When Loretta retired from teaching in the summer of 2022, she admits it was “a shock to the system”. “I’d been working 12-hour days, so I took some time to decompress and find new activities.” As a longtime sports fan, she decided to take up golf near her home in West Bridgford, Nottingham. “I love being outside so it was something I really enjoyed,” she says. “I met a few new girlfriends too and we started playing regularly.”
In June 2023, her friends invited her to play with others from the club, which is where she met Mark for the first time. “I’d been living in Belgium, working in car export, before the pandemic,” he says. “When lockdown wiped all that out, I decided to come back to Nottingham, where I have a house. I played golf in the past and took it up again in 2021. By 2023, I was vice captain of the club.”
