We all need to say a big thank you to the Development Team, especially Michael and Diane, for all the hard work and the enormous amount of hours they have spent over the last few months to secure the future of our Club.  Our Members have been very generous with donations and fund raising but we still need to keep going with the fund raising.  I plan to do a car boot sale on behalf of the club early October at the main car park in Farnborough Town Centre, a couple of people to help would be welcomed.  We still have a couple of N.H.W.B.A events to host so the sale of food, cakes etc. will raise funds for the club.  Also to say “goodbye” to the green, Geoff Ringrose and myself are organising a Friday/Monday Club event on Friday 9th September starting at 1pm, we will start with a picnic on the green (bring a blanket and your own food) and then we will have a fun crown green afternoon, there will be prizes! All are very welcome.

This is an exciting day for the club and we are extremely proud of the club members’ hard work. We hope this is just the start of many improvements the club can make.

 “The club encourages members of the community to keep active, enjoy the outdoors and the social side of the sport with regular events and club meets.”

Having played bowls for over 20 years I have been involved in several hot-shots, most for my side but one being scored against me. It’s not nice when you drop an eight, but great when it is for your team. All have been in rinks games until, in a F&D triples game against Odiham recently, we scored a maximum 9 shots!

It had been a close game, with just eight shots scored in the first eight ends, but to Oldham’s advantage so we were 3-5 down. Then they scored a three, so at half way we were 3-8 down, it was looking bleak.

In the tenth end the easy route to the jack became blocked by Odiham bowls, so Joan Moorcroft and I had to take the harder wide draw which we managed to do fairly successfully and were holding 3-4 shots when it was the skips to bowl. Eventually, with just one bowl to be played (ours) we were still holding 3-4 shots, maybe more, but I noticed the opposition only had one bowl in the head, but it was hard to get to, with just a small gap between various opposition bowls. I asked our skip (Keith Dunstone) if he could see the bowl in question, through the minefield. He said he could, so I told him to ‘have a go at it’ as it would mean 5-6 shots. He played the perfect controlled weight bowl, finding the tiny gap, and took it out cleanly. Having removed six bowls from the head, it became clear we had all nine shots!

The opposition were gutted, and we won the next five ends before they scored again, winning the match 23-15. Well done team, a nice result!

Farnborough Bowling Club had a narrow victory over Aldershot Underwood in the Farnborough & District Boyd Shield last night. The Away Team lost both of their matches but the Home Team won both of their matches by a larger margin of shots – mainly by a good win by the Triples, giving us the win on shots scored. The Away Team Rink did make a last few end rally, without this we would have probably lost; just shows even when loosing every shot counts.  The Rink did also win the extra end, necessary if the total shots were the same.  Well done everyone.

On Saturday 23rd July. Our North Hampshire Women's Bowling Association's President, Sheila Andrews hosted her NHWBA President's Day at Farnborough Bowling Club. There are more photos of the day in our photo section
A special thanks to photographer Steve Wood (http://www.swphotography.co.uk/) for many of the photos.

A big thanks must go to all the Farnborough Bowlers (Sheila's Slaves) who worked tirelessly all day, A special mention to Chris and Jen for such a superb lunch

It wasn’t only The Farnborough Airshow that got abandoned on Monday.
The bowls club was subjected to a torrent of rain. Unbelievably this game continued 30 minutes after the rain stopped.