Thank you very much for this excellent thread everyone.
Particularly you, Happy Exile, because this comment; ‘This might sound relatively trite to some but even talking about it before it happens can help prevent catastrophising about something’ was worth the read alone for me. Something I will...
Really? The badge will be a conversation starter at the next ‘grab a granny’ night. The notebook is now my new fishing diary with a pen to write in it. Love Enok. Apart from the seeds what’s not to like bro? Each to their own eh!
Get a receipt? You're having a laugh!
I've emailed club supporter services and been passed on to Sodexo in the past about not being able to get a receipt. Never been offered one and even when I ask for one (on many occasions) my server has managed to get me one only once (numerous excuses)...
ID
Take a photo of your passport ID page on your phone. Simple. Often useful on lots of other occasions too particularly abroad if you don't want to carry your passport around.
Also a nice piece in the same paper about teams playing/not playing lots of their new signings straight away (page 12 of 'the game' section....maybe someone could post it , I don't know how to). The stats seem to show how sensible CH is. I know I was hoping to see, say, Bissouma and AJ but was...
I use a lightweight racquet as it's easier to manoeuvre now I'm in the seniors category! The difference you have found with your mates racquet is more likely to be a mix of this and the tension the strings are strung at. If yours is strung fairly loosely the ball can ping off all over the place...