happy b-day ric

wow, what a loverly afternoon i had on Sunday. Thanks Ric, thanks for a bar tab, a bowls club to ourselves, dinner, and the grace of your presence. Renee's highlights: all of us girls claiming we will play bowls and then sitting around watching everyone else, Liams speech (tear-jerker), Ric in his new jacket (reow!), Mel winning pool? Free beer and being able to drink it again after my week of near-death flu symptoms!

I used to work at a bowls club and i forgot how cool it was. Well, at the time i was an impressionable 18 yearold who thought getting your RSA and doing a cocktail course would land you in some swanky bar in the East End of Adelaide. The naivety. I ended up in a lawn bowls club where the only cocktail i was mixing was a bloody mary (and that was the hardcore nannas)...or a lot of half-nip gin and tonics. Maybe there is a correlation between my time behind the bar at Salisbury bowls making Gin and Tonics, and my love of the stuff now. But this is all irrelevant.

The moral of my story...let's go to Toowong West Bowls club more often. We can all buy some white trainers (i saw some nice posters on the walls of the clubhouse), knitted white vests, and a sexy wide-brim hats. We can all become members and potentially win a grand every Wednesday (Clare had a great scheme where we would all sign up and make TWBC our new regular and turnup every wednesday and therefore increase our collective chances of getting the dough). Somehow, i can learn how to be good at pool and enter the free pool comp and potentially win a carton of beer! We can all delight in crazy-cheap beer and surprisingly attractive bar staff. There's more...but really, do you need more reasons.

It'll be like secret life of us, you know how that made lawn-bowls cool, that and crackerjack. Except we dont live down South, or sleep with eachother (that much), or live in apartments? But now the grace period between "playing bowls because they do it on secret life" and "playing bowls cause its fucking sweet" is large enough for us to claim that we're not copying the T.V.

p.s. check this guy out...look at the determination! i wanna be him some day!!!