Tales of Corporate Hospitality at Sport – Part 2

Ah well, it looks as though I won’t get the chance to have my picture taken with Mr Green at Hampden today, as I have the chance of going to a friend’s house to mark his birthday with pakora, pool and a pint. With all due respect to Queen’s Park and their opponents, that actually seems a far more enticing prospect than a wet and windy Hampden.

However, I did want to add to my tale of corporate hospitality events with a non-football related one. If you read the first piece, you might not be surprised to learn that things did not run smoothly here either.

In either 1997 or 1998 (I forget which one) I was given two “corporate hospitality” tickets to the Scottish Open Golf at Loch Lomond. My employer at the time had the tickets for the full week, and I was offered them for the Thursday, being the first day of competition. I was delighted to accept, and suggested to my wife that she come with me. She had never been to a golf tournament before so the prospect of “hospitality” overcame that of “trudging round a golf course”.

The only time before I had been at a golf tournament as a sponsor’s guest was many years ago when the Scottish Open (then a tournament only for Scots professionals) was played at Dalmahoy. I was there as my father’s guest, and as his driver, so could not take advantage of the free and unlimited bar laid on by Dryburgh’s the sponsor.

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Did I Miss Anything Today? The Perils of Being a Blogger too Busy to Read Comments!

Well, I said to myself as I said down at the PC tonight with a fine mug of tea at my hand, I wonder if my references to the Conveyancing and Feudal Reform Act have calmed down the tube/tupe debate, and I wonder if anyone has had anything to say about JohnBhoy’s post?

About 90 minutes later, I have made it up to date.

I remember when I gave up on reading all the comments on RTC’s blog. I don’t manage to keep up with the comments at all on TSFM.

However, as this blog has my name on it, I need at least to skim over comments, if possible. I understand what I heard once in an email from RTC – namely that comments eventually hit a critical mass where it becomes impossible to screen them. For fear of that (and I am sure I am a long way short of RTC in readers) I have always taken the decision to trust people. I do not even have the patented RTC method of catching posts which included words like “hundred”, “shunned”, “hunter” and “chunder”. Unless you mention Rosencran*z, your post will usually go through.