Saturday the Fifteenth January will for ever be known as The Dance Machine Night- the night that eighty or more revellers packed into the Clubhouse at Chorleywood Tennis Club and then danced, jived, and pirouetted the night away to the fabulous rhythms and wonderfully powerful sounds of the Mick Flinn Band.

Jim joked that the Band could ‘Get the Dead to Dance’…they could and they did for they were so truly inspirational, that even the most senior were up dancing, finger pointing, gyrating and grinning till the intervals. that the Band could ‘Get the Dead to Dance’…they could and they did for they were so truly inspirational, that even the most senior were up dancing, finger pointing, gyrating and grinning till the intervals.Jim joked that the Band could ‘Get the Dead to Dance’…they could and they did for they were so truly inspirational, that even the most senior were up dancing, finger pointing, gyrating and grinning till the intervals.

Then the FOPS did their bit singing their songs with performances by FOPS President Consultant Julian Shah, and Jim and Bob who with FOPS President Consultant Alvan Pope, sang ‘Need a PSA Today’. Then everyone stilled as FOPS Ian Senior sang a witty love song he had written and finally FOPS Vartan Melkonian the Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra gave us his spell bindingly beautiful version of ‘Don’t Go Changing’ to pin drop silence and then monumental applause, after the last chord faded on his guitar.

Budgens, again, gave their support by sponsoring the finger food. This was enjoyed by all. Jim and Bob then thanked Sateesh and Sara now trading as ‘Three Sons.’-They are Chorleywood’s ‘Open Air Greengrocers, Florists and Fruiterers’ and provide fresh produce sourced daily, in the wee small hours from Covent Garden. Not only did ‘Three Sons’ make up the stunning table top flowers and presentation roses for the girls but their friends decorated the tables and chairs like they’d never been decorated before. Indeed the Club House really looked magnificent –thanks so much Sateesh and your friends.

Then the denouement - the draw for the Raffle. Tennis Social Secretary Elaine who worked so hard selling the majority of tickets, was prised from the kitchen to pick the winning tickets for boxes of chocolates, bunches of flowers and finally the premier prize - the case of fine wines, presented by Patrick Edwards the new manager of Hetheringtons Chorleywood, which was won by the beautiful ‘Georgy’.