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For the last month or so the site has been under constant bot attack. It seems to have been identified that the site was permitting posting without logging in and so every three minutes an automated post was being made containing one or more links to various poker or gambling websites. I have therefore had to disable anonymous posting on the site. I was hoping the attack would stop after a while but this has not happened. Please therefore register/login to post messages or comments on this site and the forums. I hope to change the system back to allow anonymous posting if/when these bot attacks end.

Every Christmas for the past 15 years or more my family has engaged in the seasonal sport of satsuma bowls. This is a keenly fought contest, loosely based on lawn bowls, the rules of which have been progressively developed and fine tuned. I have to confess to making the assumption the same would be happening up and down the land each winter when satsumas and clemantines become available in the shops. Google says not - apparently a satsuma bowl is an Japanese decorative antique!

There was a clear need to have satsuma bowls recognised as an official sport. To achieve this I have set out the rules of the sport as well as a bit of background information such as how to choose the ideal satsuma bowl, jack selection and scoring systems.

I was never quite happy with the old phpnuke site. Much of the site took a lot of php hacking to get it to look and function right. There were also ongoing concerns about security. I've been hunting around for a while now for the right replacement and fortunately came across a blog that mentioned drupal was worth a look. And here it is.

I am pleased to announce that I am offering free hosting of sports ladders on the squash-ladder.net domain.

Running squash ladder PHP, I can host any type of sports ladder such as squash, tennis, badminton, table tennis etc. Your ladder would have the following format as URL: http://squash-ladder.net/your_ladder/ or http://sports-ladder.net/your_ladder/
e.g. squash-ladder.net/demo/

After patiently waiting for Google to index my pages I have noticed that few of the forum posts are being indexed. I am in the process of applying some fixes to change this. If you find any of the links are not working or that the forums are not working please let me know ASAP.

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The site is now live. There are still things to fix but the majority is now working.

The site is due to contain the following main categories:

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