England Day #1: I was forced to take a croquet (not cricket) crash course this morning in preparation for the bloodbath supposedly taking place on Easter, when the rest of the Townsends will come over for an intense croquet family tournament (the weird things I get drafted into doing whenever I come to Devon…)
What the f* is croquet?
Croquet is a sport and also a recreational lawn game. It involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops (also called wickets) embedded into the grass playing court. (Wikipedia)
even in 1801 people already found it weird
To me it seems like a mix between billiards and golf.
It’s supposed to be a very “English” game (popular in England since the 1600’s), and, as one of the builders quipped earlier (“where are the cucumber sandwiches?”), paired with cucumber sandwiches (if you’re posh).
The day was pretty exciting, given it was meant to be a rest day after that exhausting 25-hour journey from Hong Kong to Devon with stopovers in Shanghai and London (where I was able to cram a dinner and catch-up with Val before catching the sleeper train to Exeter!).
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