Monday 6 April 2015

Bugstorm: The Angry Club

Today was one of those rarest of occasions - a Bank holiday where it wasn't raining.
So we cycled to the seafront and climbed in Canoe Lake swingpark and the splashpark by the miniature village was open but I didn't go in and I met Macy from my school.
caterpillar canoe lake field southsea seafrontI judged myself young enough to use the 'Caterpillar' bouncy castle thing and on we rode to the pitch'n'putt by the D-Day museum. It said nobody under 10 on the playing area but we just pretended and nobody minded. The man in the shed gave us lots of golf sticks, far too many, in fact, for people who don't know which golf bat to use in any given situation.
But we dragged the armful of golf rackets round with us and Jof tried them all. Jof always has 3 swipes before she hits the ball and by the 3rd stroke she's angry enough to hit it properly, she particularly liked the 'angry club' which was some kind of greens putter with a big flat face and a hollowed-out bit at the back. Score 63.
My speciality is hitting the ground but I find that if you hit enough divots and clods and things, the ball makes its merry way towards the smooth bit with the flag. I also like to sneak up on the hole and spank it totally so it goes miles further away. Score 62.
castle minigolf southsea commonBud hits it reasonably but it always hits a tree or goes in a bush. Score 41. We also hit each others balls a few times like in billiards, but we never got it outside the fence. We deserved ice creams, and 2 of us took our shirts off.
Walking down to the beach by Henry's castle, we were attacked by billions of insects. Clouds of little green flies and long black flies and brown bugs and all their friends assaulted us and everybody else on the busy coastal path, half the world was there and all the roads were clogged so cycling was the correct move.
But the bugstorm was very annoying and everyone was waving their shirts and we ran away to the Blue Reef café because the fish and chip shop (Rock and Sole) had such a huge queue. The café had run out of almost everything and the Romanian Mrs Overalls served us very slowly but it was food. On the way back I found a £1 coin in the road.

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