Club stripped socks

Look what I've managed to find

I have been overwhelmed recently with communications relating to Club kit, which usually read “I know you have provided the club with two issues of t-shirts, numbered rugby shirts, club blazer badges and ties Chairman, not to mention arranging with Godfrey Sports the resource of an on-like kit supplier who will pretty much make anything we require, but when are you going to get round to finding a supplier of green and white hoped socks suitable for a dress-down Friday or recreation weekend wear?” Well worry no longer, as the supplier of club ties, Messrs Ryder & Amies of Cambridge now stock the aforementioned items as pictured above. The only drawback is that you have to ask for them under the name of “Queens College” cotton socks and pay £7.50 a pair for the privilege, but you have the Chairman’s assurance that the socks are splendid addition to a chap’s wardrobe. One size fits all, unless you are female, a junior member or have particularly odd feet. Well, I'm only human, after all!

Ryder & Amies

22 King's Parade

Cambridge CB2 1SP

(01223) 350371
sales@ryderamies.co.uk
www.ryderamies.co.uk

Bradman Carter knock's 'em for six

The Adeliade Carter's, WRC

They seem very happy, don't they?

Doesn't Ruby take a splendid photograph?

Just in case you have not had an opportunity to inspect the latest member of the WRC, the Chairman in delighted to reproduce digital representations of the Matilda Charlotte Carter WRC, Keeper of the Queen’s Fowl with her family fresh from nine and a bit months of incubation. Not only does the Chair of the Wines and Spirits Committee look fresh as a daisy, but Ruby looks delighted by the new arrival, in addition to looking rather like her Father at a similar age. Some splendid images, I’m sure you will agree.

Welcome Matilda

It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it

"Now look Chairman, aren't you taking this a little too seriously"?

There is nothing your Chairman likes more than welcoming a new member to the Club. Well, apart from when the Captain tried to stage a coup and inflict more new members on the Club than there are blackened faces in Lincolnshire on your beligured Chairman. However, in much the same way as another famous Chairman might have done (you know the one – China and all that), such an uprising was rapidly quashed when the Chairman sent the tanks down to Brighton and hushed up the resultant bloodbath. It only came to a “peaceful” conclusion when the Treasurer came out with the WRC flag and pleaded with the Chairman to stop being such an idiot, but there you go. As the Captain always says, the Treasurer knows best. Or should that be the long haired Sergeant Major, as he invariably refers to his delightful wife.

SO, the Chairman is delighted to formally announce the arrival into the world and into the WRC of Matilda Charlotte Carter (to be known within the family as “Bradman” as a result of her famous cricketing initials, I gather), who as a result of being knobbled by her parents and the Chairman at an early age (in much the same way as recreational left-footers reclaim errant Catholics in their dying moments by saying “twitch” if you repent all of your sins), has accepted with “much pleasure” a position within the Witham Rowing Club, much to the delight of the Chairman and no doubt all of the membership. However, which position is she to fill? WELL, it has been a source of considerable worry to you Chairman that the position of the Keeper of the Queen’s Fowl has long been a neglected one of great importance to the long term survival of the Club, as in much the same way as if the ravens leave the tower of London, the WRC might start moving away from Lincoln…. OK, well that bit doesn’t work, but it will give Matilda a close link to the Witham and one of her grand parental homes, and will hopefully not prove to be too much on an onerous position for one so small, as swans are fairly self sufficient and relatively plentiful in number. Welcome to the WRC Matilda – the finest non-rowing club in all the world. And well done to the Chair of the Wines and Spirits Committee for the safe delivery into the world of another member. As the Captain once memorably put it, I hope it didn't "smart" too much!