A great night, well attended and organised. Many thanks go to Yvonne and Steve as well as Rita, Ann B and several others for supplying the food and help.
The winners were the Andy Collier team; congratulations to them and to all those that attended and helped make it a fun evening.
Below are some photo’s with suitable? captions.
At the A.G.M. on Saturday the 2 Owls that have done such a great job of keeping the pigeons away from our grass seed, were officially named, the winner of the bottle of wine was Ann Burke, well done Ann.
So I am proud to announce that
CALNE BOWLS CLUB is now the official home of
TWIT and TWOO – the scariest Owls in Wiltshire
There were 14 entries ranging from the PIGEONATERS
To ERROL and BRODWIN
There was even a suggestion that they should be named every year after the winners of the Ladies and Men’s singles competition, this year BARRY and YVONNE, but it was obviously thought that this was a step to far!
Thanks to Martin S who had the idea and to all who took part, it led to a fun end to the AGM.
Following a successful launch of the Thursday evening session on Halloween night, the following piece appeared in the Gazette and Herald on the 21st November.2019
Lovely morning at the club with the green covered in frost and looking good.
Just had to take a photo of the green today, thanks to Derek for mowing, great job not only mowing but taking away the grass, how many bags, I would guess about 20!
Great job, looking good, however when I was watching 2 wagtails decided to have a peck around the Owls feet, so obviously Owls are not their natural enemy, but hopefully the wagtails are enjoying the leather jacket grubs!
Can you spot Barry looking on with a certain amount of pride!
On Wednesday Barry, Jan and Yvonne attended the presentations along with Pat and Gladys to receive an award. Below is a picture of Yvonne collecting the award.
Thanks to all who helped this year, a lot of hard work was put in and it is appreciated. Next year onwards and upwards!
Now the season has finished and bowlers can polish there woods and put them away (except for the short mat players of course) we enter the season of meetings, account auditing, minute taking, agenda fixing, election of 2020 officers, etc
Key dates for the club are as follows:
Sunday 20th October 12-30 for 1 pm Presentation Lunch at the North Wilts Golf Club.
Saturday 26th October Ladies end of season meeting at the Pavilion 11 am
Saturday November 2nd Men’s end of season meeting at the pavilion 11 am
Saturday 23rd November Short Mat AGM at the pavilion 10-45am
Saturday 30th November Calne Bowls Club AGM at the pavilion 10-45 am
Following last years attempt to feed the pigeon population of Calne on our grass seed, we have installed 2 Owls.So far they have been very successful, with only a lone Pheasant visiting the green last week.
For this idea we have to say thank you to Spencer Moulton, where they were spotted doing a great job on their green earlier this year.
At the moment they have been named TWIT and TWOO, not original but anyone is welcome to name them, there will be a prize of a bottle of wine for the person whose name are selected at this year AGM in November, just send an email to the address shown on this site ( email hidden; JavaScript is required ) and the winner will be advised in December and the result will be then shown on the website in December.
Many thanks to those that turned up this morning to help close the green.
Martin S and Barry W mowed and scarified the green twice in readiness for the sowing etc on Monday, whilst David J helped with storing things away and edging the green.
Pat and Jan sorted the woods in the ladies’ clubhouse in readiness for the asset register.
In the background our faithful gardener Rod beavered away tidying up the borders Thanks go to Yvonne for clearing up the old plants earlier in the week and Jan and Martha for cleaning the pavilion/changing rooms also earlier in the week.
Martin G has built the extra shelf to give extra storage space (he’s great with Meccano as well!). He also started clearing the outside of the storage area, as well as helping to store items away and doing the trip to the recycling centre to get rid of the grass, etc – we nearly ran out of bags!
Josie popped in for an hour and helped Stuart to stack and put tables, chairs away.
All Stuart did was to bring the doughnuts – just can’t get the Secretaries nowadays!!
Anyway some photos to be going on with, more work will be done next Saturday in readiness for a new photo for the main website page.
Thanks to all those that helped, hope I haven’t missed anyone out.
It was a very hot day and 4 full rinks were engaged in an epic struggle to see which bowler came out on top, although I think some were trying for the last prize?
In 1st place was Norman with +13
second was Rod with +11
and third was Steve M with +9
Last place went to Ro S. with a minus score.
It was an afternoon enjoyed by all,
with thanks to Paul starting the proceedings explaining the rules (unfortuantely he couldn’t stay due to health issues, get better soon Paul), Karen organising the Raffle and Martha at the sink!
Thanks to all who attended and helped setting up the rinks and also packing away.
Needless to say Norman was late as usual to collect his first place prize!
Here are some photos, hopefully not as bad as the last ones, I feel another new camera coming soon.
