The Ballbashers Posts

It should n’t have been a surprise but, on subsequent investigation, I discovered that the e-mail that Roger sent forewarning me that he and RobM intended to join us for…

The first Eclectic League game in the 2023 season took place at The South Bucks (aka Farnham) last Wednesday and your correspondent has spent the intervening period tramping round the…

It was always tempting fate to schedule the first summer league game on the 12th April but we really did not deserve to be hit by gusts of wind that…

It was a golfer on a sunny day,With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,That o’er the Temple course did play,In the spring time, the only pretty green…

The number of playing Ballbashers was too small to permit the usual Snowdrop Tankard prizes to be purchased. So, sadly, the victorious Ballbasher(s) were not going to return home to…

With the 5 Ballbashers turning up for lunch heavily outnumbering the 3 Ballbashers who played golf (of which more anon), Mike S was perfectly correct in observing that we seemed…

I was tempted to copy and paste Robert M’s detailed email concerning the story of his battles with adversity to finally have his hip re-tread in his choice of London…

Desperate Ballbashers were beaten back today from the 1st tee at Temple by a combination of snow, sleet and a freezing wind. I am totally sure that if just one…

I suspect that I am the only Ballbasher foolish enough to study physics at university and therefore perhaps the only Ballbasher who had to take a course in Scientific German.…

From our noble correspondent: “Sorry you couldn’t play today. Bill & I turned up and ventured out but, because the forecast was for unpleasant drizzle, we decided to play just…