Whist results
Thursday, February 12: top score - Mabel Whitaker (184); 1st lady - Mair Marquiss (170); 2nd lady - Pauline Barnikel (150); 1st gent - Joyce Waters (175); 2nd gent - Elsie Breadnam (163); first half winner -Gladys Irvine (87); second half winner - Muriel Griffiths (74); longest sitter - Bill Whitaker; raffle - Mabel Whitaker.
Saturday, February 14: top score - Joyce Waters (180); 1st lady - Muriel Griffiths (170); 2nd lady - Mabel Whitaker (168); 1st gent - Elsie Breadnam (169); 2nd gent - Ginnie Beeken (166); first half winner - Mary Renowden (88); second half - Bill Whitaker (83); longest sitter - Gladys Irvine (six times); lowest score - Mary Draper; raffles - Elsie Breadnam and Mair Marquiss.
Bowling club whist drives are held twice weekly, Thursday at 7 pm and Saturday at 2 pm. New members and visitors are always welcome.
Quiz time
With spring just around the corner, things are stirring in the club. There are quizzes coming up, all for worthy causes. They are on Thursday, February 26, in aid of Tenovus, and Thursday, March 12, in aid of the lifeboat. Lee and Hayley will be posing the questions. Please support these charities. Teams of four.
Coffee morning
Chairman John Baggott requests your presence at a fund-raising coffee morning on Saturday, March 7 - the ideal time to pay this season's subscriptions, if you haven't managed it yet.
New carpet
Chairman John Baggott, having clinched an excellent deal, announces that the new carpet should be down in time for the forthcoming coffee morning.
Fixtures 2009
Mike Gouldingay has produced another very full season of bowling fixtures and is putting the final touches to our club cards, sponsored once again by the Phillips family, of the Clarence Hotel, Tenby.
Clearance request
Will all members, who have personal property in our changing rooms, please remove so that the necessary cleaning can proceed. I am advised that this is the final notice.
Darts report
After successive wins, hopes were high of causing a bit of an upset against the strong Cresselly Cricket Club team. The 1001 saw these hopes briefly realised as Ysie knocked over eight to lead the bowlers to a rare win.
However, they were soon brought back to earth, with Cresselly winning five of the singles, only a fine win by JR saving the bowlers from the whitewash.
The doubles continued in a similar vein and the bowlers eventually bowed out to an 8-1 defeat.
Congratulations to Cresselly and, despite the defeat, an enjoyable night was had by all.
Cup action again tonight (Friday) travelling away to meet the Swan A (again).
Audrey Owens
Audrey Owens joined Tenby Bowling Club in 1993 (writes B.B.).
She was born in 1930 in Cross Hands, the fifth of seven children. Her father, Thomas Daniels, a collier from Llanon, married Dinah Harries, of Llanddarog, who was in service.
Audrey's first memory was being dragged reluctantly to school at the age of three-and-a-half. She enjoyed the companionship of the Brownies and Girl Guides. Like most children in those days, she left school at 14 years of age in 1944 and went straight into service with the local gentry. Later she went nursing at the Tumble Isolation Hospital.
Nature's natural selection, which works in mysterious ways, deemed that Alexander Owens, Battery Sgt. Major of the Royal Artillery, based at Manorbier Army Camp, would catch the mumps from his niece and nephew - a serious condition in a grown man. He was rushed to the isolation hospital at Tumble to recover. You've guessed it. Audrey nursed him back to health, initially thinking him quite 'cocky', but on recovery, they started dating here in Tenby and married in 1951. They were blessed with four lovely children.
They travelled quite a lot with the army, with Alex, being an expert gunnery instructor who was commissioned in 1962, rising to major by retirement in the early 1970s.
One of Audrey's great loves is travelling, so being stationed in Gibraltar, Germany, Aldershot and finally Manorbier, again kept her happy.
They put down roots here in Tenby in 1967 and Audrey got involved in local affairs, being the outgoing type that she is. She enjoyed many years in amateur dramatics, having joined the Stagestruck Company, singing in the church choir and has spent over 30 years supporting the Tenovus charity.
Widowed in 1992, Audrey found comfort in the sport of lawn green bowling here in Tenby and later at the Heatherton indoor bowling facility, where she has been on committee for 10 years as fixture secretary.
Being petite in stature was no drawback; as a demon bowler, she enjoys the physical challenge and the companionship of the bowling world. As her own performance improved, she took her place in the Tenby ladies team (a proud member of the victorious Tenby Ladies team, being Pembroke County two-rink league champions in 2008) and progressed to county level with the West Wales Ladies Bowling Association.
Having won many trophies at club and county level, she then progressed, spending the last 10 years on the administration ladder, finally to be elected as president of the WWLBA for 2009.
Her love of family, bowling and travel were combined when Audrey visited her son, residing in Australia, and enjoyed the spectacle of the Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne in 2006. A magnificent holiday. Even more exciting was attending World Bowls in New Zealand in 2008, another feast of bowling in a beautiful country.
Like most of us, time passes as she battles daily with her favourite crossword, developing her IT skills to keep the brain active and in the company of her friends.