North Downs League Wasps v Camelsdale

The Wasps where at home on Thursday evening against Camelsdale Humps. The weather during the first 2 rounds was lovely bright sunny skies and a warm 20+ degrees. The last rounds of games was spoilt because our floodlights failed, and that the last games had to be cut short as it was to dark to see the positions of the boules and jack. Looks like I shall have to fix the fault quickly before our next matches

After some very closely fought matches The Wasps came out ahead
winning 8 - 1. This was The Wasps first win this season, but not the last.

Teams .
The Wasps. Jeff, Sue, Paul, Melanie, Chris and Mureil



The Humps. Don, Eric,Marie, Bill, Peter M, Peter T and Jan.

Seagull nicks the boule

following in this weeks Sunday Mirrior:

A seagull halted an international boules match by stealing the jack.
Teams from the two towns of Totnes in Devon and Vire in Normandy, France, were astonished when the bird flew off with the bright red ball, which boulers aim at and dropped it in the nearby reed beds.
Luckily the british team had a spare, and play resumed on the island of Vire in the River Dart .
An spokesman claimed the seagull must have been French.

North Downs League. Wasps v Crondall Tigers

Thursday saw the Wasps in action again, this time they travelled to Crondall to play against the Tigers. The first three games where very difficult, just getting use to the piste, very sharp slope.
After that the remaining games where very tight. Crondall won 7 - 2.
Wasps team. Peter, Chris, Dan, Joan, Fred and Barbara.
Tigers team Lesley, Rusty, Sandy, David, Gabor and Roy

SCPA 6 a side league Wasps v Nomads

The Wasps played the Nomads on Wednesday evening, with all the gods on our side the weather remaind dry between the start and just before the end of the matches.
After the 4 games the score was 2 - 2, with the last game tied at 8 all. The Nomads had a break through giving them a quick 3 points, the game struggled on for another couple of ends before the Nomads sealed the game and the match.
We then had a great meal supplied by the home team before we all headed home in the rain.
Thanks Nomads, a lovely night, pity someone had to win.
Wasp team. Jeff, Jan, Mike, Christine, Kath, Carolyn.
Nomad team. Jim, Dave, Yvonne, Vernon, Phil, Margaret.

2007 Boules on the Beach

Boring Goring boules on the beach 6

You are invited to a Mêlée on the sands at Goring

At low tide the sands are quite firm, with just a few loose stones and puddles.
If the tides are right, we hope to have 4 games, normal scoring,
ie. Number of wins plus scores.
£3 per head entrance fee. Juniors free.
Please confirm by the 15th June

SATURDAY 23rd June 10.00 til 2.00 ish
To get your map and parking instructions
R.S.V.P. to Jan or Jeff on 01903 247133
On the sands 500yds east of Sea Lane Café
Park on the road

Fish and Chips will be collected at end of play.
(Orders taken by 12.00)

Bring your old boules or make sure you wash them well the salt does funny things to steel boules

Old Victorian Lady Playing boule ?

Is this the start of ladies playing boule or was she just feeding the horse ??

Pennock cup and Plate results

We managed to complete the whole day without the rain which was forecast. The competition was played in a knockout format, with the first round losers competing in the plate competition.

We played all of the knockouts before lunch which was held in the pub.
After lunch the finals of the cup and plate where played alongside each other on the whole of the terrain.

Joan and Fred played against Bobby and Christine in the final of the plate .This was a very hard fought out game.. Bobby and Christine just won on a score of 13 - 12.

Joan and Fred Plate runners up

Bobby and Christine Plate winners

Barbara and Jeff played against Enid and Chris in the final of the Cup. Again this was a very hard game, Enid and Chris won 13 - 11.









Barbara and Jeff Cup runners up











Enid and Chris Winners of the Pennock Cup
with Joan our Chairman

Both finals exhibited skill and determination required to compete our game of Boules.

Jersey Open Part 2.

The afternoons play continue ending 5pm.. Jan and Jeff and Kath and Carolyn reached the semi finals of their group but unfortunately both failed to reach the finals.


The Gala evening and prize giving followed at the Ommeroo Hotel a great night was had by all.

The prizes

Yes its all mine! says Carolyn after receiving the cheque from our sponsor.

Jeff and Jan with Medals and cheques

Longest Name

Dan and Joan

Medical and Psychological

Bobby and Sue

Most original Name

Sunday.

The Melee started at 10.00, there was two games in the morning, a buffet lunch followed by two games in the afternoon

Three of our group managed 4 wins for the day, Ray won the men's competition, Jan came 4th in the ladies with Christine just behind.

The rest of our time in Jersey was spent site seeing and visiting friends.

Then came the flight home.....We all arrived back at the airport on time and ready to go..trouble was so did the fog, it came down very thick so that none of the flights could take off. After a serious talk with the BA Manager they were able to find a couple of hotel in which we spent another night.. We all finally left the island between 1015 and 11.00 on two planes.

All of us had a great time and we send our best wishes to Jersey PC for another memorable weekend

NB. If anyone found two bottles of whiskey hanging from the airport trolly, see Mike.

NB.2. Who ever sent Benny's luggage to London Heathrow instead of Gatwick keep your head down he's not to pleased

Report on Jersey Open Part 1

The weekend started very well, we met up at the airport, checked in and departed all on time.

It was noted that Sue and Ingrid where chatting up some pilot about the use of a blueberry or was it a blackberry, I thought it was Dan who always had a black berry on his head.

The coach was already to take us to the Hotel and we all where given the correct rooms with not to much hassle.
The Avis rep arrived on time, we had ordered 8 cars in January but he had only brought 1. After much hot air and telephone calls it was decided to take all the drivers to the Avis depot and they would sort out the cars..Dave the manager really pulled out all the stops and provided most the groups with brand new cars having only 14 to 16 miles on the clock and a lot of additional staff to make sure the turn over was carried out at top speed.
Our first part of the weekend was the "Vin d'honneur" at the Jersey club on the Friday evening, this consist of cheese and wine, a time to meet all our old friends and have a little practice on the piste.
This was followed by the draw, 112 teams went into the hat and all where drawn into groups of
four for the mornings league matches. This consisted of teams from Jersey PC, Carrefour PC, Guernsey, France, and 20 English clubs.

We had 13 teams from our club.

Saturday saw the start of the competition, the weather was warm with a cool breeze, (a few of us needed attention in the evening for a spot of sun burn).

Peter Bastion getting everyone started

As the tales came in of great games, and hard luck stories the morning seemed to past at a tremendous rate and it was soon lunch time all of us having played three games some with better success than others. It was with intrepidation we waited for the results to be calculated and the draw for the afternoons games to be posted.

During lunch Ingrid was interview by Jersey radio, as a representative of the UK teams maybe they where looking for the German team.

Ray and Val having won all three games went into the Main competition, Benny and Margartha and Peter and Mavis went into the Plate the rest where spread out through the 1st and 2nd Consolage's.

George and Dorothty take a good look

Lucienne points and Geoff looks to see how close it is.

Dan and Joan do the same as above

To be continued...

Pennock Cup and Plate

Don't forget that the Pennock Cup and Plate are being played for on Saturday. Turn up at 10.15 for a prompt 10.30 Start

Summer Time is here!

Just to let you all know that Wednesday meetings are now in the evening, starting around 6 - 6.30

Pennock Cup

The Pennock cup will be played for on Saturday 12th May.
The competition is for club members only, it will be a knockout format with the first/second round losers going into the Plate competition.
The blind draw will take place on Thursday one male and one female per team
Please let your group contacts know if you will be attending.
The start time will be confirmed probably 10 for 10.30 start, and the finals will be after lunch.

Well its time we all went to Jersey

Well the time is now, 29 of our stalwart members are just about ready to leave for the annual Jersey Open.
It is hoped that because of our numbers we will beat the opposition in to submission and take the medals.
Good luck to you all and see you at the airport.