Longer evenings, better weather….. great. I shouldn’t wish my life away but the change in time is like throwing off the yoke of a long cold winter. I really feel the effects of the cold and the lack of light (SAD Syndrome) and get a real surge of optimism as the evenings stretch out.
A colleague has left a golf club propped against his desk in the office and given my addiction to that sport the driving range will have to be visited tonight to start practising in earnest, for the coming season! It’s the same every year. Despite my annual new year’s resolution to practice long and hard at the floodlit range during the winter months I still arrive in April checking my stance, re-learning the Vardon grip and trying to swing through the ball instead of hitting at it.
I’m sitting here looking down Belfast lough this morning, and whilst the sun is not ‘splitting the trees’ it is glinting off the hull of the Seacat (fast ferry from Scotland) as it makes it way up the channel to its berth in Belfast docks. A very pleasant morning all things considered.
My lifelong urge to travel comes a close second to my golfing affliction in the amount of time I spend day dreaming. A much more pleasant use of my valuable time than concentrating on boring old work related subjects! The In-tray is pretty much up to date so, roll on lunch time and lets see if BA, Aer Lingus, Easyjet etc have any deals. With the credit crunch biting, actually going to all those places may have to wait, but since planning is almost as much fun as the actual travelling I think I’ll put a dollop of icing on this rather fine day and surf the travel sites for a while.
1 comment:
Hope you find a deal.
When standing on the first tee in Florida, I look at the blue sky and palm trees and think what a lucky sod I am at times.
I only returned last Thursday and although I'm ready for October when I go again, I'm also hoping there will be plenty of good golfing days here this summer.
Hope you get them too.
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