This year we have two free places which can be used by anyone interested in learning to play bowls and to see if it is the summer game for them. These free places can be used at any time, but they have to be used in the company of a member of West End Bowls and Social Club. If you are interested, just come along to one of our afternoon sessions or contact Robert, our secretary, tel: 0115 9700369.
I have dug around and found a few pictures from the beginning of recent seasons, which I hope you will enjoy. I wonder who will be in the first pic of 2010 bowls in Lenton Recreation Ground?
I recognise Alan and Frank (1st and 2nd left), but who are the others? in this picture I took on 9 April 2007.
In 2009, the season's first roll-up was not until 15 April and, again, early-April rain was responsible for the delay, but our members turned out in force to make it a great start to the bowls season. In the picture, from left to right are: Barrie, Denis, Brian (who, sadly, passed away during the season), Frank, Maurice, John, Bill and Graham. Little did we know that it would also be Bill's last season playing. He has just told us all that he will continue to come along and watch and enjoy the company, but his knees have finally won. Bill was a magical player and to see him curving a wood across the green was a pleasure to be enjoyed. Let's hope that once the season is under way and the sun comes out, he might be tempted to play the odd roll-up every now and again.
Let's hope that we get a dry beginning to April for a change, so that the bowls season will really begin on the day it should in 2010 — Saturday 10 April. Ooh, I can't wait to wrap my fingers around a wood and send it swinging across the green to be placed just behind the jack. What a start that would be!
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