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Do Your Bowls Need a Trip to Pershore?

If your bowls need re-stamping, or you need deeper grips or re-aligning, then Steve B from Hounslow is going to Pershore Bowls Centre before the outdoor season.
£10.00 per set of 4 then:

Testing & Stamping.     £46:00

Adjusting & Stamping.  £68:00

Gripping.                         £55:00

 

Steve’s number. 01386 652411

Money and bowls will need to be delivered to Steve once a date has been fixed.

Admission of Bowls Crime

Norman kindly pointed out that neither Teresa nor Dawn’s wrong biases on Monday night had appeared on the blog. So I’m just putting that right!

The previous more common offenders of Norman,  Brian N and Laurence kept their games wrong-bias free last night. Hooray!

Anybody else like to hold their hand up and join the Wrong Bias Club?

A Drawing Lesson

My lucky shirt is being consigned to the bottom of the wardrobe!  It had worked awfully well in the previous round so that was disappointing

My opponent from Sutton allowed me 2nd bowl on the first end before drawing line and length in a neat cluster around the jack on subsequent ends and I was 0-14 before getting on the board!

I hit the head when she was holding match and took a 2. Up went another short jack from me but she had found that length as well by then. Doh! I managed to drive and knock shot bowl out instead of the shot and second bowl. Drat!  Her third bowl just beat mine so that was that!  Hey ho.
At one stage I didn’t think I’d get any points at all but clawed my way up to 7 which is better 0.
My opponent said Camberley was just like playing at Croydon. She had a fantastic game. I hope she does well in Nottingham. She will if she plays like that. Well done, Rita Fraser. Go on and win it, girl!

So Gold to Rita, Silver to Marie for her marking (thank you for giving up 4.5 hours of your day) and Dawn became an “also ran”!!

There is always next year.

 

(Mind you, I woke up this morning after I had been dreaming I was standing at the green edge and couldn’t remember if I needed to put the general anaesthetic on my bowls or whether I needed to spray the green with it. If anyone knows the answer ……)

0C Does That Make it too Cold to Rain Today?

I’m sure I’m not the only one who could with a rain break!  Gee whizz, haven’t we been drenched enough?  I hope nobody has any leaks

There’s a beautiful blue sky, the early garden daffodils are shivering down to their bulbs, but the sun is out so hopefully they’ll start raising their trumpets up to give a shout out to spring.
Watch your step if you go out early as parts of the pavements are slippy as yesterday’s wet starts to thaw out from the overnight ice.

Play well those that are playing – think there are some club comps going on – and enjoy the day and rugby and whatever else is occurring in your realms.

Peter J gets the Silver

Thanks for your messages of support.

Unfortunately I lost 16-21. It was a very tight game until the last 4 ends, when I went from 15-all to 16-21, despite saving a match lie on the penultimate end.

Credit to Ian, he just drew better than me over the last few ends – I think that nerves got to my arm. I almost got a 3 on the last end, but sadly the jack went the wrong way and didn’t trail to my waiting pair.

Just an inch!

Peter

Well done, for reaching the final, Peter, with some very good wins on the way.

Dawn’s turn next on Saturday in the National Over 60’s Area Final.  I’ve been playing like a drain for the last month, so hope all the rubbish has now been swept away and some sort of form returns!  Please keep your fingers crossed!

Alas, the friendly v Hampton has been cancelled on Saturday as we couldn’t raise a team but the friendly v Teddington on Sunday is still going ahead.  Play starts at 2:00 and supporters/spectators welcome.