The EBC 2025 Fun Day
Posted by on 2 October 2025
The 2025 Fun Day will live long in the memory of those who took part, both for the cameraderie and the fiendish inventiveness of the challenges provided by 'Uncle' Colin Williams.
The dress code for the day was mufti with a hat (but no baseball caps!). This provided an interesting group photo opportunity:
Divided into 6 groups of 6, each group started on a different one of the 6 games laid out for us. When all groups had completed all games,it was time out for tea, followed by playing revised versions of the 6 challenges. Each participant accumulated points for each game played and the highest scorer won. We ended the afternoon with a delicious fish & chip supper organised by Jane Harris.
To give a flavour of the activities:
Bowl to 5 columns (without going in the ditch!), with each column scoring different number of points
Tin can alley - bowl the bowl, hit a tennis ball on the string and hope it knocks a can off the ledge behind - simples!
Bowl into 1 of 9 squares, each square carrying a different number of points. The revised version of this game was the same - except you had to stand with your back to the target and bowl between your legs!
Ten pin bowling - knock down as many as you can! For the second version of the game, you had to bowl between the bottles to the ditch to score 10 points, losing a point for every bottle knocked down. If the bowl doesn't go in the ditch, no score!
Over the seesaw to land in a square to score points. In the second version of the game the highest points were nearest the seesaw so you had to put the brakes on somehow!
The target flag had a bull for highest points and two lower scoring areas. You had to bowl round the obstacle to land on the flag. In the second version of the game, there was no obstacle, but you had to bowl using your 'other' hand - very difficult!
This is the second and simplest version - bowl through a hoop to score the points for that hoop. The first version had a more complicated arrangement of hoops.
Congratulations to the Competition Winner - Kim Harper!
And to the Runner up, Les Bennett!
And finally, a big thank you to Colin Williams & Carole, and all the other helpers on the day, from all of us!