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Norrin Radd

Norrin Radd

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Tomorrow morning Mrs Radd and I will be going down to the local indoor bowls club,with a mind to joining up and for the first time ever be involved in a sport that both of us can play .With the good lady suffering depression it has been difficult to get her to agree to even leave the house let alone even contemplate joining a bowls club.personally I'm looking forward to learning a new sport and to have Mandy agree to give it a try is a real biggy for her as she has been so much inside herself .
I will post tomorrow to let you know how we get on
 
I had a little dabble down at the Ashbury Hotel a few years back with an epic final outcome. Not as easy as it looks and I assumed as I had an idea on break from putting it would help. Didn't pan out that way. Enjoy the experience and hope the good lady enjoys it as well and gets something positive from it
 
Great to hear. My MiL played this for a number of years, before her Alzheimer's took over, and found it to be very sociable. Each year they would get new players, often couples like yourself and it was surprising how many of the men were golfers as well. They turned to this sport because they could play it along with their wives, it covered winter when golf was out of the question and there were few physical limitations to it.

I hope that this helps your wife, it should be a gentle and sociable evening. Good luck.
 
Norrin Radd said:
Tomorrow morning Mrs Radd and I will be going down to the local indoor bowls club,with a mind to joining up and for the first time ever be involved in a sport that both of us can play .With the good lady suffering depression it has been difficult to get her to agree to even leave the house let alone even contemplate joining a bowls club.personally I'm looking forward to learning a new sport and to have Mandy agree to give it a try is a real biggy for her as she has been so much inside herself .
I will post tomorrow to let you know how we get on
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Like it. New activity, diversion...
 
Bowls is a great sport, and like golf, you can gain a great circle of friends.
My Dad played for years, both outdoor in summer and indoor in winter.
Hope you both enjoy yourselves.
 
Good luck.

A few years ago I said I'd maybe start bowls when I got to 50 (next year) and give up the 5-a-side footy, as we have a few 20 year olds who play also, but still competing and enjoying it so carrying on for a bit yet.

Started playing table tennis the other week with a mate, and now up to 4-5 of us, so think I'll stick with that for a few good years before maybe giving the bowls a go.

At the table tennis, all ages doing that from 10 to what looks like 75 year olds - some of them look damn fine players, as well.
 
A group of us a work used to play indoor 'carpet' bowls at lunchtimes in the office - with ends set around the office furniture that was all 'out' (as the ditch in bowls). We had a league and a separate K/O cup - it got very competitive. And we got really good at it. We were so good that many of the others in the department used to be spectators. :)

One year we decided to put a team into the BAe/Rolls Royce inter-department outside Green Bowls league (both companies had their own grass bowling greens that were shared by the joint company Welfare Association). We started in Div 2 - and we won it first time out...we did quite well next season in Div 1 but after that knocked it on the head as some of our team left the company.

It was great fun. Really skillful and very tactical. Could easy pick up bowls at some point.
 
Last winter the indoor bowls team that my wife plays for was short so I offered to play.

Really enjoyed it and it lead to me playing for a team outdoors this summer.

Indoor is pairs, outdoor is singles.

Will say though, when your a complete novice like I was and your playing someone who has been playing for 40 years a bowling green can be a very lonely place.
 
Nice to hear that you managed to persuade her.

When my father in law died my MIL was persuaded to join in with her local indoors bowling group and she found the sociability of it highly enjoyable despite (in her own words) never being any good at the actual game.
 
Being doing it since the beginning of April. Similarly, me and HID wanted something sociable we could do together - keep it clean folks. We had one coaching session FOC, club rule for new starters, then straight into the roll ups but kept together for the first few weeks. Its not a difficult game to play, and it is a very sociable game.

We're out once a month to the club lunch, nothing fancy, between 20 and 40 people. Its a hoot. Most Fridays we go into the village for the market, and usually bump into at least half a doz people we now know. Often we'll have anything from a coffee for 20 mins up to lunch and a few beers - all ad hoc.

Good luck
 
flippin neck when i was a sprogg, me grandma had a pub in Heywood, the black swan. We used to go down the road and play crown green with the fossils.when we got bored of that we would have a walk down to the M62 motorway and play on that when it was being built in the early 70,s.

hope it works out well Norrin.
 
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