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See you all when I get back...sometime after the 2nd April

SCPA committee meeting

I went to the SCPA committee meeting tonight, fighting my way to Portsmouth through the snow and hail.
There was a full committee present and around 12 club members present.
After the apologies and financial report, the meeting received the reports of the associatons officers. There was a discussion over the time taken to register coaches and get them CRB checked.
Coaches were advised to keep sending emails and letters to the national coach.

Our president game a brief run down of the lack of funds held in the BPF this was a cause of great concern felt by the members. This mainly came about due to the bad management of the BPF in the previous years, i.e. no accurate accounts being kept or available now.

Kath Knight brought up the issue of the juniors not being able to represent their country this year in Japan because of lack of funds in the BPF, she pointed out that the senior teams will be represented in Thailand. She said that it was more important for the juniors to be considered as they only had a short life as juniors and the commitment they make in that time.
We voted to send a letter to the BPF letting them know of our concern.

The SCPA coach's gave a detailed review of which clubs they had visited over the past month. I approached the coach after the meeting as asked if they where available to give us a session in the near future. This was agreed and the dates to be confirmed.

The full minutes of the meeting will be posted on the SCPA website.

Franks Birthday Bash

We had 20 turn up for training this morning. This consisted of six individual training exercises.
Three shooting and three pointing and I hope it was a great sucess.. More work required on trying to get the boule to turn either to the left or to the right.
Our main meeting started at 11 am and there were 32 members present we played a melle of 5 games of doubles and two with triples. It was good to welcome back Paul and Melanie who have just completed a three month tour of New Zealand hope they are ready to get back in to coaching and taking part in our leagues this year.
After our first game we were invited to take a glass of champagne and a slice of cake and toasted Franks 85 birthday. We all take great pride in having over 8 (may be more they look so good) of our members who are into their 80's (don't ask how may are over 70, from my point of view its great to be youngish) who are all playing to a high standard and also turn up for training of Saturdays.
Our day finished with lunch at The Foresters Arms. Thanks to Marlene and her lovely staff
Its great to get comments from our friends across the pond, hopefully if we can sort out the minor problems, we can get comments from our own club..

North Downs Leagues

I have just published the fixtures for this years North Downs League

Div A.
ABC Wasps
Borden
Camelsdale Humps
Crondall Tigers
Racing Club Racers

Div B.
ABC Bees
Crondall Lions
Kingclere Bugs
Oxshott Novices
Vikings

The fixtures will be published on the North Downs League Web site Link below.

Committee Trophy correction

Please accept my appoligies, the photo below was the 2005 winners.

The 2006 winner was Ingrid. I will grovel at Saturdays's training

Saturdays Training

Don't forget this Saturday is training day. 10 am start.
A bit of a mixture this week, shooting and pointing.

See you all there

Bobby wins Committee Trophy

After a good days play on Saturday. Bobby turned in the winning card with plus 17, followed by Ingrid with plus 15 and third was Paul with plus 14.

Over 25 people turned out for the days competition which was enjoyed by all.

Southern Counties Petanque Association League 2006

Amities Boules Club finished second in our first year in Div 4 but will not be promoted due to a couple of teams dropping out. Watch this space for next year.

Finals of the North Downs League 2006

Vikings v Bordon...After a very exciting game Viking just pipped Bordon for the Trophy.

2007 leagues are just being set up

Zywiec Open, Poland 2005

Some of our members, Val, Margaret, Dorothy, Christine, Rex, Thelma and David, watch the Euro MP for the area open the Zywiec Open

Pity she broke the heel on her shoe whilst trying to throw the first boule.

Mid West Open Detroit, 2006

Dan and Bob from Chicago with only a little help from me came

2nd.

Jan, Bobby and Kath with our host Jeff in Detroit

Isle of Wight

Is that jack floating...

Jersey 2006

I will start adding a few past and present photo's of our group. This is our party for the 2006 Jersey Open. This year we will be taking 29 players

Saturday's competition

Don't forget that its the Committee trophy this Saturday. Straight mellee start at 11am prompt

Ian and Muriel 2005 winners

First Post

Hello Everyone, this the first post on my blog site. I will try to keep everyone up to date on what is happening or what has happen at Kirdford.
We have just had the dates of the first matchs in SCPA league and we are just compiling the dates and teams for the North Downs League.
I will post the updates as soon as poss.