The Things You Are HAPPY About Thread.

[Parkins left foot]

ok, please enlighten me

Lawn bowls - outdoor played on a flat grass surface. Bowls, which are weighted on one side so that they will make a curved run when bowled are rolled up to a smaller ball, called the Jack, with the nearest wood winning. Gets more complicated than that so the attached links will aid understanding (ignore the fact that the only videos I could locate quickly are American ones so some of the language/terminology is different to what we use in the UK). There is also a format called Crown Green Bowls which is similar, but also has a green which is not completely flat (Lemon Jelly plays that type)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/bowls/4747148.stm

 

[Freddeno]

Lawn bowls - outdoor played on a flat grass surface. Bowls, which are weighted on one side so that they will make a curved run when bowled are rolled up to a smaller ball, called the Jack, with the nearest wood winning. Gets more complicated than that so the attached links will aid understanding (ignore the fact that the only videos I could locate quickly are American ones so some of the language/terminology is different to what we use in the UK). There is also a format called Crown Green Bowls which is similar, but also has a green which is not completely flat (Lemon Jelly plays that type)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/bowls/4747148.stm

ok, cheers..looks a lot like Boule like we play quite a lot here..but thats played on a gravel surface

 

[Freddeno]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3YzxpFfjKU

 

[Parkins left foot]

ok, cheers..looks a lot like Boule like we play quite a lot here..but thats played on a gravel surface

Boules is not dissimilar, though from memory the balls are thrown in the air towards the jack - bowls are always rolled on the surface (throwing the bowl would get me ejected from every club
if I did that :nod: )

 

[Parkins left foot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3YzxpFfjKU

Have played that when on holiday in France

 

[Freddeno]

hehe ok, fun game though boule..never played bowls..

 

[PPB]

Finding that comfy spot. If you lie on your side and can manage to drag a pillow behind you and place it along your back, then roll on it.Ahhhhhhhh

 

[lemonjelly]

Bowls is da bomb. Harder than it looks too. Great stress reliever.

 

[Paul]

Bowls is da bomb. Harder than it looks too. Great stress reliever.

Da bomb ?????

Yep that's why there is so many disenfranchised youths hanging around street corners , not enough greens to go around !

 

[Parkins left foot]

Da bomb ?????

Yep that's why there is so many disenfranchised youths hanging around street corners , not enough greens to go around !

They still hang around near our green without engaging so doubt that thats what they are looking for :icon_smile:

 

[lemonjelly]

Don't be blaming the kids:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40876288

PS, I've seen allsorts at bowls matches. I've seen fights, people vault fences, headbutts, people throw bowls at people....

 

[Langers]

Have you ever seen Blackball with Paul Kaye?

 

[wanderer89]

"Is it on the condom?

IT IS ON THE CONDOM!"

 

[PPB]

Skips ordered.

 

[fizzwolf]

Took my son to drumming lesson on Warstones Road yesterday and popped in Spring Hill whilst I waited for him. Posh eatery nowadays seem to remember loads of bikers frequenting there years and years ago

 

[The Bear]

Skips ordered.

 

[Tredman]

London Midland booted out.

 

[Tredman]

Boom, first time ever

 

[PPB]

The abundance of pears this year on my two trees.

 

[Parkins left foot]

The abundance of pears this year on my two trees.

The abundance of apples on my one tree this year - benefit of a proper pruning earlier