Our new Noticeboard can be seen advertising today’s Gala, showing how useful it is for our club. And as advertised, a Mixed Gala took place today starting at 12 noon with the weather staying fine. Three games of eight ends were played and the title of today’s blog tells how Susan (s), Allan and I performed. Our win was against …

Once again the club has had this gala sponsored by Bupa, the company that cares for thousands of older New Zealanders in their own homes, with medical alarms, in retirement villages and in Care Homes. We appreciate Kareen Treder, one of their Healthcare Field Officers, coming from Palmerston North today in poor weather, and telling us about the company and its work and …

You just might ask what we mean by a ‘Wrong Bias.” and seeing two of them today, made me decided to tell all readers what one was, just in case it was something unknown to them. Quite simple really: when a bowler releases their bowl, it should curve out and then in towards the Jack, but, if it goes out …

It certainly was a cold windy afternoon for today’s 12 o’clock Triples Gala. It didn’t put off any of the 14 teams but it was a day when players had to deal with a wind which aimed to make accurate delivery of bowls quite a problem. Some heads had bowls spread around quite an area but equally, many players were …

 So ofter does one hear from fellow bowlers how part of their  subscriptions go to Bowls New Zealand and how this is used mainly on our top bowlers. This morning I was invited to join  some of our committee who were having a meeting with Paul Cavanagh who is the Community Development Officer for Region 3 & 4. The meeting …

 Certainly ti was the Olympic Games that started today in London, but it could have been one of their events being played here in Levin.  The weather was fine, a good turnout of participants and even a special spectator was in attendance. Playing on Rink1 were Trevor and Ken and they are here discussing their team’s play during the afternoon to …

Seven rinks in this afternoon’s play – mixed 2x4x2. Good to see so many out in the sun and it was also a pleasure to see two new faces on the green. Gary brought his son along and as can be seen, he has a nice style, picked  up from when his class came over from college.  I believe he …

 A full green today in action, doing their best to win the gala. Another fine day but without the frost covering the green. Two opponents, Joan Hayward and Liz Galloway, watching the arrival of a bowl with interest Four games of 8 ends were played and resulted in the following: 1st Neil Bovey and June Mears with 3½ wins 2nd …

Starting at 10.00am this morning were the two semifinal games in the Winter Triples and though a lovely winter morning, the frost on the green caused players quite a few problems. You can easily see the tracks left by the bowls and players footprints. These were not a problem but when we played the other way, the Jack was so …

The club thanks Kingston & Kemp Ltd (Plumbing) for the donation of mats for use on our greens. They were purchased from Drakes Pride, noted for making bowls, and will be a great asset in replacing the present mats. They are getting old and have a tendency to lift on the corners and quite often a bowler has tripped because …