Signing off on 2010

As most of you now know a few days after the last posting on the Blog I suffered a brain haemorrhage. I was very lucky and am well on the road to full recovery. My biggest problem is fatigue and I've been very limited in how much I can do since. Mark and the rest of the committee were wonderful and kept everything going. My energies have mostly been confined to working on the campaign to bring Covered Courts to Elm Park. I am delighted to tell you that we have been successful - there was an overwhelming YES to the proposal at the AGM last Friday night. This is thanks to the hard work of the sub committee who researched the various options and came up with a viable proposal. That committee comprised Mark Sobczyk, Jack O'Keeffe, Alan Barrett, John Ryan and Pete Lowther. The Tennis, Green and Finance committees all approved and recommended the proposal to the Management Board who approved it unanimously. The next step was to make people aware of our plans and to convince them to attend the Club AGM and vote in favour. We had a fabulous presentation courtesy of Mark which we made on several occasions. This coupled with numerous phone calls made by the Tennis Committee and myself culminated with an attendance of some 250 members at the AGM which was incredible.

My thanks are due to each and everyone of you for your support throughout the year and especially for such a rousing endorsement of our work this year.

I wish Mark and Yvonne and the incoming committee the best of luck in 2011 - I've no doubt but that they will continue with the good work of recent years.

Over and out!

Linda