Instant Success with Fancy Dress Lawn Green Bowling

On a traditional hot, sunny summers day in August, and by traditional I mean cold, wet and windy the whole office ventured to our local lawn green bowling facility for an evening of pub quiz questions and team bowling.

We were all separated into teams of 4 and we had to come up with themes.  The regular goers had to make way for our eclectic mix of outfits. We had everything from Cats to super-hero’s and I am sure we made some of the public double take.  The game is simple, each team has 8 bowls and whoever is nearest to the jack wins the game.  However our cunning organisers, Finance Manager Charlotte Willis and Credit Control Manager Mel Warren, applied their own twist to proceedings.  Every team would be given just 4 bowls and each team had to answer 4 questions in the hope of bowling with a full quota of 8 bowls. The game in theory was simple, answer the questions – get 8 bowls, bowl and get closest to the white jack.  However, a few people took to the green and took a more progressive approach, which basically consisted of a ten-pin bowling action and firing the ball down the middle in hope of getting closest to the white.  Perhaps a little patience is what was needed. 

After several round robin games we came down to the final.  Two teams battled the final, one led by Corporate Sales Director Lee Casbolt and his trio of ladies, Emily Lowe, Natalia Tarson and Jess Tafreshi called the A-Team versus the team led by Corporate Account Manager Branton Moore and his trio of female dogs (This is a family sensitive publication) RJ Peach, Cristina Belcher and Dave Marcuson.  For dramatic effect it was a close game that came down to the very last two balls.  Captain Lee Casbolt dropped his bowl right on the jack meaning that Dave Marcuson had to knock Lee’s ball out of the way for any chance of a victory.  With an aggressive approach Dave fired the ball down the green….and completely missed everything earning a hard fought victory to Lee’s A-Team.

We finished with a company bowl off to find who could land the ball closest to the gully with bottle of wine being awarded to European Sales Consultant Marie Meral and Operator Relationship Manager Matt Watts.