President's and Captain's Day 2024
Members, family and friends turned out in good numbers to support President Kath and Captain Sheila's Annual Charity Day. A sudden burst of rain at the start of the afternoon didn't dampen spirits and soon the Ladies versus Gentlemen fixture was underway in bright sunshine.
Sheila and Kath had worked extremely hard on both some lovely food (pizza, salad and FOUR different desserts!) and numerous activities to extract cash from everyone. These included a treasure hunt, bingo, guess the number of sweets in the jar and an enormous raffle with well over fifty prizes.
All the hard work resulted in a fantastic total of £525, which Sheila & Kath chose to go to the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity. This was particularly appropriate as only a few weeks before one of our own members had been transported to hospital by the Air Ambulance following a nasty accident.
On the bowling side, Competition Secretary Alan Harvey arranged a complex series of short matches in order to absorb the slight mis-match of numbers on each side and ensure everyone who wanted to bowl saw some action. The match started with two rink games over six ends, which intriguingly finished with one men's rink winning 12-1 and one ladies' rink winning 10-0! Three games of triples, also over six ends, followed and the play finished with four pairs games over four ends (cut slightly short as the pizzas arrived!) When all scores were totted up the Gentlemen were the winners by 45 - 29. (Previous results).
