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The clocks have moved forward and there is now light at 6pm in the evening. In previous years we have restarted Thursday evenings at this point but the committee decided this year to defer starting until after the AGM and to stop Thursday evenings at the end of August.

There wasn’t quite enough daylight (and good weather) and we had to constantly move the start and finish times to accommodate these factors. So from May the 4th we start 6pm on Thursday and we end on 31st August.

Some of these Thursdays will be Lemonade melees where we bring a bottle, club provides nibbles, we keep score and someone wins on the evening but nobody remembers who…

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Hier soir le chef du bureau de Huddersfield Petanque club a parle aux adhérents de  Calderdale French Circle a Halifax. Pour 45 minutes il a explique en français l’histoire du jeu, les differences entre boules lyonnaises et pétanque et il y avait des questions sur le vocabulaire de pétanque, le fabrication des boules et le possibilité d’un match entre les  French circles de Halifax et Huddersfield. On a bu quelques boissons typiques ( vin rouge et Ricard) et on a découvert un tournoi de pétanque qui existe dans le parc de Skircoat Road chaque aout sur un ancien terrain de tennis!!!

Esperons que nous allons rencontrer des habitants de Calderdale sur notre terrain tres tot.

 

We knew it was going to be his victory but despite a poor result in March Daniel showed his pedigree and is the first person to win a league season trophy twice. Congratulations to him.

We’re sure you’re all wondering why the Petanque player is wearing a pink tutu. The answer is simple. Previous winner Marie wanted a lady player trophy but all we had was a man player trophy so she ran up a quick dress/tutu on her Singer to rectify this equality issue.

Some simple stats. 30 players took part and collected a point but this table doesn’t list players who failed to trouble the scorers at all. There were 10 of them.

Only 2 players took part is all 6 events and they came 1st and 4th. One player played one event and won it!

Summer melee starts May as as we have an away day on first Sunday in April. See you then!

Winter 2016/17	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Total	adj
Daniel	10	13	9	12	9	4	57	35
David	7	4.5		13	8	13	45.5	34
Robin			7.5	11	10.5	12	41	33.5
Sue	13	8	1.5	7	3	9	41.5	30
Marie		3	11.5	9	1	7.5	32	26
Sandra B		11	3.5		10.5		25	25
Roy				8	5	11	24	24
Brendan			3.5	10		10	23.5	23.5
Fred	8	8			4		20	20
Christine K		8			12		20	20
Rita S					13	6	19	19
Barrie	4		11.5				15.5	15.5
Richard	12				2		14	14
Kevin			13				13	13
Michael		12					12	12
Sandie	2	10					12	12
Malcolm		4.5			7		11.5	11.5
Jack	11						11	11
Elisabeth	9	1					10	10
Mick X			10				10	10
Amanda	3	6					9	9
Rita W	1	2	5				8	8
Diane			7.5				7.5	7.5
Maureen						7.5	7.5	7.5
Edwina	6						6	6
Pauline			6				6	6
Paul					6		6	6
Alasdair	5						5	5
Geertje						5	5	5
Sandra L			1.5				1.5	1.5

Is it me or have we seen more six blanks than thirteen nils since we started celebrating good play rather than belittling members for poor play.

…is team development day. start in bowlers room at 1300; chat for 45 mins. take away a piece of paper to file away; learn the classical shots and their names on the terrain afterwards. Then social play from 1400.