Kilcoy - Jean doubles Mal's score!

We arrived yesterday in Kilcoy. Jean drove to the bowls club to find out they have bowls this morning. She put our names down for 9am.

The first people we met were Trudy and Pattie who took the money.

Then we met Lyn, Pauline and Ann who did the draw. They were trying to work out what Mal's name was.

The club is nice and quaint.

It has nice pics.

Some history

And a collection of club badges.

Jean had a chat with Michael (Grumpy) about some NSW clubs - including many in Wollongong, where he lived - 5 k from Jean's parent's place. We've played at many of them.

There was a singles championship on when we arrived.

We arrived late because Jean couldn't find her phone. She ran back to the caravan three times. Mal rang it and Jean could see it on her watch but couldn't find it. She said "We have to go. You'll have to take photos and I'll write notes on paper" Jean chatted with the ladies and told them why we were late. Mal walked in with Jean's phone. He said "It was in the fridge in the car!" All the ladies kept saying to Jean "Have you looked in the fridge lately?"

Trudy introduced us and told everyone she'd read about us and our trip in 'The Bowler '.

It's fours. Mal played skip for Bill, Neil and Lyn.

(Bill, Lyn, Neil and Mal)

Against skip Jenny, Sharon and Janis with Jean as Third.

(Janis, Jenny, Jean and Sharon)

There's only one grass green. It's quite nice.

There were three games played.

First three ends Jean's team drew well and we're up 3 to 5 shots each end. Mal came in each time and took kitty. His team ended up 7 - zip after three ends. He said "Nothin' like playing against a bunch of draw bowlers!" He had to work hard.

Later Jean's team had two then Mal came in and took second. Still, Jean was in there.

Jean kept drawing and Mal tried to take her out.

The girls did their drawing best and it was too much for Mal. Jean's team won the money. We got our green fees back.

It was Pam's and Joe's birthday this week so we came inside for birthday cake after the game.

Patty presented us with club badges.

They said the main industries in Kilcoy are logging and dairy. Hence on the badge are a cow and a log.

Kilcoy - Mal played valiantly but alas, to no end!