The dates for the following competitions are all 'weather permitting'. Rounds to be shot will be Nationals for all experienced adults with shorter distances for juniors and beginner adults, followed by a BBQ and the presentation of awards. Lady/Santa Paramounts to be confirmed - anyone fancy wearing either of the pointy hats?

Best gold. There will be no warning as to when this will be done. The club captain will suddenly tell everyone to leave all gold arrows in the target. The arrow closest to the center of the target will win the archer a medal.

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Date to be confirmed, but likely to be either Friday 14 or 21 December.

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Sunday 2 September 2011, featuring the Vic Williams Shield. This is awarded annually by ballot to the member who has done most for the clubs during the preceding year.

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Monday 7 May, featuring the Andy Friend and Bob Taylor Challenge Trophies for the highest handicap adjusted scores and the Mr Happy junior best gold cup. The competition itself will be a non-handicap adjusted one.

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Friday 6 April: Warmish and very still weather made for good shooting conditions. Unfortunately the ground was so hard any misses were traveling a long way.

We all seem to be getting better at shooting under floodlights, we didn't have a true woodpecker (an arrow in the stand) all evening, but Dave managed to shoot his wooden score board twice, so we awarded him the trophy instead.

The evening ended with hot cross buns and the prizes being awarded by our Lady Paramount Lucy John (Peter's daughter), who chose the winner of the worst white and worst gold.

The prizes were:

Trophies:

Woodpecker: Dave Fullerton.

Lowest total score: Dave Fullerton.

Worst white (held over from Boxing Day): Rod Luton.

Most petticoats (in the boss, but outside the scoring area): Peter John (three).

Medals:

Highest number of misses: Dave Fullerton (who didn't score at all at the shortest distance).

Worst gold: Gary Avery.

Our thanks go to:

• Jim Brooks (our liaison officer at the rugby club) for key holding for the evening and coming back in his own time, around 10 pm, to turn off the floodlights and lock up.
• Michelle Carey for bringing donuts for us all.
• Bob Taylor for making the Woodpecker trophy.
• Clive Wilkins for providing the hot cross buns.

The actual results were:

Nationals:

Gent's recurve: 1 Clive Wilkins (544); 2 Gary Avery (534); 3 Lee Taylor (411).

Gent's barebow: 1 Peter John (222); 2 Rod Luton (202).

Gent's longbow: 1 Dave Fullerton (21).

Ladies' barebow: 1 Sheena McCullagh (275).

Short Nationals:

Gent's: recurve 1 Joedy Taylor (355).

Ladies: recurve 1 Michelle Carey (332).

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If you are looking for details of competitions to take part in during the year, try these three sites:

• Grand Western Archery Society Events Calendar.
• Gloucestershire Archery Society Events Calendar. It covers a much wider area than Gloucestershire.
• Somerset County Archery Association Tournaments Diary.

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