Camice and Julie Levy doubling the number of women in the photo

It didn’t look this tidy as we left

With the average ages and handicaps both the wrong side of sixty, Cambridge’s visit to Leamington on Sunday was never going to bring the crowds back. Those crowds, though, missed a fun day and, as ever with Cambridge, it ended in a 3-3 draw.

Perhaps the day’s highlight was a rather good, traditional Sunday roast delivered with over the table conversations that drifted from motorcycling daring-do (Norman Hyde, of course) via Texas Rangers (Julie Levy) to health in prisons (Alex Ridgeon) and back again this time via old skool policing (author) and finishing with more motorcycling before we were ushered back onto court a little late but well fuelled.

The day ended with the final doubles at 7 all, 40 all and the day still in the balance, until Alex was, as the perfect guest, politely beaten in the receiving end corner. The day’s marker was Jim Ludekens, late of Cambridge and now rather too comfortable at Leamington who could neither be bought nor intimidated. It was worth a try.

TK, aka Tony Revier