SCPA Vice Presidents' Award

Jeff was very surprised and delighted to received the Southern Counties Petanque Association's, Vice Presidents' Award.
This is presented each year to a SCPA member who the committee considered has contributed in some way to improve Petanque within the region.

Snowboules?

After a few inches of snow on Thurs/Friday, a group of us turned up to throw a few boules and to watch the weigh in. Dan as been fasting for the last few months and lost 23 lbs this raised £114 for the club funds.

here are a few photo's of the players

France Weekend

Jan and I will be in France for the weekend, so won't see you all until the 19th. This will be Dan's weigh in day and time to collect the monies owing. He reckons he has lost quite a bit of weight and me even reach his target weight.
See you all on the 19th Dec..

Arundel Winter Doubles

Just for information, here is the website for the flyer for the competition on Boxing Day

http://www.southerncountiespetanque.org.uk/documents/Arundel%20winter%20Open%202009.pdf

Secretary's Cup

Sunday saw our new committee entre the Secretarys Cup Competition, it is for all committee members of clubs who are part of the Southern Counties Petenque Association.
This year the event was held at ABC Kirdford,, 16 teams came from all parts of the region.
We entered two teams
The Cranes,  Jeff, Lesley and Simon
The Storks,  Tony, Sue and Jan
The morning session was played as a series of 4 team leagues. All teams having 3 games before lunch.
The winner teams of each league where through to the main competiton, the 2nd place entered the Plate, the 3rd placed team entered the Saucer , and finally the last place team where in the Spoon.
The Stork played in the Spoon and the Cranes made it to the Plate.
After the afternoon knock out, the Cranes where runners up being beaten in the finals by the Oxshott Team
The Storks became the friendliest team.
This was a good result for our club and I am glad everyone enjoyed themselves

Pub and Club Challenge

Well Saturday was a day to remember, 80 mph wind torrential rain and also our competition day!!
We all met up in the club at 12.45 for a 1pm start the heavens where open wide and the wind was blowing it sideways.  We sat and looked thinking it was time to call it all off. I asked for a concensor to see how everyone felt... They decided to play.
We settled for 6 teams and decided to play 3 quick games. We all donned our wet weather gear and set out to do battle. After 10 minutes it stopped raining the wind dropped and we had a great afternoons play extending the games to 4.

Team taking part
Ewhurst Bowls Club
Cranleigh Bowls Club
Cranleigh Golf Club
Godalming PC
WI
Cranleigh PC

The standard of play was very good as can be seen by the scores.
The WI where faverites to win after the 3rd game but came unstuck against Cranleigh Bowls club and ended up 4th.

Final positions
1 Cranleigh PC  Jeff and Jan
2 Godalming Dan and Joan
3 Cranleigh Bowls  Tony and Lesley
4 WI Sue and Ingrid
5 Ewhurst Bowls  Margareatha and Benny
6 Cranleigh Golf  Mike and Sonia
I would like to thank everyone for turning out, also Sue for donating the Trophy. At the end of the day we made £40 for the club.

Re AGM

Following the AGM last night, the members selected the following new committee.

Chairman Tony ,
Hon Sec Lesley
Hon Tres Emma ,
Club Captain Jeff ,
Committee members.
Simon , Jan , Sue.

We are now to be called "The Cranleigh Petanque Club", this is because " Cranleigh RBL Club" is now to be known as "Cranleigh Village Sports and Social Club". Both the Petanque and Bowls sections will keep their names simple.

We have a little money in the bank, lots of enthusiasum to push the club forward. Our main objectives for the coming year are to promote our club and recruit another 20 members, finish the second piste, wire and fit the lighting, and build a pavillion.

Lets get everyone motivated and promoted the club and Petanque.

Maintenance Day

Don't forget everyone, this Saturday is maintenance day. Bring your rakes, and be prepared for an hours work before we play..

Notice of AGM

Notice of the Cranleigh RBL Petanque Club AGM to be held on Wednesday 4th November 2009. The meeting will be held at the Cranleigh British Legion, Parsonage Road, Cranleigh. The meeting will be brought to order at 1930. Agenda. 1. Apologies for absences. 2. Report by club Secretary 3. Financial Report by Club Treasurer 4. Selection of members for the 2009 – 2010 Committee 5. Confirmation of the clubs name. 6. Select the clubs colours for Polo shirts and tops 7. Any other business

What a lovely Saturday

Today we saw lots of sun pushing up the temperature into the twenty's. Simon brought his pal along and David and Hazel came along for a visit after working at the church, this pushed our numbers up to 15. We have decided to have a clean up meeting in two weeks time. This will give us a chance to remove a few more stones, clear away the weeds and probably sow some grass seed around the edges. Dont forget to bring your rakes. We are now looking for funding to finish the top terrain, it will be in the region of £1200 so please give generously. It is hoped to have it ready for the start of next seasons competitions. We will having our first AGM in the beginning of November, can we all look at who we want on next years committee

Pub and Club Challenge

Cranleigh RBL Petanque Club, Pub and Club Challenge 14th November 2009 We challenge the Pubs and Clubs of Cranleigh to take part in a Petanque competition to be held at the Royal British Legion the home of the new Petanque club in Cranleigh. Rules. Doubles competition two players either sex per team. Four games played to 13 points. Wins and scores to find the winning team. Maximum of twenty teams. £10 per team entrance fee. Registration at 12.30 first games starts at 1pm. For those of you who have not played before, we can give you all basic instructions. Come to the legion any Saturday morning around 10.30. Members of our club will be there to give help where necessary. We will supply boules for all teams, but if you have your own please bring them along. Trophy for the winning team, also other prizes. Please complete the section below and return to: Cranleigh Royal British Legion Petanque Club, Parsonage Road, Cranleigh, GU6 7AN. Or Contact Jeff Fox, Club Secretary on 07710 908084. By November 7th. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pub or Club Name....................................................................................................... Team members Names............................................................................................... Have you played before? Do you have your own boule...............................................

New fund raising effort from our Dan

We are now actively looking for ways to raise money to expand our clubs amenities, we need a club house, we need to finish our lighting and we need to complete our second piste. To this length, our Dan as decided to go on a sponsored slim. He as set a target of losing 21 pounds by December 19 (in time for Xmas nosh). We would now all you out there to sponsor him per pound or for a lump sum, all enquires to Jeff or Joan.

Dan Checks the scales

Dan stands on the scales

Joan checks the starting weight

Las Vegas

Here is the number plate of our kind hosts in Las Vegas

Las Vegas Petanque Club

Jan and I have just spent a very enjoyable evening playing petanque in Sunset Park, Las Vegas. Our hosts were Barbara and Emile who made us very welcome to their club. After our evening they took us on a site seeing trip down the Strip. Thanks again, and hope to see some of the club over in UK. Jan and I hope to be home next weekend so will see you all the first Sat in October at Cranleigh

Cranleigh Official Opening and Open Triples Competition

Monday saw the official opening of The Cranleigh RBL Petanque Club.

Debbie Elcome did the honor of throwing the first boule on the terrain.

16 teams of triples from all over the south of England came to Cranleigh for the first Open boules competition.

The weather was fine and warm in the morning, and very hot in the afternoon. We had 3 games in the morning followed by 2 games after lunch.

During the lunch hour Debbie held a shooting competition, this was won by Richard Patterson from Adur.

Jeff hands over £150 to Debbie, this was raised to help fund Debbie to travel to the Ladies World Championship in Thailand

Here are the Prize winners for this years Open

Todays winner Ray, Kim and John from Adur 5 wins plus 30 Second Place the lads for The George, Kent. 5 wins plus 29

Graham, Kim and Richard Best 4 wins

Hampshire Rose Lynn, Matt and Roz Best 3 wins

The Lamb Thomazs Ben and Mark Best 2 wins

The Lamb Mary and Derek Best 1 Win

Cranleigh PC Lesley, Tony and Craig Most friendliest team who held up all the rest.

Left to Right Kath, Sonia, Dan, Joan, John, Daniel

Left to Right Richard, Debbie, Graham, Mark, with Ben in the front

Left to Right. Lynn, Roz, Mark, Thomazs, Ben

Re Club Opening

Hi just received the following "I have only just noticed that the Cranleigh RBL Petanque Club has its official opening and inaugural Open Competition on Monday. Unfortunately I am unable to attend but will you please pass on my congratulations on becoming our newest club and my best wishes for the Open and their future development. Cheers Bernie Miles President of the Southern Counties Petanque Association " We now have 16 teams for tomorrow

Monday Open and first competition

Just to keep everyone informed. We now have 14 confirmed teams from 7 separate clubs. The Surrey Advertiser and the West Sussex County times will be doing an article for next weeks paper. Our local councillor and husband will be visiting to give their support. See you all there..

Following received Friday morning

"SHEDFIELD PETANQUE CLUB SEND VERY BEST WISHES FOR THE FUTURE SUCCESS OF THE NEW CRANLEIGH RBL PETANQUE CLUB. Loren Butt, Shedfield PC Secretary" May I say on our behalf thanks Shedfield that was very kind of you. Hope to see you up here next season.

Kent International Classic

Three of our club travelled down to Kent today to take part in the Kent Open. 44 triples teams took part from as far apart as France, Yorkshire. The setup and organisation was second to none. Pools in the morning and Knockout in the afternoon. All the time the Bar was open plus a Bar B Q was cooking burgers, sausage and Chicken kebabs. It was a time to meet old friends and make new ones. We where knocked out in the quarter final of the Bronze cup, but we can say that all of the teams that beat us today made it to the finals. Thanks Lordswood a great day

Saturday Club Day

The day started well with twelve members out there and playing. Two new members joined up this week and we had two more people who came and gave it a try.

VERY GOOD NEWS

Today we received a letter from the Surrey Community Foundation.

The Surrey Community Foundation has agreed a grant of £500 towards our new lighting system, this money is coming from the Dunsfold Park Fund.

We would very much like to thank everyone concerned in providing the cash for the fund and also those involve in distributing the funds...

Thank you all very much

Boules on the Beach 2009

Around 24 people turned up for the annual boules on the beach at Goring, the weather again was not the best, overcast with quite a wind. We managed to play 4 full games with everyone playing good boule. During the last game I popped down and picked up fish and chips for everyone, just as the sun started to come out. The final scores where quite good. three people had 3 wins and plus 20 but they where just pipped to the post by Tony Fox from ABC with 3 wins and plus 23. The best lady was Diana from Adur both winners received a bottle of Cava. Cranleigh Petanque club received £56.00 from the profits on the day.

Ray, Val and Tony R

Bobby, Val and Ray

Kath, Tony and Dan

Dan, Tony A, Kath and Tony F

Margaret

Linda and Ash

Linda, Carolyn and Ash

Albert

Ingrid and Roger

Ted and Barbara

Daniel and Joan

Ted and Daniel

Emma and Jan

Boring Goring boules on the beach 8 . At low tide the sands are quite firm, with just a few loose stones and puddles. If the tides are right, we hope to have 4 games, normal scoring, ie. Number of wins plus scores. £3 per head entrance fee. Juniors free. Please confirm by the 10th August Saturday 15th August 10.00 til 2.00 To get your map and parking instructions R.S.V.P. to Jan or Jeff on 01903 247133 Or email http://www.blogger.com/jefforfredfox@aol.com On the sands at the Sea Lane Café Park on the road . Fish and Chips will be collected at end of play. (Orders taken by 12.00) All proceeds to Cranleigh RBL Petanque Club

Our very first Club day

News for the week, we have finally sent in our application to join the EPA/SCPA. Saturday saw our very first club day, the sun came out in full force, it was lovely. We had 12 people playing 9 members and 3 came along for the try. Just before lunch two Bowls players came over and wanted to give it a try, they will be back in a fortnight. Next week is the annual Boules on the Beach social, hope the weather is as good as it has been today.

Our first come and try

Well today was a great success for the club. This morning the weather held fine and we where able to play until after lunch. By about 3pm it was raining stair rods and it was time to pack up. After the count, we reckon that 31 people came to try out petanque to day. Of those, 5 paid the club fees, 7 took away membership forms and 6 more said they would try again next week. We also had another donation of £100 to the club. I would like to Thank, Kim and Graham, Kath, Dan and Jan for coming along and helping out

Natille and Camoran throw a few boules

Jan with a couple of new members

Graham and Kim show Heather what to do.

Cranleigh Grand Opening and Open Triples

Grand Opening of the Cranleigh RBL Petanque Club Open Triples Competition

Monday 31st August

Registration 09.30 The official opening of the club followed by the first boule will take place at 10.00. 5 round snake, 3 games in the morning followed by 2 in the afternoon. (Maximum 20 teams)

Food and drinks from the bar please.

Entrance £15 per team.

Grand Raffle in aid of the EPA Ladies team who are going to the World Championship in Thailand.

Contact. Jeff Fox 07710 908084 or http://www.blogger.com/jefforfredfox@aol.com

Address. Royal British Legion, Parsonage Road, Cranleigh, Surrey, GU6 7AN

Come and Try Day

We are having our first Come and Try Day on Saturday 1st August this will be from 10.30 to 4pm. We are now hoping to also run (longside the Come and Try) a melee, this will start at 2pm and we will play 3/4 games dependant on numbers and weather. There will be "no charge" for the melee but you can give a donation to the club.

Just added the top grit

Here are a couple of more photos of the new pistes This is the nearest to the club house and now except for the stone the piste is finished

Close up of the stone Same piste viewed from the club house end.

Piste 2 first layer of white sea grit

Emm and Ash with the trailer

Day 3...The final act

We finished the terrain today. We now have a chose of 8 x 15mt or 10 x 12.5 mt pistes. We will be able to decide on the day on how we want to play. Camera had a flat battery so you will have to wait until next week for the photos

Bastille Day..The builders move in

The first day of the work at our new clubs Terrain.

Bob the builder getting stuck in

Dave the Digger gets started with the machine

Three of the ladies coming to see how things are getting on

The four founder members of the new club, only Joan missing.