We drove an extra ten minutes on Saturday - Pennant day - to Valentine Bowling Club so we could meet our old friend Neville Beeton with whom we played at Tuggeranong.
We met Neville on the green when we arrived. Neville is, of course, Mal's ex-Father-in-Law. He was married to his Ex's mother.
It's a gorgeous locale. A Marina on one side
and a boating channel on the other.
Neville introduced us to Rob Gray the President.
It's a nice spacious clubhouse.
Mal wanted Jean to take a photo of him with the bus.
We arrived too late to get a rollup - everyone was rolling up for Pennants. They called the cards (with Manly defeating Parramatta playing in the background just for Mal!).
Four teams here today: Valentine vs East Maitland (The Griffins - a Griffin on the shirt),
Swansea,
And Soldiers Point.
There are two plastic synthetic greens.
We asked Rob if we could roll up on the carpark green but it was a no go.
Jean was very happy to see a green dedicated to a woman, well, a couple!
Neville was skipping The Fours. Mal said "Yes. At our club they used to say 'Neville Beeton can never be Beaten!'"
Jean said "Has Neville done a good bowl yet?". Mal replied "No but it's early days yet!" Next end Neville's pink bowls knocked out their shot for one.
We stayed a couple of hours but had to get back to feed Jerome. Valentine was up on all three games when we left. We said goodbye to Neville after he played his best bowl of the game.
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