Sunday 2nd November 2008
Today we held our 2008 competitors luncheon in the Cranleigh band room; 32 competitors attended to enjoy the dishes which our many ladies had lovingly prepared. The object of this exercise was to celebrate our various successes and disappointments over this year and gird our loins for 2009 the season.

So many and grateful thanks to Carolyn and her many helpers for putting on the bash and to our ladies to supplying the dishes and especially the puddings which we put away in defiance of our collective waist lines.

This year we have had four teams competing in various positions

For Southern Counties (SCPA) div. 3 we have ABC Wasps in 4th position in our first year in this division with 12 games played 4 games for and 6 games against. The final match against Admiral Cunningham was a nail biting affair going down to the wire with two points to win on the final end. Ian’s pointing held up to set the final scene but the two points put slickly in by Jeff took the game. Admiral Cunningham conceded the Home game.

In SCPA division 4 ABC Hornets came 6th with 12 games played 25 points for and 35 against. This was the Hornets first season and a very creditable result. I am delighted that we are able to field 2 teams in the SCPA league.

In the North Down Petanque League (8 teams); ABC Bees came 3rd and our second team ABC Wasps 6th In the End of Season melee at Crondall our Christine Kateley came 4th overall with 4 wins and + 19 points. Congratulations to Chris!!!

All in all a reasonably successful year. ABC is in the scheme of things a good middle ranking club with some 44 members fielding some 33 competitive players, not a tiny rural club by any means. Of course we could and will do better in years to come.

This year we say goodbye to Jeff Fox who has with great enthusiasm run our teams with help from Mike Kateley and Carolyn Tuthill. So many many thanks to Jeff for all his assistance and his continuing support in the forthcoming year.

Ian Fox