Umbogintwini Bowling Club - Recently Updated Pages

The "Pothunters"

RobT — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:54:03 CST

The "Pothunters" were out in full force at Stella Park over the weekend of the 15th and 16th November 2008 when the Port Natal Under 25's had their fundraiser.

Jimmy

RobT — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:49:22 CST

Here's to Colin - the best barman on the South Coast

The only Bowling Club that can boast ......
"the son of our barman - drives a Porche"

No White Socks Here!

Greens News

RobT — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:50:50 CST

Both greens will be going down for annual maintenance as from 8 November 2008.

A - Green - will be down for approximately 2 weeks
B - Green will be down for approximately 4 to 6 weeks
(Weather permitting)

Sipho was observed "fixing" the mower on Saturday 8 November 2008. Will the greens ever be the same after these running repairs?

A Green

A Green Renovations

December 2007

Nicely Scarrified

Grumpy the green keeper surveying his hard work

The hollow-tining process

Raking off the green after hollow-tining

Grumpy earning his salary - spreading the topsoil

Topdressing in progress 11 December 2007

Twini Men's 2-4-2

RobT — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:34:47 CST

The Twini Men's 2-4-2 is a pairs competition played in the 2-4-2 format for bowlers in the Amanzimtoti area. It is held once per month on the 1st Thursday - but numbers are limited with regular teams taking preference.

Great prizes are up for grabs donated by generous sponsors:
Glen Scorgie of Scorgie Paints
Mark Brodie of MB Coatings
& Archie Walker.

6 November 2008 - saw the end of year 2-4-2 competition being held. Once again the sponsors outdid themselves, and the prize table simply "groaned" with prizes.

The resident "CHEF" - Doug Joubert was on hand to prepare the 2-4-2 turkey - thanks to John Mitchley for the "stuffing"

The competition is also renowned for the practical jokes played in the Clubhouse after the game, and this year it appears that Tony Daniel was on the receiving end of "quite a few".

You can take a Camel to water......

but can you make him drink?

When the meniscus is high and the hand less steady....

The December event is extra special, and in December 2007, even though the event was rained out - prizes to the value of over R1000.00 were handed out by "luck of the draw".

Many happy teams walked away with turkeys and roasts - fit for a King's Christmas Dinner.

Generously sponsored prizes at the December 2007 event

Archie Walker - one of the generous sponsors enjoys a "small glass"

of his favorite "iced tea"

Glen Scorgie - another sponsor in "leaner times"

enjoying his 2nd favorite tipple

Mark Brodie - yet another of our fantastic sponsors confirms

that this is the NUMBER ONE 2-4-2 competition on the South Coast.

Announcements

RobT — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:15:35 CST

UMBOGINTWINI BOWLING CLUB ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2008
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Club will be held at the Clubhouse Oppenheimer Road Umbogintwini on Saturday 29 November 2008 at 13h00.

Notices of motion that are required to be discussed by any fully paid up full bowling member are requested to be made in writing and handed to the Club Secretary at least 14 days prior to the convening of the meeting.

Nominations for the 2009 Committee will be displayed on the Notice Board from Wednesday 1 October 2008 and the ballot will take place at the Annual General Meeting.

Please note that only fully paid up full bowling members are eligible to cast their vote and introduce motions at the AGM. Dual members whose home club is not Umbogintwini Bowling Club, and Social Members are welcome to attend, but may not be voted into office, nor cast a vote in the elections, nor introduce notices of motion.

SITUATION VACANT ....
BEE KEEPER

Uncle "Klopps" very seldom makes the web site - but the Sharks vs Bulls Final saw him in fine fettle - no doubt supporting the winning team!

Fine picture of your index finger Pete!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

to the following members:

01/11 - Raymond Robinson
03/11 - Neil Oberholzer
07/11 - Pat Kirk
07/11 - Reba Torgius
09/11 - Doreen Clarence
14/11 - Mark Brodie
16/11 - Iain Dickason
16/11 - Delysia Mitchley
18/11 - Carien Theron
27/11 - Dennie de Nysschen
28/11 - George Warrior
29/11 - Edward Clayton
05/12 - George Henderson
08/12 - James Milne
09/12 - Isobel Milne
09/12 - John Dunn
10/12 - Mike Hope
11/12 - Barbara Rutter
20/12 - John Mitchley
27/12 - Doug Joubert
30/12 - Piet Barnard
30/12 - Bruce Whiting
31/12 - Clive Hill
31/12 - Chris v.d. Westhuizen

Friday Attendance Draw

RobT — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:17:21 CDT

All "paid up" members - Bowling and Social - have a FREE ticket into the weekly Attendance Draw which is held every Friday Evening at 18h00 Sharp.

THE WINNER MUST BE PRESENT INSIDE THE CONFINES OF THE CLUBHOUSE IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR THE PRIZE - IF THEIR NUMBER IS DRAWN.

		Date	Prize Money	Number Drawn	Member - Name	Present Yes / No
DRAW 1	1	21 March 2008	R 150.00	55	George Harris	NO
	2	28 March 2008	R 200.00	45	Adie Fuller	NO
	3	04 April 2008	R 250.00	79	Wally Marais	NO
	4	11 April 2008	R 300.00	123	Rob Troughton	YES
DRAW 2	5	18 April 2008	R 150.00	139	Stan Shawe	NO
	6	25 April 2008	R 200.00	32	Hazel Davis	NO
	7	02 May 2008	R 250.00	118	Grant Thompson	NO
	8	09 May 2008	R 300.00	69	Lynn Joubert	NO
	9	16 May 2008	R 350.00	76	Andrew Lawson	NO
	10	23 May 2008	R 400.00	86	Delycia Mitchley	NO
	11	30 May 2008	R 450.00	81	Vince Marriott	NO
	12	06 June 2008	R 500.00	67	Dawie Jordaan	NO
	13	13 June 2008	R 550.00	34	Mickey de Witt	YES
DRAW 3	14	20 June 2008	R 150.00	5	Terry Beadsworth	NO
	15	27 June 2008	R 200.00	39	Margaret Eitner	NO
	16	04 July 2008	R 250.00	34	Mickey de Witt	YES
DRAW 4	17	11 July 2008	R 150.00	58	Trudy Hill	No
	18	18 July 2008	R 200.00	119	Shayne Tocher	NO
	19	25 July 2008	R 250.00	46	Ron Gall	YES
DRAW 5	20	01 August 2008	R 150.00	113	Alec Stirzaker	NO
	21	08 August 2008	R 200.00	32	Hazel Davis	NO
	22	15 August 2008	R 250.00	120	Reba Torgius	NO
	23	22 August 2008	R 300.00	135	Norah Wiseman	NO
	24	29 August 2008	R 350.00	36	Bryan Diener	NO
	25	05 September 2008	R 400.00	130	Charles Jeffrey Walker	NO
	26	12 September 2008	R 450.00	25	Steve Conlan	YES
DRAW 6	27	19 September 2008	R 150.00	141	Susan Welch	NO
	28	26 September 2008	R 200.00	20	Marcus Clarence	NO
	29	03 October 2008	R 250.00	30	Jeannette Els	NO
	30	10 October 2008	R 300.00	154	Nola Corrigall	NO
	31	17 October 2008	R 350.00	33	Graham De Gray-Birch	YES
DRAW 7	32	24 October 2008	R 150.00	2	Steve Anderson	NO
	33	31 October 2008	R 200.00

FIGJAM Academy

RobT — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:09:26 CDT

The FIGJAM Academy meets regularly on a Friday afternoon.

Coaching starts from 16h00, and continues until after dark (under floodlights).

Interested parties with healthy bank balances & bulging wallets only - to contact the Convener of Selectors.

Convener of Selectors - FIGJAM Academy

ALWAYS - FIGJAM 1

Maybe FIGJAM

FIGJAM 2

Obie 1 Canobie FIGJAM with yellow portfolio

"Silent" FIGJAM - Champion 2007

Lady FIGJAM?

Newest Member

Biggest FIGJAM?

Possible new recruits?

Coaching is taken very seriously with much consternation as the contestants approach the head at the completion of each end. A race often ensues as a wild dash is made for the scoreboard. As the final ends approach, a deathly silence descends on the green, with players breaking out in a profuse sweat as they consider the possibility that a visit to their bank manager is imminent. Once the final end is complete - raucous cackling may be heard from the Convener of Selectors as he slowly opens his wallet, swatting away stray moths in the process, and either accepts green fees, or pays out like a highly confused one-armed bandit..

A Corner in the clubhouse has officially been renamed "Figjam Corner"

The Figjam Academy AGM was held on Saturday 3 November 2007

The Convener of FIGJAM Selectors stated that he was very happy with the turnout for the AGM, with only 2 members not being present.

PS "FIGJAM" = "F_ _ _ I'm Good - Just Ask Me"

A tale of Sleeping Beauty

RobT — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:57:34 CDT

Our friend C.V.W. is also fondly referred to as......

"PIKEFISH"

or now and again "Rudolph" ....for some unknown reason

Apparently the profile says it all!

He loves a little snooze - now & again!

SNOOZING!

SUFFERING ABUSE BY YOUR "MATES"




	No need to say anything but - this obviously occurred on the same day!

SNOOZING

Wherever you find a little winter sun .... there you'll find Sleeping Beauty

SNOOZING

Suffering even more abuse from your mates.

(04/11/07)

After Bar Flies - Sunday 02/12/2007

Guarding the Club's Assets

AWAKE? .... AT LAST!

Bowls - the game

RobT — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:33:17 CDT

How not to play the game.....

THE GAME OF BOWLS
From the English rule Book of all sports 1856.

This is almost as simple as a game of football, requiring only a bowling green and an
indefinite number of bowls, one for each player. Unlike football, however, it is a very
quiet game, and calculated rather for the steady gentlemen, then for his rackety son.

The bowls are spheres of Lignum vitae, or any other wood ; and they are generally
made of one side of a tree. The heart being heavier than the outside, makes one side of
the bowl heavier than the other ; the consequence is that each bowl has a bias of it's own,
and every player must learn it's peculiarities before he can play it successfully.

The bowling green is, or should be a perfectly level piece of turf, square in shape or nearly
so, and 30, 40, 50 yards wide, according to the capabilities of the ground. This should
be kept smooth and closely shaven, by means of the scythe and roller; and from it's
possessing these qualities in perfection the expression has arisen,"as smooth as a bowling green " !

The game is very simple in theory, and consists only of each player endeavouring to bowl
his own so as to remain as near as possible to a particular bowl. The bias creates the difficulty, which is greater than might be imagined ; and 30 or 40 elderly
gentlemen will often amuse themselves every evening throughout the summer without
arriving at anything like an absolute control of their eratic instruments !.

Inter-Club Championships

RobT — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:03:33 CDT

2008 McCarthy Toyota Inter-Club Championships:

FINAL RESULTS

Men Winners - Stella Park "A", Runners-up - RDLI "C", 3rd Place - Parkhill "A"; 4th Place - Durban "C".

Women Winners - Amanzimtoti "A", Runners-up - DHS Old Boys "A", 3rd Place - Bluff "A", 4th Place - Umbogintwini "A".

Very well done Ladies!

Twini once again can be considered "GIANT KILLERS".

As in previous years McCarthy Toyota is the proud sponsor of this prestigeous Inter-Club Championship.
Affiliated Clubs from the Port Natal District have entered teams who will compete in a round-robin tournament playing Trips and Fours.

The Singles Champion of Champions competition was held earlier in the year.

Umbogintwini have in the past couple of years fared relatively well in these championships.

This year (2008) Umbogintwini have entered 2 Men's teams and 1 Ladies Team:

Men's A Side
	Trips	Fours
Skip	Glen Scorgie	John Mitchley
3rd		Peter Callaghan
2nd	Roger Kirk	Leo Verwijk
Lead	George Harris	Alf Bingham
Reserve	Robin Roberts
Men's B Side
Skip	Bill Rawlinson	Bryan Diener
3rd		Dave Gardner
2nd	Guelfo Cobianchi	Eric Klopper
Lead	Dennis Hughes	Doug Joubert
Reserve	John Crichton
Ladies A Side
Skip	Rosemary Montgomery	Dylesia Mitchley
3rd		Rosemary Daniel
2nd	Noreen Butler	Wendy Shawe
Lead	Susan Erasmus	Marilyn Thiart
Reserve	Di Robinson

Trivia

RobT — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:10:45 CDT

What do you do if there are insufficient funds to build a new Board Room at the Club?

You make a plan ..... (even if it mean's a little loud conversation)

A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning
for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed,
"What's with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!"
The doctor chimed in, "I don't know, but I've never seen such ineptitude!
"The pastor said, "Hey, here comes the greenskeeper. Let's have a word
with him." [dramatic pause]
"Hi George. Say, what's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow,
aren't they?"
The greenskeeper replied, "Oh, yes, that's a group of blind
fire-fighters. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a
fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime."
The group was silent for a moment.
The pastor said, "That's so sad. I think I will say a special
prayer for them tonight."
The doctor said, "Good idea. And I'm going to contact my
ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for
them."
The engineer said, "Why can't these guys play at night?"

What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?"

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
monkeys and apes?

Atheism is a nonprophet organization

Question - What sporting facilities are the most common in Australia?
Answer - Bowling Greens

The South African men's bowls team, playing in the World Bowls Championships on home soil in 1976, achieved the unique feat of winning every single title on offer. Doug Watson was crowned singles champion. He and Bill Moseley won the pairs. Kevin Campbell, Nando Gatti and Kelvin Lightfoot triumphed in the triples, and Campbell, Gatti, Lightfoot and Moseley captured the fours title.

More people die in NewZealand every year playing Lawn Bowls than Scuba Diving.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo

Ian Fleming, who is famous for creating James Bond, also wrote 'Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang', the surreal story of a flying, floating, odd-shaped car.

A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

The Italian version of bowling, Bocce, which is still played today, is somewhat similar to "Lawn Bowling", an English game originating over 800 years ago.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

On average, it is estimated that females injure themselves ten time more than males do while playing sports

Did you know?

Chappies has been SA’s best- selling bubblegum for more than 50 years.
About 2,5-billion pieces are sold each year, which is more than 7-million pieces sold every day in SA. This is a staggering 80 units per second.
About 10000 tons of Chappies bubblegum is produced each year.
One in seven South Africans eats bubble gum every day.
Chappies is a South African brand developed by Arthur Ginsberg in the 1940s.
It was launched to be the cheapest bubblegum on the market, selling at two pieces per penny.
Chappies became an alternate currency in SA. Instead of giving customers a half-penny change, shopkeepers issued a piece of Chappies.
Chappies has been packaged in the same distinctive yellow wrapper with red and blue stripes since launch. The stripes, chipmunk and logo are synonymous with the brand.
The name Chappies is an abbreviation of the company name Chapelat Sweets. The Chappies brand was sold to Cadbury in 1989.

Sweet & Sour

RobT — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:58:16 CDT

Tuesday is Pensioner's Day

and some of the "older lads" just enjoy a spot of fun!

On a Clear Day - you can see 4 ever

however ......

On a Tuesday after 4pm - this is not so easy....

And then you try to take a photo of your mates .......

And then it all goes a little "Pear-shaped" .....

It's not so easy keeping up with the Jones'.....

And then they get a little peckish....

Some handle sour a little better than others....

and then again - it can be said by some .... that life's for living ...

And what's life without a few mates?

.... and another frosty or 2 or 3 or 4?

At least some people can admit defeat (or is it "da freege")

Game - Set - Match!

Home

RobT — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:23:03 CDT

Tel: +27 31 904 1980

Oppenheimer Road

Umbogintwini

Amanzimtoti

South Africa

Club days

Day	Tab in time	Play starts	Dress
Saturdays (Summer)	13h30	14h00	"Whites" + Flat soled shoes
Saturdays (Winter)	13h00	13h30	"Whites" + Flat soled shoes
Wednesday Morning	08h30	09h00	"Mufti" + Flat soled shoes
Friday Morning	08h30	09h00	"Mufti" + Flat soled shoes

VISITORS MOST WELCOME!
Green Fees - R5.00 per player

WARNING
This game may become addictive!

Directions to Umbogintwini Bowling Club

Travel along N2 South towards Port Shepstone
Pass Durban International Airport on the left - Exit 144 Dickens Road /Umbogintwini (19.4km).
At the top of the off-ramp turn right into Dickens Road (back over freeway)

Take the 3rd turn left into Oppenheimer Road (1km).
Club entrance is on the right (1km) after a sharp bend to the left.
The bowling club is on the right of the entrance gates - secure parking inside

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