Going back to my blog of last Sunday - the old friend I contacted listed among her pastimes a curious thing called "Aunt Sally". I was mystified. I was dumbfounded. Did she worship relatives? Did she have a thing about maiden aunts? I decided to research this "Aunt Sally" and found that it was a game!
Apparently in Oxfordshire and its peripherals they play a game in the local pubs called "Aunt Sally". The rules are quite simple: throw a stick at a target and try to knock if off a 2ft 6in pole! Then do it again until you have thrown six sticks. The target is called a dolly. The sticks have to be 18 inches long, two inches in diameter and weigh between 1lb 2oz and 1lb 8oz. According to the makers of the equipment the sticks are made of kiln-dried beechwood. The throwers have to stand behind a piece of wood 30ft away from the "dolly" and the winners are the team which knocks the dolly off the most times. Sounds like a cross between skittles and coconut shy to me. This game is completely unknown outside the confines of Oxfordshire but I am intrigued. I have decided to travel to that fair county and witness for myself the spectacle of an Aunt Sally match.
I hope it will be worth it . . .
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