Lawn Bowls CLub Meeting

Courtesy of the Auburn Bowls Club (David Pisterman especially) and at the initiative of our of Fellowship Directorate (John Christoffelsz) the meeting for 16 April took on the guise of a lawn bowls afternoon.    After a enthralling (? see detail below) session of bowling there was an evening meal at the Auburn Bowls clubhouse. Thanks are due to Anne Scott for her tireless preparation activities.   Coupled with the meal was the obligatory glass of wine.

Following the meal representative and CEO Dick Menting gave a brief but informative update of the role and characteristics of the Bendigo Community Banks in our area. DG Dennis Shore again thanked Dick and the bank for their sponsorship of the recent District Conference.

To describe the bowling skills as "great" would be an exaggeration, as would use of the tag "fair"!   Notwithstanding that the enjoyment level was very high, and one could detect after an hour or so that the spread of bowls around the "jack" was forming a smaller circle, for instance initially a 5 metre radius to one approaching 2-3 metres.  

There were moments of course.

"Dismay" when the bowler rolled the ball with the heavy side facing the wrong way, and saw it move even further from the preferred line.

"Joy" when the bowler was able to keep the ball on the green and not in the back ditch.

"Knowing Casual Aloofness" when perchance the bowl stopped very close to the jack--a rare event.

 A rare moment by the Editor's foursome, the other 5 bowls??

For the new student, the following vocabulary, were all recently heard at the "green"

"Jack" the little white ball which one seeks to get close to.

"Bias" the infuriating quality of the rolling bowl to curve away from a straight line trajectory.

"Narrow"  that description applicable to a trajectory in which the bowl goes across (if it had the length) the jack before reaching it.

"Wide" converse to "Narrow"

A great afternoon of Rotary Fellowship.