A bad week for blogging, the last one. I'm not sure if that's because I am pathologically dull, or that anything of interesting that's worth writing about immediately leaves my head 5 seconds after it enters. I think I should try remembering stuff for a change...

Aha! Bar Billiards! I played this for the first time ever on saturday night, and oh my hokey it's fantastic! It's a game of speed - there's a timer which limits play to about 10 minutes in total, but it's easily more satisfying than a game of pool, and it takes roughly 2 hours less than a game of snooker.

The idea is essentially to knock balls into the holes in the table (not on the sides, but spread around the baize itself) and score points depending on which hole they fall down. But there's danger lurking in the form of skittles! If you knock them down, you lose points and even the game! It's a living, breathing nightmare!

I think I shall travel round ancient hostelries searching for other archaic forms of entertainment. Next week: an in-depth dissertation on the traditional and noble art of the lap-dance.