On Friday Me, Joe, Nim, Hayley, Carla, and Sasha were at King's Lynn for the East Region annual dinner. No awards this time - Essex, and in particular Basford (who start pre-season training next month - are they mad?) more or less swept the board.
So the most notable event of the evening therefore (well, to be honest "the most notable event that I feel I can actually report") happened five days earlier when Joe mentioned (almost in passing) that the dinner was in King's Lynn - not Newmarket as it had been for the previous two years, and where someone (ah hem...) assumed it would be again. Now that would have been good...
Having trawled King's Lynn for an all-night kebab house (Hayley showing her sophisticated palate again!) those of us who returned home afterwards reached Letchworth around 2.30am. This is a significant fact because barely eight hours later on Saturday morning Hayley and Sasha were at Twickenham where they joined Fern in the role of teaching aids for a coaching demonstration by the England coaching staff. This was all part of the RFUW Conference, where Fern and her dad - Andrew - were "representing" us. Hopefully we'll get some sort of report out of them soon (I have asked).
Then today, as well as the trip over the border (see below) about a third of the U18 squad were on day one of the referees course (including Fern, Ruby, Nikki, Katie, Natalie, Jess, and Emily... I think. May have been more!) - thus we (again!) virtually rescued a training course at Letchworth which had would otherwise have been dangerously undersubscribed! What would the club do without us? As above, a bit of feedback from those who took part would be interesting, if only to encourage (or warn?) anyone else about how useful the course is.
And coming up next week there are several more meetings, and the following week even more meetings, plus day two of the refs course. Does it ever end?
Oh - and...
- Heather reports that our fixture list for next season is filling up fast, which is good news...
- And Mike's produced a really great advertising flyer for the team, which we hope to get printed in bulk thanks to the club - copies on display on the 13th unless you catch him (or me) earlier...
- And Joan Threlfall is working hard on the tour, using her local knowledge (so you might be able to guess where we are going!)...
- And Hayley, Carla and Tracey are planning the party (get back to them for ideas and any assistance you can offer)...
... so keep watching this space, although there is no rugby there is still a heck of a lot going on!
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