No shots scored at Denman

We drove just half an hour from our nice stay in Merriwa to the little town of Denman and its Bowling Club. We'd heard on the grapevine it has social bowls on Saturday so came for that.

It's a quaint little clubhouse though quite modern outside.

It was opened in 1957.

There are some great photos from the 50's and more recently

Including of the opening of the Women's Club in 1949.

The greens are (as usual) named after men but the club does appreciate the ladies.

It has a really good outdoor seating area.

There's an impressive array of old Pennant flags - twenty-four in all from 1951 to 2004.

Jean had to do washing so Mal walked down from the caravan park early and met Snow.

Margaret organised things. We were so happy to finally get a game after so many rollups in the little country towns.

There are two good looking grass greens.

Mal rolled up on the front green.

It's the Irwin Green.

It has a little plaque on it that says in 1985 it was named to celebrate the 50th Anniversary.

There's a pretty little river beside the green.

There were 18 players so we played three-bowl triples. Three games.

Here they don't score shots just Win and Lose each end. They draw the overall winner out of a hat. It was Joyce, Jean and Graham.

Against Barbara, Graham and Denise.

Neville, Mal and Snow.

Against Graham, Bro and Margaret.

Mal put one in early.

Jean put one on the kitty then took it out with her next bowl! 😞 later she did it again when she had a Resting Toucher!

Jean made the boys wait while she got a photograph of Mal's bowl.

Later Jean ran down after her first bowl to get a photo. Amazingly she didn't take it out with her second bowl.

Mal and Jean both won on ends. There's a wheel to determine the jackpot.

The jackpot is complex. The winners decide how many numbers for different jackpots. Jean drew her team who, decided on four numbers (N/S/E/W), then picked out her rink but didn't spin up the money.

We met such nice people. They welcomed and joked with us.

At last a game for us at Denman