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Friendly people at Newport
We're still in Sydney. We've done a couple of clubs on the Northern Beaches. Today we're off to Newport for a Saturday afternoon game....
Jean Mc
May 10, 20251 min read


Three-bowl Pairs at Belrose
We weren't going to do Sydney for a couple of years but we stopped in at Narrabeen for a couple of days on our way up north. Today we...
Jean Mc
May 9, 20251 min read


Mal's back - at Engadine
So we're back on our trip after eight weeks' gap visiting kids, grandkids and sisters. After a lot of argy bargy we managed to get a...
Jean Mc
May 7, 20251 min read


Home to Weston Creek
It's Jean's turn now. We've had to stay in Canberra a few more weeks while we wait for our new caravan fridge to arrive. We decided to...
Jean Mc
Apr 8, 20251 min read


Home to Vikings
We're at home for a while - enjoying our grandkids - which is why we haven't posted much. Today we came to Mal's club - Tuggeranong...
Jean Mc
Apr 2, 20251 min read


Farewell Victoria in Mansfield
Today is our last day in Victoria. We've stopped in at Mansfield for an early game before we head home up the Hume Highway. It's another...
Jean Mc
Mar 18, 20252 min read


Weekend tournament at Alexandra
We came to Alexandra Bowls Club on spec, before heading to our accommodation, to see if they had Thursday social bowls on today. They...
Jean Mc
Mar 16, 20254 min read


Under Narre Warren Pantherdome
When we were at Berwick on Saturday Marshy rang Foxy from Narre Warren to get our names down for Wednesday bowls. It's a proud club....
Jean Mc
Mar 12, 20251 min read


Cranbourne Pennant Finals
We dropped in to Cranbourne on Sunday. There was nobody around. Jean found a number for Secretary Karen who told us there's no social...
Jean Mc
Mar 11, 20252 min read


Nice folks at Belvedere
Jean has been in touch with Belvedere via Messenger. We couldn't make it on their social bowls day so turned up on spec on a Monday to...
Jean Mc
Mar 10, 20251 min read


Played Fours at Berwick
We're camping in Berwick. We saw on their website that outside Pennant season there's bowls at Berwick Bowls Club on Saturday. We...
Jean Mc
Mar 8, 20251 min read


Bowled at happy Chelsea
We left Somerville yesterday and arrived in Berwick. Today we've driven 40 minutes to Chelsea on the coast for a game of Triples. It's...
Jean Mc
Mar 7, 20251 min read


A few days at Somerville
We saw Somerville play in the Mid-week Pennant Finals in Karingal last week. A couple of the guys told Jean about Thursday social...
Jean Mc
Mar 6, 20252 min read


Mt Eliza Wednesday Triples
We're camped at Somerville Bowls Club so today we drove 20 minutes to Mt Eliza to get a game of Triples. Mt Eliza had two Mid-week...
Jean Mc
Mar 5, 20252 min read


All retired at Village Baxter
Village Baxter is a retirement Village with a bowling green. We rang and asked if we could play Tuesday and were welcomed...
Jean Mc
Mar 4, 20251 min read


Nice outing at Mornington
This blog is about Mal and Jean's trip around Australia to visit every bowling club. Each post is about one club.
Jean Mc
Mar 3, 20251 min read


Saturday Finals at Frankston
We met Frankston Pat at Karingal when we went to watch the Mid-week Pennant Finals. She told us Frankston has four divisions at home...
Jean Mc
Mar 1, 20252 min read


Cute little Rosebud Country Club
Jean had been in touch with Brian from Rosebud Rosellas for some weeks. He gave her times and dates of all upcoming bowls. We chose...
Jean Mc
Feb 27, 20252 min read


Missed social at Mount Martha
We'd been told we must come to Mount Martha as the greens are great. We heard they have Wednesday social bowls so Mal rang to get our...
Jean Mc
Feb 26, 20251 min read


Top Division Mid-week Finals at Mornington Civic
After our visit to watch the lower divisions play the finals at Karingal We decided to see if we could catch the end at Mornington...
Jean Mc
Feb 25, 20251 min read
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