I took a short break from watching the Olympics on TV to see some live sport on Friday in Abingdon …
The 2012 Mayor’s challenge bowls competition was taking place at the bowls club in Albert Park.
Normally the match is between the Mayor of Abingdon’s team, and the Lord Mayor of Oxford’s team. But this year the Lord Mayor of Oxford could not raise a team. So instead the Mayor of Abingdon’s team (which included the Mayor and some Abingdon town councillors and some standard players) played the Vale of White Horse (which included some Vale district councillors).
It was a close match. When I left, about half way through, the Vale team were slightly ahead.
Not all the councillors got the dress code exactly right, but they had come straight from work.
Just adding a bit of colour to the proceedings, Alastair 🙂
I don’t think we were quite up to Olympic standard but it was great fun, thanks to the tutoring and patience of the real players.