Crab Stuffing

Stuffed Crab- yum yum.

Crab Stuffing

Ingredients-

A dozen confident crabs

A change of skittle alley

1st match of season

The Beernec's with something to prove

An onion for the crab tears

A lemon for the crabs to suck on after bitter defeat.

Ok it doesn't come much better than this. The Beernecessities have moved venue to the triangle club, our first match is against The Crabs- a nice bunch, not too fishy.

You always wonder how things will go at the start of a new season- few new faces, new alley, how well we'll cope.

This particular night had the added distraction of the summer skittles presentation being held upstairs in the same venue, with some of our players collecting sucess would mean players coming in and out of the alley.

Nelson was due to be upstairs so he decided to play first with Guinevere. This was to set the tone for the match, you could even say decide the match.

Guin hit an excellant 48, and Nelson a cracking 53.

We went 15 pins in front, and from then on never looked in trouble.

The Weld then went on with The Whistler scoring 42 and 41, matching the opposition.

Next up was Merlin, son of Guinevere, and The Terminator. Merlin hitting 38, Terminator 45, pulling another 19 pins to take us 35 in front at the half way point.

"This will be a game of two halves, what they've done in the first, we will do in the second !" Was one of the comments from the crabs. Hmm.

The second half started with myself and Airbus, scoring 41 and 44, and in so pulling another 2 pins.

Our penultimate set of Model Y and Toyah was to be our only loss. Y hit a good 41, however Toyah hit a dismal 28- "its a mystery". We lost 1 pin.

Oh Toyah!

Chippy Minton and The Wizard played the last set, full of money from there summer skittling success, they were quite unstoppable. Chippy starting with a spare, The Wiz with 2 spares, albeit one was a 9. Both players finished with 54, pulling a further 28 pins.

The Crabs crept tearfully, and in a sideways fashion towards the exit, not just beaten, but completely crushed, STUFFED.

Later that night as the summer skittle celebrations continued, a tipsy Chippy Minton was to take to the stage with an enthusiastic, if not particulary tuneful, rendition of Neil Diamonds "Song song blue".

I don't mind him singing, as long as its not the blues for the Beers'.Chippy live on stage at triangle club-song song blue Chippy.