Many thanks to Mike Whitworth and George Griffiths for their help in preparing the green for the new season. We spent many hours spraying to kill the moss, which had thrived in the mild wet winter, and then pressure washing the carpet to remove the remaining debris. It was particularly galling, therefore, to arrive on …
Category Archive: Bowls
Feb 22
Mar 2016 - The new season
Many of you will have walked or driven past the Village Hall, on Tuesday or Thursday afternoons, and seen some of the members of the Bowls Club totally absorbed in their friendly rivalry and banter, oblivious to the rest of the world, all their trials and tribulations forgotten for a while. If you have, you …
Nov 26
Dec 2015
Ruth Johnson has retired as Captain of the Bowls Club and I, solely because I was the slowest to dive for cover when a replacement was sort, have been elected to succeed her. Ruth has been a member of the Bowls Club for over 10 years, Captain for the last 5 and, ever alert to …
Oct 22
2015 Results
As the season draws to a close, we can look back on perhaps the most unpredictable ever from the point of view of the weather. It was not unusual to see members wearing both raincoats and sunhats. Fortunately, our increasingly fragile green survived the winter very well thanks to the attention of Mick Carson and …