Damn, no milk!

Just got into work. Made some coffee, but alas, there is no milk. What to do?

I played golf this weekend. A nice course in Mitcham, south London, appropriately named Mitcham Golf Club. I think the layout of the holes is fairly straighforward. The beauty of the course though is in the undulating fairways and tough lies just off the fairways. Also, it has the fastest greens of any course I have played in the area (I should note that I haven't played any of the hoity-toity courses around London). The kind of greens where you keep saying "but I only just tapped it" as the ball goes rolling past the cup.

The one drawback of Mitcham GC is that there are so many freaking rules one has to follow to play there. They even have a rule about the kind of socks one must wear if one is wearing shorts (the shorts must be uncreased and fitted).

To be fair, many of the rules are understandable and commonsense, like no spikes in the pro shop, but there are some which are just outdated and nonsensical. If you are on the putting green, you must not putt into a cup that still has the flag in place. They go so far as to underline that rule. Out-of-date rules still apply at MGC as well, like no hats when you are in the lounge area. That rule stopped applying in general society like forty years ago.

I suppose they are trying to keep to a certain high standard of conduct, but I think the high-browness of it all is negated if you can yell curses across the lounge and no one really seems to mind. Classy.

The socks, by the way, must be white and either pulled up around the calves or short, but they cannot be rolled down or crumpled.

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