Chicken, Egg and Pheasant
I would like to thank all the members who turned out to play in our Chicken and Egg sessions this past month, I hope you all enjoyed it. From the feedback I have received all those who took part enjoyed their games.
Despite a couple of really cold evenings we managed all five sessions. Before the first session we engaged the help of 6 players who played a couple of trial ends to run though the format, they in turn helped players on their rinks. After 5 weeks we now have 30 players in the club who have played the game before and can help new players in the future. It soon became apparent that redrawing after 4 or 6 ends in the cooler May evenings would not work so we played 10 ends straight through which worked much better.
On Friday 31st May we held the final session of the spring Chicken and Egg. In the spirit of the competition and Bill Giles “wicked” sense of humour, we played a joke on our overall winner when Jan Baker was presented with a live pheasant and Bill Giles gave her a knife and instructions on what to do with it! Which resulted in a look of total shock from Jan and an extra round of applause from the audience. The pheasant was quickly replaced with an oven ready chicken with 2nd and 3rd prizes of hen and pheasant eggs. Special thanks to Chris Trainer for bringing the live pheasant and supplying the eggs.
Winners:
Week I John Ashfield 44 points
Week 2 Ann Ashfield 66 points
Week 3 Bill Slade 61 points
Week 4 Peter Dawe 41 points
Overall winner with the highest combined score:
Week 5 Jan Baker 201 points
Jan keeping as far away as possible from the pheasant.
Sue came 2nd and received both chicken and pheasant eggs
John came 3rd
Peter
