Author: huddersfieldpetanque

A fantastic day, The sun shone; 16 teams turned up including visitors from Ripponden Pétanque Club and Kirkburton Pétanque club and some newbies who’d never played before; there were homemade cakes baked by members and plenty of spectators and we all had a great afternoon playing the game. The big news is that on the day we raised £334 for the campaign by donating all entry fees and running a raffle and we’ll be adding this to our previous efforts of Hampers, Scones and cakes afternoon and bucket collections and making the donation before the end of March. Our treasurer is collecting the money and doing the sums and we’ll announce the grand total as soon as we know it.

Winners on the day were Kevin and Christine who won all 3 games with a points difference of +22. Only one other team won all their 3 games. Nigel and Jane had a points difference of +17 to take second place and Sue & Jackie were the best of those that won 2 games. Shout out to Liam and Anna who had never played the game at all until yesterday and came 4th.

Thursday afternoon was the next effort in our fundraising campaign for Beau. Following a Hamper draw and a small change donation bucket both of which were very successful this time we all bought a scone or 3 (or a slice of ginger cake) and raised over £65 in the afternoon. Well done the Social committee and the bakers.

Next and final fundraiser will be the Charity Pairs with Raffle on Sunday 20th March. We have 14 teams entered at present and hope to have many more. You haven’t entered yet? What’s stopping you? We’ve ordered a sunny day with 13 degrees and it’s for a great cause. Sign up in the clubhouse or ask a committee member

It started early on Thursday with a group of club members armed with marigolds, buckets, brushes, panscrubs, brasso, meths, white spirit, Cillit bang and lashings of clean water & improvised towels and about 80 assorted boules and 30 boule bags. Thanks to Jackie, Jane, Yvonne, Pete and Margaret for coming down to help.

90 minutes later we had sorted, cleaned, marked and bagged over 30 good sets of 3 matching boules mostly in a new boule bag and stored them in the shed for use by visitors and members who didn’t yet have their own set . And here is the end product – our very own boule bank. The large bag at the bottom has about 15 boules in it that we couldn’t sort into matching sets.

We’re always happy to receive unwanted sets of boules from people who have given up the game for whatever reason and also happy to lend these to new clubs to get them started. Email FAO Sportswashing Officer at HPC. See contact us page.

Twenty Three members took part in the March Melee and we actually completed 3 rounds!!  This follows the January and February Melee which were called off due to inclement weather before the second rounds really got underway.

So we enjoyed nice weather and chocolates and the remants of the cheese from Tuesday’s Wine and Cheese event.

Maureen again did very well – it seems to be Maureen’s speciality, but was pipped for top place by Graham. Also with 3 wins were Yvonne and Christine. Next one is April 3rd.