Lucy Etherington gets into the swing of things down at the golf club
I so did not picture this when I moved from London to the countryside. Hens, yes. Baking, yes. Even jam making (did it once). But golf? It doesn’t quite fit my image of ‘country idyll’. It’s anathema of rural hipster. I’m not retired, no one I know plays, I never watch it on the TV, and, to be honest, I’m a bit golfist. Everything I think about golfers is summed up in one man: Donald Trump.
But one day my friend, head of the Suffolk Women’s Equality Party, told me our local club was offering free golf lessons for ladies. It’s strange what passes for amusement these days.
To be fair, I’ve often driven past golf courses thinking, that must be a nice thing to do, wander about hitting a ball with your chums. But golf clubs have the same kind of rep as dark alleys. The free lessons for ladies are part of an initiative to change this. Thus, for the past few Saturday mornings, nine other women and I try to hit some balls (lessons one, two and three) straight (lessons four and five) on a long stretch of grass. I don’t know what it’s called, but yesterday I noticed it had flags on it and managed to hit one.
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‘Look at me!'
Jan planned a modest start to 2020. It’s not going well.
Treasure Island
Lindsay Want goes on a walking adventure around Somerleyton on the ancient island of Lothingland
New beginnings
In the bleak, dark days at the start of the year, life stirs
In black & white
Felix Aldred follows the fortunes of a family of oystercatchers on a Suffolk river estuary
Hot dates
Mark your calendar for some important milestone events in 2020
Applause, applause
Bury’s Theatre Royal, the only Regency theatre in the UK, is a hidden attraction that deserves to have its name up in lights
2020 vision
With the New Year upon us, heralding opportunities for change and renewal, we asked some of Suffolk’s leading lights about their hopes for the county and their personal ambitions for the coming months.
Dreaming Of A White Christmas
Maxine White and Ady White (not related) make Christmas happen. They’re possibly Suffolk’s closest thing to Santa’s elves.
Food From The Heart
It’s ten years since Justin Sharp opened Pea Porridge in Bury St Edmunds. He’s still proudly delighting customers with simple, satisfying seasonal food, brimful of flavour
An All Together English Walk
Lindsay Want takes a seasonal family stroll around the parklands of Huntingfield and Heveningham