Happy National Gardening Week

This week is National Gardening Week.

A look at garden centre minigolf courses.

A look at some of the garden centre minigolf courses we've played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

When lockdown is lifted and minigolf courses reopen there are some really good layouts to check out at garden centres.

Halloween in the City monster at Screamfields in Manchester

A look at the Halloween in the City monster at Spinningfields in Manchester.

The tentacled monster at Spinningfields

One of the monsters on the Manchester Monster Invasion: Return of the Monsters art trail is at Screamfields, aka Spinningfields.

Some very find gardening

Pest control will need a lot of bug spray to get rid of this monster

'Manchester Monster Invasion: Return of the Monsters' continues until Halloween night. Visit the Halloween in the City website for more information.

Happy National Gardening Week

My little brother Christopher is a keen gardener and outdoorsman and spotted this well grown carrot in his local Morrisons supermarket. Quite apt for National Gardening Week.

With a carrot looking like a big piece of meat who needs the other two veg!

What a prize veg!

Sainsbury’s Boredom Busters Getting People Garden Golfing

Supermarket encourages people to organise a game of garden golf this summer.

While down in Boscombe, Dorset for the BMGA British Matchplay Minigolf Championships I popped into the Sainsbury’s supermarket and spotted a sign from the new ‘Boredom Busters’ campaign encouraging you to ‘Organise a game of garden golf’ over the summer.

As a big fan of busting boredom I think it’s a great idea!

We now live in an apartment, but when we did have a garden I built a little garden golf course.

We also played some Crazy Golf with obstacles from a Crazy Golf Museum exhibit and I’ve also built a Minigolf course up on the roof of an apartment block as part of the Putter King Miniature Golf Scavenger Hunt.

I hope the Sainsbury’s Boredom Busters idea encourages more people to put(t) together some interesting garden Miniature Golf courses over the summer.

Related blog posts:

- Sunday Chores - Build a Mini Crazy Golf Hole in Your Back Garden

- Garden BBQ Minigolf

- My Entry for the Putter King Miniature Golf Scavenger Hunt 2011 - Build your own full-size miniature golf hole

Links:

- Sainsbury’s Boredom Busters

Sunday Chores - Build a Mini Crazy Golf Hole in Your Back Garden

With nothing to do today but mow the lawn, I decided to 'build' a Mini Golf Hole in my back garden.

Suggestions welcome for ideas of Crazy Golf Obstacles to add to it?

At the First BBQ of the Season back in March, me, Oliver 'The Machine' Florence & Simon 'Practice' Hall created a Minigolf course using a selection of obstacles from the Crazy Golf Museum archives.