16bha
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Why isn't it so popular daan saaaf in England?
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fat old seagull
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Coldeanseagull
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Sausage and mash causes curling for me
Raleigh Chopper
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I heared on the TV yesterday that Tunbridge Wells has a curling rink?.
Anyway its a traditional Scotch game and they are adapted to messing about on ice in their freezing climate.
If the English played it the game would only last 5 ends and then abandoned due to numb toes.
We like to play on perfect grass the jocks are no good at croquet.
Anyway its a traditional Scotch game and they are adapted to messing about on ice in their freezing climate.
If the English played it the game would only last 5 ends and then abandoned due to numb toes.
We like to play on perfect grass the jocks are no good at croquet.
Tricky Dicky
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13:30 today for the mens final.
JJ McClure
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Not sure about curling in general, but I love the blonde job in the womens team.
Lankyseagull
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Been there a couple of times. The game is easy to pick up, needs a lot more skill than you think and involves everyone as a team.
It's a long way back from 5-1 after 3 ends 
Lord Bracknell
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I think you'll find that Crown Green Bowls is a North of England sport. Down here, we play a related game on a flat green. Except in Lewes, where they play with flattened bowls, called cheeses, on a very lumpy green.
the wanderbus
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My daughter plays there for Beacon School who have a team, one of only around a dozen English schools that do.
John Bumlick
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Have you seen the biceps on some of the lady curlers? I'd love a power w@nk from Eve....
Grombleton
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There's very few, if any crown green bowls clubs in the south, it's much more a northern sport. Plus the English Bowls Association (the governing body) is based in Worthing.
I used to bowl, always saw similarities to Curling...fancy giving it a go.
Jesus Gul
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Never knew that. Always associated bowls with places like Eastbourne and Worthing. There's an indoor centre by the Shell garage by Preston Park I think
Grombleton
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Yeah, there is. There's two codes of Bowls: Crown Green & Flat Green. The basic difference is that in Crown Green there is a mound in the middle (the Crown) that players play over/around and in flat green the playing area is...well, flat. The clubs in places like Worthing, Eastbourne, Brighton, Chichester etc are all flat green.
I love curling one out
Jesus Gul
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learn something new every day
1066familyman
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Yep, coming up the A21 from Hastings it's signposted from the Blueboys roundabout. I've never been but heard you aren't allowed on the sheets (rink/lane) unsupervised at first. I'd love a go myself, having played a fair bit of bowls on grass before.