With your regular scribe away on the road to Gallivant, I find myself thrown off the comfortable subs' bench to report the pre-Easter meeting of the Dragon Club.
[With notes like this from the regular scribe]
The unfortunate incapacity of Maggie, who broke her wrist in a dog-walking-related incident, meant that Indie (apparently not suffering any Maggie-walking-related injuries) arrived accompanied only by Mike. Mike surveyed the book to count the shell holes put into his repertoire during last week's Mikeless free-for-all, but had no difficulty in beginning with a couple of
Keith Marsden songs –
Idlers and Skivers and
The Drovers.
We welcomed our old friend Joe, accompanied by his chauffeuse
[Josci], on their first visit to the new site. Although he had not brought any song texts with him, he took the lead in singing
Swing Low Sweet Chariot, eked out by other verses contributed by assorted (probably) ex-rugby players. This was enough to qualify him as one of 8 performers among the ten people present.
