Sun 7th July, Hunstanton Reporter: Martin
Three Ashby players and one wife travelled in one vehicle to Hunstanton on July 7th to compete in the Murphy Shield where we met up with Jane and Paul who had stayed locally with the camper van.
Our journey was going well until we encountered the dreaded loose chippings for 5 miles just outside Kings Lynn which made our arrival very close to the 11am start.
It was a fine day for playing croquet and we even had some spectators!
In the morning matches, Ashby were in front 2 to 1 thanks to our doubles team of Chris Mounfield and Jane Tewson and Ray Mounfield in his singles; Martin lost!
The afternoon matches gave wins in the singles to Ray, Jane and Martin, unfortunately Chris lost!
So Ashby won 5 to 2.
Paul had to go out to fetch lunch as our hosts had not provided the promised catering; not good.
Our return journey involved an overnight stop in the Kings Lynn Premier Inn, then via Pinchbeck to Bourne. Chris visited more charity shops that day than she had visited in her whole life, my fault.