Tuesday, 28 April 2009
British Pastimes
Saturday 25 April. Ian and I took advantage of the sunny but cool break in the weather to visit the Bristol Croquet Club on their open day (british equivalent of an open house event). We walked to the club's lawns all the ay over in Bishop Stoke, about a 3 mile walk. When we arrived we were greeted by one of the club members and shown onto the lawns by another member who proceeded to put us through our paces on the field. We started out with a few simple strokes and practice hitting the ball. From there our guide went on to explain the rather complicated rules of association croquet. This is no simple backyard croquet game (which is a variation of the simpler golf croquet). Our guide told us it took him two years to learn the strokes and he reckons it takes 20 to learn the strategy. He took us through a fake round of the game and to be honest I'm still not really sure what happened. But we had a good time and saw a new area of the city.
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