Scarborough ex-Tablers' Association
On a glorious summer’s evening (irony? Editor) 10 members from 41 Club, Farts and Round Table with 1 guest attended the annual 41 Club quoits competition on Wednesday 7 June at Beck Hole organised by our Club’s Sports Officer Darren. A member of the Beck Hole Quoits Club, Ivor, agreed to play making 6 teams of 2 players.
The only audience was a small flock of sheep who soon left for pastures new after witnessing the dire level of the quoit throwing which was so bad the Quoits Club members had to quickly cover the wood surrounding the clay pits with matting to avoid too much damage from the “woodpeckers” and “crabs” (quoits terms for the uninitiated) which were numerous.
After a delayed start to enable the players to seek refreshment from the Birch Hall Inn 4 of the scheduled 5 rounds of matches were completed before the midges became too much.
With the last round of matches abandoned by mutual consent everyone retired to the Birch Hall Inn for further refreshment (beer and pies) where Darren announced David A partnered by the ringer (another quoits term) Ivor to be the winners and who were both presented with a bottle of wine and a suitably engraved and beribboned gold coloured medallion reminiscent as someone pointed out to the ones which used to be handed out by a late and sometime Scarborough resident on a Saturday evening’s children’s TV programme. This may explain why the medallions were so cheap for Darren to buy!
Out of respect to the feelings of the other players the final places of the losing teams were not made public.
A good night’s entertainment enjoyed by all the participants save for the sheep.
Despite the presence of a large notice and recent history several players (name names) availed themselves of the neighbouring woodland to relieve themselves prompting a warning from the Quoits Club members that if they received a complaint from any of the neighbouring properties there would be no invitation to play next year. We have been warned!
41 Club Quoits Correspondent
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A merry band of eight gathered in wet conditions for the archery. We were unclucky with the weather. It had been raining earlier and so everywhere was a little damp. The weather picked up just as we started with expert tuition and practice session.
The competition divided into range targets and field targets . Half the group did targets and the other half the range, then to swapped over. Scores were been kept by the archery captain John Naylor.
For the first half of the competition we had glorious sunshine . We all took a break and had drinks and snacks laid on by the archery team. Then resumed the competition but sadly halfway through the second half the heavens opened and everything was rained off.
John decided to do an average score inorder to determine a winner. With only 4 points between the top 3 the results were
Winner. Darren
Second . malcolm
Third. Gordon
Afterwords we headed to the Poacher’s Barn for a pint and pub meal. The chef had stayed back for us.
Overall a good night was had by everybody .
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Twas a foggy night in Scarborough for Chairman Charlie Tipple first meeting. It was as usual the last club meeting before the summer break, we met at the Bike and Boot in the town centre near the Spa Bridge.
We were suitably accommodated in a separate room and following table grace we were served up a Tapas Style meal including a wide variety of food choices with an emphasis on fish including mussels and calamari.
There was a good turn-out but disappointingly a few empty chairs as ever.
Guests John Price and Andrew Hayes joined us for the evening.
We ended the evening with the toast to RTBI and were invited to re-group in September for the start of the autumn programme.
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Archery competition commencing at 6.30pm on Tuesday 16 May at Scarborough Archers. Osgodby lane. YO11 3SB. Coaching by Scarborough Archers on their practice range and in the woods nearby followed by a competition. Cost £20 each for the archery. Please let Darren Kellett know if you are attending.
Afterwards there will be a meal/drink at the Poachers Barn, Osgodby Lane. YO11 3QH
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The annual quoits competition will be held on Wednesday 7 June, 6.30pm at Beck Hole YO22 5LE.
John Morley and the quoits team are hosting the annual quoits competition which is open to all 41 club , round table and farts members £10 each going to their nominated charity air ambulance . Please let Darren Kellett know if you are attending.
Glenys the landlady at the nearby Birch Hall Inn has agreed to open for us if we fancy a post game snack and drink.
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Past Chairman Peter’s post hot off the press.
The recent medieval themed Aalten visit Saturday evening dinner at Ox Pasture Hall turned out to be a splendid, if somewhat chaotic, evening out. After a little light prinking at Chairman Charlie’s abode, your humble correspondent arrived in time to hear Table Chairman Dave Robinson deliver a speech detailing the understandable difficulties of organising such an event with only 6 members. The Aalten table is a little more fortunate with 15 members. 41 Club mustered 8 members and their significant others for the evening, although Dominic and Nicky Grunwell were accompanied by members of their family, and a visiting Dutch family. The acoustic medieval band played throughout, which left me wondering when they might get around to plugging in. Judging by the reception this comment received, this was something they had clearly heard before! So far the only thing that wasn’t medieval was the bar prices, which put a dent in several wallets.
The meal for the evening was enjoyed, and then after that the band insisted that all should do some medieval style dancing, an invitation that was enthusiastically taken up (by most).
After enjoying this, we got to the start of the ‘entertainment’ we had been promised. Scarborough Round Table’s presentation was a sword in the stone fantasy (well in this case not a stone, but a barrel), with the sword finally being released by the Aalten Chairman. The Aalten effort was difficult to decipher, being the visiting tablers lined up dressed in boiler suits, wearing enormous wooden clogs. They then proceeded to stomp the clogs in an increasingly frantic fashion. What did it all mean? Haven’t a clue. Anyway, the Aalten Chairman then delivered his speech, which was enthusiastically received. He then presented an enormous single clog, which presumably will now reside in the back of someone’s garage. Incidentally, I did notice that Charlie came home with a pair of the regular size large clogs, which he has promised to wear at the next 41 Club meeting (stomping optional).
Owing to alcohol being taken, this description only bears a passing resemblance to the actual evening, but you get the general idea. Overall a fun evening, and hopefully the whole weekend has nicely set up the next visit of the Scarborough Table to Aalten in a few years’ time.
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The May meeting, the first for Chairman Charlies will be held on Thursday 11 May at the Bike and Boot in Scarborough. Watch this space for more details.
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Yes, yet another year passes, and Chairman Peter was able to relieve himself (it’s an age thing!) of the office chain.
Duly smartened up (following a stern directive in the Newsletter about decorum, tradition, slipping standards, blah, blah,blah etc), some 21 members, and 1 due to be enrolled member turned up at the very accommodating Crescent Hotel for the AGM. Numbers unfortunately had been hit by a flurry of late apologies from members who had attended the Scalby Easter Walk and subsequently succumbed to COVID, but as John White had already pre ordered the free wine ( a very nice Fleurie and Pinot Grigio), the members who did attended decided the only honourable thing to do was to make sure none was left.
Secretary Mike took control of proceedings and following some very brief reports from the Secretary, the Treasurer, the catering officer and the membership officer, Darren, our sports officer was left with 35 minutes to fill! New officers were elected, as per the agenda. Peter, our outgoing Chairman, had the pleasure of enrolling Ben Kitto, a former 88 Tabler, and gave out some fancy French rose (with an acute accent over the e but I can’t find out how to do that without translating the whole page!) to all last year’s committee members.
He then gave a succinct report on how, and where, his year had gone. Peter then passed over the Chain of Office to Charlie Hindle, who then proceeded to tell us how his year would go (he hopes).
A good 3 course meal, supplemented by the plentious wine, enabled the rest of the evening to slip quietly into oblivion.
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At the recent AGM Charlie Hindle inherited the mantle of chairmanship for the 2023/24 year. Charlie is seen here taking over formally from past chair, Peter Calow.
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