When I Was Young

[Groupie]

I always thought a bowl was for a haircut

[Brinjal]

Me too.

[Tilly2]

I thought a bowl was for washing your hair with and fairy liquid for shampoo.

[bookbinder]

No, no, no! A bowl is for rolling across a grassy patch, and seeing if you can get near the jack!

[boxtops]

I thought it was for being sick in.... (sorry)

[Tilly2]

No bookbinder, that's a wood.

[paddywak]

No tilly, a wood is lots of trees growing near to each other

[Mick-Talbot]

I thought it was what posh people had to store the waste products of eating until they are emptied from the body.

[sandyRoe]

No. It's a golf club not made of iron

[bookbinder]

I used to watch my grandad on the bowling green. He said he was going to play bowls. It wasn't a bowl, then?

[dennisb66]

Nah it was putting under the bed.lol

[albaqwerty]

that's a gaazunder :-)

We used to go for a picin in the copse
(took me a while to differentiate cops and copse)

[Tilly2]

My husband plays bowls but he uses woods, not bowls.

[bookbinder]

So where's the bowl on a bowling green?

[Tilly2]

Now I'm getting in a spinney.

[Tilly2]

Perhaps 'woods' is a dialect word for bowls.

[Mick-Talbot]

Bowl/wood and jack/kitty

[Tilly2]

Who's kitty?

[albaqwerty]

I going to be entering the woods competition has a strange sound to it.

[paddywak]

Isn't kitty were the money goes when you're playing cards?

[Tilly2]

Yeh, you keep the kitty in a bowl.