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Things That Gladden The Heart

Update on my new bathroom, Post 5197.

I just love the trust aspect of our local guys.
Lady Doon sends email to plumber to email him what we owe and she will pay it into his account.
Email comes back 'do you remember what I quoted you.' :love:
 
Played golf for the first time in 18 months, and with a borrowed set of “IKEA” specials…. It wasn’t pretty. Got my first par on the 11th, probably the toughest hole on the course, but had already had 2 birdies by then. Finished 16 over.

Happy but the back feels a bit stiff. Not sure it lit my candle but pleased I’ll be able to play when family and friends come out.
 
Hobbit said:
Played golf for the first time in 18 months, and with a borrowed set of “IKEA” specials…. It wasn’t pretty. Got my first par on the 11th, probably the toughest hole on the course, but had already had 2 birdies by then. Finished 16 over.

Happy but the back feels a bit stiff. Not sure it lit my candle but pleased I’ll be able to play when family and friends come out.
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Good effort - wish I could get round in just 16 over :). Take a couple of days out to see how you back holds up. But pleased you could make it - i know how much it would mean to play with your lad. (y)(y)
 
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Golf course closed because of wet weather but live baseball from 6pm UK time from a sunny Florida stadium that I've been to a few times. And my Rays go 5-0 up in the very first inning. Sod golf :-)
 
I used to work with a guy who always called it that just to wind me up. We had a work softball event and he kept going on about it so I offered to pitch to him. I was playing in the British Premier League at the time and could bring it around 80 mph and threw one pitch right past him. His underwear changed colour pretty quickly and he didn't call it that again.
 
Pathetic Shark said:
I used to work with a guy who always called it that just to wind me up. We had a work softball event and he kept going on about it so I offered to pitch to him. I was playing in the British Premier League at the time and could bring it around 80 mph and threw one pitch right past him. His underwear changed colour pretty quickly and he didn't call it that again.
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We have men's fast pitch softball in America, but it's increasingly rare.
It was far more common decades ago.
Men usually play slow pitch, a classic "beer league" game,
while athletic young women play fast pitch.

Softball is a great fun game.
Unless one is a seriously good athlete, baseball becomes a bit too dangerous for full grown adults. Perhaps more than a bit.
Even if you are really good, you're finished at forty.
People routine stretch softball out to fifty here in the states.
It's played socially/recreationally, and it's played in more serious competition as well.
 
I had the chance to play softball when I retired from British baseball in 2000 but chose to concentrate on golf. I achieved everything I could as a hitter, pitcher and then manager. It was time to hang up the spikes and glove for good.
 
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