PARWICH BOWLS CLUB – Week commencing 5 July 2010.
Mixed fortunes this week. One win and one loss, although we did play well in both games.
Tuesday League – Home – Chatsworth.
We managed to win two of the games, but lost two as well. Our points tally however was just a bit better than the opposition. The final result was 69 to 52.
It is ironic that last week in this league we had our lowest score, but still went up a place in the table! The teams around us had even poorer scores than we did.
Let’s see how we fair this week.
Next match – Away – Hathersage – 13 July – 6.30
Thursday League – Away – Bakewell.
This is a really strange green. Very long and thin. In Crown Green bowls you can send your ‘woods’ in any direction. Up and down or corner to corner, the choice is yours. At Bakewell however because the green is so narrow it is almost like playing ‘Flatgreen’ bowls, you have to play up and down.
Anyway, suffice it to say we were beaten quite comprehensively. We won one out of three in the doubles and two out of six in the singles, making the total score 137 to Bakewell and 111 to us. It could have been worse!
Next match –Home – Lafarge Hope works – 15 July. 1.30 ish.
John B.
PARWICH.ORG 
If bowls fans will forgive me the blatant plug: a friend of mine has just published a comic memoir of his exploits as a novice bowls player in rural Norfolk, and I highly recommend it: here’s the link.