NEWSLETTER

SUMMER 2010

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-Mandy Oxlade

Dear Friends

It was so nice to see our old friends that visited us at our last monthly

social. It was a very enjoyable time catching up on all of their news

and enjoying time together. Everyone enjoyed activity two.

Since the last news letter the club has been busy with various

activities. First of all I would like to say how interesting and

informative the trip to Halton House was. I really enjoyed it. My

thanks go to Lin Smith for arranging the trip.

Now that summer has arrived it is time for the start of the dry sports

season and in true AADC fashion as soon as the 1st May comes

round we are off and running to the first sports meeting of the year.

Looking forward, we have own club games coming up on the 26th

June. If there is anyone that can spare a few hours on the day to help

run an event or help in anyway please contact either Lin Smith or

Roy Carter.

If anyone has any items for the next newsletter please send them to

me or Chris.

Mandy Oxlade Chris Brown

16 Barbel Close 33 Whaddon Chase

EARLEY AYLESBURY

Reading Bucks

RG6 1AQ HP19 9QW

Email: mandyoxlade@hotmail.com

chriseboybrown@hotmail.com

THE CLOSING DATE FOR THE NEXT NEWSLETTER IS

THURSDAY 5th

AUGUST 2010

HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY TED

At the April social Ted was surprised with a Birthday cake to help celebrate his 70th Birthday. Lin Smith made the lovely cake and we all enjoyed sharing it with Ted. The evening was spent playing Hoy and we had a very enjoyable evening. Diane White Well done Ted for winning so many prizes on the Hoy and Raffle!

WELFARE

Get well wishes go to all members who have not been well.

If anyone knows of member who is un well, please speak to

me and I will arrange for a card to be sent. You can phone

me on 01844 344744. Derek Rolfe

REGIONAL SNOOKER SATURDAY 24TH

APRIL

The regional snooker Tournament took place at Colours snooker club in

Reading. This year Aylesbury had a team of 7 competitors which is the

largest team we have had for a while. The day went well and we had a very

successful day.

The scores are as follows:

GROUP 2

Michael Everest won a Silver medal

Mandy Oxlade won a Bronze medal

GROUPS 3 & 4

Chris Brown won a Silver Medal

Mark Jordan won a Bronze medal

GROUP 5 & 6

Bob Taylor won the silver medal

Chris Baker won the bronze medal

Loretta was the winner of the Dave Joyce trophy for achievement.

This was presented by David’s widow Barbara.

My thanks go to Jim and Steve Everest for their help with running

the tournament.

Chris Brown Team Manager

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SWIMMING SUCCESS

Cheered on by all at the pool last Wednesday evening,

Katie King swam two beautiful lengths of front crawl.

Well done Katie, keep up the good work. We are all

very proud of you.

Roy Carter.

WORLD NEW AGE KURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS

On Thursday 29th

April 3 members went off to Scotland for the

weekend to take part in the world new age kurling competition. We

went from Reading and travelled as far as Lancaster. We stayed in a

Premier Inn for the night, then on the Friday morning got up and

continued on our way. We all got into the car and I tried to set up the

sat nav but when I put in the post code for where we were going it

kept telling us that it could not find it. On checking later on we found

out the reason was that we had not changed the country setting from

England to Scotland. We arrived in Scotland around lunch time. In

the evening Mandy, Chris and I met up with one of Mandy’s school

friends Audrey and her family. We went for a meal with them. On

the Saturday it was the singles competition where we had to play in

the group stages and we had to play 3 or 4 matches. Each match was

six ends and you played with all four stones. We were all knocked

out at this stage so we all went through to the plate competition and

Chris and Derek got through to the second round. In the evening we

attended a social event which was nice. On Sunday it was the pairs

competition and we all played in the main event. Chris and Mandy

just missed out on going through to the second round in the main

event. We all went into the plate and my partner and I went through

to the semi finals.

Derek Rolfe

TENPIN BOWLING

On Saturday 15th

May we attended the tenpin Bowling tournament at

Kingston. For the first time this year we managed to take 2 teams.

We had a great time and we really enjoyed the event. It was nice to

see one of our members that we don’t see that often at this event. My

thanks also go to Jamie Bidmead (Mandy’s nephew) who stepped in

at short notice on the Friday evening as we had a member call to say

she could not make it. Both of our teams did well. Michael’s team

came 7th

and my team came 6th

. My team scored 1211 and Michael’s

team scored 1181.

Chris Brown

How lovely to see Katie King joining the tenpin bowling team at

Kingston.

Lin Smith

WYCOMBE GAMES - Mandy Oxlade

On Sunday 16th May the dry sports team was back in action at the above

event. In true fashion the weather was the main talking point. The day

started off wet and we thought that was it for the day. However the rain

dried up and the sun came out. We all had another great day.

The medals were presented by actress Pauline Quirke (pictured 3rd

from left

on back row).

RESULTS Audrey: Gold Bowls

Chris Baker: Silver Petanque, Bronze Mini Crossbow.

Mandy: Gold Skittles, Gold Shot, Gold Target Football, Gold Discus, Gold

Javelin, Silver Darts, Bronze Wheelchair Slalom, Bronze Golf.

Michael: Gold Skittles, Gold Target Football, Bronze Shot, Bronze Discus,

Bronze Javelin, Bronze Wheelchair Slalom

Myles: Gold Darts, Silver Javelin, Silver Target Football

Loretta: Gold Shot, Bronze Javelin

Chris Brown: Silver Target Javelin

Bob: Silver Mini Crossbow, Gold Club, Silver Javelin

The team finished in 3rd

place overall.

WORKINGHAM GAMES 1st

MAY

Loretta: Gold Kurling, Bronze Skittles

Cass: Gold Discus, Bronze Shot

Michael: Gold Electric W/C Slalom, Silver Kurling

Mark: Gold Low Basket Ball

Bob: Gold Distance Club, Silver Javelin, Silver Shot

RUGBY GAMES 2nd

MAY

Michael: Gold Pool, Gold Kurling, Silver Darts, Silver Bowling the

pig, Silver Discus, Bronze Bagatelle, Bronze Mini Golf.

Myles: Silver Roll a Ball, Bronze Boccia, Bronze Kurling.

Bob: Gold Table Skittles, Silver Discus.

Loretta: Silver Mini Crossbow.

Audrey: Silver Table Tennis.

Mark: Gold Draughts, Silver Dominoes.

MICHAEL EVEREST