The 10th of June is Portugal Day and celebrates the death of the country’s greatest poet, Luis Camões, in 1580.This was the second Portuguese day held by SDM and whereas the first one celebrated freedom from dictatorship (“Dia Da Liberdade”) in order to avoid clashes with St George’s day and the Dutch day this date was chosen.
The weather was gloomy with even a hint of rain in the air, nevertheless 76 participants hit the fairways for a Seattle shambles.
A “ Portuguese Pastelaria” was provided at a halfway house manned by Erin and Jackie and the frango empadas (aka “chicken pies”) proved particularly popular.
Half of the “Poor Man’s Band” provided live entertainment to a packed verandah and performed a number of classics and they received the greatest ovation for their now famous only known Scottish version of “Grandola Vila Morena” the song that means so much to the Portuguese people as the trigger for the revolution on April 25th fifty one years ago.

A collection for their Ukrainian aid charity raised 205 euros and a “chuck the euro at a bottle of port” raised over 30 euros for the captain’s charity.
An on-course quiz to name the famous poet showed that we all need to brush up on the history of our adopted country with only four correct answers!
Nearest the pins were won by David Currie and Jimmy Cruz for the men and the honorable Karen Huxtable and Julia Hall for the ladies.

Results:

1st Wayne Sinfield, Bob Forrester, Simon Annes & Christine Arnes 

2nd Steve Barratt, Julie Barratt, Ian Wakenshaw & Anne Wakenshaw

3rd Ulla Bischoff, Rob Veltman, Phil Schofield & Hans van de Laar