Tag: tabletennis

Market Pong 2: let’s make it massive this time

  • August 24, 2009 at 6:36 pm

  • Some time ago it occured to me that the stalls in Birmingham’s outdoor market resembled table-tennis tables, and what a waste it was that they were unused a lot of the time. I made the mistake of thinking this out loud in front of Nikki Pugh, who has a habit of making things come true: [...]

Commandeering Birmingham’s market stalls for a game of table-tennis

  • June 15, 2009 at 6:12 pm

  • A few weeks ago Nikki Pugh and I were walking through the empty market stalls in Birmingham, and were struck by how much they resembled table-tennis tables. What a waste, we thought. Yesterday we put that right. Nikki and Charlie, who facilitate the BARG events, organised a bunch of us to meet at the vegetable market [...]