Gloucestershire

     

Date: 16/12/15

Opponent: Mark

Location: Beaufort Arms, Hawkesbury Upton. Built in 1602 – older than cribbage!

Format: 121-peg, 6-card

Board: Long board (121 hole)

Other notes:     Excellent country pub with a landlord who had graciously agreed to play me, despite a large table of bird-watchers or someone having their Christmas lunch and party in the next room. Over the muffled songs from the next room I picked up some local terminology: “my dap” for when you play first to 31. “one more each and we’d be level” when level pegging. “5s a fix” when playing 5 to make 31 while pegging.Mark also told me that he believed the 2 player game to be called crib and the 4 player game cribbage.

Pub plays in a local league that has 3 divisions and includes teams from Wiltshire and Somerset, as well as Gloucestershire. Pub had crib boards mounted onto the wall and a skittle alley out the back. Another local game is Quoits, which involves throwing rings onto pegs.

Score: 0-2

Overall score: Siv 5-8 Counties, and one tie

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