Our first day in Shepparton we came to Tatura for training day. Jean's been in touch with Jason from the club about social bowls and they said to come for Pennants practice to get a game
Jason came out to meet us when we arrived.
He introduced us to Col and Julian who were rolling up. We joined them.
Then Stoney came and introduced himself. He was wearing his Pennants shirt. They've amalgamated for Pennants with Hilltop also in Tatura.
The club has two nice grass greens.
There used to be four but the council's taken back the other two.
We rolled up with the boys on the first green.
It's the Jack Maskell Green.
The fixtures are cool. Fixed yellow scoreboards
And the weather vane, named for DC Russell - a member who passed.
Mal was killing it!
Jean tried her best but couldn't beat him. Noone could!
Jean went inside to take a photo of the clubhouse.
While she was in there she asked about club badges for her hat. Jason said "No, sorry we don't have those."
Jenny (Col's wife) went on a mission. She asked one of the older bowlers who told her where to look. She came racing out
with two Tatura badges for us.
There's a nice photo array.
And photos of the hail storm they had on the green earlier in the year.
Mal clearly won (though we didn't score). He said "Yeah, when I did a bad bowl the boys looked after the visitors and hit me up." Col said "We always look after our visitors!"
We came inside for drinks and a friendly chat.
(Mal, Col, Jenny, Kristen [club Treasurer], Frances and Ken)
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