Bowls with the birds at Stawell Bowling Club

When we were at Stawell Bowling Club on Saturday we met President Ivan and put our names down. We arrived 90 minutes early today and the only person there was a lady vacuuming. Peter soon arrived and recalled us playing at Golf on Saturday.

We quickly noticed the lovely metal garden art of birds on the fence

And on top of the sun shades.

There were a lot of friendly faces there from Saturday at the Golf Club.

The club has two synthetic greens. They look about the same vintage. Fake grass.

We decided to have a rollup so Mal could practise his turning technique.

Ivan said the clubhouse has been here a while but it looks immaculate.

It's clad with colorbond.

It has a nice, big kitchen.

We played on B Green.

It was three-bowl triples, two games of ten ends. There were seven triples and one four. Jean played lead for skip Peter with Les.

(Peter, Jean and Les)

Mal played second for skip Rob and Pat. We played each other first game.

)Pat, Mal and Rob)

The first two ends Jean took shot then Mal took it off her. He played well but so did Jean.

Peter's been singles championship runner-up the last four years. You could tell. He took it back!

Jean made comment about her bowls suddenly going narrow. Laurie, Jean's teammate from Saturday, said "What, you're not bowling as well as you did in Saturday?" That was nice. She was doing ok. Jean's team won 8 to 5.

We stopped after game one for drinks, bickies and raffles. Stubby and coke - $5!

Second game Jean played against Joy, Laurie and skip Adrian.

(Adrian, Joy and Laurie)

It was a bit harder as the grass changed. Jean had it nailed first game. She got it eventually helped by Les. The team was ahead the whole game but lost by two with four down on the last end.

Mal played against Lesley, Geoff and skip Rob.

(Geoff, Rob and Lesley)

He struggled a bit. He reckons he was nowhere near the kitty all game. Nevertheless, they won ten to six.

Stawell Bowling Club - love the birdlife!