Further to my last posting (I really must do this a bit more often - like once in a blue moon - 
Firstly there are no pictures. It was pointed out that I may have had to engaged in discussions, signing s and the like as there were other youngsters there (Child protection and all that), and it was just so complex - just in case!!
So the camera stayed in the car. 
Anyway, back to the proper story .
We signed Laura in, and got her ready to go - in her first competition. Neither of us knew what the ground rules were, as such. Neither of us knew what went next, but luckily there were other members of our club, the Anchor Bowmen of Scunthorpe to help us out.
Before I knew it, I was asked "Dave, have you got your bow with you?"
Of course I did, but I'd really only brought it along because all the tools, membership cards and the like, were in the pockets.
I'm sure most of you could work out what happened next - within a couple of minutes, I too, was in the Recurve Competition, whilst Laura was sat, waiting for the start of the Juniors Compound Competition.
I shall not bore you with the minutiae of the day, but we had never fired so many arrows between us, let alone on our own, in a single day.
I was shattered at the end of the day
Laura was shattered at the end of the day.
To top all that off, in the middle of the afternoon, we had an "equipment failure" on Laura's bow, which, thanks to the kind assistance of some of the other archers, was resolved fairly quickly.
And, in full "proud Dad" mode I saw her recover from 6 missed arrows because of the failure, to recover the last end with several Bull's, red and a couple of inner blues. To top that off, several of the other parents there said how well laura had done to recover from the "problems" and just get on and finish. 
The day finished with myself, with my first quite respectable score (or I think so anyway of 487 out 600 and 450 out of 600) and Laura, in her very first competition , winning her section - even after having to fight her bow along the way. 
Seemed a pretty good day to me in the end after all.
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