Harris has been dressed up to help celebrate this annual event, unfortunately as a club we are unable to submit an entry to the actual race so on behalf of Harris his swine herders have bought 5 ducks, any winnings will go into the clubs charity funds.
Today is St George’s day and Harris has been suitably attired this week, we also had the next draw in our 50/50 club, resulting in Angie Fish (1) winning and Barbara Gillian (15) as runner-up.
This is only the 4th hot shot at the club, previous winners were
November 2021 – Beccy Kirk, John Harris and Phil Milham
March 2022 – Norman Lawton, Beccy Kirk, Ann Harris and Christine Edwards
July 2024 – Dennis Barnett, Kay Dando and Les Fish
and now Penny Spencer, Doug Edge and Phil Wood.
well done to all. Unfortunately getting all 3 together proved very difficult so 2 photos.
Another Easter at the club and with a 17% increase in attendees at March session, it’s a time to celebrate, Harris wishes all followers of our club a very happy and relaxing Easter.
He has attended all the sessions this week, handing out free Easter eggs to all.
Here he is in all his glory.
The winner was Mike Lewis (5), runner-up Dickie Mander (41)
Congratulations to both.
We had a great day yesterday at the North Wiltshire Golf Club. 47 people make a lot of chatter and laughter, the service was great and the food was excellent. The staff looked after us very well.
Below are the photographs are all titled so I won’t repeat the details. The Secretary went through the last 12 months events and made various presentation.
The 3rd draw of the 50/50 club was made with the runner-up being Terry Brewer, he then pulled the winner out of the bag who happed to be Stuart Beard, well done to both.
The raffle made £190 for our charity account, thanks to all who donated and bought tickets.
At this I always feel that another year is over at the club, strange feeling.
The latest leagues up to the 28th February have been published look under Members – Internal Comps.
Have a look there are few surprises in the top 5.
On Tuesday we entertained Crudwell at Beversbrook, this was our last game for the season. Crudwell are the top team in the league and we’re hoping for a good win, as they had previously won 22-53 0-9 points at Crudwell on the 1st October 2025. Things did not go well for them as we managed to win 2 rinks, in the first half Nick, Carol and Terry won 10-8, whilst Pat, Esther and Les lost 6-10.
However in the second half Les managed to come back from 5-7 down and score 4 shots on the last 2 ends to win 9-7, unfortunately Nick, Carol and Terry lost 5-14.
Final score 30-39, 4-5 points, a very enjoyable night for us.
Harris Hogg was on show celebrating the Chinese New Year, fortune cookies for all. It was his friend Millie Ham turned up to keep him company.
Fun was had with the Chinese New Year calendar as members found out whether they were born in the year of the snake, boar or tiger, etc.
We went to Marshfield hoping to improve the result we obtained at home on the 18th November 2025, being 29-40, 3-6 points. However we weakened in the second half after having won an end in the first half.
Final result 21-47, 2-7 pts, well done to Sheila, Esther and Les for the one win 9-6, however they lost their second game 4-11. Whilst Nick, Carol and Terry lost their 2 games 3-14 and 5-16.
But coming away with 2 points was good as Marshfield are not an easy team to win on their rinks.
Last night we played Melksham away at Broughton Gifford, we went with high hopes following our win at Beversbrook 33-31 recently. Unfortunately it was not our height and we lost 20-60, we did improve in the second half only losing the 2 games by a total of 12-22. As always we were well looked after with cake at half time, whispers of whisky abounded, but I think it was only an essence! But whatever it was, we did bowled better for it.
Many thanks to Lorraine and all at Melksham for an enjoyable evening.
Firstly, many thanks to Carol and Pat for organising this first session and also to Sheila for taking over placing Nick’s woods and Terry and John for there invaluable advice during the session.
The reason for these sessions is to help ESMBA members to gain confidence and knowledge to enable they to take part in County. Competitions/Leagues in the future if they wish to.
The session started with Carol explaining why it was taking place and Pat explaining the teams and format of the session.
League teams are made up of 3 players with 2 bowls each, not 3 as is played in our social games.
This requires greater skill and understanding of the game. A league game is made up of 2 half
1st half is 2 trial ends and followed by 9 ends, then a break for refreshments
2nd half is a further 9 ends.
The option is to play a 1st half, stopping when members need information or advice.
The session went very well and at the debriefing members said how much they had learned and appreciated the help they had received, it had been a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon.
The next session will be on Friday 30th January, 2pm to 4pm.
Now follows photographs.
Read in full“CALNE ESMBA Members practice session 16th January 2026”