Saturday 9th July 2011
Panic
right from the word go! Teams arriving by the minute from all directions, with
poor old Brian tearing his hair out because always-late Pete hasn't arrived
with the maps. But as usual he has a get out card by sending his faithful
servant Julia ahead, knowing he was going to be late, with the maps in her
speedy reliable car.
With
panic over Julia and I make peace with the eager, impatient mob waiting to get
started. With most of the work done Pete enters with all the excuses why he was
late.
I
don't think we could have picked a better evening. It was just perfect for a
nice amble around this delightful resort of Shanklin, with cryptic clues to
help you on your way.
All
clues were answered correctly - but not necessarily by the same team. So we
feel we set the right standard to get you all around the route and make it a
competitive challenge. We apologise for the "red on green question". The answer should have
been flags, but alas the flags on the putting green had been collected in by
the time we started you all !
Congratulations
to the Totland Tearaways who yet again showed their excellent skills by
claiming the top prize. Although in latter years they have been helped by their
secret weapon of Daniel. In second place were the J2O's , although they might
have been hampered by my granddaughter Leona. Also nice to see old timers the
No Hopers trying to improve their position.
Well
done to all the other teams. I hope you all enjoyed it and hope to see you all
again next year. The organisers
will be introducing a Red and Yellow card system to deal with some of the
comments made about answers to some of our clues. You must remember our decisions
are final !
Thanks
to everyone from Pete, the late one and Brian, the old one