Balls

[bugshaw]

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.

Comments

[waistcoatmark.livejournal.com]

Croquet's a marvellous game. You can be so evil to the other players. And it brings back fond memories of playing it on the croquet lawn during very long lunchtimes just outside whatsisface (the old MD)'s office at Hirst.

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

Why hello....

Don't have many memmories of play croquet. However do have a peaice of advice. If playing in the dark lighting the hops with candles is a good way of burning the grass. Especally if your all really drunk and barely able to play anyway.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Hullo Mavis!

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

And I can't for the life of me remember his name. Steve something? I know my grandma's friend's dog bit him.

Googling for "GEC Hirst" brings us to a whole new ball game:

Gentlemen v Players at Scarborough, 5-7 Sep 1921
... lbw b Kennedy 14 APF Chapman c Hitch b Hearne 1 PGH Fender b Kennedy 23 GTS Stevens
c Woolley b Hearne 22 GEV Crutchley b Kennedy 1 GEC Wood c Hirst b Woolley ...
www.cricket.org/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/1920S/1921/ENG_LOCAL/ OTHERS/GENTLEMEN_PLAYERS_05-07SEP1921.html