Hung our heads at South Tamworth (South Bowlo)

We arrived in Tamworth at 10:30 on Sunday. We had to get the caravan set up for our seven day stay quickly so we could get to South Tamworth to see our mates from Murrurundi play in the Sectionals.

SUNDAY

It's a pleasant-looking clubhouse.

Everything is bowls themed. Even the pokies!

It's known as South Bowlo.

There are two nice grass greens.

And a bowls shop!

Jean put our names down for Wednesday. She messaged her nephew Matthew's wife Emma. Her parents Kathy and Tony play here. We're told they are good players and nice people. Jean's related by marriage but we've never met them. We arrived to the Sectionals in full swing.

Murrurundi had just caught up after being down 11-1 against Bendemeer.

The Murrurundi boys wanted Jean to take a photo of them.

We're looking forward to coming back Wednesday for our game and to meet Emma's Mum Kathy. (Tony is 🎣 on the coast.) We decided instead to go to North Tamworth which only has bowls on Wednesday. Instead we put our names down for Friday. Kathy doesn't play on Friday so we dropped in after our Wednesday game to meet her.

FRIDAY

We came back Friday for our game at South Bowlo.

We met Graham at the desk.

We played on the far green.

It's Green 2.

It's 2-4-2 Pairs. We played together

Against Terry and Richard.

There were three triples and two pairs games.

First end Jean put one in the ditch and one on the kitty.

Jean was doing ok

but's Mal's Fours were struggling with the super fast green.

Jean met Des with his very cool South Bowlo wheelchair.

Then Mal worked it out and we started to catch up.

Jean did six wrong biases with her bowling arm so got a bit down on herself. She didn't want to play any more. Even so, she wasn't doing too bad.

We lost but at least we hit double digits! We came inside for drinks. One of the guys suggested we give our trip map to Bowls Organiser Neville to put on their page.

South Bowlo - a sad result but a good time overall.