MidGlos IBCGood morning, When I began writing these newsletters, it was in an attempt to keep in touch with all of our members during the initial lockdown. I never dreamt that I’d still be doing it leading up to Christmas! What a year it’s been! And, unfortunately things are not about to get any better! Some […]
Good morning, Graham Griffiths Following the death of Graham Griffiths and, due to the restrictions of Covid19, numbers are very much restricted at funerals. If you would like to donate to Leukaemia research in his memory, please make your cheques payable to Leukaemia UK and either post it to the club, drop it in on […]
Good morning, As promised, please find Peter Thompson’s reply from the EIBA. We’re desperately disappointed but determined to continue the fight as you’ll see in Howard’s response. We are most definitely being treated unfairly. Why does the two metre rule no longer apply to indoor bowling when the government’s national rules still state “Hands, Face, […]
Good 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 […]