Bowls England & About Simon Rae

Bowls England governs the game of flat green outdoor bowls for men and women in England. It was formed on the 1st January 2008 following a merger of the English Bowling Association and the English Women’s Bowling Association.
The English Bowling Association had previously been founded in 1903 by legendary cricketer W.G. Grace who was elected its first president.
The headquarters of Bowls England are in Lyndhurst Road, Worthing, next to Beach Hous Park.
There are thirty-five affiliated counties, to which a total of 2,700 clubs are in membership nationwide. Approximately 132,000 players come under the jurisdiction of this association.
Its Chief Executive is Tony Allcock MBE.

Simon Rae is a British poet, broadcaster, biographer and playwright who runs the Top Edge Productions theatre company. He won the Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition in 1999 and has also been awarded an Eric Gregory Award and a Southern Arts Literature Bursary and held Royal Literary Fund fellowships at Oxford Brookes and Warwick Universities. His play Grass won a Fringe Highlight award in 2002.
Rae presented Radio 4's Poetry Please for five years and wrote a regular topical poem for the Saturday Guardian for ten years. His most recent book of poems was Gift Horses, published in 2006 by Enitharmon Press.

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Snake Pit

Snake Pit is an outdoor recreational game similar to horseshoes, in which players toss an oversized washer into a square wooden box with a hollow pipe coming up from the base of the box (the "snake pit").

Rules

A game set includes two open square boxes (usually made from wood) and six oversized washers. Inside each wooden box is a tube coming up as high as the box surrounding it. A small hole on the bottom edge of the box is used to put a rope through. The rope is tied on the inside on one side, and leads to an identical wooden box on another.
A player receives two points for a toss that lands in the box, and five points for one that lands in the "snake pit." The first player to receive 11 points wins the game.
Snake pit may be played one-on-one or two-on-two. The two-on-two version requires one person from each team to be on either side, thus making two opponents on each side. One contestant shoots three washers, then his opponent (the one next to him) shoots his three. First team to 11 points wins.

Cancelling

If two opposing players land the same kind of shot consecutively, they are considered to cancel each other out. For instance, if the first shooter hits a 2-pointer, then the person on his side also hits a 2-pointer, neither shot counts. The same applies if consecutive "snake pits" are hit. If a throw ends with a washer leaning on an edge of the box, whether it has landed that way directly or if it has bounced or rolled there, the game ends immediately, and the team which shot the "leaner" wins.

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Cabela's Outdoor Adventures & horseshoes

Cabela's Outdoor Adventures is a hunting video game released in 2005 by Activision. The game gives a player the ability to drive vehicles, fish and hunt. This is the very first video game to hunt and fish all in one game. There are 11 exotic locations, 32 animals to hunt and harvest, thousands of Cabela's gear options and much more. Some of the animals in the game include White-tailed deer, Mule deer, bear, moose, coyote, Bobcat, Lynx and many more.
Horseshoes is an outdoor game played between two people (or two teams of two people) using four horseshoes and two throwing targets (stakes) set in a sandbox area. The game is played by the players alternating turns tossing horseshoes at stakes in the ground, which are traditionally placed 40feet(15.38 m) apart. Modern games use a more stylized U-shaped bar, about twice the size of an actual horseshoe.
This is all about cabel's outdoor adventures & horseshoes gaming.

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