ANOTHER SKITTLES NIGHT! (Purely in the interests of Science!) If you haven't played skittles before, the basic idea is to hurl a large round heavy wooden bowl down a 12 metre alley at 9 giant skittles and knock as many of them over as possible. The more that you knock down, the more you score ... easy. There are two teams and each player gets three attempts, adding up the score as they go, and it's absolutely impossible to miss. Well actually that's not quite true. As many will know there is strange west country phenomenon that often occurs in skittles that makes the amount of space surrounding them expand as the evening wears on ensuring that by 10.00pm it is virtually impossible to hit anything anything other that the sack padding on the back wall. A theory has now been put forward that there may well be a link between the amount of alcohol consumed and the gaps between the skittles. So, scientists are now working on this and on Saturday 30th September those pictured below were kind enough to offer themselves as guinea pigs in this special scientific research evening at the Crown. Although there has as yet be any official word, early indications are that the theory may well have some foundation. Click to enlarge Back | 
