Head along and enjoy the social aspect of croquet.
Last week, on 26 February Sue Wade celebrated her 80th Birthday and everyoneenjoyed a lovely cake to celebrate at croquet. President, Elvy presented Sue withher O.B.E. and wished her fun, laughter,happiness and health for the future.
Aussie Croquet was played on a warmmorning on 15 March and 29 players werein attendance. Some good scores were recorded on the day with wins of 14/11 and14/13. It was lovely to see Belinda Faceycome down to watch the game and hopefully we will see Belinda take up the gamein the near future. Mark Toohey also camedown to have a game and will hopefully joinus again soon.
On Tuesday 18 March, Golf Croquetwas played with 32 in attendance. It wasa coolermorning. Three games were won by NoelJolliffe, Kevin Rubie, Peter West and KevinWenning. Well done to those players. Itwas great to see Mark Toohey join us againfor a game.
On 18 March we also held a Generalmeeting with 28 members in attendanceand there were 5 apologies. It was decided at the meeting that we would celebrateWorld Croquet Day on 1 May with a gameof Aussie Croquet and a luncheon to follow.
The luncheon will be held in the shade areaand it should be a nice opportunity to gettogether.
New members Peter Mackay togetherwith Irene and Neil Riley seem to be enjoying the sport.
Our next Birthday luncheon will be heldon 1 April at Isabel’s Place.
By Elvy Quirk