The 6th at Abbey View…
Posted by Fyse on Thursday, 14 April 2005
Everyone has things that frighten them. For some it is spiders, while others are terrified by confined spaces. Many people fear the dark, and are unable to walk the streets at night. There are many things that can provoke terror so extreme as to incapacitate. For me, it is standing on the 6th tee at Abbey View golf course.
My relationship with this accursed hole from hell began several years ago, and has intensified with every encounter. The scene for many a round-ruining score, lowlights include a ten-putting incident (involving going off the green again twice) and the six shots spent in a bunker mentioned in my last post. Today I added a new chapter to the saga, ending up in exactly the same bunker straight off the tee. Fighting back the vivid mental replays of my last sojourn in the front-right-green-sand-trap, I broke free in a mere four shots. That hole is the bane of my existence. (And I really must practice bunker shots…)
PS Tinkering with the blog should now be finished, and I’d appreciate any tip-offs about problems in different browsers. This particularly applies to people not using Firefox or Internet Explorer. (How’s it looking in Safari, Kerrie?)
PPS In case it wasn’t clear already, I ought to clarify that I’m really crap at golf. When I say that the 6th frequently ruins my round, I mean it makes a poor score even worse, and not that I was actually doing well in the first place. I’d like to be good at golf, but there has been scant indication thus far that this will ever happen.
Your floating face has become a little scary. Is that you rising out of the glowing embers of hell?
Golf. A sport that I’ve become more and more intrigued by. I wish it wasn’t so expensive to play. I have a hard enough time motivating myself to exercise. The idea of spending $10-$50 to do so is more than I can bear.
FYI, the basic template looks fine in Safari, but the comments are messed up. I tried with Mozilla, too, and the same deal. As you probably know.
Ah, another Mac user. I’ll have to take a look at that problem when I get back to uni, as there are Macs I can use there. I hope the comments section is at least useable?
I play golf at a so called ‘municipal course’, where it only costs a £3.70 per round, and my half-set of clubs only cost me £40. I’ll have to get a lot better and richer before I join a proper golf club, if I ever do…
PS Rising out of hell wasn’t exactly what I was going for. ‘Mighty all powerful oracle / baby from The Teletubbies’ was more my target. Perhaps this didn’t quite come across.
Everything looks a-okay on my end, even the comments. I opened up Firefox and compared it to my Safari view and everything is identical.
I found the problem. It was just when there hadn’t been any comments yet, and was actually common to every browser! All sorted now.
Oh, and I found a really useful site that gives screenshots from Safari for any given URL. Have to remember that for future reference.
I was on the golf team all throughout high school and never once improved. My poor dad was crushed.
Comment section looks good now!
It’s a really frustrating pastime. Some rounds you think you’re doing everything the same as always, except every single shot slices directly into the undergrowth. I swear I’m actually worse than I was a couple of years ago!