A Bug's Life

Croquet! Croquet is good! It's like snooker, but played on a bumpy lawn which disguises the fact that you can't aim very well. I don't like the between-the-legs mallet action, but I like the strategy (if you hit another ball you can play off it which helps improve your position while sending them off into the shrubbery!). I was quite pleased with how well I took it up, as my previous experience with croquet has been limited to watching it in the film Heathers and reading about it in Alice Through the Looking Glass (or was it in Wonderland? I forget.)

Bowling is less my metier (even given my comments above about not being able to aim in croquet!); my best scores so far have been attained when I ignore the pins and just try to roll the ball down the middle of the lane. This usually results in 4-6 pins falling over, but when I try to get clever (e.g. bowl faster, or aim for the remaining pins rather than just the lane) I end up in the gutter.