Bastille Day Doubles at Crowborough, July 17

Despite the poor weather forecast which came to reality with showers, some heavy, all day long, ten teams turned out at this event, including two teams from BHPC, Marcus and Margie Hayward (MM: who are also members in Crowborough) and David and Stephan Alfred (DS). Continue reading

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Battle of the Sexes: Saturday 9 July

A thrilling, hard-fought contest resulting in a 4-4 draw, the men just winning with a points difference of +18.

More details in the July newsletter.

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Croydon PC Challenge Match, July 16

Read the report in the July newsletter.

More photos will be posted soon.

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Know your boules

Know your boules 1

Know your boules 1

Following on from the New Boules, Please post, here’s a fun quiz to see how well you know your boules.

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Club Battle of the Sexes

Your sex needs you!

Do your duty and represent your sex at our friendly, free, annual Battle of the Sexes next Saturday 9 July at 1pm (so register at least 15 minutes beforehand).

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New Boules, Please!

Gareth with new boules

Gareth with new boules

Wimbledon is here again and the cry on the terrain is ”New boules, please!” Several players have recently acquired new sets of boules. Here, Gareth tells us why he chose a new set.
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Keep Calm

Keep Calm

Keep Calm

One for the bedroom wall :-)

Keep Calm PDF

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Adur PC Challenge Match, home, June 14

BHPC v Adur 2011

Tony Mann writes:

The first of our two challenge matches against Adur PC (Lancing) took place on a lovely warm and still evening at the Peace Statue terrain. Our friends from Adur brought along 12 of their members and we had 17. Pat Connolly welcomed our visitors with a great spread of wine, juice, water and various nibbles which were appreciated by all. Tony Mann was the competition organiser. Continue reading

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Shooting

Shooting comp

Shooting comp

A rather rainy Sunday has allowed me to catch up with my last post from the Provence trip. The club at Istrès held an informal Shooting a Back Boule competition one afternoon. Continue reading

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Tactics: first boule

An interesting discussion on one of the French forums: where would you place your first boule if you were:

  • Against a team of strong shooters?
  • Against a team of weak shooters but good pointers?

These are the sorts of things that established teams need to discuss and practise. Continue reading

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