On Sunday 7th May, Merrow Village Bowls Club opened their doors to anyone who wanted to find out more about bowls.

A chilly morning meant that only a  few hardy visitors arrived, but a lovely afternoon saw a turnaround in our fortunes with a number of visitors coming to try their hand at bowls.

The day was a success and credit must go to those club members who gave up their time to help.

We look forward to welcoming the new bowlers into our club.

On Saturday 29th April, Merrow travelled to the Pippbrook Bowls Club in Dorking.

Although the afternoon was overcast to begin with, and a trifle chilly, the sun did make an appearance eventually, warming everyone up.

We played four rinks of triples, with one Merrow team reduced to just two players due to a late cancellation by one of our members. However, that just seemed to spur Rodney and Colin on, as they won their rink by a convincing margin.

The overall result was a points win for Merrow, 69 – 56. The teams were evenly matched though with each team winning on two rinks.

Special thanks went to Rita and Brian, who laid on a lovely tea for the hungry bowlers.

We look forward to the return match with Pippbrook at Merrow on 20th May.

Sunday, St George’s Day, sees Merrow visit Liphook for our first match of the 2017/18 season. Here’s hoping for a good result.

On Sunday, 16th April the green was officially opened by Tony Oldland, Club President, who made a brief speech before delivering the first bowl of the season.

Several members then had informal matches to get a feel for the green following the Winter break. I’m pleased to report that the green played well, a tribute to all the hard work put in by members last Autumn.

Saturday saw Merrow Village Bowls Club’s Spring jumble sale take place at the Village Hall. 

A good number of dealers arrived at 8:30 and purchased plenty of items, getting the sale off to a great start. However, that was just the calm before the storm. At 10am we opened up to the public and the fun really started. Each of our stalls was besieged by eager buyers and the morning passed in a flash, with much friendly banter between buyers and sellers. One lady had travelled twenty miles, saying “this is such a friendly place to come”.

We look forward to the next sale in the Autumn.

We will be preparing the green for the new season on 2 April from 9:30. If you can come along to lend a hand, you will be most welcome.

Merrow were pleased to receive an invitation to Westfield Bowls Club’s quiz night on Saturday, 18th March. Eight of Merrow’s members went along and we entered the quiz as two teams of four. Westfield gave us all a very warm welcome and put us at our ease.

The section on countries’s flags was extremely hard, with lots of guessing going throughout the room. The rest of the quiz was broken up into ten sections of five questions each, with subjects as diverse as Nature and Music.

At the end of the quiz we enjoyed a splendid buffet, together with a raffle, with Merrow winning one of the prizes; a lovely hyacinth. With the quiz results compiled, one of Merrow’s teams (Incognito) managed to secure third place.

A big thank you to Rodney Morrison for getting us all together and individual thanks to Sue, Joan, Lorna, Lesley, Allen, Ken and David for taking part. Thanks also to Westfield for putting on such an entertaining evening and we look forward to hosting a match in July.

A big thank you to all who came along to our signing-on day. If you couldn’t make it, don’t worry, you can still sign-up when next at the club.

Our new fixture list is now on the site (as in your booklet) and sees us playing some new opponents: Horsell, East Horsley and Westfield. It will be interesting to see how we get on against new opposition.

Our indoor fixture against Camberley has moved from February and will now be played in January 2018, so don’t forget to put the date in your diary!

Lastly, our Open Day will be on Sunday, 7th May. There will be two sessions: 10-12am and 2-4pm. Do try to come along and, even better, bring a friend or two.

Well, it’s the evening actually!

Just a reminder that signing-on day is Monday 13th March at 6pm in the Village Club bar. Please complete one of our forms to ensure we have your correct contact details.

We look forward to seeing you there.