11 Members present.

Apologies – those not present.

Meeting (as such).

The Chair proposed that we would concentrate mainly on the results given the absence of any kind of suitably qualified and experienced scribe/secretary/clerk/notetaker/PA/escritoire/administrator or even dogsbody.

Results: most efficiently prepared, and eloquently presented by Windscale, looking all the better on his return from Paddington Bear land.

No 2’s

Joint winners – Two beers and Scuttler with 40 points (each), 2 shot cut (each)

Runners up – Wellen and Windscale with 39 points (each), 1 shot cut (each)

Deputy Duffer – Crocodile with 34 points, 1 shot lift

Duffers of the Day Rabbi and The Chair with 33 points (each), 2 shot lift (each)

Swears £1.80

Geezer’s Cards £2.80

2’s carried over £2.20

Christmas Party Review – Pending

Imminent installation of wood burning stove noted.

Herbie returned the Christmas plate fully intact for presentation at the AGM.

Future events – Herbie proposed the possibility of a re-run of The Great Escape. Apparently, there are such things as ‘Escape Rooms’ – a form of entertainment where groups of like-minded souls, (having already taken alcohol) gather together (and pay good money) in the name of Team Bonding, to decipher clues which enable an escape tunnel to be dug. Once on the outside, further alcohol and curry as reward.  Proposal carried, with Herbie to investigate further. Crocs did ask whether handcuffs, manacles and ‘special clothing’ was required. Perhaps a special prize for those MOHGS resembling original characters, who remembers e.g.

Steve McQueen –  ‘The Cooler King’

James Garner –  ‘The Scrounger’

Richard Attenborough –  ‘Big X’

Charles Bronson – ‘Tunnel King’

Donald Pleasance – ‘The Forger’

James Coburn – ‘The Manafucturer’

David McCallum – ‘Dispersal’

Gordon Jackson – ‘Intelligence’

John Leyton – ‘Tunnel King’

Angus Lennie – ‘The Mole’

Spot the MOHGS

Apologies, but it is Christmas and well worth snuggling up with a mince pie and a glass of eggnog for another watch.

AOB

Yet another Geezer’s Cards issue. Scuttler raised the contentious matter of the timing of the allocation of a Geezer’s Card. Should this be immediately after the execution of a particular shot (e.g. ball landing in the trees, out of bounds, or in a bunker), sometime during the remainder of said hole, or at the end of the hole, or some other time. Memory was raised as a potential mitigating factor. Unresolved, clearly requires further debate and/or a ‘People’s Vote’. Backstop and Brexit spring to mind.

Belated Toasts – Magpies for pecking the eyes out of the Terriers, Windscale offering best wishes to one and all for Christmas. ‘Y sin embargo, otro magnifico hat trick para Lionel Messi: el numero cincuenta y dos.

Earliest tee time for next Monday – 10 am those present declined

Meeting ended on time.

A reminder that as of 1^st January 2019 MOHGS revert back to Club Handicap.

C.R. o’ Codile