Final day of the ZfD course at Excom — and the first day that ran to nearly the full length of the alloted time. I think we spent a total of 27 hours on the course!
Off down Chapel street this evening to meet Neale and friends for his birthday celebration — bowling! Seems that bowling has become trendy, and combined bowling alleys and bars are now the places to be. Strike on Chapel is all flashing video screens and dance music, expensive beers and good fun. We played two full games, by the end of which I thought that my arm might fall off! The first game was wildly inaccurate, by the time the second came around I had partly got the hang of it, and was leading for a while — a fluke strike on my last bowl helped a little!
When we left, Chapel street had degenerated into its normal Friday night lunacy. Bumper to bumper cars crawling along at less than a walking pace, beany-clad lads shouting witticisms as they pass, every second car sporting enormous plastic wings and “For Sale” signs that exist solely to advertise the owner’s mobile phone number… There’s no hope of catching a tram or taxi, and not much point if you do, since they can’t move, so we ended up walking home to Richmond.