We came back for Australia Day at Grangeburn

We're in Hamilton now for a week and have two clubs to visit. Hamilton and Grangeburn. We were told by the Grangeburn guys at Heywood that there'd be social on Wednesday. We turned up at 12:30 for 1pm and not a soul was around.

We waited a while and finally Rowley turned up at 12:40.

Rowley rolled up with us.

There are two synthetic greens.

They have owls on the green and clear plastic cats fly above.

There's an impressive shade out the front.

Jean said "Yay I'm coming back here to polish my bowls. They have a Bowls Polisher!"

The front green looks new. Rowley said it's been in about a year.

The new green was a bit slower than the other green.

Jean liked the spongy feel of the new green under foot.

She won the first end

And the second, third and fourth.

She got ones then Mal started to get twos.

And again.

We didn't keep score but we'll call it a draw! It was getting hot so we finished after about eight ends.

Grangeburn - let's come back and polish our bowls!

FRIDAY

Jean sent her blog to the club via Messenger. Wendy got back and said there's bowls on Australia Day. We got our names down.

Mal wore his Melton uniform and Jean wore her Weston Creek for Green and Gold. First person we met was President Nettie who Jean's chatted with on Messenger. She was all decked out for Australia Day.

We got to check out the clubhouse.

Nettie plugged in the Bowls Polisher so Jean could polish her bowls.

Wendy came and introduced herself.

There were twenty-four players so we had four games of triples in the morning. It was Raylene, Julie and Jean

Against Nettie, Sally and Irene.

Mal, Jim and Rowley

Played Fred, Allan and Bluey.

Jean felt she bowled well. Sally said "Look at those red bowls!"

We both won our games. Mal by a lot! We came inside for lunch. We'd seen people bringing plates all morning.

Nettie found us Grangeburn badges.

Second game Jean played Mal's team. It was Peter, Jean and Keryn.

Against Irene, Mal and John.

Jean continued to bowl well. She had two but Mal knocked her out and stole shot.

Mal won. Then he got first prize.

We left and came back at 5pm for Happy Hour. Jean donated a jar of jam for the spinning wheel.

They have a thing they do called 'Joker Poker'.

Mal won a bottle of wine in the spinning wheel.

Then Jean won liquorice.

They were a happy bunch.

Grangeburn - we'd have missed all the fun if we didn't come back!