We drove around when we arrived on Wednesday to find out when clubs play social bowls. We got our names down for Irymple, Workers tomorrow and this morning 9am at Mildura Bowling Club .
Were used to sleeping in now so we had to put two alarms on.
The two clubs (Mildur and Workers) are side by side. Never seen that before.
We were told yesterday that all four greens used to belong to Mildura but they got too much to maintain. When Workers lost their club, Mildura offered them two greens. It's nice.
We arrived and met Judy and Wally in the office who organise Tuesday bowls.
Then Jean sat for a chat with Chris from Leopold in Geelong. She comes up here this time every year.
Wally introduced us and told us the format. is 2-4-2 pairs - two games of ten ends. We played together.
There were three women, Chris, Judy and Jean with thirteen blokes.
We played on the top green A.
against Werner and Graeme.
There were little centipedes all over the green. Despite this it was nice to bowl on. Heavy in the dew. It was really hard to get the weight.
As the sun came up it got very muggy. We were glad they played in the morning.
They were good bowlers. They got shot almost every end but Mal took the kitty back - twice for four. We won 14-7. We were good and ready for our second game.
Second game we played against Joe and Bart.
The Magpies came down to clean up the centipedes. Lots of bowlers were worried they'd collect them when they bowled.
Jean described her bowling as "Shit bowling with a few pearlers." Mal replied "But when it counted."
We won 17 to 4. Last end we had them surrounded. Joe came down with his bowl, took kitty, followed it and pushed it to Mal. A nail in the coffin. Joe bowled really well.
On our way inside we were impressed with the garden memorials for Betty Parry
and Jim Bunney.
We won overall - fifteen dollars each. First time for us in over a hundred clubs.
After the game we met and chatted with Chris who just came down to say gidday to people.
Mildura Bowling Club - finally a win for us!
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