It’s 7pm on a sunny Thursday. At this time I can usually be found at the pub with a gin and tonic in hand. But instead of a drink, I’m holding a lawn bowl. I’ve come to Peckham in south London, but not for the hip bars, restaurants and clubs the area is famous for. I’ve swapped nightclubs for a lawn bowls club because I’ve heard it’s the hot new after-work activity for my generation.
Think of lawn bowling and you’ll probably picture grey-haired men and women dressed in formal white clothes at a stuffy club. But there’s not a white hair in sight at Peckham Bowls, where the players are all about my age, 27. Forget padel, ping-pong and crazy golf – lawn bowls
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