71st Post. Helllooo....is there anybody there???

January 25, 2021

Much hasn't happened since our last formal play. Boules are getting rusty; arms are seizing up; individuals have changed beyond all recognition; group play is now just in the boudoir; competition is just who gets up earlier in the morning and to cap it all Gerry L cancelled his away trip only to find that the government conspired with a virus to prevent him topping the leaderboard!

However there have been green shoots.....all is not lost.....do not despair!

Graffiti has been removed.

A vandalised tree has been removed.

For a short while we continued to have non-competition play until Christmas while restricting numbers and masking-up.

After Christmas the Level 5 restrictions came into being preventing group play.....

We managed to decorate a few trees to brighten up the entrance to the park with solar powered lights in festive shapes:

Gerry W. paid us a flying visit on his trusty new steed. He hopes to rejoin us when his injury heals and the virus is gone.

Some of the paths needed attention...so we weeded them and restored them to original width.

Courtesy of Cornelia Raftery in Fingal Co.Co, Parks section we had a tonne of grit delivered to reinstate the pathways. We still need to compact them but they are looking better already. Our thanks to the volunteers who were pressed into action, at short notice, to transport the material from the end of Verbena Park to the site. Social distancing and strict division of labour were much in evidence and the job was done in under an hour and a half. The afternoon team were stood down!!