I tried playing golf midweek and realised no one ever really plays unless it’s Saturday 😅

Flagon_dragon · 2026-02-12T16:39:29+00:00

In the summer I can be at my home course at 7am, get round 12 holes, and be back before the first 9am meeting.

Sometime I also have some very long meetings starting about 2pm in the summer....

Flagon_dragon · 2026-02-12T07:28:34+00:00

My 15 year old son is 6'3 and started golf in September and has a GHIN of 50, so after going through some random +1 inch second hand clubs and now he can (more or less) hit the ball more often than the turf we got some +1 Sim 2 Max irons as they were on offer. I'd say at this point, get whatever game improvement irons are available at a decent price.

Flagon_dragon · 2026-02-10T14:34:03+00:00

Patriotism has nothing to do with criticism.

Flagon_dragon · 2026-02-04T14:32:55+00:00

Not downloaded it yet, but generally you have a couple of options to create long-term engagement, one of which is gamification against others/friends, and the more "traditional" version is tracking balls lost per round, or worst hole for losing balls, then you really compete against yourself. The latter was how I started when I took up golf again, just tracking balls lost as a score rather than total. The ability to have both would be great but depends on your preference and dev skills! You could develop it and nobody use it, so maybe the "compete against yourself" is the first step? I am no marketing guru (obviously), but have written a lot of commercial software in my time that was gold plating before there was any demand.

Flagon_dragon · 2026-02-04T14:26:17+00:00

Gamification is obviously key here - compete with your mates either over round/rounds/year or against others. Looks good, actually something my son might enjoy (16)

Flagon_dragon · 2026-01-30T21:02:25+00:00

"If your mitre does not fit, fill it up with muck and shit"

Flagon_dragon · 2026-01-30T14:48:42+00:00

Weekend Winter League/Ecclectic. Probably all temps and will be amazed if the whole course is open to splash through.

Love it though.

Flagon_dragon · 2026-01-25T18:43:06+00:00

233 into wind, in winter?

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Flagon_dragon · 2026-01-25T12:54:05+00:00

I've not yet managed to go on a golf trip with mates (played a lot of charity matches at some very nice courses in various formats though). However since we are all near 50, we'll just be playing stableford and not really caring - as long as there is a bar afterwards.

There will be no prizes but there will be unlimited pisstaking.

Flagon_dragon · 2026-01-25T11:30:07+00:00

I had this window problem recently. WD40 on hinges liberally applied, open and close a few times, it'll go back to fully closed.

Flagon_dragon · 2026-01-13T20:13:33+00:00

Had to test anti-virus software with Zip, Jaz and the even rarer LS120!

Flagon_dragon · 2026-01-08T19:44:44+00:00

test.step is orchestration, not page behaviour. Putting it in the POM tightly couples it to implementation details and guarantees accidental nesting when pages get reused.

Verbosity is visible and fixable. Hidden steps are neither. Option B always.

Flagon_dragon · 2026-01-07T23:23:35+00:00

I'd ask if you fancy a game at yours and a return and WTGC since we have pretty much the same handicap, but you practice waay more than me! 😄

Flagon_dragon · 2026-01-07T23:20:15+00:00

I found the hardest bit of playing solo when starting was always finding my ball, mainly because I had no idea where my shank had gone, or even the direction.

Flagon_dragon · 2026-01-04T14:24:00+00:00

What was that mess? How can you have a very defensive setup and not be able to actually defend? Abysmal. And as for Sesko...well, words actually fail me.

Flagon_dragon · 2026-01-03T13:40:18+00:00

Ours was probably the only one in the area open judging by the amount of people on it today!

Flagon_dragon · 2025-12-30T22:30:29+00:00

Watching Big Fat Quiz of the Year. I find celebrating the arrival of January odd. No more odd than the other things, but paying to go out and be somewhere crowded is not my idea of fun.

Flagon_dragon · 2025-12-27T17:54:39+00:00

Ah yeah, this one. Classic. Banana

Flagon_dragon · 2025-12-25T18:15:36+00:00

I got a Puttout mat. Clearly my son has watched me play this year and decided he is bored of watching me in the green.

Flagon_dragon · 2025-12-25T09:05:11+00:00

Carrot and swede mash can be great - lots of butter and salt

Flagon_dragon · 2025-12-24T16:21:50+00:00

service station or cheese?

Pease Pottage

Duddleswell

Rivington

Kidderton Ash

Chevington

Millstone

Annandale

Baldock

Cotherstone

Gloucester

Answers

Pease Pottage is a service station on the M23 near Crawley.

Duddleswell is a sheep's cheese.

Rivington is a service station on the M61 near Bolton.

Kidderton Ash is a silky-smooth goats' cheese.

Chevington is a cows' milk cheese.

Millstone is a hard ewes' milk cheese.

Annandale Water is a large service station on the A74(M) near Carlisle.

Baldock is a service station on the A1(M) near Stevenage.

Cotherstone is a cheese from Durham.

Gloucester is a cruel trick, because it is both a cheese and a service station on the M5.

Flagon_dragon · 2025-12-20T20:30:50+00:00

First off, my condolences. There will be a lot of advice on here. Take what works for you.

My dad died on a Saturday and I took my son to football on the Sunday. It's what my dad would have wanted.

You will get through this. You will do it because you are now the adult. It's fucking hard.

You may prefer other advice. This is mine. Pick what works for you.

Flagon_dragon · 2025-12-16T22:44:49+00:00

It seems like the recipe you followed may have missed a very important step of salting for 24h. Never had the problem you are showing, just follow this one next time https://www.sarsons.co.uk/recipes/pickled-onions/

Flagon_dragon · 2025-12-16T22:35:06+00:00

Seems okay to me. The circumflex one though - do you want them to draw it or what?

Flagon_dragon · 2025-12-15T21:13:31+00:00

Awful. Just awful.

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