Bowling along again
Aug. 12th, 2008 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enitharmonWell, who'd have thought this morning, or even early afternoon, that this would be the balmiest evening for bowls I've been at all season!
I got a game again. Actually I have two games this week as it seems lots of people are on holiday. We were playing at North Scale, one of the original settlements on Walney (but now a focus for new housing development) on their pretty but decidedly eccentric green which I'd been warned about. It's both tiny and hilly, and thank goodness for all the rain it had earlier today because when it's dry apparently it's also very fast. So, I wasn't expecting any heroics and they weren't being expected of me.
And when, after the third end, I'd raced into a 5-0 lead, I suddenly felt confident. And then I put the jack into the ditch By the time I got it back I was 5-11 down. I pulled back but then, just as I was about to draw level, with one wood on and the second on a perfect land, it was a tad too heavy and took the jack into the ditch for a dead end. I never really recovered from that and lost my game 21-10. Still, none of us (with four honourable exceptions) did much better.
Thursday is against West Shore on our home green - big and subtle and much more to my taste. Watch this space.
I got a game again. Actually I have two games this week as it seems lots of people are on holiday. We were playing at North Scale, one of the original settlements on Walney (but now a focus for new housing development) on their pretty but decidedly eccentric green which I'd been warned about. It's both tiny and hilly, and thank goodness for all the rain it had earlier today because when it's dry apparently it's also very fast. So, I wasn't expecting any heroics and they weren't being expected of me.
And when, after the third end, I'd raced into a 5-0 lead, I suddenly felt confident. And then I put the jack into the ditch By the time I got it back I was 5-11 down. I pulled back but then, just as I was about to draw level, with one wood on and the second on a perfect land, it was a tad too heavy and took the jack into the ditch for a dead end. I never really recovered from that and lost my game 21-10. Still, none of us (with four honourable exceptions) did much better.
Thursday is against West Shore on our home green - big and subtle and much more to my taste. Watch this space.
