In this edition …

All the winners from 2022 competitions, and more. Pictured here are the winners of the Club Fours: Rob Garrity and Peter Duffy (L), Barrie Jones and Morris Sher (R), flanking club Chairman, Roger Parks.

After a hiatus of three years due to Covid and extreme weather, the Roseville Shield took place at Lindfield Rollers on Saturday, 3 December. It was a great day of bowls played between 22 teams from across the Zone in absolutely perfect conditions, with the friendly rivalry and camaraderie bringing out the best of bowls in everyone. The format of the day was for two games of fours, each played over 21 ends. In a very close result, Manly emerged the winners over runners-up Lane Cove.

Di McBryde, District Vice President, North Shore Women’s District Committee, Billi Maas, District Head of Match and Jen Cox, District Match Committee, attended our club on Saturday 24th September to present the Division 2 Pennant Flag to our winning Pennant Team of Louise Amos, Ngoc Hau, Julie Dunn, Susie Meares, Anne Rands, Janice Crocker, Lap Chen, Lee Gardner, Marlene Black and Jenny Rowland. Congratulations to all the ladies involved! Our Division 2 Pennant Flag is now proudly flying on the flagpole at the Club entrance.

Most of our club competitions for 2022 have now been completed. Congratulations go to Ian Kimmorley, who, as Men’s Major Singles winner, is Club Champion for 2022.

Everybody is different when playing bowls. Some skips are dictatorial wishing to control their teammates’ game, i.e. design the head. Some are sticklers for rules, wanting to get it all right, i.e. fair play, and others are happy to let their team members play their own game (within limits) and play their bowls to the head as they find it. You can’t criticise any of these approaches because that is bowls.

Pictured, L to R, are Susie Mears, Anne Rands, Louise Amos, Ngoc Hau and Julie Dunn, who have successfully competed in recent carnivals. Susie, Anne, Louise, Ngoc and Julie played in the Dee Why Open Versatility “Five-A-Side” day and came 5th out of 14 clubs.

Thank you to Marlene Black for again organising a fun game of “Spider” to celebrate the Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend. As shown above, the biggest challenge was trying to find your own bowl in the meandering group of members. Can you spot:

1. the one disgruntled member.

2. the one member who was looking quite pleased in being one of the first to find her bowl.

3. the two who decided to have a chat instead of locating their bowls.

A centenary is always something to celebrate and never more so than when it is one of our own who achieves that remarkable feat. So, our hearty congratulations go to Marie Milne, who turned 100 on May 5th. Although no longer bowling, Marie remains a member of our club and is highly regarded for her 22 years of service as treasurer of the Women’s Club in its Roseville days. To mark the occasion, Marianne Coningsby presented a bouquet of flowers to Marie on behalf of Lindfield Rollers.