Blackpool Pleasure Beach Adventure Golf

In Blackpool for a bit of business but managed to squeeze in a round at the very good Pleasure Beach Adventure Golf. 

Result was Flaming Nora 40, Sunny Jim 42. Cost was a whopping £12 each.

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Treasure Island Mini Golf, Bridlington (again)

Off to Bridlington for a long weekend as Flaming Nora was working there at Bridlington library, giving a talk and then a book signing at The Book Nook bookshop in the Old Town. If you're ever in Bridlington, do visit the Old Town, it's stunning and just a short walk from the seafront.

We've played Treasure Island Mini Golf in Bridlington before in 2018, and you can read our first review here.

Happy to report that not much has changed since our last visit. It's still indoors (yippee for somewhere to go when it rains, which it was when we visited!).  It's £6 each for a round and well worth a visit. It's a fun course which had us chuckling.

Scores were Sunny Jim beating Flaming Nora by 3 points.  A good time was had by all.

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Paperback publication day ... of the world's first crazy golf cosy crime?!

Now available in paperback!

FOUL PLAY AT THE SEAVIEW HOTEL is a cosy crime / murder mystery set in Scarborough, Yorkshire and published by Headline. 

A murderer plays a killer game when a team of obsessive crazy golfers arrive at Helen Dexter's Seaview Hotel to compete in a tournament held in the seaside town. The ruthless team captain aims to win by fair means or foul... then the rival team captain is murdered. 

Amazon link: bit.ly/FoulPlayAtTheSeaviewHotel

It's the third in the Seaview Hotel series of books, which were shortlisted for Best New Crime Series in the Dead Good Readers Awards 2022 with Richard Osman and Val McDermid at Harrogate International Crime Festival. 

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Publication day! The world's first crazy golf cosy crime?!

It's publication day for my new cosy crime novel, FOUL PLAY AT THE SEAVIEW HOTEL published by Headline in ebook and hardback. The paperback will be published on December 7. 

Could it be the world's first crazy golf cosy crime?

A murderer plays a killer game when a team of obsessive crazy golfers arrive at Helen Dexter's Seaview Hotel to compete in a tournament held in the seaside town. 

The ruthless team captain aims to win by fair means or foul... then the rival team captain is murdered. 

It's the third in the Seaview Hotel series of books, which were shortlisted for Best New Crime Series in the Dead Good Readers Awards 2022 with Richard Osman and Val McDermid at Harrogate International Crime Festival. 

Order your copy at bit.ly/FoulPlayAtTheSeaviewHotel

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New & Updated! North Bay Adventure Golf in Scarborough

The crazy golf course on the North Bay in Scarborough is one of our favourite courses, ever. It's in our happy place of Scarborough and has always been a wonderful course. You can read our earlier reviews here. 

However, after many years of neglect after a massive storm forced seawater onto the course, it became difficult, if not impossible to play. The course wasn't looked after and was going downhill - as well as uphill, side to side, well, you get the gist. We still loved playing it, though!    Now it's been taken over by a new company who have updated the course whilst still retaining the character of this great course.

The location is superb of course, and it's what makes it for me (Flaming Nora). Right on the beach at Scarborough's north bay overlooking the sea, the castle, and waving at the little train that goes by along the cliff top too.  I love it a lot.

Here are some pictures taken today when we played a round.  The updated course now includes an outdoors cafe and bar area too.  One addition I particularly liked, when writing the scores on the score sheet, were the barrels at each hole to rest on while writing scores.  You can also put your drinks and handbags there too while playing.

What's been lost in the upgrade to the course, however, is the chalkboard on the side of the hut to record your name and score.  But on the whole, a great update that keeps the original character of the course.

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NEW! Coronation Park Miniature Golf, Beamish Museum, County Durham

Beamish museum in the north east of England is one of my favourite places to visit. A new addition to the outdoor museum is the 1950s town complete with a brand new miniature golf course.  I visited today, but sadly, didn't play as I was on my own. However, this means that Sunny Jim and I will no doubt return and play the lovely little course and blog about it in the future.

Each hole on the course is named after a northeast landmark such as Penshaw Monument and Lindisfarne.  And in true 1950s style, it's designed to look as if the council maintain it and it's been let go a bit. It's wonderful!

Here is the score card, which the lady in the kiosk let me take away with a small pencil too. "People usually just nick them," she said as she handed them over to me.

Some wonderful old retro signage help complete the look to this 1950s mini golf course.

And here is the kiosk, it's only £2.50 per game.

Definitely well worth a return visit with Sunny Jim for a game on this smashing new / old course.

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Frosty Penguin's Putting Adventure, Coatham Redcar

A day out to Redcar on the Teesside coast beckoned. Neither Flaming Nora (me) nor Sunny Jim had visited the seaside town of Redcar since we were kids so it was high time we went.  We played the brand new Frosty Penguin's Putting Adventure at the Coatham end of the Esplanade. A short walk from Redcar central train station.

First impressions were great. The course was so new it was like playing on freshly-laid carpet, so give your ball plenty of speed on the course.   Entry was £8 per person, equivalent (we were told) to the course at Stokesley in Yorkshire, one we haven't yet paid.  This course has 18 holes and it was money well spent, good value for such quality.  The location is perfect too, right on the beach.

This new course in Redcar is owned and run by the same people who own and run the crazy golf course in Saltburn, just a short journey down the coast. We've played the course at Saltburn once or twice before and you can read about our games here.

The theme to Frosty Penguins putting adventure, as you can see, were, er, frosty penguins. Plus polar bears and seals. It was high quality stuff and a great deal of fun to play.  Scroll down for some pictures and the final score.

Final score was a draw! Flaming Nora and Sunny Jim both scored 59.
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