Around Our Club – continued

Guess who? Two of our members when they were 20 and 18! Answers on page 46 Did you know that in April Neil and Sylvia McLaughlan celebrated their 65th Anniversary and in June Ken and Nora Giles celebrated their Diamond Anniversary

Jennifer Page - Winner of the Women's Novices

Did you know that Chris Lander, after three gruelling days of bowls, won the State Over 60s Men's Singles Championship? A huge achievement Chris, well done!! Congratulations also to Pauline Bourne for reaching the quarter finals of the State Over 60s Women's Singles.

Did you know that when NASA started sending astronauts into space they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity? To combat this problem NASA scientists spent a decade and over $165 million developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, on almost any surface and at temperatures below freezing to over 300 degrees Centigrade. The Russians used a pencil.

Did you know that our $7 Friday night pints have proved very popular since we emerged from lockdown with over 8000 being sold to date.

Did you hear that when it is raining over east, they do not call off bowls until half of the jack is submerged under water and the mat is floating? This was according to a "fig jam" bowler who has recently moved to Perth. He reckons Sandgrophers are a bunch of wimps! Google says that, over East, after a hailstorm play is only restarted after the hail has stopped falling and then attention is given to the amount of ice on the green. If the playing surface is covered in snow before the game is set to commence, both side managers of the day will agree whether the game continues.

Did you hear that Wendy Saul received a rather nasty gashed finger while catering for Trevor’s Carpet and that luckily, Jenni Lockwood was on hand with medical help to insert six stitches? Both Wendy and Jenni survived.

Did you know that in the 1980s Sorrento used to play an annual bowls game against the Harvey Bowling Club? This was known as the “Sorrento Harvey Interclub Trophy.” The trophies were a bedpan and a urine receptacle, and winners were asked to drink from them after the game. Unfortunately, one of our lady members took exception to the trophies and discarded them to the dump! This competition was played about three times, with us visiting them on at least one occasion, with the bus trip there and back being quite an event, with numerous “pit stops”. Thanks to Ian Wittber for this interesting information.

Did you know that Sorrento is in the "Guinness Book of Records" for the highest score in a bowls match? In March 1998 the team of Brad Stewart (age 14), Dick Oates, Albie Felgate and Barry Goodwin (missing from this photo and represented by his wife) beat Innaloo 67 to 5

Did you hear that several Melbourne councils have joined forces to combat ageism by banning phrases including 'silly old bugger' and 'old fogey'. In an attempt to tackle prejudice against the elderly and to stamp out phrases like 'wrinkly' or 'senior's moment'? Birthday cards with belittling ageist jokes will disappear, derogatory terms for old people will be as unacceptable. Another reads: 'An older driver has a minor car accident, what are you likely to think?' One of the responses to the questions is: 'He probably had a senior's moment on his way to lawn bowls'.

Did you hear that a Josh Eastwell, a Sydney man, aims is to eat a sausage at every Bunnings in Australia? He has so far downed 172 of

the 280 snags on offer, sampling the humble local staple everywhere from the Apple Isle to Broome. He has just returned from a road trip to WA, NSW and Queensland. His mission is to complete the sausage crawl in Darwin by the year’s end. When asked “Why” He said "It’s just something to do really”.

Did you hear that when Val McIntosh was asked why her husband was so thin she replied "You can't fatten a thoroughbred or a mongrel"!

Did you know that according to Alan Gallagher the three "L.L.Ls" of bowls are Line and Length and Luck?

Did you know that there are only four types of bowls? √ Good lucky bowls √ Good unlucky bowls √ Bad lucky bowls and √ Bad unlucky bowls

Did you know that there have been big problems this year with Chilli Thrip affecting our roses? It has been described as the equivalent of COVID 19 for roses. Alan Gallagher has been spraying our roses as these are infested with the Chilli Thrip. Speak to Alan if you need to know more about and how to get rid of it on your rose bushes,

Finally, thanks to the efforts of Ian Lucas and his team, we received this message in June from Steph and Mitch after their engagement party ? Hi Ian, Mitch and I wanted to thank you, your gorgeous wife Chloe and the other lovely barmaid for a wonderful night at your venue. You were all so easy to deal with, friendly and helpful. We would definitely hold another function at the Sorrento Bowling Club in a heartbeat. Thank you all so much.

– Neville and Denise Odell