What a day - weather wise I mean, blue sky and the sun blazing down on us, temperature to bloody hot for me. Unfortunately it seemed it was too hot for quite a few members and guests as the attendance was down from the norm. I would imagine the bank holiday had something to do with it, with folk heading off to their favourite spot in the country, good luck to them. I didn’t get to check out the shoot this morning didn’t even get to speak to anyone about it after they had finished, by the time I had finished at the coaching area everyone had gone. As for pictures, my two favourite snappers also decided to have a long weekend break not together I might add. I did however manage to grab a few long range pics. Next shoot is on the 7 th June, hope to see you all then, and hope that once again the sun shines down on us.TC SAVE OUR CLAYS - THE COST OF CLAYS Like Cartridges clays have gone up in price yet again! Darren is trying his best not to pass this increase onto members and guests but he could do with some help to keep the cost down. When you’re in a group you should all see a pair of clays together, not every single person that enters the shooting point (cage) need to see another pair (it’s in the club rules which are on the website and in the club house) this will significantly help to keep the cost down. To give you an example:-72 bird shoot 9 stands; 2 shooters, first shooter sees a pair, second shooter enters the cage, he sees a pair, over the 9 stands that’s 18 wasted clays, you might say that doesn’t seem a lot. Put it this way, let’s say there were 40 shooters on the ground in groups of 2 and they all get to see a pair of clays that’s 162 clays wasted by the second shooter seeing a pair. That means there were enough clays wasted to accommodate two more shooters having a round that’s a loss of £40.00 to £50.00. Imagine if the groups were larger. I know that not everyone follows this habit but enough do, which will make it hard to keep the cost down. So if you are in groups of two or more then you should all view the targets at the same time, so you can all observe the flight lines. Thanks for your help in this matter.