Runners up at Dennington

We drove this morning from Hamilton to Warrnambool. Jean checked the information about social bowls on her map and Dennington seems to be the best option for us today. Mal rang Mark who was busy and gave us Phil' (Secretary's) number. Mal got our names down.

Clive took.our money.

The clubhouse is small and nice.

There's a picture of the members in 2016.

Kevin, Mal and John chatted for a while.

A few years ago they pulled down the old clubhouse and built a new one. One of the bowlers, Pat a former builder, managed the project. He told Jean the club has more members in their eighties than any other club.

We're told volunteers put their blood, sweat and tears into the building project. They named the shades after the workers.

It was pairs. 2-4-2, ten ends and two games. We played together

First game was against Jason and Sue who play together in Division Three.

There were four games of pairs all up.

There are two synthetic greens. An old one out the back.

We played on the newer one. It's been down since 2005.

Jean had shot then Mal came in for two.

We were both bowling well but Sue always pipped us. Going into the last end it was eight all.

Mal got two for a win.

Our second game we played against Ian (Symo) and Lorraine. Ian told Jean the club is on the site of the Nestlé factory. The green is where the pig farm was until the Manager, a bowler, built the factory a green.

They got a five first end which freaked us out. Pan gave Jean shot before Lorraine took it away. We got a four though.

Going into the last end we were square. Jean scored one for the game.

We came inside for drinks.

Kevin the Treasurer did presentations.

Phil turned up and Mal wanted to thank him for putting our names down.

We only got three points so we weren't hopeful. We got runners up. Our money back.

As we were leaving everyone shook our hand said how much they enjoyed our company and wished us well on our trip.

We felt very welcome at Dennington.