MidGlos IBCGood morning and welcome to our first day in Tier 2. We’ve now had confirmation from the EIBA that, unless we are under 18 years of age, disabled or playing singles with a family member, we cannot bowl indoors. Obviously operating under these restrictions is not financially viable so we will have to remain closed. […]
Hello again, This is going to be a tough one – trying to put a positive angle on today’s dismal news. We, as expected, have been put into “Tier 2” which means that we are not allowed to bowl indoors unless with a family member (not exactly financially viable)! Although it is to be reviewed […]
Hello again, One week down, three to go, provided we’re released then! It’s not quite the same as in the spring is it?! Things have been happening at the club, though. The fresh air supply is in the process of being fitted. To alter or add to our present system was going to cost somewhere […]
Here we go again – the first newsletter of another lockdown! As I said before, we did it last time so we’ll do it again, but the weather is not likely to be quite as favourable as last time! Hey ho, let’s hope this lockdown achieves what the government is hoping for. Fortunately, we managed […]
Hello again, More really good news! Thank goodness there’s something positive to report in these dark days (in more ways than one). Membership Our current membership stands at 311 (as of Tuesday this week) – not far off pre-Covid times. Within that number are 237 standard members and five under 14s (two boys and three […]
Hello again, Really good news – our membership numbers are steadily climbing. Just this week a total of nine new members have signed up (at the time of writing this – 3.30 on Wednesday afternoon). The age of our membership now ranges from 10 years right up to folks in their nineties! It is so […]
We’re back! Potters Update We had a great time at Potters but not quite Potters as we know it. We’ve been going twice a year for a number of years to play in a mid-week tournament. Such tournaments are played almost every week from September to March. Anyone can enter and there’s usually a mixture […]
Hello again, The good news is that I’m away next week at Potters (very different from what we’re used to. They have made huge changes in order to comply with the ever-changing rules imposed be the government and the EIBA) and so there won’t be a newsletter. While on the subject of changes, I do […]
YOUR CLUB NEEDS YOU! Thank you to all those people who’ve kindly come forward with offers of help to man the office. However, we still have vacancies on alternate Thursday afternoons 1.30 until 3.00p.m., alternate Friday afternoon/evenings 3.00 until 7.00p.m. and alternate Thursday evenings 6.30 until 10.00p.m. If you can help, please, please give your […]
Good news! We are still permitted to bowl in our Covid secure environment! However, we are now restricted to trips only from today, Thursday. It could have been so much worse! The EIBA could have decided to cancel all bowling. BUT they haven’t – thank goodness! My only option for a winter with no bowling […]