Petanque Wallingford

Style Acre came to play today. Twelve people came (3 helpers) making two groups of 6 and thus 4 triples teams. One team in each group had 2 'rusty' boules each and one had 'shiney' boules. (We will have a problem when the newer boules get rusty, but we will cross that bridge! Perhaps we can get enough money together to buy some proper boules to play with.)
Moiya came down today to help today and she said "it’s really nice to see people enjoying themselves, applauding each other for good shots. One of my group picked up so quickly about the scoreboard. I had explained about moving the two pegs down the board and keeping one from the previous score. Well, he couldn’t get there quickly enough to do it. He got it right every time. They are all very different with different problems and personalities".
One of T's group asked if we could keep a running score and have a 'jolly' at the end of the season. She will make a plan.
The long-range weather forecast says this 'Indian Summer' is going to continue into November so we look forward to some more play.

Here are some pictures of Bunkfest - nothing to do with us, but all the tents of the visitors to this music festival (3 days!)  surround our Boulodrome. No one invaded our patch, thank goodness. But from being busy with players and nothing around us, to hundreds of tents makes interesting viewing!