Sports Day at Canberra Bowling Club

We came to Canberra Bowling Club (Forrest, Dunrootin') for a game today. We've played there many times before - though not on our trip. Jean remembers her games there for the ACT Novice Singles a decade ago.

When we arrived we met Dave at the table.

The Lois tried to convince us to break our one club one visit rule to stay and play in the sports day on Thursday as they are one team short. She succeeded. We'll come back and play triples and blog about that .

We've always loved Forrest. It's such a pretty club.

Lois told Jean Canberra is the oldest club in The ACT.

They will soon turn 100.

They have a lot of history.

And Pickering drawings of Gough Whitlam

And John Gorton.

We remember when they ripped out the grass greens and put in two synthetic greens about ten years ago.

It's the second time they've been replaced.

It's that plastic type that we don'tlike.

Since we left they've started to call themselves 'The Cobras'.

They have nearby Parliament House on their shirt.

We had a practice game on Tuesday against Keith and Brian. Keith just won the club Fours and will play with us on Thursday.

We came back for the Sports Day on Thursday. - Jean, Mal and Keith.

We played a Spider. Jean won a bottle of wine.

Our game was against Margaret, Jenny and Warwick.

There were players from lots of local clubs: North's, Tuggeranong, Queanbeyan, Belco and Yowani.

First end we were lost. By the second end we got it.

We were three down and Mal took kitty for two then consolidated.

Keith's yellow bowl came in with a perfect shot just 1cm out.

Seventh end Jean finally got two.

It was us 22 to 4 then they got 9 shots in two ends. It ended up we won 26 to 20. They had a really good comeback. We came inside for a ploughman's lunch.

Canberra Bowling Club - played sports with the ladies (and a few blokes)