Today Petanque Wallingford hosted a visit by the Saxons of Cricklade. The weather forecast started off pretty awful, but then 'they' often get it wrong, so we lived in hope and all 42 of us turned up. As it happened, the weather was lovely for three games but the heavens opened for the fourth game, so half way through we had to call it a day and retired to the Sports Pavilion for an early lunch.
After lunch we held the prize giving. There were four modest monetary prizes and each player received a wooden cochonnet too. First place went to Mike C of Petanque Wallingford (he also got the a dotty red and white cup), Second place went to Tony M of Saxons, Third Place went to Gerry Lewis of Petanque Wallingford and Fourth place to Roy of Cricklade. After prize giving we all went home, wet but happy and of course, the sun came out!
Everyone enjoyed themselves and the Saxons want us to come and play on their terrain, soon, but Malcolm feels we should make this an annual event and do it again next year. Good idea! Thanks for coming, pity about the rain.
Our next BIG EVENT is the open day on 30th August – lets hope for a good turnout and better weather, but bring the wet gear, in case!
And once again, I forgot to take pictures! Oh well.
After lunch we held the prize giving. There were four modest monetary prizes and each player received a wooden cochonnet too. First place went to Mike C of Petanque Wallingford (he also got the a dotty red and white cup), Second place went to Tony M of Saxons, Third Place went to Gerry Lewis of Petanque Wallingford and Fourth place to Roy of Cricklade. After prize giving we all went home, wet but happy and of course, the sun came out!
Everyone enjoyed themselves and the Saxons want us to come and play on their terrain, soon, but Malcolm feels we should make this an annual event and do it again next year. Good idea! Thanks for coming, pity about the rain.
Our next BIG EVENT is the open day on 30th August – lets hope for a good turnout and better weather, but bring the wet gear, in case!
And once again, I forgot to take pictures! Oh well.