Chess with steel balls in Greenhead Park
In Community room next to Café. 1300
It was cold but not too cold but we decided to play Bingo boules a) because people like it and b) because it was actually quite cold. So we did.
An amazing 20 people turned up and we played 5 rounds rather quickly and at the conclusion of this we all had a mug of soup while the scores were being added up to find the winners.
Prepared in the Greetland soup co-operative it was butternut squash, sweet potato, carrot and parsnip flavour. Additional ingredients included garam masala, cinnamon, pepper, salt and paprika plus a large tub of double cream. It went down well and we had many volunteers to cook for our other soup melees throughout the winter.
The games. It was a triumph for the Livesey family taking 3rd place with Sandra and first place with Martin with 3 ten pointers out of 5 games. Paul was second.
Terrain inspection today at 1530 showed more than 50% of the terrain covered in puddles some over an inch deep. Normally with 16 hours to dry out overnight it would be OK for play tomorrow morning but the forecast is for 16 hours of continuous heavy rain.
Some cancellations already received and some worried texts from teams planning to drive a long way so it’s best if we cancel it now. Roy is emailing players and updating Northern Petanque website.
Tuesday 10th November was our first Bingo boules of the autumn. The game was invented in Heckmondwike for cold days when you don’t want to stand around waiting for your next game while a slow game grinds to a conclusion. When one team shouts bingo it means they’ve reached 10 points. At this moment every game stops and scores are recorded. Then we redraw and start again quickly.
It’s quite a fast format. We proved this by playing 5 games in 70 minutes. The original version also counted ends played and gave players a point for each end plus the normal points. This version still exists in some rural areas of Liversedge.
Winner was Rita W who had 33 points including 2 tens. Second was Phil (1 ten and 29 points. Third equal Sandie & Rita S with 27 each. Scores went down to 8. 17 people played and seemed to enjoy it. We’re waiting for a really cold afternoon to play it again.
34 turned up – a new record. We thought it was 36 but 2 names hd been duplicated on the sheet. Despite that we played on for nearly 3 hours and 7 players won all 3 games.
Well done to Yvonne, Paul, Pauline, Rita S, Robin, Marie and Kevin. The best points difference was Kevin with +20, Rita and Yvonne were just one behind on +19.
New table on the Winners page. It took a long time to make sure it was right. Apologies for the delay. Next Monthly melee is December 6th. Sunset will be 1548 (Today was 1635) so we may have to shorten the games to 10 or 11 points to avoid playing in the dark.
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