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One of the bowls clubs in our village desperately needs new members to avoid closing down.
Sounds like an easy way to get on an actual team...

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Path to the dark side, it is. Hmmm.

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Mmmm, it is the Hollins Inn team, I see what you mean.

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I enjoy playing bowls, but I've always found club members very fierce. That *was* a few years ago, though. And competition is *intense*!

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There's quite a big bowls club (Datchworth) about 150 yards south-west across the road and the rec.ground from my front gate; it gets very busy there in the summer.

I enjoy playing bowls, but I've always found club members very fierce.

Don't they like occasional players, or are they hyper-fussy about the colour of one's clothing or something?

And competition is *intense*!

From the comings and goings there, especially in the summer, they must have a pretty full fixture list, I'd guess. I've only ever been over there when they have their jumble sale, to see if I can pick up any useful tqt.

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This is crown green though. Basically an excuse for pie&*peas with a pint.

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I dunno. The Huddersfield Bowling circuit was a pretty cut throat affair. Apart from half a dozen teams in the company Sports & Social club, a lot of the people I worked with played for their local team. It's the over 30's version of gang warfare.

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The bowls club is in the Victorian park with the posh houses and independent boys school round the outside. Sometimes we drive the dogs there for a walk when the nearer park is locked... the bowls players look like they are enjoying themselves (compared, say, to golfers).

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I was going to have a go at morris dancing last year, but then things went rather wrong.

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Sounds like the first line of a novel :-)

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I've attempted to write a novel several times. For some reason the first line is always:

It was raining...

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I would go with the morris dancing line next time.

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My two unwritten novels start with:
"Drive", she said.
and:
It was the time of spiders.

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I was going to have a go at morris dancing

Yes, it's an easy target isn't it.

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Actually I find it rather sad the way that this country treats its traditional music, dance, etc. I find it hard to believe that anyone who has listened to Anne Briggs, or Norma Waterson, can dismiss their music as some sort of joke.

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Yes and no.
Everywhere, what's "traditional" is something that got chosen at some point and then frozen in time. It was then the prevailing popular culture, but popular taste moves on. Why crystallise on one thing rather than another?
Yes, there's stuff it'd be sad to lose entirely, and which is clearly still good when done well. And then there's Riverdance (Some kids doing Irish Dancing were on some spot on CBeebies yesterday).

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I disagree. Tradition is not a static thing, it's a path though our history. Some movements stand out. Punk, folk, rave, etc., were clear markers on the road. Jive Bunny (for example) were a side road that (thankfully) was not followed. Morris Dancing has been around for a very long time. Ditto folk music. Why? There has clearly been something that gave them cultural import. The fact that this no longer exists should not diminish their importance - just because they no longer have cultural significance does not mean that they should be dismissed. One should appreciate one's cultural history.

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Well yes tradition should be a path through history, but I feel it's often not presented a such. There's a tendency to show the same old stereotypes over and over - Morris Men and some tuneless old git doing Sir Patrick Spens here, Lederhosen in Germany, etc.
Or maybe I'm just watching the wrong TV channels.

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Works for me. I'd join, if I lived anywhere near a local which (i) had a bowls team or (ii) I'd actually go into. Our locals are a touch lairy.

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Well the Hollins isn't the nicest pub in the village, but I think I shall go on Tuesday, just to check it out. After all, I shall need something to do with all my free time after July.
I suspect the bowls club attached to the cricket club is the village's premier side. The Waggon & Horses always seems to be near the top of the cribbage league. But I wouldn't want that kind of media attention.
Hmmm, Hollins are in the B division of the Dominoes, not doing well in Doms, mid-table 5s&3s.

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A sure sign of age. My Grandad took up bowls to keep himself busy - at 70.

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