17th June - News Update
Hi everyone,
Two big announcements this week. The first is that the Open Air is the 12th September and we'd like you and your other halves to be there. Its an opportunity for spouses and loved ones to see quite why we dress up as we do and come back aching on any given Thursday (and enjoy a BBQ and maybe a beer or two while we're at it). Entry forms will be making their way to you shortly.
The other is that the ever talented Tony Middleton will be doing his magic show at the Old Town Hall:
Saturday 19th June, 7:30pm
Sunday 20th June, 7pm
Tickets £10, £7 concs.
Call the festival box office on: 01727 864 511
or tourist information: 01727 844 488
or online: http://www.stalbansfestival.com/theatre/icalrepeat.detail/2010/06/19/158/14/sonics-amazing-magic-shows
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Match Report - Away to Bedford
Match report: Away to Bedford
For the 6th fixture of the season, St Albans marginally won both epee and foil against Bedford. At 5:4 and 5:4, you cannot get more marginal than that - except in a General Election.
You would have been proud of the coalition forces: our coach Liam joined the two Davids (the older ones among you will recall the regular use of this phrase during the 1980’s) in the epee and James B, Philip and David W for foil.
A victorious majority was attained early on at 5:2 in the epee, so I would like to think that the final two bouts were part of the team’s cooling down process. The ‘GBR’ on the back of Bedford’s youngest epeeist had nothing to do with it, I am sure.
Now with the foil, there was a true nail-biting finish. It looked as though we had won at one stage, but then an opponent said they had yet to fence James, who had already had three bouts. On investigation it was found that James had fenced and won against their shared third team members. Once the tally had been adjusted, James was told of the 4: 4 score and that it was down to him to fight his 4th bout of the evening, against Russ who is not an easy opponent. The result? James won in the most convincingly way possible- 5:0- and assuredly wins the Man of the Match Award and was elected Prime Sinistre (see me if you need an explanation)!
There are now only two fixtures left, home to Milton Keynes, which has been postponed once more due to their difficulty in getting a team together and home to Luton on 8th July.
Let Philip know if you wish to want to join a team.
For the 6th fixture of the season, St Albans marginally won both epee and foil against Bedford. At 5:4 and 5:4, you cannot get more marginal than that - except in a General Election.
You would have been proud of the coalition forces: our coach Liam joined the two Davids (the older ones among you will recall the regular use of this phrase during the 1980’s) in the epee and James B, Philip and David W for foil.
A victorious majority was attained early on at 5:2 in the epee, so I would like to think that the final two bouts were part of the team’s cooling down process. The ‘GBR’ on the back of Bedford’s youngest epeeist had nothing to do with it, I am sure.
Now with the foil, there was a true nail-biting finish. It looked as though we had won at one stage, but then an opponent said they had yet to fence James, who had already had three bouts. On investigation it was found that James had fenced and won against their shared third team members. Once the tally had been adjusted, James was told of the 4: 4 score and that it was down to him to fight his 4th bout of the evening, against Russ who is not an easy opponent. The result? James won in the most convincingly way possible- 5:0- and assuredly wins the Man of the Match Award and was elected Prime Sinistre (see me if you need an explanation)!
There are now only two fixtures left, home to Milton Keynes, which has been postponed once more due to their difficulty in getting a team together and home to Luton on 8th July.
Let Philip know if you wish to want to join a team.
Monday, 26 April 2010
Quiz Night
Quiz Night!!
Just a reminder that we'll be having a quiz at the Hare & Hounds pub on Old London Road, in St Albans this Thursday (29th April) starting at 8pm. Directions here.
Entry fee is £2 per person, with cash prizes for first and second place!!
So come along with your clever hat on and enjoy the intellectual(?) company of your fellow fencers.
There will be chips - so how can you resist!!
See you all on Thursday I hope.
Helen :)
Just a reminder that we'll be having a quiz at the Hare & Hounds pub on Old London Road, in St Albans this Thursday (29th April) starting at 8pm. Directions here.
Entry fee is £2 per person, with cash prizes for first and second place!!
So come along with your clever hat on and enjoy the intellectual(?) company of your fellow fencers.
There will be chips - so how can you resist!!
See you all on Thursday I hope.
Helen :)
Friday, 23 April 2010
Hello all, there is a Quiz Evening - next Thursday 29 April (Marlborough school is closed for exams) - so we're convening at the Hare and Hounds (Old London Rd) at 8:00pm. Fencing will resume the following week on Thursday 6 May.
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Curry night on Thursday April 1st
No fencing on April 1st .... this is no April fools joke :)
It's a curry night instead at the Waterend Barn (Lloyds) which is in the centre of St Albans.
Please arrive at 8pm. You can have a look at the website here and also find a map on how to get there.
See you there! If you haven't been fencing for awhile, then please come along and catch up with everyone.
It's a curry night instead at the Waterend Barn (Lloyds) which is in the centre of St Albans.
Please arrive at 8pm. You can have a look at the website here and also find a map on how to get there.
See you there! If you haven't been fencing for awhile, then please come along and catch up with everyone.
Round Up - 25 March Round Up - 25 March
In celebration of the long weekend, please join us for a Curry at the Waterend Barn on 1st April - meet there at 8 and then hopefully onwards for a night on the town!
For those of you interested in competitions and sabre (a minority I know!)
might be of interest.
The AGM returned a committee in the form of:
Jon Daley - Chairman
Philip Allen - Treasurer
David Reid - Secretary
James Bird - Armourer
Liam Nichols - Webmaster
Helen Turner - Social Secretary
A very warm thank you to Hazel for all her efforts as Social Secretary over the past two years and also to John Williams for his enormous contribution over the past five years.
Finally we are accepting designs for a new logo to go on club branded kit - so grab your coloured pencils and get scribbling. We'll be looking to select a design in the first week of May - the designer of the winning logo may get something for their efforts.
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Newspaper article on the St Albans Fencing Club
For those of you who have not seen the article in the Herts Advertiser which was published on March 11th, 2010, you can download a scan of the article from this page or view our flickr page
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