Categories: just-life
Date: 06 November 2007 13:32:13
But not the sort that can be associated with the phrase "ten pin", oh no, not I. Tonight Matthew, I am off to try my hand at Indoor Bowls.
This is one of those Commonwealth games, such as cricket, rugby, polo, that got taught to everyone in the British Empire as the Expats tried to improve these "foreign" places. However unlike those previously mentioned sports we're actually still fairly good at it.
Well, that and Elephant Polo (Scotland, World Champions 2001, '04, '05), but I don't think there's a club for that in Surrey.
I reconize that traditionally this is a game played by mainly those of an older pursusion (bowls, not elephant polo), and that tecnically speaking I'm not quite there yet, but I thought it would be a good chance to get a bit of practice in so I know what's facing me in my ever-approaching future.
*edit* - great quote bout bowls from wiki - "Sir Francis Drake is famous in bowls folklore: he is said to have insisted on completing his game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe before setting sail to confront the Spanish Armada in 1588. It is unsure whether he won or lost this game of bowls, but he did go on and defeat the Spanish Armada."