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the court was excellent - only two small places for the ball to go out, and the surface was incredibly grippy. a little wider than the calthorpe court and it even has little spectator booths (occasionaly occupied by local drunks).
myself, andy and dan played little 2 on 1s for an hour and a half before an old lady came over and gave us hassle, mainly for a) being too old, b) playing a silly bike-snooker game and, c) preventing kids from playing there. after a little argument (she wasn't exactly warm to us and kept going on about it being a football court despite the lack of goals and 'cricket' being emblazoned everywhere), we obliged and let the 6 or so kids play, because fair enough it's a public court, we'd been there for over an hour and the majority of people there wanted to play football.
if/when there are 6 or more of us there playing polo, we'd better be prepared to argue our case and maybe even get the police involved because there's no way i'm accepting anyone has more of a right to be there than i do...
after we played, one of the afore-mentioned drunks came over and chatted with me for a bit - he mentioned that the woman involved is a busybody who wants to be on the residents committe and that i shouldn't have backed down and also that it kind of made him look bad (i didn't quite get his point but it was probably along the lines that he wasn't causing trouble and she's sticking her nose in to our business so he may be next...)
to summarise - great court, let's try again when 6 of us can make it!
(Sam - no worries for not making it, it would have been nice to play 2 on 2 but there'll be plenty more opportunities. good luck finding your phone and keys).