Rumble in the jungle

Following the post of 22nd August and it being a bright sunny afternoon, we have finally gotten around to taking a turn around the jungle golf at Horton Lane, resulting in my victory by 1 stroke or by a rather larger margin if we do it by holes.

Good supply of jungle flavoured plants, crocodiles, crocodile music, gorillas and water. Two small boys coming up behind us were happy to explain to us how it all worked and how the crocodiles were made of metal. But not so wise that I was not able to explain to them how the man inside the scary gorilla inside the cave took it in turns with the man inside the kiosk at the entry. If the plants take and get established, it will be a handsome facility, with the plants not being so prone to the shabbiness of the seaside cousins.

Finished by around 1600 with the sun sinking down into the horizon and it starting to get quite cold. Good job we were fully coated, scarved and gloved.

There must have been at least 100 people around the thing this afternoon, so a take of £1,000 or so for the half day, not counting what they might do at the bar afterwards - which was busy with dads and their boys watching Liverpool vs. Chelsea over a jar or two. We took two reasonable teas in an annex to the bar, both newish and the former of which came complete with fancy plaster cornice around the top of the walls, fancy plaster roses around the chandeliers and a dado rail. Skirting board a bit ordinary by comparison - although I suppose that the fancy plaster might actually have been some sort of plastic foam. Does the fact that my golf ticket was sold from kiosk 'HP_ADVGLF_T01' mean that the golf club has a point of sale system built on HP hardware on which the installation engineer did not bother to change the default till naming convention?