At lunch at the Polish Club yesterday we agreed on the advantages of urban living as we get on a bit.
There’s a lot on the doorstep: shops, restaurants, cinema, theatre, opera, parks and urban crime. There has been a crime wave in Barons Court and one young offender was caught. Car windows have been smashed and a neighbour’s car stolen. An Amazon delivery to No 56 was stolen but the thief was apprehended by a neighbour, a vigilante, who recovered and returned the parcel; so my sister will get a present when I stay with her soon. I didn’t like to ask how she persuaded the scamp, as she called him, to relinquish his booty – but she may have picked up a few tips from watching Sarah Lancaster playing Sergeant Catherine Cawood in Happy Valley.
But I digress. There is a new attraction on the doorstep or, more precisely, King Street, Hammersmith. It’s not everyone who lives in walking distance of such a new and exciting venue. Look – nothing in Wales, Ireland or in other EU countries. Is this why some of you voted to leave – to play Game of Throwing?
I admire enterprise but at the same time I see this as a sign of recession. Maybe I’m wrong. I remember my brother telling me, sagely, he saw no future in the internet. It was only peddling pornography and he could buy that on the top shelf in the newsagent in Dunleer. He had a point but missed the wider applications of the www. Maybe urban axe throwing will be as big as the www.
Essentially it is darts with a difference. No, the slightly stout physique is the same but darts can be played convivially in a public house with a stimulating alcoholic or soft drink in hand. Urban axes are thrown in a premises for which the landlord can find no other tenant; not even a barbers’ shop. I have not thrown an axe but it seems to be an activity lacking in finesse. Now I am tempted by a game of crazy golf if anyone fancies a foursome with Robert and me.
I can speak from experience. My Dutch bank featured action-packed off sites which included: extreme biking (tough), curling (impossible) and axe throwing (surprisingly difficult – the axe is heavy). I would stick to darts.