[Bill_McBride]

Mike Whitaker told me today that he is coming for sure.

[Stan Dodd]

Ok.  I'm in and looking forward to it if there is room.
I have been so busy loafing that I have not made any lodging arrangements other thatn the Dormie House at Porthcawl.  anybody have any leads for me.
Thanks
Stan

[James Boon]

Bill and Stan,

Thanks for updates.

Stan,

Have you checked this thread...
http://golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,42467.msg909060/#msg909060
For reference, Ben S and I are staying at The Coast House.

Cheers,

James

[Scott Warren]

What are people's plans for the morning? Playing elsewhere? I figure if I am heading out it could be worth making the most of it and playing 36 if possible.

Any games planned with possible room for another?

Or perhaps anyone who might be into playing The Channel Course at B&B in the AM? (a princely £5 on top of the afternoon green fee!)

Throw some ideas at me...

[Bill_McBride]

What are people's plans for the morning? Playing elsewhere? I figure if I am heading out it could be worth making the most of it and playing 36 if possible.

Any games planned with possible room for another?

Or perhaps anyone who might be into playing The Channel Course at B&B in the AM? (a princely £5 on top of the afternoon green fee!)

Throw some ideas at me...

A handful of us will be driving from Deal to B&B Thursday morning.  A morning round is a worthwhile sacrifice!

[James Boon]

Scott,

I wasn't planning anything for the morning other than travelling down to Burnham. I've another golf trip the previous few days so its all looking a bit hectic. However the Channel course will be a good warm up and its possible a few more may join you. If you do get a few together, I'll talk to the club and let them know you are coming.

 I suppose the alternative would be to stop off at a small village between Gloucester and Stroud and wander up to the Beacon?

If anything else gets sorted for the morning, I may decide to give it a go a bit nearer the time, but at the moment, I can't really commit to anything.

Cheers,

James

[John Mayhugh]

Scott,
Jason Topp & I were going to try to play at Painswick, but I suspect that's a little too far out of the way for you.

[Scott Warren]

The train actually goes straight there from London Paddington (well, to Stroud, 3-4miles away). If I could get a ride to B&B that could work?

[Melvyn Morrow]

Scott

Being in Minehead for that week, I was considering coming over to B&B but noting your comment in your recent post, I do not think that you would be tolerant enough to mix with an intolerant individual like myself, so will probably proceed west to Royal North Devon assured of a warm welcome.

Trust you all have a good time and I expect you will show the locals a little consideration if they do not agree with your point of view, remember you are the visitors, so therefore their guests.

Melvyn   

[Sean_A]

Scott

Being in Minehead for that week, I was considering coming over to B&B but noting your comment in your recent post, I do not think that you would be tolerant enough to mix with an intolerant individual like myself, so will probably proceed west to Royal North Devon assured of a warm welcome.

Trust you all have a good time and I expect you will show the locals a little consideration if they do not agree with your point of view, remember you are the visitors, so therefore their guests.

Melvyn   

Melvyn

First off, there is no need to bring your petty differences into this thread.  Secondly, instead of threatening to drop in on GCA events, why don't you make the plunge?  On this site you come across as a high maintenance sort of chap.  I am sure you would get on with folks on this site in person and I am equally certain you are a reasonable and good natured chap.  Turn up and shoot the shit.  What have you to lose?

Ciao

[James Boon]

It doesn't matter if its Buda, pre-Buda or some other event, meeting up with other guys off this website has been great fun so far, so I can't wait to meet a whole bunch of new chaps this September! Come one, come all! So Melvyn, why not come along and say hello?

Cheers,

James

[Melvyn Morrow]

Thank Sean, but do you not consider that an intolerant high maintenance sort of chap has already been judged and condemned even before being introduced to anyone.

Melvyn

[Mark Pearce]

Melvyn,

Stop being so bloody sensitive and get yourself along, you'll be more than welcome.  That's what Sean was inviting you to do and he wouldn't have done that if he didn't mean it.

[Melvyn Morrow]

Gentlemen (or boys as perhaps is more apt)

What has happened, have you all lost your sense of humour. I thought my play on words would penetrate the smog of this web sites but alas no.

I am worried, if you can’t understand a humorous post how can you understand GCA or better still the underline design element of some of the old courses. What’s that you say, what design element? That the whole point there is one, even TOC has one if not more, but we seem just to wound up to notice.

Chill, throw away all the modern crap and just go and play golf. Remember your youth, the pleasure of an enjoyable fumble in the bed by yourself (before any experience with girls), that’s the satisfaction, self generated that you need to re-experience on a golf course. Then perhaps a real sense of humour may return between the shouts of yes, Yes, YES. Don’t forget that pleasure can be faked just like some courses, leaving one feeling just as cheated with no sense of humour (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nNhOH4Y0bI&feature=related) which might explain the attitude of some on this site. But then again perhaps not.

The ability to laugh and at ones self is an important part of being a golfer IMHO.

Melvyn

[John Mayhugh]

The ability to laugh and at ones self is an important part of being a golfer IMHO.

I've met Scott Warren, Sean Arble, & Mark Pearce.  All seem to have a very good ability to laugh at themselves.  Your "I'll just go somewhere that I'm wanted" post was not funny. 

If you haven't been introduced to anyone from the site, it's your own fault.  Please either come to an event or quit talking about why you will not be coming.  Despite your efforts to convince people otherwise, you are as welcome as anyone else.

[Melvyn Morrow]

John

Thank you. Did I say "I'll just go somewhere that I'm wanted", which post did I use those words as I can't remember. I thought I said where I would get a warm welcome from RNDGC. My point was not 'somewhere that I'm wanted' as it was not to make a potential hostile situation worse. Your interpretation was some what off my meaning, but then what is new, some seem to jump to conclusions before checking the real intentions or means of a post and not just mine.

Seems its the old story of shoot first and ask questions later. So if you cannot find that statement you mentioned "I'll just go somewhere that I'm wanted", then I did not say it and you are perhaps wrongly accusing me. That I do not find funny.

Others on this site have made me most welcome and held out an open hand of friendship which when possible I like to reciprocate.

I am sorry you have taken a different meaning from my post and I wish you well

Melvyn
 

[mike_malone]

 Melvyn,

    I can't think of another British GCAer I would rather meet in person than you. I'm a rather rare bird myself. I'm the same in person as I am on the site

[Eric Smith]

We're all friends here Melvyn.  It does seem the wires get crossed on occasion, but let's try to make a go of it this fall with the G12 Summit at Burnham and Berrow.  I hope you'll come.  And if you do decide to make it, would you mind swinging by LHR that morning and picking me up?  I get in at 6:35AM.  I'll bring you a wonderful care package!

Cheers,

Eric

[John Mayhugh]

Seems its the old story of shoot first and ask questions later. So if you cannot find that statement you mentioned "I'll just go somewhere that I'm wanted", then I did not say it and you are perhaps wrongly accusing me. That I do not find funny.

My deepest apology for attempting to paraphrase what you said and improperly using quotation marks in the process. 

You said that "I do not think that you would be tolerant enough to mix with an intolerant individual like myself, so will probably proceed west to Royal North Devon assured of a warm welcome."  Saying "I'll just go somewhere that I'm wanted" is how I interpreted it.  I suspect many people would interpret your words similarly.  I'm not sure how you believe this is some sort of accusation, but it seems the old story of "shoot first and ask questions later" applies. 

Ironic that you would talk about not finding this funny when just a few posts before you lectured people on the need to have a sense of humor. 

So I can avoid misunderstanding you again (at least on this topic), could you answer a few questions:

1.  Did you ever intend to meet up with the Buda players at Burnham & Berrow?

2.  Have you changed your plans based on what someone posted on here?

3.  If so, why?

[Bill_McBride]

Melvyn, I will also be at Burnham & Berrow that day after driving from Deal in the morning, and hope you will come by for at the very least a pint or a malt after we finish approximately 5 p.m.   You will have a few Americans to meet and learn that we are pretty reasonable chaps in person if not always in cyberspace.

And I owe you a few drinks after the lovely bottle of Glenmorangie you left for me in Tain a couple of years ago!   

I for one will be extremely disappointed if you don't stop by for a drink or two.

[Melvyn Morrow]

John

My initial reaction to your last post reply # 43 was to ignore it, but to do so would convey my agreement or frustration at your comment. Neither being the case.

I only realised last week-end that we would be in the area that week in September and my comment was directed at Scott alone. That statement I thought was very clear "I do not think that you would be tolerant enough to mix with an intolerant individual like myself, so will probably proceed west to Royal North Devon assured of a warm welcome."

As not playing I would be a bystander while Scott would be playing. Having made his previous comment about my so call intolerance, I did not feel he would be willing or happy to associate with me and my attendance could distract from his enjoyment on the day. That certainly is not or would not be my intention. So he may not welcome my presents where as at RNDGC I have friends.

There is a difference between your interpretation and my meaning, I was trying to be considerate by not ruining Scott’s day. It had nothing to do with "I'll just go somewhere that I'm wanted".

John, you and perhaps others just keep jumping to your own conclusions, all I ask is that if you are not certain of my meaning just  Posting, PM or E-mail me and I will happily clear the air.

In answers of your questions,

1. Yes when I realised I would be in the region that week I was considering popping over to say
    Hi until I noted Scott and his comment about intolerance. As I said I do not think that it would 
    have been a wise move with that sort of preset attitude. Also Minehead is roughly halfway
    between RNDGC & B&B
 
2. I was considering it as I do not normally seek hostilities when attending a golf club and for 
    further information I would point to my last sentence in Point 1

3. I believe Point 1 explains the why

I am just an ordinary bloke, nothing high and mighty about me or my life style. As for my golfing life, well yes its does differ from the large majority, it has been part of my life from the moment I formed a memory, my life was all about golf & St Andrews. What many on this site and around the world want is to visit the Home of Golf, but you seem to forget its my Family home it has been for centuries.  I have been close to golf and its history than the majority of golfers so yes I have a passionate view of the game and its traditions. Many say I rant or I lecture, yet my own feeling is that I only convey my opinion on a discussion group of 1500.

Do I have my faults, most certainly I do. For all of them I have been true to my beliefs, I have honoured the spirit and traditions of the game, which is more than can be said about many on this site alone. Example riding a cart clinging to the excuse that its just too hot to walk, well I have played Africa, India, and many of the tropics regions, years before carts were exported to these areas and survived.

Yes I have faults, I may even be intolerant at times, yet have I not been extremely tolerant of Pat Craig with his constant personal attacks upon me.

Let me dig my own verbal grave without your assistance as clearly your book of Morrow Translations is not up to date.

Melvyn
 

[Scott Warren]

Melvyn,

Please don't make this about me. And please don't assume that because I called you intolerant in one thread that I would be bothered or put out if you came along.

If you want to join us at B&B, let me join the chorus of folk saying "please do". If you decide instead to spend the day at 'The Ho!' (I have been so moved by Spaulding's name for his club that I now seek to pay tribute wherever the result is the slightest bit catchy ), I hope the sun shines and the single malt flows freely.

Cheers, Slaunche, Stainte, Prost, Oopah etc,
Scott

[Melvyn Morrow]

Scott

Thank you, and no its not about you but being seen to be considerate to ones fellow man, even if he does comes from the upside down wrong side of the world

The word is Fellowship not confrontation.

Melvyn

[Mark Pearce]

Melvyn,

Look, let's not pussy foot around here.  Many of us have had differences with you on threads here, however, I for one (and I suspect the majority of the others) would really like to meet you, to put a face to the name and to have real rather than virtual conversation.  That's the way a lot of us have come to know each other better and to understand where we each come from.  You would be more than welcome at B&B.  Indeed, if you were to come along I would change my possible status to definite.

Obviously you should do whatever works best for you but please don't think, or suggest, that not attending B&B is an act of consideration to anyone on this board.  We'd love to see you.

Mark

[Bill_McBride]

Scott

Being in Minehead for that week, I was considering coming over to B&B but noting your comment in your recent post, I do not think that you would be tolerant enough to mix with an intolerant individual like myself, so will probably proceed west to Royal North Devon assured of a warm welcome.

Trust you all have a good time and I expect you will show the locals a little consideration if they do not agree with your point of view, remember you are the visitors, so therefore their guests.

Melvyn   

This thread certainly took a wild turn when MHM posted the above #33........why even make such a post unless the idea is to stir up the juices unnecessarily?   To paraphrase, I'll be in the vicinity but wouldn't dream of coming by because Scott will be there and said something I didn't like recently.  But just wanted you all to know.....

In some ways reminiscent of a Monte Python or Fawlty Towers skit!

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