After a fair bit of messing about (this web site uses a blogging and content management system called WordPress that I am struggling to learn) and consulting a useful book called ‘WordPress for Dummies’ we have got this web site up and running.

We have made good progress in the last week. Some of us had been thinking about forming a team for some time now, encouraged by Alan, but we have been a bit nervous about the idea, concerned about our standard of play and the time commitment in particular. However, Helen of POPP, who sponsors the Tuesday morning over 50s coaching sessions, came along to our session last week and offered to support us and her evident enthusiasm for the project swept us along.

We have nearly got the 6 players that, ideally, we need – 5 so far. Derek, Mieszek, Robin and myself, Terry, are relatively novice players but we are fortunate to have John joining us, an experienced player who has been round the TT League block a number of times and whose help and advice will be invaluable. There is a plot to persuade Helen to make up the full 6 – we live in hopes. Mieszek is our Team Secretary and Robin (who doesn’t know this yet as he went on holiday before we decided to go ahead with the team) is our Social Secretary. I have set up this web site so I suppose I am nominally the IT person but the point of choosing WordPress for the web site is that all the team players can be contributors and will be able to post news items and update pages very easily. Hopefully this will mean the site will be kept up-to-date. We shall see! We should be able to report shortly that the forms have been filled in, the team fully recruited and our intensive(?) training programme will have commenced. It may end in tears of course, but the journey should be exciting and it will keep us off the streets.