MidGlos IBCHere we go again – the first newsletter of another lockdown! As I said before, we did it last time so we’ll do it again, but the weather is not likely to be quite as favourable as last time! Hey ho, let’s hope this lockdown achieves what the government is hoping for. Fortunately, we managed […]
5pm, 4 November 2020 I’ve just heard that the planned lockdown is to go ahead so, as frommidnight, we are closed. I’m desperately sad about this. I shall write the full newsletter tomorrow. LindaLinda Watkin-Jones.Director (PR & Marketing)
Hello again, More really good news! Thank goodness there’s something positive to report in these dark days (in more ways than one). Membership Our current membership stands at 311 (as of Tuesday this week) – not far off pre-Covid times. Within that number are 237 standard members and five under 14s (two boys and three […]
Hello again, Really good news – our membership numbers are steadily climbing. Just this week a total of nine new members have signed up (at the time of writing this – 3.30 on Wednesday afternoon). The age of our membership now ranges from 10 years right up to folks in their nineties! It is so […]
We’re back! Potters Update We had a great time at Potters but not quite Potters as we know it. We’ve been going twice a year for a number of years to play in a mid-week tournament. Such tournaments are played almost every week from September to March. Anyone can enter and there’s usually a mixture […]
Hello again, The good news is that I’m away next week at Potters (very different from what we’re used to. They have made huge changes in order to comply with the ever-changing rules imposed be the government and the EIBA) and so there won’t be a newsletter. While on the subject of changes, I do […]
YOUR CLUB NEEDS YOU! Thank you to all those people who’ve kindly come forward with offers of help to man the office. However, we still have vacancies on alternate Thursday afternoons 1.30 until 3.00p.m., alternate Friday afternoon/evenings 3.00 until 7.00p.m. and alternate Thursday evenings 6.30 until 10.00p.m. If you can help, please, please give your […]
Good news! We are still permitted to bowl in our Covid secure environment! However, we are now restricted to trips only from today, Thursday. It could have been so much worse! The EIBA could have decided to cancel all bowling. BUT they haven’t – thank goodness! My only option for a winter with no bowling […]
Winter Covid Secure Etiquette: Before you set off please have your mask and check when your rink start time is. NB this is a game start time and designed to reduce clustering at reception. Please use our cashless system to pay for rinks and drinks (cash still ok). (Please add credit to your membership card after […]
MidGlos Covid Secure Code Do NOT come to the club if you: a) are feeling unwell, or b) do not accept the Covid Secure Code Keep your social distance at all times with members not in your family or social bubble Try not to touch surfaces unnecessarily Sit or stand sideways next to people – […]