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I would love to join a bowling team just to 'have a go', it appears to be very sociable which is what I need at present, is it difficult to achieve ????? can anyone help ????? is it a difficult game to understand the rules?
would appreciate comments .
have a good day and thank you in advance

ladybird9

ladybird find a club in your area they welcome new members with open arms and its not difficult to learn the game.. clubs usually have an open day at the beginning of the year where you can go along and have a go, they won't mind if you need lots of coaching, the old hands love it..

It's not a complex game. In the book "Sex and Bowls and Rock and Roll" the author makes the comment that the only rule in bowls should be "Try to get your bowl closest to the little white one and take it in turns - everything else is just a regulation - bowls shouldn't be a game for pedants or the terminally anal."

ladybird, just go to a local club and if anyone's out on the green watch for a while. Seriously though, if you visit a local club and no one come up and smiles and says hello then you've picked the wrong club!

Here, here, to both tanith and PoppaRob, the game is really good, and the more you play the more you enjoy it. New members are always welcome, you may be able to get a local group up on the web, try searching, and do let us know how you get on. Today is our 'roll-up' day, when we just turn up at club and get ourselves into teams, so we play with different people every week, and play for an hour or two, however the weather is doing it's utmost to prevent that. I personally do not play in the rain if I can help it.

Well now, yesterday I played in a match - I was skip of the friendly game - I only EVER play No. 1, so it was bound to be a fun game, but we did win. However, it was so COLD I could have cried! I came home and wrapped myself round a cup of tea. Now this morning, I am supposed to be playing again, in a club competition and although I don't want to spoil the day for everyone, I just hope the rain keeps on for another hour or two so that I don't have to venture on to the green today. Sorry about that folks.

Brrrrr! Don't envy you, PRINTMISS. Hope you have a nice big flask of tea (or something) for between ends! I don't know where you are, but it isn't raining here - better luck to you!

OH is playing tomorrow morning in a match but he doesn't mind the rain or the cold, he has fleece lined waterproofs just in case and thermal longjohns for under his greys if necessary... if it rains to hard they just sit either in the clubhouse or on the veranda drinking tea and jawing..lol

I was elected as skip of our night owls team, but last season I suggested we rotate the position and it's worked well. The other couple in our team have started to listen to me when I'm skip as they now have a better understanding of the game, and on the weeks when my 12 year old grandson is skip I make sure the opposition skipper is someone who is patient and communicates well with youngsters. On those weeks he gets very excited and tells me all about the comments and tips from the opposition skip, so it's given him a better understanding of the game and the rules too. Mind you as he's 12 and a bit of a charmer most of the people we play against think he's the ants' pants! It's so cute when I tell him to watch out for the cougars!

O.K. so I did play after all, and it was showery, and cold but I was more sensible this time, had trousers on (not telling what I had underneath) instead of the white skirt, and put a nice warm scarf around my neck, and a hat, surprising what difference they made. I do find I can't play if I am too bundled up with clothes. Had a lovely game against a new younger member, and managed to beat him, although it was not a walkover. His dad has brought him to the club, but unfortunately is dad plays a firing game, which is all very well, but he has not really taught his son what my husband likes to call the 'finer' points. However I think he will come along very well as the time goes on. Hope so, because he is a very nice young man, and we do so need young blood. Quite made made my morning

I find if I have an open jacket or jumper I always get tangled up and the bowl is crap. Now on cold nights I wear a zip up hoodie and zip the bugger up before each shot.

We have the perfect morning here to play bowls, but of course I am not playing, and I did not play yesterday either, when it was another perfect day, I did however, play on two of the most miserable days of the week last week - nearly played a third, as the opposing team arrived two short, and as we were home reserves, were asked to take the place of the non arrivals. Fortunately the came a little late, having got lost, so we were relieved of duty, I am relieved to say!
I am playing in the club mixed pairs competition on Tuesday - round one - not sure if I want to get through or not, just hope the weather is fine. I am already through to the next round of the Zealous. I now have the mixed pairs, as above, the ladies pairs, with my friend Janet, the triples - a mixed bunch, including my husband, (not keen on that arrangement), and then the fours, and the ladies singles - playing against another friend in that. At the beginning of the season I said 'I am only entering the Zealous and Ladies Singles' - look where that got me!

One of the teams we bowl against is two couples in their 60's. One week their opposition forfeited so they all filled in for other teams and commented they were enjoying themselves much more NOT playing with their partners!

I will not play with my husband if I can help it - I always feel he is considering my play, and will sometimes comment on it afterward, which he knows I hate, but of course I am the better player!

Well, we have a lovely morning here, but yesterday when I played bowls, it was drizzly rain and wind. It would be so nice to play in fine weather, but whenever I am due to play the weather seems to decide to be very unfriendly. Played mixed pairs and we lost by 5 shots, we deserved to lose, we were both playing under-par. My husband played the Zealous against a 94 year old member, and lost. The 94 year old's only concessiion to his age is that he wears a hearing aid - no glasses, no walking stick, no lifter for his woods, and must have more 'wicks' than anyone is entitled to - a lovely man.