President's Sunday - 29th June 2014

The beautiful interior of the Church of Our Lady of Consolation at West Grinstead

Steve Thornton and Laurie Harding cooking up a storm

Mike Georgeson with Fr Richard Biggerstaffe who kindly celebrated the Mass for us

Brother President David Innes

Manus McDermott

Sylvia McDermott

Still cooking!

Ralph Streamer (left), Edek and Anneli Figura (right)

Dominic and Emily Moorhouse, Fr Richard

Ron Mitchell (right) with his daughter and grandson

A beautiful setting on a beautiful day

Provincial Mass for Deceased Wives - Storrington 22nd June 2014

Peter Meaghan (right) with Mike State, a former member of our Circle

A lesson in how to look distinguished - Peter Mullarky

Setting up before the Mass begins

At the outdoor shrine for the Angelus - on the right Jan and Selby Davies

The Provincial President and family, with servers from East Grinstead Circle

Selby Davies and Valerie Coomber at the tea afterwards

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Lunch with the Ladies: The Lamb Inn, Lambs Green - Saturday 14 June 2014

Clive Leonard and Diana Foley

Yvonne Frisby, Betty Lydon, Doreen Newell, Madame la Présidente, Moira Key

Peter Newell and Br. President

Oh! Not him again!

Jackie Foote and Lucy Forster

Two of The Lamb folk who made it such an enjoyable occasion

Kathryn Hayden R.I.P.

Departed this life 17th June 2014

With deepest sympathy to her husband Bro. Philip Hayden and their family.

May she rest in peace and light eternal shine upon her.

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Provincial Croquet Competition - Saturday 7th June 2014

Ten teams from five Circles gathered at the Sussex County Croquet Club in Southwick for the fourth Provincial Croquet Competition. 

In each round of the competition the teams, each made up of two pairs, play against two pairs from another team over seven hoops. Essentially, two separate 2v2 games are played in parallel. The first player to get their ball through a hoop scores that hoop for their pair. The pair winning most of the seven hoops scoring a point for the team. If both pairs from a team won more hoops than their opponents they would score a 2:0 win. 

 The team with the most points at the end of five rounds of matches will be awarded the coveted Arthur McKivett Rosebowl. In the event of a tie, the difference between the number of hoops scored for and against the teams is compared. 

The Arthur McKivett Rosebowl

Once again, Haywards Heath selected a perfect Saturday on which to hold the Tournament. Despite early jitters as a monsoon swept the county at 09:00, by the time the teams gathered at 11:00 the sun was out and the temperature rising.

There was plenty of opportunity to discuss team tactics over a pint at half time aside from enjoying the splendid buffet.

New name on the trophy:

Provincial President, Des Boksan-Cullen presents the Rosebowl to the Arundel 1 ‘Howards’ team of John McDermott, Valerie MacDermott, Caroline Dunn and Michael Tudor.

On the left is John Goulding of Haywards Heath who did a fantastic job of organising the event.

Final Standings:

Team	Points	Hoop difference
Arundel 1	7	+7
Haywards Heath 2	7	+4
Brighton 2	7	0
Brighton 1	6	+10
Haywards Heath 3	5	+6
Crawley 2	5	+2
Haywards Heath 1	4	-3
Arundel 2	4	-4
Crawley 1	4	-6
Seaford	1	-12