The Kalamazoo Social Bowls tournament started last night. We have 4 squad members but only 3 play in the team so Rob sat out this week. Having never played before, Casey and I turned up early and received some welcome tips from the club regulars - ie how to hold it, where to bowl it etc. After several practice goes, most of which ended up in the gutter or curving off in the wrong direction, the competition started.
Miller was held up so it was up to Casey and myself to send down all 6 bowls of the first end. We didn't do too bad and were 5-0 up against one of the lower league winners from last year.
They came back to 5-3 after end 2, then Miller finally showed up and we were further pegged back to 5-4 after end 3.
Miller started to chip in and that was as close as it got as we stretched out our lead, ending up 13-4 victors.
A crushing win which made the $6 jugs of beer and free bbq taste even better.
Check out the League table - not bad eh? And next week we'll have team T-Shirts to spur us on to greater things.
Note: Our team name, Jacks Hit, is supplied courtesy of Mr Pun.
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Mr Pun
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Seriously mate, everyone congratulated us on the name. I didn't have the heart to say it wasn't me - ie I was enjoying the praise.
That is a quality team name, the Jack being the 'object ball' (so to speak) and the object of the game being to hit or leave your bowls as close as possible to said Jack. And yet your name also resembles "Jack Shit" - a well-known term meaning 'nothing'. Clever.
(Explanation in case Terry happens to be reading this blog.)
Congratulations on the name Garts.
Congratulations also on your performance - thrashing a former league champ on your debut outing is pretty impressive. Trust that you kept saying "...and we've never played before, mate. First time. Easy, innit?" etc?
Sorry about all the deleted comments, OG. Our pitifully slow WW computers weren't responding, so I kept hitting "Login and publish" with no response, only to discover it had been published 4 times. And there's you thinking you were popular...
Kalamazoo? brilliant
You can never trust those computers at WW - especially in Leeds - I made sure they weren't perfect (to keep me in a job!!!!!!).
I asked Millward to help us out with a good name and he came up with Jacks Hit about 30 seconds later. He's a machine.
Speaking of good names, someone gave us a good one for the quiz next week - Quiz Team Aguilera. I like it.
James - beers aren't that much cheaper. Your average pint costs around 2.50 quid (no pound sign on this stupid keyboard). Which is quite pricey considering wages are less than the uk.
Supermarket booze is cheaper though... around 50p per stubby. Saying that I can't remember how much supermarket booze costs in England.
Plus I'm hungover so I don't want to think about booze too much at the moment.
Smaje - comments? what comments?
Oh, and Smaje - I must have used the phrase "beginners luck" about 10 times. It was wearing thin by the end as we were regularly rolling them within a few feet. I'm surprised I didn't get smacked.
garts - to get a pound sign, hold down alt and press 096 on the numeric keypad bit.
something like that anyway.
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Hi Guys,
Beer is more expensive here and NZ beer tastes like p*ss (apart from some Monteiths brews) and that's coming from a kiwi. Give me a pint of ale any day! AND the "pints" here are 550ml or less rather than 568ml in the UK. So not only do you get shyte beer, you have to pay more for less.
And that is the end of my rant on kiwi beer. The here wine is wicked though!
These computer things are a little beyond me; either you've deleted the comments that appeared on my screen as "This comment has been deleted" or it does it automatically, making it appear as if I'm telling porkies to big myself up in the world of deleted comments. Whatever...
So to summarise, you've moved to a country on the other side of the world away from family and friend, to play bowls and where the beer is, by the admission of a bona-fide kiwi, "shyte" and overpriced. Tsk, tsk. You could have moved to Bournemouth for that.
Perhaps you should open a beer shop - beers of the world and all that - flags of all nationalities outside with their local tipples available in bottles? Acres' favourite one in Knaresborough is called "Beer Ritz".
Yep, rest easy Smaje, I deleted them. That's the sort of power I have round here.
Was the word 'friend' deliberately singular? Bournemouth was considered, mainly for it's proximity to Monkey World.
Beer Ritz? That wouldn't be out of place on a Peter Kay show.
Was speaking to Acres before and he claimed that MWard and him were thinking of having a booze free March 2007 ('March' to fitness). Any thoughts? I've got a few.
And the primary consideration for any potential new patch is the quality of the beer. You blew it Gartside.
i've just experienced a dry month (well, 5 weeks) - hilariously dubbed my "Oct-Sober Fest"). It was a piece of the proverbial, though helped along by the fact a week was spent in hospital and a further week on antibiotics. oh, and because the first two days were sunday and monday.
i'm definitely thinking of doing it once a year - march is a prime candidate as it is prior to exams. i lost half a stone doing it, it's not all bad (though that probably just equates to a couple of toes and an elbow for me - a dry year may e more in order...)
speaking to acres last night and we ruminated on the idea of leaving march dry - i believe he did it this year.
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