From your Editors

From your Editors

Welcome to another edition of our quarterly news magazine. This edition covers the "ins and outs" of lawn bowls compared to cricket, an article on how political correctness might have influenced the Battle of Trafalgar, our amazing Kiwi members and lots lots more. Once again many thanks to all our contributors especially Jim Woodward and Brian Lucas. Also thanks to Denis Croker who sorted out the cover of this edition.

Cost of this news magazine

We have had a few queries about the cost of producing and printing our news magazine. The Governing Council originally agreed that part of the annual income from our Sponsorship income could be used to cover the annual printing cost. Advertising our Sponsors forms an important part of this publication and hopefully when they see their adverts they will be happy to renew their support for our Club. Denise and I cover the annual subscription cost of $360 for the Adobe InDesign software we use for the layout. This software is also used for our Club Information booklet, the annual Fixture booklet and the recently issued booklet on Etiquette.

Apologies

First of all apologies for misspelling Ted McGrady's name in the heading of his tribute in our Christmas edition. There is only one person to blame for this error and that is your editor – Neville Odell who added the heading to Jim Woodward's tribute article.

Did you hear and did you know?

Did you hear that there were celebrations at the NSW Dungog Bowling Club after they set the record for the world’s longest game of continuous lawn bowls? The 107 hour match, over four and a half days, eclipsed the 2010 mark of 105 hours held in England. But the record now belongs to the little town from regional Australia. Most of the 40 members participated in the record attempt throughout the day and night. Some individuals played for more than 35 hours and in excess of 600 ends with more than 1300 scoring shots counted. Their efforts raised $2000 for charity.

Did you know that the raising of Lazarus from the dead happened again when, after being down 18-0 after six ends, the Sorrento 3 Gold team of Murray Newman, Glen McCarthy, John Godfrey and Mike Hodge managed to claw their way back and win their game 27-23? In the previous week this same team beat a North Beach side who in the previous week had won 68 to 1. Well done to Murray and his team.

Did you hear that a well-known bowler was getting ready to take his lovely wife out so he came home early from the Club. He had a shower, got changed into his jeans and put on his brightly coloured shirt. He walked into the family room to let his wife know that he was ready and his wife said "You look nice with that shirt on, but why are you wearing my jeans?" How did she know they were her jeans? It was because they had holes on the knees. Can you guess who? John Godfrey has the answer or look on page 59.

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