De som bor i grannhuset är vansinniga och de som ska bebo de balkonger, som nu kan få lite solsken, är jättelyckliga....
Idag hade gruppen, som bestod av Riksflygledaren, Klipparen, Adjunkten, Husbilsägaren samt undertecknad, utökats med ledamoten Ekonomen, som efter att ha fixat tvättstugan på förmiddagen hade fått ledigt att delta i mötet. Statistikern kom med andan i halsen till lunchen, efter att ha lämnat sin Volvo för byte till vinterdäck. Sommardäcken visade sig sitta som berget, eftersom de lite äldre aluminiumfälgarna runt skruvhålen, har en kärna av järn och därför kan rosta fast. Hade detta nu utspelats i USA så hade säkert statistikern kunnat stämma någon (oklart vem, men vem bryr sig), på några hundra tusen. Men nu är vi ju i Sverige så nu blev det bara dyrare för kunden.
Därefter visade det sig att Adjunkten, som begåvats med en skogsfastighet, har problem med kylaren till sin Nuffield traktor från 1964. Om nu någon läsare händelsevis skulle ha en kylare liggande någonstans till en engelsk Nuffield från 1964 så kan ni ju höra av er!!
När vi nu var inne på det engelska så tog vi upp det, inte helt kända, spelet Eaton Wall Game.
Om ni nu av någon anledning inte är familjär med detta spel så gäller följande enligt internet:
Engelsk läsövning:
The Eton wall game is a game which bears some resemblance to rugby union that originated at and is still played at Eton College. It is played on a strip of ground 5 metres wide and 110 metres long ("The Furrow") next to a slightly curved brick wall ("The Wall") erected in 1717.
The traditional and most important match of the year is played on St Andrew's Day, as the Collegers (King's Scholars) take on the Oppidans (the rest of the school). Although College has only 70 boys to pick from, compared to the 1250 or so Oppidans, the Collegers have one distinct advantage: access to the field on which the Wall Game is played is controlled by a Colleger. Despite this, it is usual for them to allow the Oppidans to use it whenever they wish.
At the annual St Andrew's Day match, the Oppidans climb over the wall, after throwing their caps over in defiance of the Scholars, while the Collegers march down from the far end of College Field, arm-in-arm, towards the near end, where they meet the Oppidans.
The Wall Game is also played on Ascension Day, immediately after the early morning service on the roof of College Chapel.[1] Various scratch matches are also played throughout the Michaelmas and Lent halves (terms), where boys from different year groups, as well as masters, take part
Scoring[edit]
The aim of the game is to move the ball towards the opponents' end of the playing area. In those last few yards of the field is an area called the "calx". In this area a player can earn a "shy" (worth one point) by lifting the ball against the wall with his foot. A teammate then touches the ball with his hand and shouts "Got it!" These two plays must happen within the calx. After this the scoring team can attempt a goal (worth a further nine points) by throwing the ball at a designated target (a garden door at one end of the field and a tree at the other end). A player can also score a kicked goal, worth five points, if he kicks the ball out and it hits a goal during the normal course of play.
Play[edit]
The main game consists of the two sets of players forming a rugby-style scrummage (called a "Bully") in which neither team may "furk" the ball, which is to hook it backwards (except in Calx, where a different type of Bully called a Calx Bully occurs). The Bully is formed next to the Wall and crabs slowly along the Wall until the ball emerges. Many players, particularly those whose position is actually against the Wall, lose the skin off their elbows, hips and knees. Because of this, players usually wear long sleeves. Players within the Bully shove and push each other, mostly with their bodies but also by placing their fists against the faces of the opposition and attempting to lever them backwards and away from the Wall. Actual punching is not permitted, and grabbing an opponent's shirt ("holding") is also not allowed.
When in Calx, a different type of Bully called a Calx Bully occurs. The fastest way to make ground is by kicking the ball upfield and out of play whenever it comes sideways out of the Bully – unlike most types of football, play is restarted opposite where the ball stops after it had gone out, or was touched after it had gone out
Consequently, the most common tactic revolves around the formation of a 'phalanx'. This consists of a tunnel (coming out from the wall, diagonally forward from the position of the ball) of players from one team who are crouching on hands and feet next to each other. Once the team in possession of the ball has formed a successful phalanx, it attempts to pass the ball down the 'tunnel' using the knees of the players forming it, to a player standing at the end of the phalanx, known as Lines, whose job it is to kick the ball upfield. The team not in possession is constantly attempting to disrupt this, and win the ball back.
The game lasts up to an hour, with two halves of 30 minutes each. Many games end 0-0. Scoring goals (ten points) is very rare; they occur about once every 10 years and there have been no goals scored in the St Andrew's Day game since 1909. There was a goal scored in a recent scratch match (a less formal warm-up match for the St Andrew's Day game) in October 2009. However, shies (worth 1 point) are scored more frequently, with the Oppidan side scoring shies in 2002 and 2004.
In the 2009 St Andrew's Day match, the outcome was a 0-0 draw, with both sides failing to score. This marked the 100th consecutive St Andrew's Day match in which no goals were scored by either team. There was, however, a near controversy in the latter stages of the match. With College attacking, a rogue photographer stopped the rolling ball with his foot, preventing it from going into Calx, and thus preventing College an opportunity to score a shy. It was the Oppidan side, however, who finished the match on the upper hand, themselves moving into Calx in the final stages, only for College to deny them from scoring.
Puh....
Efter denna läsövning så tillönskas alla läsare (som inte slutat läsa redan) en trevlig vecka!!