SIMON Jee is a game away from a return to the scene of his finest hour as a bowls player.

The Parsons Green stalwart edged into the semi-final of the regional qualifier for the national championships at Worthing on Monday night, after he thumped Paddington's Gary Holmes 21-2.

One more match will see the 44-year-old postman back at the place where he delivered the national title to west London in 2005.

Jee has been a busy man this week after steering one leg of PG's double-fours into the Middlesex semi-final.

Partners Jim Galgey, Joe Hanlon and John Goddard won by nine shots over Sunbury Sports, at the same time as the home quartet of Mike Thurston, Mick Pharoah, Jim Collins and Steve Stockley, were destroying the other Sunbury rink by 33 shots.

But there was no luck for Larry Mulligan, who went out of the London & Southern Counties competition in the fourth round, or the PG triples team of Hanlon, Galgey and Collins, who also departed the competition at the same stage to the strong South London club.