We drove yesterday to Headland and to Club Maroochy to watch the state Women's Fours. While we were at Headland we put our names down.
We arrived and met Ken and Alvin in the office.
The members were immediately friendly and asked us about our trip. Jean sat and chatted with some ladies.
(Jan life member, Carol (President), Jan ( Jack-of-all-trades) Julie and Georgina)
Then she had a lovely talk with Norma.
We struck up a conversation with Marie and Ray. Marie used to live in Weston so loved Jean's club shirt.
The club has an interesting history. It was opened in 1985 by founding President
Syd Lingard who the road outside is named after.
Apparently there was another club 'Pacific Paradise. That club has some financial anomalies and was about to go under. The two clubs joined but they still do many things separately.
It's now the Headland Pacific Club.
It was three-bowl triples. Two games of twelve ends. We played on the MacDonald/Turnbull green.
They have unusual rink markers.
We played together. Jean was lead and Mal with skip Alvin
Against Margaret (lead), Marie and skip Ray.
(Margaret, Mal and Marie)
There were five rinks.
Jean thought the skips were similar.
(Alvin and Ray)
Jean and Mal bowled well and often got shots. Very often it didn't last. Several times we went from 5 or 6 up to one down.
This time we got four.
Jean got in trouble because she was working on this blog post on her phone and was nine seconds late to bowl. Shame on Jean!
Jean thought we were losing. She was shocked to find we won 16 to 8.
We came inside for drinks and bickies.
Second game we played against lead Georgina, skip Ken and Mabelle.
(Georgina, Ken and Mabelle)
We bowled really well but it didn't matter.. On the last end we had five second shots. All our skip had to do is play backhand to take out shot. He played forehand. We lost by three. Anyway, it was a fun game.
We came inside for presentations. They draw runner-up Lead, second and skip then Winners from a barrel.
We didn't win but Alvin welcomed us.
Headland Pacific - a win and a close loss for us.
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