap’s Mike Brearley styled captain, Nicks, won the toss and elected to field. This meant several members would not be incapable of doing so. Disciplined bowling limited the Rose & Crown to 162. The wickets were shared (Olly 2, Humpy 2, Nog 3) but the best bowler was Hannah (with 2) who totally outbowled her brothers, much to their chagrin!
The Tap openers, Ash and Gupps, got off to a solid start before Gupps was out. This brought Guy out to the middle and both he and Ash carried on the good work with both retiring having hit 50 runs. Humps strode out and immediately strode back in again and so it was left to the ‘chuckle’ Sargent boys to score the winning runs.
A great evening. Many thanks to both teams and also Stuart and Tess for looking after us.
I have a feeling that the R&C will be off to net practice if Lamby gets his way!
Next game Wednesday 24th, 6pm at Compton. Come and join us, if you can.
After a busy Ashen Faggot burning, Olly took the staff for their annual day out which involved driving like lunatics, fine dining and a couple of libations!
The Go Karting was eventful and as I did not win…enough said!! Well done though to Andrew, Tony and Charlotte for getting on the podium.
A quick minibus ride into Bristol harbourside for a meal (needed but I can not for the life of me remember the name of the restaurant) followed by several beers, table tennis and some dressing up in The Old Vic before the long trip home…all slightly quieter than when we started.
Our thanks to Tony for driving us around the county.
Another great celebration for the end of the festive season.
What seemed a very long faggot, again very kindly created by Pete, in fact did not take very long to burn.
We were regaled by Rich and his ‘home made’ band to an eclectic mix of songs and shanties.
Food was again needed (!!), our thanks to Parsons Butchers for the meat faggots.
Another great evening!
It is time to celebrate the end of the silly season (hooray!!) with the traditional burning of the Ashden Faggot.
Come and join us at The Digby Tap on Saturday 6th January 2019
We will be lighting the fire at 6:00pm. (took 5 hours ish to burn last year).
Traditional music from 7:00pm.
Meet faggots from Parsons and Mushy Peas.
Prizes for timing of lasty band breaking. (£1 per entry).