However it did give rise to a rather good wheeze. A cardboard box appeared during the evening, taped up with “Raffle First Prize” written on it. This was hawked around the bar in the evening and most of the players took part. Tony who owns the hotel also liked the idea of the prize and chipped in a fiver’s worth even though the raffle was an obvious spoof and refused his money back once he realised that he had been done.

On Thursday morning the draw was made. With only a select few knowing what the prize was, the whisper was that it was the duck, which had gone missing again. CLT and Jackie  were heavily press ganged into buying tickets as the prize was actually CLT's jacket and car keys in it that he had left in the Braunton clubhouse. The tickets that CLT bought were carefully palmed by Brando who was going to fix the draw but he couldn’t even do this right and he palmed tickets that he had not even sold so had to draw again to fix it properly.

Psycho was on fines for the day. Most people who go on Ducklings tours are more mature in years than Psycho. Last minute withdrawals left him the youngster of the party by some years and a couple of times in the week he had the look of a man who would rather be anywhere than in the company of all these old gits.