Author: Dawn Slaughter

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Saturday 29th – Outdoor Roll Up

Yes. We’re going outdoors this weekend!

Roy will set up the ‘bumper’ mats but we still need to avoid lobbing the bowls onto the green, dropping bowls from hip height and any other deliveries that might leave dents on the green!
The ground is still tender so we need to look after it until it begins to harden up.
thanks to Trevor for all the work he’s put in since the autumn to get the green ready.

if you’re coming on Saturday, please be there for 2:10 on so we can start at 2:30. We’re unlikely to play more than two hours as the green will be playing heavy. It’ll just be good to get going. Some of us have County matches and County competitions next week. Eek!

Alexa says it’ll be about 18c – ooh, almost shorts weather!  – and dry on Saturday. (Wet on Sunday). Met Office says dry on Saturday and Sunday and the 18c will feel like 15c!

Look forward to seeing some of you. Dress code casual.

Happy St George’s Day !

Not only is it St George’s Day, it’s also the London Marathon,

Ray Verralls ran the London Marathon FIVE times (although not recently). That is a fantastic achievement !  Happy memories, especially when that theme music The Trap by Ron Goodwin tune starts playing.  It makes me think of Chariots of Fire.

The oldest person running today is 90. Perhaps some of us should start our training soon?!

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Anyone Running in the London Marathon on Sunday?

Probably not looking at all our knees, hips, etc!

Have you ever run it?  Do you know anyone running this weekend?

Unfortunately the rainy weather forecast isn’t that great but maybe that’s better if you’re a runner?

 

There’s a long gap between indoor and outdoor seasons this year, isn’t there?   Seems to be dragging on.  Another week to go now, hopefully.

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Yearning for Outdoor Bowls

Hasn’t the weather been great over the last couple of days? Spring is on its way with the blossom and flowers and, at long last, a bit of warmth in the sun.
hopefully less than 2 weeks until our green opens. Many clubs across the country are under way, with open day and men’s v ladies games.
Our Open Day is Monday 29th May from 12:00-4:00 pm and ties in with Bowls England’s Big Bowls Weekend.
Have you thought about who you could ask to come and have a go? Sarah’s got some fun games lined up for taster sessions.
Get your thinking caps on and, while doing so, start practising bending up and down as if you were going to deliver a bowl so your body starts to get ready!

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Friday Night Outdoor Leagues and Other Deadlines for Entries

Brian Noel has asked that anyone interested in playing in the Club Triples league sign up on the noticeboard by 30th April.  Please let Brian or Jane know

if you still want to enter the Richmond & Barnes Open Singles, Pairs, Triples or Fours, please complete a form and leave on the S pigeonhole at the club by next Sunday – 23rd April – or let Dawn know.

If you want to enter the MIddlesex County Indoor competitions for 2023-24, please complete  form and leave in the S pigeon hole and/or let Dawn know  by next Sunday 23rd April

Anyone else got any more urgent deadlines?!

 

 

 

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MIddlesex Indoor Finals – 3 Silvers and 1 Gold!

We all had very good games at MIddlesex Finals yesterday. Peter & Peter we’re behind then scooped up a 5 which put them into the lead and all was going well until the Bounds Green Pair took a 5 towards the end of the match and our boys just couldn’t quite catch up.

they were disappointed, of course, but the photo does make them look rather miserable but they weren’t. They’d had some very good wins to get there in the first place!


Tina and Teresa were close but we’re playing catch up most of the game. Even if they were holding, Sandra, the Lawns’ skip kept snucking a shot in. Very cruel on the occasions it was her final bowl!

In the Mixed Fours, Andy came in to sub for Steve on the day. That’s not easy for either the team or the sub but it did not deter them and their drive to regularly hold shot. However, the Hounslow four with their skip (Dave Pitt) continually playing brilliant shots to win the ends (drat and double drat!) , left the result with a score difference that definitively did not show the standard of play throughout the match.

It was with some fearfulness Dawn went on to play Sandra W-M in the Singles Final. (She had watched Sandra’s drawing shots in the Pairs!)

The match was pretty neck-and-neck up to 10-10, then Dawn put up a just-over- minimum length jack and took 5 shots over the next two ends. Sandra managed just won more shot before Dawn’s short jacks paid off again and she took the title 21-11. It was a good time for Dawn to play one of her best games of the season!


Middlesex County Indoor Badges were awarded to Teresa, Tina, Tricia, Dawn, Mike, Andy, Peter & Peter.

Congratulations also to Dave Pitt on Winning the Men’s Singles (out of Hounslow IBC) prior to the Mixed Fours win.


Thanks to Graham D for his support and to Jacquie for her support from afar.
Thanks to Glebelands for hosting the Finals and their hospitality.
Thanks also to Andy Docker and Angela Frankland for organising the whole competition programme and Andy Docker for the photos .

Peter T, Andy and Dave are representing Middlesex in the Home Counties League Final this morning at Camberley. Good luck to them and the rest of the Middlesex boys.