Most of the winter was spent working for a company called Courtney Travel, owned by a guy called Jim Gaw. The work was varied, December for example consisted of primarily driving people to and from Christmas parties, going there they were great but coming home most of them were drunken assholes ! Most of my work involved working on film or TV productions, as said in previous blogs the job is about transporting whatever is needed from A to B. Mostly sandwiches and coffee etc. Some days you get an important piece of paperwork or extras to ferry A to B.
A lot of tourists ask do we play golf during the winter months in Scotland ? Well the answer is in the picture on the right which was the view from my hotel room, the 1st fairway on "The Championship Course" at Carnoustie. This was taken at 9am on Friday 4th December and if you look closely you will notice local members halfway down the fairway. So that should answer the question. However I would like to point out that we have just experienced the worst winter in my twenty years in Scotland. Shortly after this picture was taken it snowed and felt like it continued to do so until March. But generally we can play here during the winter months.
Yesterday I picked up my first golf clients of this season, they arrived weary and tired after a seven hours delay due to a technical problem with their flight from Toronto. Talking of delays I notice that Iceland has kindly donated more volcanic dust for our consumption. Is it not bad enough that they have the audacity to ask us to invest money in their bank and then decide to keep it, now they block our flight paths with volcanic dust ! Next thing you know they'll be sending us Puffins with learning difficulties so they can claim benefits here just to try and mess up our economic system even more ! I can live with that as long as they don't send Bjork back here !!!
Back to the real world my delightful Canadian fourball enjoyed their first round of golf on The Ailsa Course at Turnberry today followed by dinner at Wildings, which is just a five minute drive down the road. Tomorrow we have an early tee time at Prestwick and then we travel over to Edinburgh for a couple of days sightseeing.
Those of you who know me well you can stop laughing now !! Those of you who don't know and are kind enough to read this rubbish I'll explain when I meet you.
Remember next Saturday 3pm Blackpool F.C. play Cardiff, the winners are promoted to the premier league, fingers crossed its been a long wait since 1971.
