Congratulations to Rob Cotter, Brian Paquin and Neville Turnbull for qualifying yesterday at the National Singles. I haven’t any further details on any of the games played by our club players in any of the events; none of our Pairs managed to qualify. Will keep my ears open for some background stories.

Bowls NZ Nationals will be starting in the Wellington area on Monday 28 Dec with Day 1 of the Men’s Pairs and Singles for Women, and continues through to January 9, 2010. The following information is from Wednesday 23 December Chronicle where Ken Hayward reported on our club’s activities. It also included details of the above event: ‘a number of …

Drizzle and then rain was forecast to take over this afternoon but didn’t eventuate until late this evening so we were able to complete the final gala for the year 2009 without getting wet. Margaret had said that we would get through the day without any bother and she was right. Bringing home the bacon (or was it ham) for …

It started last Sunday with our annual Christmas get-together, a very good meal enjoyed by 53 members and friends followed by the chance to dance and enjoy the music played by Paul Skilton, Norman Panlilio and friend. It would appear that some of our members had had a hard day on their feet and were a little reluctant to take …

The one advantage from the overnight rain closing the cotula green, was that the Junior Singles Championships had to be played on the artificial green which meant that club members had a great view of the games. The first day of their championships had been washed out so the first games played yesterday saw the completion of the first round. …

This blog is about bowls, usually things about the club and what has or is going on but for me, today was a day of remembering how I started playing the game. Allan Shanks had been asked by Dorothy Wilson to play in a gala at her Levin Women’s Bowling Club and he asked me to join them as the …

A variety of bowling activities took place for our members this weekend, some at our own club and others, at other clubs to play in Centre events . Our cotula green was set aside for a Women’s Section playing in the Centre Pairs and I believe the green was prepared by Neville Winiata, cutting and rolling it in the absence …

Finally we got a game of bowls played. Monday was to be the Umpire’s Gala at Central but it it rained, Tuesday was to be Central’s monthly Men’s Gala, but it rained, Wednesday afternoon was set down for Rotary, but it rained, Thursday was club roll-up afternoon, and finally we had a fine day and we were able to play. …

The bright part of the day was that nearly all who attended the Special Meeting held at the club this morning, voted for the first stage of replacing the present artificial green. A lot of work had gone into preparing for this meeting by a sub committee which was set up by the club’s Executive. Their research had been sent …

There were not many at todays 2x4x2 Bowen Pairs, but those who played enjoyed a bit of sunshine. I had Ian Averis and Joe had Jack Grey which was interesting just because Jack played with me yesterday in the gala. Jack and Ian had a good tussle during the game and on this particular end, they did so well that …