We had taken a lot of time, effort and cost to fill out one small area of land right next to our house and to build a drying yard on it. But more than merely for drying coffee beans and other stuff, it was one small patch of level ground suitable for playing, and we have been using it for skating, cycling, group activities, and so on, and of course for the occasional game of shuttle badminton.
But how can you play shuttle badminton without a net and without marking out the lines? After a long time of wishing for it, and always baulking at the task, we finally got down to doing it.
Fortunately, I had bought two racquets just a few days before the shutdown, and when we ran out of shuttlecocks, a friend of ours somehow got a few and found a way to send them up the mountain to us! And then when the guts on one of the racquets broke, another dear friend sent up a spare racquet that he had...and so, let the games begin...er..continue!!!
But how can you play shuttle badminton without a net and without marking out the lines? After a long time of wishing for it, and always baulking at the task, we finally got down to doing it.
Fortunately, at 50'x30', the drying yard is just larger than a full-size shuttle badminton court.
Some leftover wall primer came in handy. A small wooden template helped us make a decent 40mm line all around. To our pleasant surprise, it has withstood not only our foot marks, but even a couple of light showers!
Two old paint buckets weighed down with stones, and the net was pulled across. Et voila! What a lovely addition a day's labour has made to our evenings :-)
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