NEWS
All Together Now...
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Some 43 members and guests attended the Christmas party. In addition to wonderful food there were games and music. How could you not join in?...
More recently, the annual Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day event was as popular as ever.
Short Mat
The short-mat sessions take place on Tuesday (1.30 pm), Friday and Sunday (10.00 am). In addition to those regular slots, members are welcome to go along and play informally at any time.
Bowls on YouTube
Lawn bowls may struggle to get airtime on TV, but there is a great range of material to watch on YouTube. Videos from Australia are especially common, and one very good series to watch is The Bowls Show. It's noisy, it's colourful, it's everything people don't associate with bowls - and there are some brilliant games to watch. Following the World Indoor Bowls championships in January there is a heap of good bowls to watch (and copy!) on YouTube. There are more hints on watching such videos in the newsletters mentioned below.
VIEWS
Our friend and Richmond member On Kow Lee issues a periodical newsletter about events in the world of bowls. She kindly makes this available to Granville Park members. Among recent numbers, the November edition is a long piece covering events in Hong Kong, Scotland and also Vancouver's PIBC, and for December there is yet another enthusiastic summary of several games to be seen on YouTube. 2025 starts, of course, with reference (January) to the World Indoor championships, while the February edition not only has extended comment on tactics seen in several games, but also refers to events in Australasia. On Kow Lee's enthusiasm is totally infectious!
GPLBC Vice-President Trevor Field has been compiling a bowls blog over the years, aimed primarily at new or intermediate bowlers, with comments and advice on how the game is played.
Happy reading!
COMING UP...
​Social Events
Thanks to the enthusiasm of some of our first-year bowlers, we are in the process of planning other events: these will appear here as soon as they are finalised. Meanwhile, it will soon be time to meet on the green for some real bowling action - members will be notified in good time of all relevant dates.