The draw has been done for the 75 Shot competition but Brian and should be up at the Club tonight – Friday.
Please be there for 10:00 am unless you have been told otherwise
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For those of you not participating in the bowling, the BBQ starts at midday until about 14:00. If you haven’t signed up already and still want to come, please let Ange know.
After a nip-and-tuck nail-biter, Hannah, Sue & Gerry from Bush Hill Park won their first match 13-12 putting them into the last 16 of the National Triples. They face Hertfordshire’s Welwyn & District team this morning. We wish them another round of success!
Sadly the Ashford boys didn’t make it through their first round but they were there supporting the BHP girls along with other Middlesex supporters. Good to see!
Kylie Jenkins & co and Yaz Hasan & Co also made it through yesterday – with two games played and we wish them well today too
It is real rain in buckets, cats and dogs and/or stair rods and would appear like putting up two fingers to the hosepipe ban imposed yesterday !
Watch out if you’re a pedestrian. Some of those watery bits in the road are very deep and you could get soaked by a passing car.
Watch out if you’re driving too. Those wet patches seem to come out of nowhere if there are no cars in front of you flagging them up!
It’s due to dry up later and for the rest of the weekend, so this is a temporary sojourn into cooler weather.
Hope it’s drier in Leamington. The Bush Hill Park girls and the Ashford Boys start their challenge in the National Triples competitions this morning. Good luck Middlesex! Good luck to all counties. When you get to Leamington, all you want to do is play well and not let you, your club or the County down as well as enjoying the experience.
Bowls England have their own tv channel and their FB page should keep up with results.
Bit slow posting today
Good luck to the team this afternoon.
Tony, Corinne, Karen, Ange, Tricia, Barry & Teresa, George and Shaf.
Looks pretty good bowls out there.
Think we’re still one or two short for the friendly this Saturday v Hurlingham Park
Many of you will remember Rita Wadge with great fondness. Her daughter, Sharon, used to live in Greece and, like Rita, is animal crackers!
Well, Sharon has written her first novel.
it is available from Amazon in paperback and Kindle format. It has very good reviews and now the nights are beginning to draw in, you may want to cosy up with a good read.
One paperback will be in the Club’s next big raffle and I’m sure Sharon will sign it if you’re the lucky winner!
Channel 4 is starting a four-part series tonight with Alex Brooker as he goes around the country with a ‘mate’ trying out various new hobbies – three per programme. It should be a lot of fun and Alex is a tough chap – remember the series when he did the training to swim the channel. He’s very plucky!
Anwya, on 2nd September, the programme includes bowls – hooray! – with talented Yaz Hasan from Egham joining Alex and friend.
Watch tonight at 9.00 pm (or on catch up during the week on the first episode) and subsequent episodes, but especially the bowls one! You never know, you might find another hobby to try out – something indoors for those winter months in between indoor bowls.
Young bowler Yaz Hasan is to take centre stage in a new Channel Four series starting next month.
The 19-year-old Egham Bowls Club member will join presenter and comedian Alex Brooker as he tries out a range of the nation’s favourite pastimes in four-part mini-series ‘Hobby Man’ which starts tomorrow (Friday 19th) evening at 8pm.
Special guests join Brooker in each episode with Inbetweeners comedy actor Joe Thomas joining Yaz in episode three which takes in Wiltshire, Berkshire, and London and airs on Friday September 2nd.
Commenting on the exciting project which – coming hot on the heels of the Commonwealth Games – will again put lawn bowls on mainstream TV, Yaz said:
“The main goal for this was to promote the sport and show the country that anyone can play.
“It was an absolute pleasure to film with these two brilliant people – we had such a great time with lots of laughs.
“The most amazing thing is that I have managed to keep this a secret since it was filmed back in April. I was approached to do this while away on holiday in Spain and was really shocked that they asked me!
Ann and Archie Dale are celebrating their Diamond Wedding Anniversary today.
60 years together. Fantastic!
We hope you have a lovely day and get spoiled by your family!
That may be true, but it was certainly a welcome visitor to West London last night. Almost proper rain! Anyone go out singing in it?!
The plants in pots still needed watering this morning but I’m sure that shower would have been good for the green and surrounding area.
Many of you are green fingered so how have your gardens faired? Are your tomatoes ripening up fast? Courgettes in danger of becoming marrows? Raspberries and redcurrants coming on a treat? Rhubarb taking over the beds providing enormous leaves providing shade?
Let us know your garden triumphs and losses over the last couple of months.
There is a life outside of bowls and sometimes it’s good to chat about it.
By the way I saw My Fair Lady a couple of weeks ago, and once we stopped (unwittingly ) comparing the two leads to Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison, who were very good indeed, it was an excellent production. The run is stopping soon so get in quick if you’d like to see it. Like most of the theatres now, it was air-conditioned and comfortable. (Take out a mortgage for the ice creams though!)
Unfortunately there weren’t enough Ladies for the Bishop Duppas match for Tuesday so it has been cancelled. Apologies if you were looking forward to it.
This does leave rinks available for those club competitions that need playing!
Tina & Ashley won the Regional Quarter Final yesterday but sadly went down to a strong pair from Essex South. Terrific effort and only 15 other pairs in the country can say they made it that far in the competition. So, we’ll done and be proud!
No doubt well on their way to Essex County Bowls Club now, Ashley and Tina start off in the last 32 in the country this morning and hopefully will progress through to the last 16 this afternoon.
First match is against Jane Cockrill & partner from Caister, Norfolk. The winners will play the winners of Sylvia Bloomfield & partne from Harlow an Nick Muir & partner from Hertfordshire.
We wish Tina & Ashley all the best and hope that they achieve what the West Ealing Mixed Four (Sue Butcher, Megan Hunt, Barry Wheeler & ‘Chili’) did yesterday – win both regional quarter and semi final to reach the last 8 in the country and playing at Leamington. A great achievement for the four, West Ealing as well as Middlesex!