City of Bath Pétanque Club

The results are in from today’s club doubles. Trophies supplied by Tiger Trophies.

Gold
Winners Geoff and Gary
Runners Up Jeff and Richard S

Silver
Winners Dom and Tony
Runners Up Colin and Suzanne

Bronze
Winners Yvonne and Richard P
Runners Up Shelagh and Jim.

City of Bath Pétanque club doubles is well underway today. This is one of the free events open to club members as part of their membership..

May - Bee education is coming ? By Terry.

Bees and Mammy’s Irish cake may soon appear way back in Powesfield if approved by Bains .

Thinking ahead, needing an evenings education. Your Roaming Club Reporter took up the invitation to attend a lecture at Baths local Apiary.

The Larks, our landlords, have many new exciting plans adding interesting to its sports hub – Paddle Tennis maybe another?

The Larks our football club and us Pétanque lot make up a place of popular local interest.

The City of Bath Boules invite you to come up and have a go at our sport.

Nature includes the natural world about our every day .

Interest in what pollenates our very future is exciting education.

I am anxious to Beeee - long .

Terry

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard!

Cheryl Watts, Ian Wilson, Carrie Gudge

History do you care to know ? By Terry

Scoreboards used to be in wood with spring loaded linen pegs moving Up – Down recording the scores.

That’s the old days for yer.

When the club travelled to Guernsey we found them using magnetic metal scoreboards, that’s before AI took over our lives.

As the saying goes, “What you admire in others you will carefully Imitate”

Our new boards we now use had to be designed - then a long search to find a maker.

Several exhausting trips to metal manufactures took place, they needed larger orders worth their while to set up gig’s to make say just twenty; they were not interested.

Ending in failure; by sheer chance a member of the Guernsey club Bob, sent me a phone number of a Welsh gentleman who agreed to make us a few in metal. Taking on our bespoke design onto metal was nothing but luck .

Thank you dear freindly Guernsey Bob .

Think as much as you want about little Jack in yer kit bag by Terry.

Pétanque amounts to chucking three metal Boules at an innocent ‘Little Jack’.

Little yes; but did yer know it begins a game of much interest throughout the world?

In colours of many flags it’s the most powerful item in your boules bag, yet weighs in un-noticed when you pack your kitbag .

Little Jacks can stop the game if it cares too, calling out in a voice, Dead End!

Or if it decides to go fly right off into watching supporters - it might shatter a window or, a holding pint glass full of beer.

Don’t underestimate little Jack it might be small but it’s the most powerful in your pack.

What’s it all about Alfie ! By Terry

This social game we play and display all over Europe - mad as March hares

The City of Bath Pétanque club are a traveling club – up to play on a beach, a stony road or someone’s back yard if pushed – must keep our muscle memory in tune for a game that captures the unexpected; after you have agreed to have a go!

Then there’s more to come = Friendship’s for life – Active exercise – social inclusion guaranteed – cheap as chips compared to other Sports .

Get your 3 boules in the air, keep your feet very still in the ring. As you feel what is your right to feel, this is a game for me to enjoy !

Terry

One Thursday Experience by Terry

Thursday league meeting last week at the most enjoyable ‘ Compton Inn’.

Rain was forecast but hardly appeared.

The nature of this village is of quite platitude.
That speaks of past lives, in a village pub of peaceful gatherings. Landowners and those that worked the land centuries ago.

With boules in hand, we met Cockney John once again – who set the scene for our challenging evening of a local team against the mighty CoBPC.

The Compton Inn offered sausages and chips after the match, the game ended in a draw.

As the evening sun was disappearing I headed home before darkness fell on a most entertaining Thursday league match.

Melee results from today.

1st Place from all the way from Plymouth Bob Baggott
2nd Place Nick Nicklass (left before Presentation)
3rd Place Jim Taylor.

Thanks everyone see you next Month.