Annual Bowling Match

Today was the annual Common Riding Bowling Match between Niall and myself against Niall's Sons in Law Bruce and Ian. To decide what start we should give them we played a 5 end game and we won by 10 shots so the actual match over 10 ends gave them a 10 shots start. We soon caught up with them but then the youngsters had a good spell and won an end and came close to winning a second but after the alloted 10 ends we managed to win by 5 shots. They are planning to take this annual match seriously in the future and even thinking of joining a Bowling Club so as we get older and they get more experience we will find this match gets much tougher.

Some of the hundreds of spectators for the match. Niall's Grandchildren Lochan, Gregor, Isla, and Rory with Niall's daughter Lorna. The rest of the spectators were too shy to have their photograph taken.