If you recall our Occasional Series of Official Rules on this website, #2 on our list referred to Rule 5.3 where the foot must be kept on the footer (mat). As you see in this photo, Dave H demonstrates how to break that rule and gain a few inches of advantage. (Official Rules courtesy BCGBA).
Monthly Archives: November 2021
Lighting Effects
If you ever go down into the Deep Mine at Llechwedd Slate Caverns, Blaenau Ffestiniog, this is one of the lighting effects that you might see.
Spotting the Space Ship
If you would like to get a glimpse of the International Space Station (ISS) as it flies over the Llandudno area, the following table shows the few minutes of the day when you may be able to spot it. Because it needs the sunshine to reflect off the ISS with a dark background so thatContinue reading “Spotting the Space Ship”
Brian begins with a B
Tea As An Art Form
Advice Note No. 1: Hold your mug of tea delicately (see photo). Advice Note No.2: Always look terrifically happy to drink tea. Advice Note No. 3: Always be doing something with your non-mug-holding hand.
RSPB Conwy Estuary
You too could sit on a dragonfly whilst looking for birds and ponies in the RSPB Reserve. Redshanks standing to attention. Curlews and heron searching for food and one of the ponies munching on the grass.
Watching the Detectives
Poirot and Hastings are on the case.
Happiness is Bowl Shaped
It’ll soon be next season and we’ll all be out bowling again. In the meantime, there is the Christmas Lunch to look forward to.
We Are (some of us) The Tufty Club Generation: Take Care Out There
Advice to the chicken: First find a safe place where you can see both ways. Look all around for traffic and listen. If all clear then cross the road while looking and listening all the time. “Tufty Fluffytail is RoSPA’s iconic squirrel who was instrumental in helping millions of children to learn about road safetyContinue reading “We Are (some of us) The Tufty Club Generation: Take Care Out There”
It’s A Saying
Remember the great comedienne Phyllis Diller? One of her famous quotes was: “Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?”