Junkyard Golf advertising in Manchester

Spotting some new Junkyard Golf advertising in Manchester.

We saw some new Junkyard Golf posters on our first walk round Manchester in a while.

The indoor crazy golf venue in Manchester has now reopened and we saw people queuing to get in when we walked past on Saturday afternoon.

Visit the Junkyard Golf website for more information.

Playing at Junkyard Golf

The last course I played before the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown was at Junkyard Golf's First Street venue in Manchester back on the 9th March 2020.

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FINGER LICKING CHICKEN in Withington, Manchester

Finger Licking Chicken in Withington, Manchester.

We've seen quite a few 'KFCs' on our travels, but the only Finger Licking Chicken we've spotted is in Withington, Manchester.

Socially distanced benches in Spinningfields

A pair of socially distanced benches in Spinningfields, Manchester.

One person only at this time

This doesn't look like the most comfortable bit of seating even at the best of times

We saw two other benches in the time of Coronavirus in Colne.

New Mini Golf course in York

There are plans for a new minigolf course to be created in York.

The team at York Mini Golf are seeking people's views on the proposed minigolf course at Library Lawns next to York Library on Museum Street.

There are two consultation events taking place regarding the proposed mini golf course. They are on Tuesday 25th August and Thursday 3rd September.

For more information visit the York Mini Golf Facebook Page.

The new tourist attraction would be themed around York's history and encourage visitors to find out more about the city's heritage.

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One day only minigolf in Worcester

The Commandery gardens in Worcester will be home to a crazy golf course this coming Bank Holiday.

The 9-hole minigolf layout at The Commandery will be set-up for visitors to play on Bank Holiday Monday, 31st August.

For more information visit The Commandery on Facebook and the Museums Worcestershire website.

The Commandery was the Royalist Headquarters during the deciding batter of the English Civil War, the Battle of Worcester in 1651.

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Marge Simpson graffiti in Manchester

Spotting some Marge Simpson graffiti high above Deansgate in Manchester.

You need a keen eye for street art to spot this piece

While on our first walk in Manchester city centre for quite some time on Saturday Emily spotted this piece of Simpsons graffiti high above Deansgate.

We recently spotted some Itchy & Scratchy graffiti on the Fallowfield Loop in Manchester and last August we saw this Simpsons graffiti in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Kingtucky Fried Chicken in Manchester

Do you have a favourite fried chicken takeaway brand?

We've seen quite a few 'KFCs' on our travels.

The long closed Kingtucky Fried Chicken in Manchester

Mini Golf cupcakes!

Thank you to the Filwood Fantastic Mini Golf Club for sending us these brilliant minigolf-themed THANK U cupcakes made by Humble Bumble Bakes.

During lockdown and over the summer the team at the Filwood Centre in Knowle West, Bristol have created a home-based minigolf club for local residents. Having received supplies of arts and crafts materials the Filwood Fantastic Mini Golf Club members were challenged to create their own crazy golf holes. It's been brilliant being a part of the club, judging the designs at the PUTT PARTY and discussing plans and ideas at the recent TEE PARTY.

Check out the Filwood Fantastic Mini Golf Club and the Filwood Centre for more information about the minigolf club and the exciting plans for the new Crazy Golf course being created at the community centre in Knowle West, Bristol.

We're looking forward to playing there on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour in the future.

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The Movie Box in Manchester

A look at a Manchester video shop.

You don't see video shops all that often any more

The shop is also called The Corner Store

And the Mac & PC Centre

Invaders in Manchester

A look at a piece of Invader street art in Manchester.

It was nice to have a walk round Manchester again for the first time in a while on Saturday.

One of the best free-to-do activities in the city centre is to look for street art. There's plenty of it about.

Space Invaders

Manchester is the site of an Invasion by French street artist Invader. He created 47 pieces of mosaic tile art with a total points value of 970 back in 2004.

You have to look in a wide-range of places to see the Invaders

Over the years some of these retro video game inspired pieces have been damaged, removed or stolen. While some have been lost entirely because the building they were on has been demolished!

Luckily some of these lost Invaders have been replaced.

Look up!

Crazy Pool

A look at minigolf and billiard hybrid games.

We've seen a fair few variations and hybrids of minigolf, pool, snooker & billiards games on our travels. These have included Crazy Golf Pool and Pit-Pat, as well as some Crazy Golf obstacles that have been created using old pool and snooker tables.

We visited Skegness in 2011 and there was a sign for Crazy Pool on the promenade. It shared the sign for The Original Crazy Golf but there wasn't a trace of any tables when we were there.

A sign for Crazy Pool in Skegness, Lincolnshire back in 2011

Roxy Ball Room in Liverpool's Hanover Street will be home to a Crazy Pool game when it reopens later this month. It'll be an 8-table layout and I'm intrigued to see what the set-up is.

I first saw the game of Pit-Pat (obstacle billiards) in Vienna, Austria back in 2010 - it's like minigolf but played with cues.

You can find official Pit-Pat courses indoors at The Floodgate in Digbeth, Birmingham (where it's called Pit-Pat Table Golf) and outdoors at Watermouth Family Theme Park and Castle in Devon (where it is known as Crazy Snooker).

The only other full-size outdoor Pit-Pat layout in the UK was in Littlehampton. Sadly it became a lost course in 2017.

A selection of the minigolf and cue-sport crossovers we've seen on our travels

Related blog posts:
- Crazy Snooker Pool Billiards Golf and Pit-Pat
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - courses we've visited to date

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Week 4 of the Putt18 World Pro League

My results in week 4 of the Putt18 World Pro League.

I've just completed my rounds in Week 4 of the Putt18 World Pro League.

Provisional scores for Week 4:
- Round 1 = 79
- Round 2 = 70
- Round 3 = 74
- Round 4 = 76

Total = 299

Timings of the rounds:
- Round 1 = 3:37.92
- Round 2 = 4:06.46
- Round 3 = 4:21.90
- Round 4 = 4:45.40

Total = 16:50.70

For more information on the Putt18 golf game mat check out the Putt18 website.

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Ghetto Golf heading to Sheffield

Sheffield will be home to a new indoor crazy golf venue as Ghetto Golf are set to create a course in a vacant industrial warehouse in the John Street area of the city.

The adults-only indoor crazy golf course will also feature a bar and street food.

Ghetto Golf Sheffield will be the fourth venue, following Liverpool, Birmingham and Newcastle upon Tyne.

There are also plans for a Ghetto Golf course in Glasgow.

Visit the Ghetto Golf website for more information.

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New Caddyshackers Crazy Golf opening in Nottingham

Caddyshackers will be opening a new crazy golf venue in Nottingham.

The city centre venue will be home to a 9-hole and an 18-hole crazy golf layout, with a bar, dartboards and arcade games too.

Caddyshackers in Nottingham is planned to open later this year or in early 2021.

Caddyshackers was originally set-up as an adults-only competitive socialising venue, however they now allow under-18s at certain times.

Visit the Caddyshackers website for more information.

There is an 18-hole Caddyshackers venue in Leicester. It became the 903rd course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour when we played there last year.

Playing at Caddyshackers in June 2019

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Crazy Pool at Roxy Ball Room in Liverpool

Liverpool's Roxy Ball Room venue on Hanover Street has received a makeover and is reopening on the 27th August.

One of the new games to play at Roxy Ball Room on Hanover Street will be Crazy Pool.

The team at Roxy Ball Room has described it as mash up of minigolf and pool.

It'll be interesting to see what the game is like and if it's Pit-Pat, or another variant on billiards and miniature golf.

Check out the Roxy Ball Room website for details of their eleven venues and the games on offer.

The Roxy Ball Room venue at Rainford Square in Liverpool is home to a crazy golf course. We're yet to play there on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

We have played minigolf at Boar Lane in Leeds and Deansgate in Manchester.

The new Withy Grove Roxy Ball Room in Manchester will also be home to a minigolf course.

Check out my blog post "Crazy Snooker Pool Billiards Golf and Pit-Pat" for a look at some of the stranger miniature golf and cue-sports crossover games we've played on our travels.

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Crazy Golf Jigsaw Puzzle

Did you know there's a Jumbo Jan van Haasteren Crazy Golf Jigsaw Puzzle?

We found this jigsaw puzzle in Derby market after a lot of searching

One month until Miniature Golf Day 2020

There's a month to go until Miniature Golf Day 2020.

Miniature Golf Day is always on the 21st September. This year it falls on a Monday.

It'll certainly be a crazy Miniature Golf Day this year!

Last year we played the Crazy Golf course at Southport's Botanic Gardens to celebrate the day.

How times change!

We'll likely be Putting at Home this year.

One of the holes at Southport's Botanic Gardens Crazy Golf course

We also visited The Masters Putting Green at King's Gardens while we were over in Southport on Miniature Golf Day last year. The excellent 18-hole course was really really really busy so we didn't have time for a game. Here's a video of me scoring a hole-in-one there on a previous visit.

Dates for your minigolf diary 2021

Each year there are two minigolf days.

The first of the year is National Miniature Golf Day which is on the second Saturday in May. In 2021 that is Saturday 8th May.

The second, Miniature Golf Day, is always on the 21st September. In 2021 that will be a Tuesday.

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Crazy Golf and Crazy Snooker at Watermouth Family Theme Park and Castle in Devon

There are Crazy Golf and Crazy Snooker courses at Watermouth Family Theme Park and Castle near Ilfracombe in North Devon.

One of the places to visit on our post-pandemic bucket list is Watermouth Family Theme Park and Castle near Ilfracombe in Devon.

There's a 9-hole Crazy ‘Fountain’ Golf course there AND a Crazy Snooker layout. When I checked with the theme park the team confirmed it is a Pit-Pat layout. That makes it the only outdoor Pit-Pat course in the UK!

Watermouth money

Two of the tokens in my collection come from Watermouth Castle. I found them at an antiques fair back in 2015 and I found out they date from before 1992.

What a happy castle

I wonder how much 10 Gnolds are worth these days? Not that I'd part with the coin

Visit the Watermouth Family Theme Park and Castle website for more information.

Gator Adventure Golf at Escape Entertainment in Chorley

Playing Gator Adventure Golf at Escape Entertainment in Chorley.

We played our first new minigolf course in almost six months when we visited the Escape Entertainment Venue in Chorley, Lancashire last Thursday. It was the first course we've played during the coronavirus pandemic.

The 18-hole indoor Gator Adventure Golf course became the 955th visited overall on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

The last round of minigolf I played was back on the 9th March, while our last round together was on the 19th January! Before our visit to Gator Adventure Golf the last totally new miniature golf course played on our tour was back on the 25th February.

The Rules of Gator Golf

In our minigolf match-up I took the win with a score of 43 to Emily's 53.

Playing hole 4

We were both a little rusty on our shots!

Emily on hole 13

Photos of the 18-hole Floridian-themed adventure golf course.

Hole 1

The green on hole 1

Hole 2

Hole 2

Hole 3

The green on hole 3

Hole 4

Alligators!

Hole 5

The raft from hole 5 to hole 6

The raft

Hole 5

Hole 6

Hole 7

Hole 8

Hole 9

Hole 10

Hole 10

Hole 11

Hole 12

Hole 13

Hole 14

Hole 15

Hole 16

Hole 17

Hole 17

Hole 18

Hole 18

Check out the Gator Adventure Golf at Escape Entertainment website for more information, opening times and prices.

We survived!

The closest I'll be getting to flying anytime soon

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