The Team That Bowled At Hotham Springs

About the Book

The Sport of Bowls, or to be more precise, Lawn Bowls, as played in many countries throughout the world, gives a lot of pleasure, sporting challenge and comradeship to a great many people of all ages and from all backgrounds. Whilst this story is completely fictional it is based on some similar events which I and my bowling friends have experienced for ourselves in both Australia and the UK. The story follows two main characters as they participate in an 'Open Pairs' competition and are then joined by another friend for a 'Triples' event and finally by a fourth friend for two 'Open Fours' tournaments. We follow the highs and lows which bowls can bring, along with the good humour and banter which is ever present on the Bowling Green. Some say that Lawn Bowls is a game for the older generation, but I prefer to think of it as a game for all generations, but in which the older generation can still hold their own (well sometimes at least). I hope this book makes you laugh and entices you to try the wonderful game of Lawn Bowls for yourselves. ‘The cover photograph of the team was taken by - Frank Rowe’

About the Author

Lucidus Smith is British and was born in South London at the end of the Second World War. He is the youngest of four children, his father working as a wagon maker on the railways and his mother a housewife. He left school at sixteen and first worked for a London Stockbroker's as a junior clerk and then joined a City financial group where he eventually qualified as a Company Secretary. He next worked for IBM in a variety of analytical roles for twenty years before going back to being a Company Secretary in 1991 with Lexmark International UK Ltd, where he remained until he retired in 2001. He married Elizabeth in 1969 and they have now celebrated over forty six years of wedded bliss together and have three sons, all of whom are married and have children. Their love affair with Australia and New Zealand started in 1996 when they first visited both the North and South Islands of New Zealand and enjoyed themselves so much that they have returned there many times since. When they retired in 2001 they started to spend the British winters in Western Australia to avoid the cold and damp and return there each year to enjoy the Mediterranean lifestyle. Lucidus first started writing in 2005 on the premise that 'everyone has a book in them' and really enjoyed all the research he did for the first book, 'Blossom in Winter - Frost in Spring', which was eventually published in 2010. His second and third books which were first a prequel and then a sequel to the first book were published in 2011 and 2012. 'The Team That Bowled At Hotham Springs' is his first attempt at a humorous novel and follows the antics of a group of friends as they participate in various bowling competitions over a period of five days in April 1976.