| Hello everyone, I hope you all survived the rain, hail, thunder and lightning which began on Friday. The journey to the club on Friday evening which normally takes 25/30 minutes took us an hour and a quarter! The Whist group decided to stay at home. Our choir leaders postponed both of our outdoor performances this week-end thankfully. The main thing is that we’re all safe and sound and, hopefully, dry. It’s been lovely this week seeing most of the rinks in use, not to mention familiar faces returned and new faces too. There were three new faces at the quiz on Saturday evening – friends of Steve and Tricia Bluck from Worthing. They were SO impressed with our club and its facilities. Two of them belong to a club in Worthing but they couldn’t get over the size of our club overall. They have just five rinks and nowhere near the social space that we have in addition to our playing area. I hope you appreciate what we have and will sing our praises outside the club. It is our open week-end this coming Saturday and Sunday, 28th and 29th from 10.00a.m. until 4.00p.m. Please come along and encourage your friends and neighbours to join you. We can provide bowls, shoes and simple coaching, not to mention free tea/coffee and homemade cake. Thank you to everyone who has volunteered to help and or provide cake(s). As you know the Potters shop is coming on Thursday and will be open from 10.00a.m. until 3.00p.m. The added bonus is that there is an additional 10% discount until 30th September. I know November is quite a few weeks away but diaries fill up quickly this time of year. Don’t forget to buy your tickets for the magician’s evening on 2nd November. It’s a fundraiser for bowel cancer which I know has affected several of our members or relatives. There are posters up in the ladies’ and gents’ loos warning of the signs which should not be ignored. Cancer knows no boundaries, please be vigilant.  The notices about Top Club and the Egham are up on the ladies’ notice board. Quite a few names have been added already. If you would like to be considered, please sign up. We need a big enough squad to be able to fulfil all of the dates. Please note that the first Top Club date has been changed from Sunday, 13th to Saturday, 12th October. On another point we still have no volunteer for the position of Club Secretary for the Bowls Committee and Board, without which these two groups cannot function properly or easily. The Bowls Committee normally only meets every five weeks or so, other than when an urgent issue arises and necessitates an “emergency” meeting and the Board meet every month. The Bowls Committee meets on a Thursday at 12.30, and meetings usually last around an hour and a half. Board meetings usually last about the same time. The Club Secretary books the meeting with the office, issues an agenda to the attendees and takes the minutes which are kept brief and to the point. Howard, Ken Manns and Angela will be happy to talk to any person prepared to give the job a go and provide any further details that they may require. Another reminder about the use of GRIPPO or THE LIKE. It is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN either on your WOODS or on YOUR HANDS. It has a very distinctive smell. If you come across anyone using it, please find a member of the board or bowls committee and alert them to the fact. This must be STOPPED for the sake of our carpet as Grippo products ruin the surface of the carpet and shorten its playing life. Stay dry, safe and take care. Linda. Linda Watkin-Jones. Director (PR & Marketing). |
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