A fun take on archery, and a good afternoon spent shooting at the Gleed School in Spalding, all arranged by Steph, a lady with a very odd imagination (must be odd to come up with some of the ideas she did!)

We hadn’t shot outside at all this year, for various reasons.  The club shooting only moved outdoors at the end of April and so far we haven’t made it to any evening shoots since.  I was a little worried that we would be at a distinct disadvantage, but it turns out that Steph and already thought of that and the rules of the afternoon started with us all shooting with club bows.  Was a little interesting for the left handed archers (John and myself) as all the bows provided were righthanded…

Steph had put in a lot of work making up targets, some with photos of committee members, some with giant cupcakes, and some full of smurfs (why smurfs???) - blue people with white hats as another friend of mine would happily tell you!!  We were split into two teams and given various objectives - somehow our team managing to do miserably on all of these tasks, and losing by a long way.  A non-scoring round involved shooting at balloons attached to the bosses and I was very pleased to actually get one with my second arrow - more fluke than skill I suspect!

A cake based picnic followed and the winning team were presented with plastic medals - to be treasured for ever of course.  Our team received silver painted wooden spoons - I wonder if I should drill a hole in mine and hang it off my quiver?  Maybe not!

The highlight of my day was when I was informed that I had actually managed to win a tropy for a series of shoots between November and March - not that I got the best score, in fact I think I scored the lowest, but somehow I had managed to get the most improvement from last year’s competition and it had been decided to judge on this basis.  I’m not entirely convinced that someone had just taken pity on me as I’m not likely to win anything otherwise!  Mind you, a trophy is a trophy, and to be most improved is also something to be proud of, so I won’t be complaining!

I got a couple of photos on my mobile phone (forgot to take the camera).  Not sure quite how they have turned out as I haven’t downloaded them yet - I’ll post them later if they are any good.

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