Archive - Pitchmarks

Pitchmarks Archive ADVENTure #4 - "Hollinwell Halt"

You’d expect it to be dark at 4.30am in early February, and it is, but the waxing Snow Moon peers through an ethereal quiver of cloud high above…

13 hrs ago •

Richard Pennell

Pitchmarks Archive ADVENTure #3 - "An unsolvable puzzle..."

One of the recent guests on “The Daily Stoic” podcast was the writer, journalist, and self-labelled “human guinea pig” A.J.

Dec 3 •

Richard Pennell

Pitchmarks Archive ADVENTure #2 - "Rules of Amateur Status"

Or, a short note about love

Dec 2 •

Richard Pennell

Pitchmarks Archive ADVENTure #1 - “Robbers’ caves and underground passages”

In defence of the odd blind hole…

Dec 1 •

Richard Pennell

November 2024

Pitchmarks #74 - 24th November 2024 - Thanksgiving

Pennard, South Wales

Nov 24 •

Richard Pennell

Pitchmarks #73 - 17th November 2024 - "L Plates"

Royal Wimbledon Golf Club

Nov 17 •

Richard Pennell

Pitchmarks #72 - 10th November 2024 - "the irregularities of the terrain"

Vallière Course, Golf de Morfontaine

Nov 10 •

Richard Pennell

Pitchmarks #71 - 3rd November 2024 - (Very) Firm and Fast

Portmarnock, Ireland

Nov 3 •

Richard Pennell

October 2024

Pitchmarks #70 - 27th October 2024 - Back at the Coalface

During last week’s musings (here), I included among several quotes from Alistair Cooke the line “no man in his right mind would play golf”, an…

Oct 27 •

Richard Pennell

Pitchmarks #69 - 20th October 2024 - Bad Housing

I am revisiting some of Alistair Cooke’s writing on golf for a future project, and it is like being re-connected with my childhood, or perhaps re-united…

Oct 20 •

Richard Pennell

Pitchmarks #68 - 13th October 2024 - Lost in Translation

The whole notion of a bucket list is interesting to me, for in casting certain future experiences into what - in my case at least - resembles something…

Oct 13 •

Richard Pennell

Pitchmarks #67 - 6th October 2024 - Hayling

“We are asleep.

Oct 6 •

Richard Pennell

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