To celebrate a huge few months at The FARM and to welcome some new faces, the team headed out for a lazy (but always competitive) Friday afternoon of lawn bowls at the Clovelly Bowling Club.

Perched atop the headland overlooking Coogee, hungry FARMers were greeted by Rann and JG already cooking up a mammoth BBQ to steel their stomachs before the high endurance bowl off. Shocking the locals, our pack of ruffians devoured our feast and warmed our hearts with ale making our way through almost all of Rann's rather indulgent grocery shopping spree.

Just as all hope of actually bowling rapidly began to vanish into the social smorgasboard our highly organised GM announced the state of play (pre prepared of course!) and the drawing of the teams. 

New FARMer, Phil did the honours of selecting the 4 teams captains and in a true performance of fitting in all too quick latched onto Rann’s compulsion to come 2nd at everything by aptly naming his team:

Rann 4 2nd
Team Captain: Phil
Guesty, CP, Aaron and Tom

Celebrating the memory of our one time French Farmer, Charlotte the next team captain Nina also aptly named her team:

Flambon Gala’s
Team Captain: Nina
Dan, Nikki, David and Wade

To encompass all the raw Aussie power brewing in the pre game BBQ, K1’s team were named by the resident Canadian:

Frogs in Socks
Team Captain: K1
C3, Kat, Shannon and Hugo

No one really seemed to know what Paul's team name meant...

Infighting
Team Captain: Paul
Sam, Karis, Rann and Owen

The teams then lined up for bowling boot camp "little picture on the inside and account for the SE wind" 

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

With some failing to grasp the ‘little picture on the inside’ rule curve balls abounded across the field with desperate mid game searches for the full set of light bulbs, schooners, chess boards and rather misleading anchors. Karis was under pressure on her debut bowl by earlier proclaiming her penchant for lawn bowls only to earn the handicap of the 'Dorrigan Hook'. 

Frogs in Socks ripped up the bowling green and emerged undefeated until the historic final bowl from the opposing team. So confident in their win, Frogs in Socks bowled a strategic curve ball by Hugo into the neighboring lane for fear of jeopardizing their own victory. But they were slapped with the hand of irony as JG bowled a perfect (and pure lucky) last bowl of the day. Our illustrious leader jumped for joy flanked by C3 and K1 who screamed with the agony of epic bad luck until they collapsed sobbing to the ground in an unbelievable last minute defeat.