Match Abandoned

TUESDAY

A very wet day.

I headed down to Rhuddlan this afternoon for a bowls match, only to find the green unplayable. The dry spell over the past few weeks had left the ground so hard and impermeable that the rain simply pooled on the surface—it couldn’t even be brushed away. 

To make matters worse, the greenkeepers, anticipating the forecast rain, had applied a few dozen bags of fertiliser on Monday. As a result, the standing water in places resembled gravy more than anything else. 

With no sign of the rain letting up, the match was postponed and rescheduled for two weeks’ time.