Burton Street Bashers Beaten

Post date: Apr 2, 2019 5:32:00 PM

Our Weekend Friendly team finished off their matches by completing the double over those local rivals the Burton Street Bashers commonly known as Peterborough. The overall score of 121-78 proved to be their best win of the season and boosted their total tally to nine wins out of fourteen which according to the record books is also a best ever. Must be something in the tea. Of course the match didn’t go without its usual quirks and obligatory consequences. For a start one of theirs thought the match was at Burton Street and arrived dripping in sweat just in time to bowl his first wood on rink four. We went one better, with one of ours not turning up at all which meant that captain Maggie had to play instead of having what she hoped was going to be an afternoon kip in the corner.

After two ends one of their players tells the first spectator that there is something wrong with the ladies loo. Don’t tell him, tell the Health and Safety Officer. Anyway, what was a bloke doing in the ladies loo ? One end later their captain asks the same spectator if he can count her money that she had collected from the players because she thinks she had made a mistake. This is what makes friendlies so much fun.

After six ends the Handley’s, Neil and Terri, with Ken (Choo,choo) White are our best rink, leading 6-1. On the sixth end they get a five to go 12-1 up but our man White doesn’t know as he’s telling the second spectator who’s still awake how the 11.55 from Kings Cross went through Tallington fifteen minutes late. Really !

We drop a five on rink four and after a scream of anguish Serena refrains from bursting into tears by kicking one of the woods on to the next rink. She’s made of strong stuff our Serena.

At the halfway stage we’re 59-38 up and on the eleventh end the Handley’s and ‘Choo, choo’ get a seven, but he knows nothing about it, he’s up on the balcony again continuing the tale about the 11.55 from King’s Cross. Elsewhere Nigel Trigg’s rink leads 12-3, Dave Edwards, who hasn’t stopped talking about his mother since the first wood was bowled, leads 13-8, Peter Gray 14-10 Adrian Childs is all square at 9-9 and Doug Ellis is one behind 12-13. Overall score 93-54. We should be safe !

We’ve now got to sixteen ends, well most rinks have, and we’re leading 108-65. The spectator, who’s now woken up is going delirious, keep him off the rinks please. So the bell goes and its all over, Neil and his wife and his merry man, someone will tell him later, are the best rink by a distance 31-9. At the meal Dave Edwards is still talking about his mother and on the same table one of theirs who had been let out of the old peoples home for the afternoon asks for the fourth time “Did we win then?”. To which the person sitting next to him’s reply was “ Don’t worry Denzil, we’ll get you back back by six o’clock”.

Finally, captain Maggie Holden got to her feet and thanked Mel and her team for the meal, Judy for looking after the bar and everyone who had played throughout the season, hoping they’d all return fit and well after the summer break.

Rink Scores: Judith Childs, Margaret Grainger, Adrian Childs won 18-11; Paul Green, Maggie Holden, Dave Edwards won 17-12; Terri Handley, Ken White, Neil Handley won 31-9; Keith Dowson, Serena Brunning, Doug Ellis won 20-18; Val White, Ken Rawlins, Nigel Trigg won 19-9; Carolyn Gray, Colin Burgess, Peter Gray lost 18-19.

PS Sorry no photo again this week, the photographer was so excited with the result that he forgot, again. Heads will roll. D.S.