April's been a washout - here's hoping for a warmer May!
Remember, there is no fencing this Thursday coming (3rd May). This means that if you need to borrow kit for the Herts County Championships you'll need to be down on the 10th. If you've not entered yet I'm sure you just need to visit the HFA website and print off a form.
Next weekend is the Brighton Open - if you're into twitter we are @StAlbansFencing and I dare say you might find some updates on there.
Three other competitions coming up:
County Team Foil and Team Epee on 2nd June - remember we pay the entry fees for that. If you've not been fencing too long this is only teams from within county and there's a great atmosphere as you'll have your SAFC chums cheering you on. Don't worry about finding a team, we just need to know you're interested, speak to Jo (especially if he's not wearing his hat) who will sort you out.
White Horse Team Trophy is on 24th June, it would be nice to enter a team if we could but from discussions we seem to be short on the epeeist front. Again, we'll be picking up the tab if folks are interested. Since it is a Foil/Epee/Sabre event just let us know you're interested and we'll do our best to find a team for you.
Norfolk Open this year is 21st/22nd July. Three reasons to do this one:
1- Its 2 hours away
2- Its after exams (for those still afflicted with them)
3- There's a great place to get Sunday lunch on the way back for those who do Epee and Sabre.
Finally in August there's some small thing going on in London.
Club wise at our last committee meeting we had a small chat about what our goals as a club are - we didn't finish that conversation and I suspect we won't for a while yet. If you've any input then please let us know, or better yet we'll be convening at the Garibaldi on Tuesday evening for our regular committee session at 8- all are welcome.
One last thing, Paul Davis went along to the BAF Easter Course and came away with his Level 3 foil qualification - it's a big achievement and he can rightly feel happy with himself.
See you either at Bowling this Thursday (if you'd like to come and not yet told Bev, drop her a line at Social(AT)SA-FC.org.uk) or on the 10th.
