February 28th |
 Lovely to see a couple of new faces join us today. Played pairs and our winning twosome were Geof Shaverin & Jeff Lewin.
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February 26th |
 After yesterdays close tie break game, Arthur & Malc challenged Jeff & Mo for a "sets" rematch. It was another close game but this time the winners were Arthur & Malc. Pictured are Jeff Lewin & Arthur Gray.
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February 25th |
 Today we played "Set Play" Two Sets of Six ends and a one end tie breaker if needed. After one set each the tie breaker was required. After a good take out shot Jeff and Mo were in trouble, however a wonderful draw shot won them the game. Pictured left to right, Malcolm Rowe, Arthur Gray, Jeff Lewin & Mo Rowe.
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February 24th |
 Pictured sat down after a hard pairs match are Arthur Gray and Jeff Lewin, both our 93-year-olds played some excellent shots.
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February 23rd |
 Today we played 2,4,2 Aussie rules pairs.......... After two matches our winner of the day was Jeff Lewin, pictured on the short mats.
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February 22nd |
 Jeff Lewin & David Longworth won a fiercely competitive pairs game. With their final two bowls by David securing a one shot win.
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February 21st |
 Today we held a straightforward singles match with the highest score being the winner and that happens to be Jeff Lewin pictured sat quite contentedly.
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February 19th |
 In a singles competition Arthur Gray came out king. He played some lovely bowls to take a commanding lead and deservedly won.
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February 18th |
 Today was Jayne's last day. So, in the words of "SLADE" we said "Goodbye To Jayne". Our Photo of the day has Jayne Fisher standing in the middle of Arthur Gray and Jeff Lewin.
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February 17th |
 Our couples played Aussie pairs (2,4,2). At the end of the match it was all level so an extra end was played, where our winners Jeff Lewin and David Longworth secured two shots to win the match.
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February 16th |
 In a close fought game David Longworth, Jayne Fisher & Dave Ess needed two shots to draw the match. Holding two for the draw, Jayne (with the last bowl of the match) pushed a bowl into the head giving them three shots and the win.
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February 15th |
 We played two games of 4,3,2,1 Triples this morning. On adding the individual scores together the winning Lady was Jayne Fisher and the Gent David Longworth.
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February 14th |
 Today we played round robin triples with a handicap for the men. Seeing as it is Valentines Day we decided to have a mini-Spider which we thought would be mayhem but turned out that Sammy the spider survived the ordeal and our winner was Dave Ess.
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February 12th |
 Whilst the short mat was playing Mo went out on the beach and played pétanque with Pam Schmidhalter and Dave Ess.
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February 12th |
 Round robin pairs today and our winner was David Longworth who won on his first day with us.
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February 11th |
 Tuesday Triples on the short mat today. What started off as a bit of inconsistent bowling ended up as a good tussle. Our winners of the day were Arthur Gray, Jayne Fisher & Dave Ess.
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February 10th |
 This morning on the short mats we played triples. As it happened the draw ended in ladies vs gents and the ladies came out on top. Our winning girls were Pam Schmidhalter, Jayne Fisher with a little help from Marilyn (Malc in disguise).
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February 9th |
 Back to indoor bowls this morning. As we had some players new to bowls we split the more experienced and those who have never played before. So, hence the group photo to end the day.
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February 8th |
 Some familiar faces joined us today on the beach. It's nice to see Jeff Lewin and Jayne Fisher back with us and they showed their expertise and won todays triples along with Rose Newsom.
It got a bit windy near the end and it shows in the photo. However everyone seemed to enjoy it. Back to short mat bowls tomorrow morning.
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February 7th |
 Friday on the beach. We had quite a crowd watching throughout the morning with some acknowledging nods along the way. We played triples and our winning trio were, Rose Newsom, Tom Walters & Dave Ess.
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February 6th |
 Decided to take a group picture today of our petanque teams before some fly back to the UK in the coming days. Today's winners after a 13-11 win, were Josephine Mitchell, Tom and Judith Walters.
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February 5th |
 Another lovely day on the beach in sunny Spain. We played pairs and after some good boules and constant flattening of the beach playing area our eventual winners were Josephine Mitchell and Steve Bride.
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February 4th |
 On a beautiful sunny day in Torremolinos we went on the beach and played petanque. We played triples and our winners were Steve Bride, Pam Schmidhalter and David Ess.
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February 3rd |
Unfortunately the hotel got flooded out last evening by the storms. So no Bowls today for safety reasons. We hope to have everything back running tomorrow if not we will be on the beach.
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February 2nd |
 Pictured are the winners of the bridge partners pairs, Steve Bride and Josephine Mitchell. Some excellent bowls were played by all the players taking part.
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February 1st |
 It's Saturday so we held a singles handicap competition. Our winner (pictured) Josephine Mitchell was also awarded the Christine Johnston most improved player of the week medal.
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