As we draw close to the end another action packed season of indoor bowls and reflect in the success of our teams in the County and National leagues, we take a moment to reflect on how things could have been had we had been shut down by a dreadful ‘bat fuelled’ pandemic… Well that should have been the headline statement but of course it is far from the truth. Our season was indeed decimated by Covid 19 and it’s nasty Kent, Brazillian and South African brothers. We managed but a few weeks of bowls in 2020 and none at all so far in 2021. Despite all our best efforts to prepare the club and make it Covid secure, those in the higher escalons of society and Government had other ideas and they took away our keys and told us all to go home and stare out of our windows for a year or so.