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Post by Moose on Jun 8, 2018 20:53:36 GMT
Round here most lawns would be much better turned into parking areas to be perfectly honest. Parking is in short supply.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 8, 2018 20:53:46 GMT
Well, for one, I DO NOT sunbathe. I am under doctors' orders to stay out of the sun.
I must shun the sun.
Ivy would have used the patio, which is brick. Or the balcony, which is a wooden deck.
The same might be said of picnic sites.
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Post by Moose on Jun 8, 2018 20:56:13 GMT
We don't have a balcony *aches for a balcony*
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Post by Mari on Jun 12, 2018 6:13:10 GMT
I'm actually not a big fan of lawns myself, but as a child I loved playing on my grandparents' lawn.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 12, 2018 18:28:16 GMT
When I had a 'lawn', I ached for a bigger one. One which could accommodate a full-sized croquet court.
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Post by tangent on Jun 12, 2018 22:03:30 GMT
Oh, croquet, it's a long time since I played that. My college had several croquet lawns but I haven't played on them since I graduated.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 13, 2018 14:21:33 GMT
Yeah, around here, it's Reed College, a private liberal arts college with a rather nice sylvan campus (nearby, too). They are the site for the 'big event' in local croquet.
When I started the Somewhat Annual Ravenswood Half-Court Croquet Tournament, my back yard was barely large enough to accommodate a 'half-court' pitch...one only 36' long by 11' wide. To make it more difficult, I had to change the rules so that the proper way to go through the next wicket was from the 'backside', the side away from where your ball just came through the last wicket, except for at the posts.
The patio and the balcony basically did away with the tournament.
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Post by Mari on Jun 13, 2018 16:28:22 GMT
I don't think I've ever played crocket. Or cricket. There's a difference, isn't there?
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Post by tangent on Jun 13, 2018 17:03:43 GMT
I don't think I've ever played crocket. Or cricket. There's a difference, isn't there? *facepalm*
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Post by JoeP on Jun 13, 2018 18:08:45 GMT
They are both played on grass with balls and wooden implements.
So pretty much the same as golf (although the implements tend to be metal nowadays, or possibly carbon fibre). And snooker (although instead of grass they use green felt).
I'm surprised anyone can tell the difference between all these sports.
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Post by Mari on Jun 13, 2018 18:38:59 GMT
No offense, but in a country where neither of those games are played, how should I know what's what?
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Post by tangent on Jun 13, 2018 19:17:27 GMT
Next time you're in the UK we must have a game of one or t'other.
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Post by Mari on Jun 13, 2018 20:02:50 GMT
Deal
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 14, 2018 16:05:58 GMT
What!? They doesn't haz no croquets in the Nether Regions? How can this be? Just think of polo without the ponies....well, that, and everybody had their own ball.
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Post by tangent on Jun 14, 2018 17:15:08 GMT
Whites are unusual in the UK.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 14, 2018 17:26:59 GMT
Is that an SCA event?
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Post by Mari on Jun 14, 2018 19:29:12 GMT
We don't do polo eitherr.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 14, 2018 21:04:38 GMT
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 14, 2018 22:12:53 GMT
I'm left wondering what they do do in the Nether Regions.....just fiddle about?
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Post by Mari on Jun 15, 2018 6:47:03 GMT
football, korfball (which you don't do), volleyball, darts, jeu de boule, sjoelen
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 15, 2018 7:26:02 GMT
Well, you could have fooled me, but wiki sez:
My bold.
I'm assuming an elderkorf league is already in existence...
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 15, 2018 7:34:45 GMT
These babies, however:
are illegal. They are too unsafe.
Instead, we are encouraged to arm ourselves with semi-automatic assault weapons.
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Post by Mari on Jun 15, 2018 14:22:48 GMT
You may play korfball in the US, but check the World Championships of the last couple of decades and I think you'll find the Netherlands in the top 2 on all of them Title matches are generally between Dutchland and Belgium. Dutchland generally wins. It's a very Dutch sport.
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Post by Mari on Jun 15, 2018 14:23:50 GMT
And yes, I can totally see why anyone would prohibit darts in favour of weaponry. US'ers are really weird sometimes. Thankfully I meet normal US'ers here, or I'd think you're all mad!
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Post by tangent on Jun 15, 2018 20:53:30 GMT
Probably not. What's an SCA event?
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Post by Kye on Jun 15, 2018 22:30:17 GMT
Probably Society for Creative Anachronism.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 16, 2018 14:23:24 GMT
Probably Society for Creative Anachronism. Exactamundo! The Society for Creative Anachronism is a group of folks who are 'in' to period costumes...as accurate as possible period costumes. Most that I know started with some kind of medieval theme. Ivy had a close friend who was a costumer and did lots of work with her fellow SCA types. We have a group here in PDX that does late 19th century costumes, like those in tangent's pic....and they bring their samovar out for events.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 29, 2018 1:35:58 GMT
So do you picnic and sunbathe on paving stones? Or in the flowerbed? Or what? As noted, I do not sunbathe. I picnic on a patio. Mine happens to be brick. Sunbathing can happen there, on the coop plaza, which is concrete, or in any number of various locales throughout the garden where the sun shines through.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 29, 2018 1:50:08 GMT
Today, I started 'taking up' the grass. Which means I started turning the sod over.
I still need to obtain a 'grass pot' for Murray, but I do intend to leave his favorite clump for gnawing on.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 3, 2018 17:16:52 GMT
Slowly, slowly.
The lawn is being turned under.
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