Shove ha'penny Shove ha'penny Shove ha'penny (or shove halfpenny), also known in ancestral form as shoffe-grote ['shove-groat' in Modern English], slype groat ['slip groat'], and slide-thrift, is a pub game in the shuffleboard family, played predominantly in the United Kingdom. Two players or teams compete against one another using coins or discs on a tabletop board. Shove ha'penny is played on a small, rectangular, smooth board usually made of wood or stone. A number of parallel lines or grooves run horizontally across this board, separated by about one-and-a-half coin diameters. The spaces between the lines (usually nine) are called the "beds". Five
Fredegond Shove spent time in London with the Vaughan Williams. In 1915 she married the economist Gerald Shove who, like her own family, had links with the Bloomsbury group. Since he was a conscientious objector, and had to do farming as his alternative service, he worked at Garsington Manor near Oxford for most of 1916-17. The future Juliette Huxley, who was working there as a French tutor, later reminisced that "In those days … I saw a good deal of Fredegond Shove, Gerald’s wife, who lived like a Spartan at the Bailiff’s Cottage”. Their employer, Lady Ottoline Morrell, also remembered Fredegond then