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As some of you may have heard me going on about a hobby of mine ,Petanque . The team I am in have played 8 games so far in the league and and lost none of them 🙂
We have also qualified for the regional competition where we will play the rest of the Uk’s regions Hurrah .
So here are a few pictures of the stange Hobby of Petanque or Boule . 😀
The Captain himself.
Who’s the Daddy! 😀
And here I am mid throw sporting my Mighty Boosh T-shirt .
Ahh, I know this sport. Old-man’s marble, al la Forggie. Seen dozy, Perno’ed up old gits playing it in Southern GerFrance. Normaly have handlebar taches and smell of onions and garlic.
Chronic you old foul-smelling french git 😉
http://www.laboulebleue.fr/en/html/reglepetanque.htm For you Mr Turks
I’ve played this once before, one of the pubs out in the New Forest has a nice er um pitch (?) for this.
It’s like lawn bowls, but on gravel 😀
@Captain_Chronic wrote:
no teasing m8, but wtf is that terrain you are playing on ? it seems on the pic that it is too … cant find the right word but not hard enough to allow the boules to roll… a bit to sandy and boules tend to dig it when they hit the ground and thus don t roll enough… that just surprised me looking at it…maybe it s just the pic.
anyway, some ppl need to practice more seeing the distance between the boules and the pig … now that was teasing !!!!! 😀 😀 😀
anyway there are rules but the whole thing of it down here is the social act it represents and the unending differents ways of teasing the opposite team with any words like “are you throwing bricks today?” or “we ll need a 3 meter rule to measure this shot!”
do you have any custom if a team scores 13 when the other one is still a zero?
great “sport” anyway!!!
I agree with you about the terrain , unfortunately in the league we play in most teams have no idea about the correct sort of terrain .
Though in the regional comps we get to play on the proper stuff .
This one is a better one , though only a tempory on on a carpark though plays very well .
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