This hottest of summers found Stragglers reconnecting with opposition from the 2018 tour to Amsterdam with an extra fixture, very kindly hosted at Mersham-le-Hatch and Straggler, Jeremy Godden (according to the ACC tour report, a ‘slot machine billionaire’). On a very...

After the almost tropical heat of Eymet in 2017, the Stragglers were met with conditions in Amsterdam more typical of the North Sea coast in March, cold gloomy, overcast, intermittent drizzle and oystercatchers in full song. This did nothing to dent the Straggler...