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Snooker is a cue sport that originated among British Army officers stationed in India in the second half of the 19th century. In 1884 army officer Sir Neville Chamberlain, stationed in Ooty, Tamil Nadu, devised a set of rules that combined pyramid and black pool. The word snooker was a long-used military term for inexperienced or first-year personnel. The game grew in popularity in the United Kingdom, and the Billiards Association and Control Club was formed in 1919. It is now governed by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA).
When asked to do a snooker theme cake, it had to be a snooker table, not an original idea, but I'm happy that its a theme I haven't done before.
The colours in this photo are all slightly out since it was taken at cake o'clock in poor light! - I've done my best to edit them to improve it, I hope it's somewhere near better - though the red was red, not pink as it looks here.
Vanilla sponge cake 5inches x 10 inches.
The dots in the name are the colours of the balls in the order they are potted.
(the blue ball is in slightly the wrong place! - I obviously didn't research snooker well enough!)
All modelled in fondant with added cmc - the snooker balls were glazed with confectioners glaze.
The pockets actually worked, you could flick the balls into the pockets! - it was tricky to get them out though without swearing and breaking the piped nets!
I couldn't get a decent one of jones. i guess this is how he feels.
we drove jones north to the vet's at 7 am yesterday morning. he stayed all day, and the vet pulled 6 teeth, molars and incisors. they gave him tramadol, 50 mg, for pain. that's what I take. hmmm....he weighs 32#. I weigh 115#. either I should take 4 or he should take 1/4. no wonder he's snookered.
i poked him all night to make sure he was still breathing. he didn't move.
leon tried to warn the new neighbors in the old house next to our field about the marauding bear being back, stealing our apples and climbing the trees, and jumping the fences. they have dogs.
so leon saw someone at the house, yelled, and noticed that there were 4 men in big heavy padded jackets with digital movie cameras hauling sacks of something out of the house. uh ohhh....
he told one of the nice gentlemen to tell the renters about the bear.
the news hit the paper the next day.
and then the day after that, when leon saw the wife, who had been released on $75,000 bail, to ask how she was and to tell her about the bear [the nice gentlman hadn't told them], she said that they had to get out of the house, and that they were buying a new one and she guess that would fall through.
uh ohhhhhh....
when I talked with my daughter, tami, last night and asked about their old house, which had just entered escrow, she said the buyer had been busted for pot.
uh oh, again.
the house the next door renters were buying, it turns out, was my daughter's and SIL's. it's been up for short sale for a year. tami was finally relieved that it was selling.
I had to tell her what the lady said.
and wonder over such a small world and the bad luck my daughter and her husband have.
this was really a bummer for tami to hear because she went in for surgery at 5 am this morning and had her third toe, right foot, chomped off. she was hoping to get out fast, but they had to do the biopsy while she was on the table to make sure that they got all the melanoma that was in her toe. I guess they did. leon talked with john and he said it went all right.
my daughter dreaded the surgery, not necessarily the toe chomping, or the melanoma [the word scares me], but because she vomits a lot after a general.
leon will make her chicken soup tonight.
our life.
in Nor NorCal on the coast, next to the Eel River.
how in the world does anyone get [expletive-ing] bored?
i'm tired.
t.f.i.f.
This picture is published here for the first time. It shows off-duty personnel at the Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport (LCPT) Prince Alfred Road depot enjoying a game of snooker in the recreation room during their break.
There's a mix of men in overalls (fitters/mechanics) and uniforms (bus crew/inspectors). The photograph was taken in 1954.
Snooker is a cue sport that is typically played on a table covered with a green cloth or baize, with pockets situated in each of the four corners and a further two, commonly referred to as the middle, or side pockets, that sit in the middle of each of the long side cushions. The (baize) cloth on a snooker table has a directional nap running from the balk end of the table towards the end with the (black ball) spot. This affects how a ball rolls depending on which direction it is hit or shot. A regular (full-size) table is 12 × 6 ft (3.7 × 1.8 m). It is played using a cue and 22 snooker balls: one white cue ball, 15 red balls worth one point each, and six balls of different colours: yellow (2 points), green (3), brown (4), blue (5), pink (6) and black (7). A player (or team) wins a frame (individual game) of snooker by scoring more points than the opponent(s), using the cue ball to pot the red and coloured balls. A player receives additional points if the opponent commits a foul or fails to escape from a snooker. A player wins a match when a certain number of frames have been won.
Snooker, generally regarded as having been invented in India by British Army officers, is popular in many of the English-speaking and Commonwealth countries.
(Wikipedia)