Sometimes the weather in its infinite wisdom decides to surprise us with hailstones from above.
A complete white-out during out game – so we escaped to the clubhouse for tea and cake. But it cleared after tea and we carried on!
Life in an outdoor bowling world: sun, rain, wind, lightning, and, occasionally, hailstones.
You name it, we try and play in it!
Home game prechat with castle green bowls club . Where everything is (i.e. toilets etc) and more importantly the bar at the end of the match. Plus, match rules for the afternoon.
Always a fun game against friends of the club.
Mexican dominoes, a very funny game.
We also have:-
Rumikub, chess, crib, scrabble, backgammon etc
With new games being added.
You can learn a game, teach others or just participate.
Come and join us! Every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month 7pm. Merrow Social Club.
Playing fee £2.50
Congratulations to our Men’s Senior Fours Squad. Having won six rounds of the competition, including the County Final held at Croydon on the 3rd June, Merrow will have the honour of representing Surrey in the National Finals at Leamington this August.
Richard Duddy and John Wills also qualified for their Surrey badge, as they played in all six matches.
L-R: Steve M, Richard, John W, David E and Trevor
The weather was spectacular, very dark, with thunderstorms all around.
We didn’t start very well (look at the scoreboards) but eventually turned it around to draw on rink two and win on rink one on the very last end.
As usual Castle Green were excellent hosts.
Robert
Open Day
Our Open Day this year took place on Saturday 2nd May and, after an uncertain start weather wise, the skies cleared to leave us bathed in glorious sunshine until the end of the Open Day when it promptly rained!
We were delighted to welcome 58 potential new bowlers to our club. It was great to see the green filled with people of all ages enjoying their first taste of bowls in a relaxed and enjoyable environment.
Our visitors began their visit with a cordial welcome from our meet and greet team with tea, coffee and cake on offer and then proceeded to the green for a short session with our indefatigable coaching team who worked tirelessly throughout the day. Skills sessions and a roll up followed with the visit being concluded with more tea and cake.
We look forward to welcoming a number of our visitors to the club in the coming weeks for further coaching and roll ups.
If you are reading this wondering what you missed, please feel free to visit us on club nights in the coming weeks when we will be pleased to show you the ropes. You are very welcome on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1800. Report by Ruth.
Match Reports
Shalford
We had our first weekday friendly of the season on Tuesday (21st April) against Shalford. We played on their all weather green, which is a great transition from indoor to outdoor grass – we all managed to bowl full length. A great afternoon, predominantly in sunshine, was had by all. We won 67 to 57, which doesn’t reflect some exceptionally tight rinks. Report by John P.
Albury
On Sunday 26th April we played our first weekend friendly match of the season against Albury Bowls Club. The green was beautifully prepared and played well thanks to the hard work of David, Debbie and all the green keeping team. We had a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon with much friendly rivalry – the final score ending in a 53 — 53 draw. A lovely start to our home outdoor season. Report by Pauline.
Merrow is open for bowling…
David F, our President, welcomed us to the new season and members had a short ten-end game to get their arms in before enjoying tea and cakes provided by Helen and Pauline. First club night is Thursday 16th April.
Well it’s certainly true that many hands make light work. If we hadn’t stopped for tea and cakes all the outdoor painting on Saturday (sheds, ditch boards, poster frame and electric fence posts) would have been completed in a record time.
Thank you to everyone who turned out to help. We managed to beat the weather and get the job done with no ned to resort to our back-up day. Only the benches to oil now…
What a super turnout for the Games Evening on Sunday. Well done all – there was such a buzz and we raised £319. Thanks to all the helpers who hosted games, it made Barbara’s life a lot easier.
It was such a success that we are considering in the summer making Wednesday Canasta Night and the first and third Sunday Games Night.
Lots of work has been going on at Merrow to get the green and surrounds ready for our outdoor season starting in mid April.
Tony D organised a team to clear out the ditches, Mike and Derek have repaired or replaced some of the ditchboards, and Ken has worked his usual magic revamping the ditch markers, rink markers and numbers.
Off the green Barbara and team and Steve D have worked wonders on the bank and flowerbeds, clearing out, pruning and replanting. Each year the there is something new to see.
We have a work party organised for 28th March to paint the sheds, ditchboards and outside woodwork and also to oil up the benches.
There is also a games evening organised for Sunday 29th – a chance to get together socially just before the new season starts.
