Triples Tournament at Meeniyan

We met Vice-president Nick on Tuesday at Pennants in Foster. He told us they have a tournament here Thursday and he might be able to squeeze us in.

It's another little country clubhouse.

We caught up with Nick again. He'd told us we can play in the Thursday tournament.

Secretary Dawn looked after the money.

Dawn introduced us to oldest member Barbie who can only play one game. She'll play with us, do first game then Jean will step up.

They were a noisy bunch but very friendly.

We loved the clock.

Apparently. Meeniyan means "Moon rising over water."

There's just one carpet synthetic green. It's been down eight years.

With great permanent shades.

Named after Keith Pocklington.

It was three games of two-bowl triples with lunch in between. Our team was Spocka, Jean and Mal - Barbie played our first game.

First game was against Charlie, Dave and Ian.

It took Mal nearly the whole first game to get the weight. He just snuck in.

They drew first game. Jean played next. Our second opponents were Marg, Bob and Les.

Jean couldn't work the grass out. It was like 1 1/4 greens on the forehand and a full green backhand coming back. It was a pretty ordinary head. Mal took an ordinary shot.

Jean had had shot before but they got taken out. She ran down to get a photo of her shot bowl before more bowls came down.

Last game was against Roger, Robyn and Robert.

First end Mal did a spectacular shot.

Dawn came around to cool us off.

It was 30°. A 90 year old man collapsed so they rang the bell end seven. We won 7 to 4. They gave us some Meeniyan pens.

They called the results. We didn't win!

Meeniyan - use the pens for a good write-up.