By Peter Brennan
After a brief quiet time, Yarra Junction Bowling Club had a range of difficult conditions to contend with last week.
The Midweek team travelled to Lilydale, to play on a slow and challenging green.
Unfortunately the green seemed surrounded on all sides by construction sites, with all the dust and noise that goes with construction, to the extent that the seats around the green were vibrating from the heavy machinery just outside the fence.
Whether this is part of the ongoing project surrounding the new Council chambers is difficult to say, but we certainly sympathise with the Lilydale Bowling Club who have been enduring excessive disruption for quite some time.
In the end Yarra Junction lost the match, and neither side seemed to enjoy playing it. Junction remains third on the ladder.
The weekend team travelled to Mooroolbark, on what proved to be the first thirty degree day of the summer.
Playing on a slow grass green, the heat was difficult to adjust to, and Mooroolbark registered a convincing win, with Junction winning one rink and being thrashed overall, slipping down to fourth position.
It will be good if we can restore our own grass green, so that players can become familiar with the different surface.
The Community Cup wound up last Friday, and congratulations are due to the Yarra Valley Soccer Club, who came from fourth place to claim the title on a count back from The Loose Ends from the Gladysdale Bakery.
It was an exciting competition, played in good spirits, and the club thanks all those who took part.
Hopefully it will once again be an ongoing event, after the interruptions of the last few years.
Barefoot Bowls will commence in early January.
This is a very pleasant way to pass a warm summer evening, with a sausage sizzle and the bar open, and all equipment available.
The club urges everyone to wander down after Christmas has been and gone, and try out this very enjoyable sport.
New members are always welcomed.
See the clubs website or Facebook page.
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