Thursday Jean had to hang around for the guys to put in the new caravan air conditioner. Jean went out to Point Lonsdale during the week to find out about social bowls. She told Mal to ring at 9. He did and got his name down.
(Mal just took random shots and didn't write names down so apologies if people are incorrectly named or not named in photos.)
The club has two carpet greens. It ran about 14 seconds. Wind was not really noticeable. It was a nice cool breeze.
The format was unusually fours. They played two games of ten ends. Mal's team was Daryl, Mal, Gerry and skip Ian.
(Gerry, John, Ian, Trevor and Warren)
First game was against Ken, Garth, Rob and Malcolm.
(Mal said there were some great shots played. Both skips tended to favour the draw shot. He said "At no time did my skip ask Gerry to drive a bowl off. I saw the sense in it because he was a great draw bowler."
After the first game they went inside for a cuppa and a chat.
Second game was against Warren, John and skip Trevor.
(Mal loved that sign)
That's when they all started to make mischief. Gerry kicked one of Warren's bowls into the ditch and hid the other two under his jumper. Mal said "He looked around in disbelief and didn't know what to say. We were all trying not to laugh."
(Garth)
Mal liked that the whole lot of them were pretty funny.
He also liked that they gave him a name tag and everyone took the trouble to introduce themselves.
(Mal's skip Ian)
Ken the bartender saw him in the line and served him ahead of others. They were all ok with that. "I felt like I was a long lost member of the club."
Point Lonsdale - Mal feels like he belongs.
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