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Companions Christmas Party Shoot Wednesday 12^th December 2007

 

Here’s a quick reminder about the Companions Christmas Party Shoot.  It’s on this Wednesday (12^th December 2007), it’s at 7.30pm (19:30hrs for you military types) and it’s at the Roves Farm visitors centre.  Just park up in the main Roves car park and wander into the visitors centre.  Don’t forget to bring your bows!

 

Scrapheap Challenge Latest

 

Nearly a year and half of waiting is over! Sky+ your satellite space telly, programme your hard disc recorders, load up that recordable DVD player or if you’re old school like me, set your video recorder, because at 6.30pm Channel 4 on Sunday 23^rd of December the Scrapheap Challenge Welling Wanging competition from the 2006 Great Dorset Steam Fair will be broadcast.  Blink and you might miss the Companions of the Longbow entry but look out for a one tonne medieval siege engine crewed by two motley medieval peasants and one badly dressed monk in a wig.

 

And Finally...

 

As always … got a suggestion for the club?  Send it to suggestions@companionsofthelongbow.co.uk or send them direct to any of the committee members e-mail address (see Contact Us page for these).  Our Suggestions box will be up and ready to use as soon as we’ve got full use of the Roundel field again.

Did you know that falling raindrops, although often depicted in cartoons as teardrop shaped, actually aren’t?  Small raindrops are apparently nearly spherical. Larger ones become increasingly flattened on the bottom and very large ones go concaved and are shaped like parachutes.  The shape of raindrops was studied by Hungarian-German physicist Philipp Lenard in 1898 and it was one day during his intensive studies that Philipp was surprised to find a Companions of the Longbow shooting line, all shivering and trying to keep their arrows dry, taking shots at rotten rain soaked hay bales.

 

Okay, so it was raining last Saturday and we had to postpone the Companions Trophy and the Companions Challenge but we got a bit of shooting in before calling it a day.  Even Ade decided, after a few minutes in the rain sans protection, to reach into his car and put on a cagoule.  So it was officially wet (although Ade did admit that his cagoule type jacket was more shower proof than rain proof).

 

What follows are a few pictures showing the highlights.

Left: Ade in his wet weather gear.

Right: Laughing at the incredulous looks some of the passers by give our group!

Left: Roving in the Roundel Field.  Jennie (foreground) looking happy to be here.

Right: Andy TB doing a spot of shooting in the roundel.

Left: The hay bale target is so wet and rotten by now that our arrows “disappear” into it.  We decide to take the hay bale to bits.  However …

Right: Le Chat Noir’s arrows are black, and the inside of a rotten hay bail is black.  It’s like looking for a needle in a hay stack!