After a few weeks of sporadic appearances it's a full house of Muffins for the penultimate match of the Summer 08 season. Nice and bright, the day holds much promise and even a somewhat unsavoury discussion about the state of Fat-Boy's bed sheets fails to "dampen" the collective spirits.

Even Brett, who generally looks like a man who started out with nothing and has still got most of it left, is in a positive state of mind.

The aforementioned Fat-Boy sends out Cutie-Cutie, Nance, Tate and DJ to be followed by himself, Turbo, Mr. Grumpy and Brett. On the 1st hole, Fat-Boy collects the first camel of the day - unusually from the first left-hand bunker by the fence on the 18th fairway (from where he still gets down in 5 nett 4).

As early as the third hole it's clear that the lead team are on-song and their birdie-fest is opening up a healthy lead. At the sandwiches it's up to 5 points largely the result of a stunning 24 points from Tate. Hoping that this will prove to be the standard "game of two halves" the following team redouble their efforts but it's all to no avail as the 5 point deficit becomes 10 by the end. A unique blob-free round by Mr. G is marred by the collection of 9 camels. Nance also picks up 9 and 4 OOB's are shared by Turbo and DJ in a ratio of 3:1. Fat-Boy courageously de-ducks on the 5th.

Tate's 40 stableford points beats Nance's 39 for the ten points.

Mr. Grumpy's Guide to Zen - No. 3

"Remember the darkest hour is just before dawn, so if you are going to steal your neighbour's milk and newspaper, that's the time to do it".