Thursday, November 29, 2007

Calvinball

I recently heard of a thing called Cornish Hurling. My husband discovered this and was good enough to share his excitement.

It is a game played with an orange-sized applewood ball, coated in silver. It is played on Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras, if you prefer the French). There is something about some goals and a perimeter. After that, there are no rules. Anybody can play and teams are however big you want. Some seem to imply that at one point there was something about no forward passing, but that has been dropped in favor of chaos. Let the rugby players worry about that.

Point being, we now have Fat Tuesday plans. Everybody is invited! Bring the kids! Bring the pets! Except we'll probably use a tennis ball - not coated in silver.

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