Wanstead Central Bowling Club

In the midst of a long hot summer Central had the bad luck to choose a rainy Saturday evening for their annual barbecue.

However the promise of food, wine and beer was more than enough to lure close to 100 members and friends to the clubhouse.

Making all this happen were Tony’s team of Aquatic Chefs, a group of seasoned (sorry, bad pun) cooks who were destined to marinate in H²O on the evening in order to feed the clientèle.

Tongs Of Praise – your non-vegetarian committee

“There must be a Start Fire app here somewhere”

Nigella Lawson (in disguise) demonstrates her famous Fried Onions technique

Maureen and the girls take some time to critique Delia Smith’s “How To Boil An Egg”

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Central managed to get one over Romford at the fourth time of asking this season by winning their opening tie in the London Parks’ Jackson Shield competition by a single point in the gloom of a Friday evening at the opposition’s green.

Despite taking a good early lead which was maintained until two-thirds of the way through the game, Central let Romford get back into contention on by ultimately losing on two rinks.

Fortunately this wasn’t quite enough to overturn the shots win on the third rink so Central go through to meet Fords in the next round.

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Colin Foster, Kevin Fitzgerald and Paul Whellams beat a strong triple from Elm Park.

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Central’s excellent run the the singles, triples and fours county competitions came to a shuddering halt at the semi-finals day held at Essex County BC.

In the morning Kevin Fitzgerald played the perfect game for three quarters of his game against Peter Ayling. However, in the last quarter, with Kevin only needing a few shots for victory, Ayling dragged himself back from 8 shots down to take the lead and ultimately run out the winner.

Also in the morning Central’s triple of Keith Lloyd, Mick Bird and Len Welton were always behind and didn’t threaten the Larsen team’s early lead.

Then in the afternoon the four of Colin Jones, Dave Waters, Paul Woodford and Mitch Brenner out played their opponents from Bocking Alliance for most of the game but were undone on a single end when they dropped a seven. That allowed Bocking to leap into the lead and despite Central’s good play in the last few ends they lost by a single shot.

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Keith, Mick and Len win their County Triples Quarter Final

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Kevin Fitzgerald progresses in the singles, sweeping aside Mark Wilson 21-4

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The summer finally arrived just in time for a “drive” of 18 ends followed by an American Tea

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Central eased past South Woodford in the Group 5 unbadged competition. The teams finished prey level away, but a resounding victory at home, including some excellent woods from stalwarts Henry Seabrook and Peter Norgate, took us through.

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An all Central tie meant that there would be guaranteed representation in the quarter final of the County Fours.

Things were pretty level until the last third of the match, when a 3 for Mitch’s team swung the game in their favour, giving them a lead they managed to hang on to until the end of the game

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Len “Up To Three Times A Day” Welton, Keith Lloyd and Mick Bird beat a trio from Fords to progress to the Quarter Finals of the County Triples, helped in no small part by Len’s consistently brilliant play.

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