Friendly Musical Chairs

Post date: Oct 3, 2016 5:26:03 PM

If the music had been playing at 1.30pm, the starting time for our Saturday Friendly against Newark, our members who were there ready to play could have been forgiven for thinking that instead of taking part in a friendly game of bowls they were changing partners at the local square dance in the village hall.

Firstly, one of our players didn't turn up and Newark had one spare so it was agreed that she would play for us. Panic over, that is until our, on the surface very cool and calculated, captain realised that another two of his team had not turned up and there were only five minutes to go before our earlier than usual start. For whatsit sake said our now uncool and uncalculated captain revealing that he had decided not to play himself so that he could write a blow by blow account of what would be taking place during the afternoon.

Plan scuppered, off he went to his locker to get his woods and shoes. Calamity strikes again, he'd left his locker key at home in his other bowls trousers. He rushed, not strictly the right word, up to his never stops working partner who had just taken an hour to sort out the heap of jumbled up raffle tickets and trying to keep her cool with members of the team who decided that they could play but didn't want to stop for the meal after and insisted that it shouldn't be paid for. Wrong ! The rules are that the meal is part of the weekend friendly package, and even if it isn't eaten it has to be paid for.

On top of that, one of the team decided that they would have stop playing and go home at four o'clock, three quarters of the way through the match. Back to the locker key. The spare one was located in the office by the never stops working partner, who returned to see that someone had knocked the sorted raffle tickets off the table into an untidy heap on the floor ! Back to the bowls, our captain, now trying to smile through gritted teeth, joined our depleted rink, which made it only one short. He bowled his two woods on the first trial end into the ditch accompanied by a shout they're here.

Our captain, smiling again through gritted teeth, was greeted with "Sorry mate we thought it started at ten past two! For the duration of the match, he who wanted to send in a report to this website, and his never stops working partner continued sorting out the raffle tickets.

How did the match go ? WE LOST ! ! ! (Surprise Surprise - Ed.)

Take your partners for the next friendly whatever it turns out to be. The team selected is on the notice board.

PS. All players in club matches must display club stickers on their woods. They are available at the Reception Desk.