Category Archives: Fun and Friendlies

Voters have chosen the word “goblin mode” as the word of 2022. Thousands managed to drag themselves out of goblin mode to vote, as the phrase won by a landslide with 318,956 votes, making up 93% of the total. So, what does goblin mode mean exactly? According to Oxford University Press, which publishes the OxfordContinue reading “The In-Word 2022”

Is that Poirot escaping from the Hotel on Burgh Island? If so, is it likely that he is playing out his final “reveal” scene with the other passengers on board?

Derek mixes crown green bowling with Tai Chi to create a new sport – GreenT-C.

Bill demonstrates his hourly weightlifting routine to keep his bowling arm in shape.

“I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends” Words by William Shakespeare, RICHARD II, ACT 2 SCENE 3, LINES 46-47; BOLINGBROKE TO PERCY Friends Eddie, Shan, Brian and Islwyn take a break before their game

Here Doreen demonstrates the “Cunning Crouch Ouch Position (C-COP)” to try and get the same perspective on David’s line of the jack and bowl. This technique is not often demonstrated on the green but perhaps it could set a trend for next season? Even Ann is impressed.

Although this looks like Bunty and Steve are Obsidian Black crystal ball gazing, preparing to give Sue a psychic reading, black Obsidian is technically not a true crystal. It is, however, a form of igneous rock that can be classified as natural glass. What is igneous rock? It forms when hot, molten rock crystallises andContinue reading “Crystal Balls?”

If any of you are wondering what Captain John B is up to when not on the bowling green this Autumn, then here is the answer – he is acting as a sophisticated standard lamp base for different types of lamp shades. Not a bad look at all.

Rosina is hit by a mini-tornado as it passes in front of the clubhouse and inadvertently starts a new hair fashion – the Flight-of-Fancy, with matching gloves.

Steve has already eaten his biscuit, but Kath has hidden hers and Bunty is caught in the act of trying to hide her biscuit in the same way.