New Facebook Page launched by the City of Bath Petanque Club
The Bath Boules club Facebook Page has been launched.
New Facebook Page launched by the City of Bath Petanque Club
It is what is known as a brochure site, which is more like a notice board than a chat line.
It has safety measures in its set up to ensure that visitors to the site cannot post inappropriate items.
Some details and pictures have been posted on the page as a starter but as time goes on it could be a very useful tool for keeping us all in touch.
Included in the details is a map showing the location of LSC, complete with the post code for sat/nav usage and if you click the pdf link in that area there are details of how to get there by bus.
If you wish to have an item included on the Facebook page the best way is to send an email to “facebook@bathboules.co.uk” or give a message to one of the committee members for consideration.
City of Bath Pétanque Club secures £23,185 National Lottery funding from Sport England.
New national standard terrain at Larkhall Sports Club will offer excellent facilities to develop the sport of pétanque both locally in Bath and regionally.
This award is through the National Lottery’s Inspired Facilities, part of its Olympic and Paralympic legacy programme.
City of Bath Pétanque Club has secured a ten year lease on land at the Plain Ham site of Larkhall Sports Club to build a pétanque terrain consisting of either 8 International sized pistes or 12 smaller pistes. This will enable the Club to offer playing and coaching facilities to people of all ages and abilities within the community.
Users of this new terrain will also benefit from sharing Larkhall Sports Club’s existing clubhouse, floodlighting and car parking.
The grant is in addition to matched funding being raised by the City of Bath Pétanque Club members.
This well attended end of year City of Bath Pétanque Club dinner, was professionally organised by Chris McGinn at ‘The Market’ Bath.
Enjoying the evening
My thoughts, as we greeted each other, were how we all unite under a sport called Boules. We are all very different people from many walks of life, yet come together having enjoyed the game of Pétanque throughout the year.
We were splendidly entertained by ‘The Shanty Men’ who sang songs of sailors carrying out their general duties aboard merchant ships many years ago, using songs like “Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum”! To maintain their rhythm of daily toil.
The meal lived up to expectations served by friendly well trained staff.
Don Grimes donned his black bowler hat and acted as our official auctioneer.
First up was a miniature King Bladud’s pig for which Mark Gilbert outbid all assembled.
Alex and Dalene put up for auction their Christmas fresh turkey. They are both spending Christmas with their daughter in New Zealand this year. Bidding hands lifted briskly until finally the highest bidder was found. This went to one of our beautiful women in the club, in the shape of Fiona Manley. She promptly pulled out her cheque book and paid up whilst having a swift drink at the bar with Alex.
Don, that tall master of many disguises, that man for all seasons, removed his auctioneer’s Bowler and then conducted the raffle.
It was also a night to remember a former member of the club who passed on late last year and we were lucky enough to be joined by his widow Jan for the evening who presented a trophy in memory of her husband, Peter Bale, to the winner of the Singles Competition.
All this activity raised over three hundred pounds for the club.
What a wonderful final round up it was, in such great company, best in the world in my opinion.
Enjoying the evening
Teresa with her raffle prize
Thelma and her raffle prize
Esperanza with her raffle prize
Mark wins the auction for the mini Bladud Pig
Chris organises the dinner for the club
The Shanty men play at the Dinner
Fiona pays for the turkey donated by Alex and Darlene
And so it was that we rediscovered summer in Sospel, a ville fleurie 10 miles north of Menton. Lucky for us it was the day of le concours de boules in le parc centrale. Having caused a security scare by taking our boules though eurostar terminal in St Pancras we weren’t going to miss this, so we headed for le parc to find about 100 people of all ages playing in teams of three on the pathways of the park. Now pathways might be a bit of a misnomer. They had more resemblance to the surface to of the moon, rocky, cratered and dusty. That didn’t seem to stop anyone’s enjoyment though and presented a welcome challenge for les tireurs.
