The Chaps Cooking Club goes skittling

For the April meeting the ‘Chaps’ went ‘messing about’ down at a pub skittles alley. We decided that we all needed a break from slaving away over a hot stove as it is well known that a chap’s work is never done.

We all met up at 11.a.m. at the Chapel Hay Tavern. Several members had to be coaxed into the pub. One member had to pop home as he had failed to bring the note, giving permission, from his wife.

The game was played in a relaxed friendly non-competitive fashion – yea right – this is men we are talking about; every point was contested and challenged. Foot faults were called by the fair minded foot fault judge who was later found to have taken bribes from both teams (Gordon we were ashamed of you).

It was good to see the old boys throwing themselves into it and the ambulance paramedics decided that it would be safer if they stayed on until we finished. The extra oxygen needed was brought by a second ambulance and they decided to stay once they had seen the state of the combatants.

After a couple of hours of play we were ready for a pub lunch which went down extremely well. Bibs were provided free. The landlady fully understood the damp patches on the seats and agreed that we had not been any real      trouble.

A cracking day out.

Paul Brickell, President, Weymouth & Portland U3A