Cranleigh Petanque Club

Southern Counties Winter Doubles

2011-02-20T20:45:00.000Z

Tony and Ash, and Lesley and Jeff have been representing the club in this years winter doubles tournament. We have travelled to Portsmouth (4 times) Southampton, Crondall, and Lancing.
This years event has seen a very strong turn out of English and Regional champions which has made the going very hard. The competition will reach the final stage at Cobbets Club, Botley at the end of March.

Club AGM

2011-02-20T20:38:00.000Z

The AGM was held at the Sports and Social Club on Saturday the 12th Feb.
We elected the following new Chairman: Kath,
New Treasurer: Susan,
New Committee members: Ashley, Emma, Richard, Roger.
Susan proposed a vote of thanks to Tony for running the club for the last year.
The meeting finished and we had sandwiches and coffee thanks to Susan.

Invite from ABC

2010-10-23T16:24:00.000+01:00

Just a reminder, next Sunday 31st we are all invite for a social at Kirdford. Has it is Halloween we have all been asked to dress appropriately. We needs some photo's so dont forget to bring your cameras.
10.30 start, three games then Lunch

North Downs League end of season Melee

2010-10-16T19:16:00.001+01:00

Sunday turned out to be a terrific day. The sun came out and the temperature rose.

After breakfast of bacon and egg sandwiches and coffee all the teams retreated to the piste to start the days play.

34 players entered the fray. After three rounds in the morning, Cranleigh Village Sports and Social club provided a full Sunday lunch and if you had room a chose of desserts afterwards.

The afternoon start was slow, wrestling with a full stomach and a hot sun beating on our heads but we all braved it to the end.

Play finished just after 4, this gave everyone time to check the raffle as the scores where sorted out.

Prizes were give for friendliest play.. Ann of Cranleigh, best of 0 win, best of 1 win best of 2 wins, best of 3 wins best of 4 win. and best of 5 wins.

The final prizes where given to Best Male went to Mark from Oxshott

The overall winner and Best Female went to Jan Fox from Cranleigh, her first every win in any competition.

The final act of the day was Dave Osborne, Chairman of the North Downs League, he thanked Cranleigh PC for organising a good end of season melee. Then he present Cranleigh PC with the Trophy for winning the final of the North Downs League, this had taken place on Tuesday evening at Kirdford.

Jeff receives the NDL trophy from Dave Osborne

Outcome a great day was had by all.

North Downs League Final

2010-10-08T23:12:00.001+01:00

The Cranleigh team for the finals was

Lesley and Jeff

Joan and Ash

Sue and Tony

Everyone played well and it was a fantastic night for us all

The Oxshott team was

Fred and Pam

Gill and Alan

Andy and Barry

Well done to them for making it hard work and a enjoyable evening

Cranleigh Petanque Club, the new North Downs League Champions.

2010-10-06T20:16:00.001+01:00

Cranleigh Petanque Club, the new North Downs League Champions.....

On Tuesday evening both Oxshott and Cranleigh travelled to Kirdford for the finals of the North Downs League.
The weather report was for heavy rain, none appeared until we all went home.
There was quite a crowd of supporters who had come to watch the finals, including the Chairman and the Secretary of the North Downs league accompanied by their wives.
The match got under way at 7.30 and we decided to play all games to the end and not to have timed games.
Cranleigh won the first two games in round one but lost the last.
In round two Cranleigh maintained the first round success by winning a further two games.
Going into round three the score was 4 - 2 to Cranleigh. Oxshott now started to play boules taking the first two games in the round. This left the last game to decide who would be this years Champions, after a slow start Joan and Ash slowly over took David and Pam. David and Pam came back and the score was all square at 10 - 10. Joan put in the final shots and Cranleigh took the game and match with a match score of 5 - 4 to Cranleigh.
We would like to thanks Amities Boule Club for the use of their terrain for the evening and the Foresters for supplying the soup and sandwiches after the match.
Finally we would like to thank Oxshott for a terrific final which could have gone either way at the last minute.
The trophy will be presented at the end of season melee which will be held at Cranleigh on Sunday.

Brean Sands. A few pictures from Sue Ross

2010-09-24T16:30:00.000+01:00

Just getting ready to start the games

Bacon Butties at the start of the day

Yes, it was a tiring day

Sing song time

It was so hot in the bar my glasses kept steaming up

North Down League final match against Bedouins

2010-09-21T20:46:00.002+01:00

Wednesday saw us travel to Oxshott for the last match in our league, we had to win one game to become the league winners.
Lesley and Jeff won the first game this gave us the game we needed.
Tony and Sue won three games and Joan and Ash won one this gave us the match 6 - 3.
Our thanks to The Bedouins for a good evenings boule finished off with sandwiches and roast potatoes.. Lovely.
We now know that we will be playing Oxshott in the Finals.
The date is not final yet but could be Tuesday 5th Oct at Kirdford

EPA Regional Championships at Brean Sands

2010-09-21T20:32:00.000+01:00

Brean Sands 2010

View of the Piste

Sue, Lesley, Tony and Jeff qualified to take part in the Inter regionals, we travelled down on Friday and set up home in our apartment for the weekend.

Saturday saw us all up and about very early, having to be on the piste at 8am.
We collected out Combined uniforms and made our way to the starting ceromony and where given our days games complete with the piste number and opposition.

In our group where, Devon and Cornwall, Northern, Wales, Great Western, Sussex and Anglia over the next two day we had to played each of the about regions twice.

Saturday saw us win against Devon and Cornwall, Northern, and Anglia
Sunday we beat Great Western and Northern for the second time.

The overall winners of this years Regionals ours Southern Counties, we won by just one game.

There was much celebration on Sunday evening down at the Pub.

Lesley and Sue visa
Devon and Cornwall

Kent Classic at Lordswood.

2010-09-13T20:55:00.002+01:00

Picture taken by the offical photographer Jack Milner

On Sunday four of the club travelled down to Lordswood in Kent for the annual International Kent Classic.
This year the Dutch team came over and most of the top UK players where there.
After the leagues in the morning we went on to the Silver competition in the afternoon.
We where finally knocked out in the semi finals to Barbie and Ken, friends we know from Kent.
I think this is the first time we have actually won prize money £15. It will go into the pot for our trip to Brean Sands next weekend.
Pictures to follow

North Downs League. Cranleigh v Bedouins

2010-09-13T20:42:00.000+01:00

Thursday evening we hosted the Bedouin's at Cranleigh in our penultimate match of the season.
Also it was the christening of our new floodlighting which had just been completed at lunch time.

In the first round of games, Ash and Joan, Sue and Tony both won the opening matches. Jeff and Lesley lost 13 -12 in a very close game.

Round two saw Ash and Joan and Jeff and Lesley win, Jeff and Lesley inflicting the first fanny under lights.

Round Three saw Ash and Joan win again, this is their 6 successive win, Well done to both of you. Jeff and Lesley completed the 6 - 3 win.

When the scores where added up over sandwiches in the club house, we knew that we where joint top of the league with Crondall. We have one more match to play next Wednesday at Bedoiuns.

One more point and we play Oxshott in the Finals

NDL Cranleigh travel to ABC Kirdford

2010-09-03T19:52:00.014+01:00

Cranleigh travelled to ABC Kirdford on Thursday evening to play our return leg of the NDL match.
The evening was bright and fine but became cooler as the evening progressed.
In the first round ABC won 2 of the 3 games, Ash and Joan had the win for us.
In the second round Cranleigh took all three games
In the third round Cranleigh again took all three games to give us a 7 - 2 win on the evening.
ABC provided us all with sandwiches after the game.
We would like to thank ABC for there competitiveness and giving us a great evening out.
Also congratulate Ash and Joan for winning all of their games.

This is the standing in the league as of last night.

                            Played   Match      Matches              Games
                                         Points     Won      Lost        Won  Lost

Cranleigh                    4           33          3         1           21       13

Crondall Tigers           5           32          2         3           24       21

ABC Wasps               6            28          2         4           20       34

Claygate Bedouins        3            24          2         1           16       11

Cranleigh Open Triples results

2010-08-30T13:33:00.001+01:00

First of all I would like to thank everyone for turning and playing, you are all a nice crowd.

It was dry all day except for the end of the last two games then it poured.
During the day we watched 2 displays by the Red Arrows and an ear spilting display by the Euro fighter and all of this at no extra cost.
We all ate in the club most of us consuming a very good Sunday Roast and some even continued and had the pud.
The draw at the start of the day decided which piste and who you would play in our 5 game melee. Because of a team dropping out we played 9 triples and 3 doubles. This meant we didn't have any byes.

The final results where.

First Fanny. Roz Lynn and Tim

3rd Place. Jeff and Lesley

2nd Place Ray and Dean

Winners. Richard Mark and Alan

1st Richard Mark and Alan 4 wins + 56

2nd Dean and Ray 4 wins + 32

3rd Lesley and Jeff 4 wins + 25

4th Mike, Matt and Micheala 4 wins + 21

The first fanny went to Tim, Roz and Lynn this was a very close call but the other team held out for a couple of extra ends.

Thanks everyone for turning up. We hope to most of you again at the North Downs League end of season Melee in October.

Our Petite Pavilion

Cranleigh Open 29th August

2010-08-22T12:47:00.000+01:00

We are now just about ready for our Open.
Two new benches arrived last week, and the finally wiring to the lighting poles was ccmpleted, next we need to fit the light fittings and reduce the pole heights.
Roger and Ann two new prospective members turned up for our saturday meeting and we hope they will join us next week.
Dont forget workers 8.45 next Sunday

Photo's from Semur Boules Club

2010-08-08T17:59:00.001+01:00

A selection of Photo's from Semur Boules Club

The President

The President and his mother (Fair haired )

2010-08-06T18:22:00.000+01:00

Cranleigh Petanque Club

Open triples Competition

Sunday August 29th

Maximum 20 teams

Registration 9.30 for prompt 10.00 start.

Food and drinks from the bar please.

Bacon butties and coffee from 9am

Entrance £15 per team.

Contacts.

Jeff Fox 07710 908084 or jefforfredfox@aol.com

Lesley Lewis 01483 275086

Closing date for entries 27th August

Address. Cranleigh Sports and Social Club, Parsonage Road, Cranleigh, Surrey. GU6 7AN

1st Anniversary afternoon

2010-08-01T14:15:00.001+01:00

Saturday was the first anniversary of our clubs first meeting.

The day started wet and overcast but soon warmed up and the sun came out.

During the morning we put up the bunting and the tent. After setting out the chairs and arranging the glasses and the plates we all went off to lunch at the club.

We started playing at 2pm, our guests from ABC Kirdford where enjoying the new piste and trying to get the hang of the old.

At 3pm our youngest club member present cut the cake, Lesley and Jan poured the wine and we all sang happy birthday to the club.

Unfortunatly our french guest did not appear until after the cake and wine.

Eventually 14 members of the twinning group came and played, it was fun teaching our french guest how to play petanque. During the afternoon Gene from Semur told us she had been asked by the Semur boule club to approach us and find out whether we would be prepared to visit Semur for a weekends petanque and would we be willing to arrange for them to visit us. After our meeting she is going back to arrange both our visit to them and their visit to us.

Inter-regional Championships at Brean Sands

2010-07-25T20:31:00.000+01:00

We have just been invited to send our team to the Inter-Regional Championships at Brean Sands, Somerset.
This championships will bring together all of the regions in England plus the Welsh squad. It is held over two days at Pontins Holiday resort in Brean Sands, Somerset. We will be taking part as a combined team in division two. Our team missed out on the chance to play in divison one by just one game. It is still a good start for a Club that as only been playing for less than a year and two of our team also started playing less than a year ago.
Well done team get ready to receive your shirts

Cranleigh PC First Anniversay

2010-07-22T22:57:00.003+01:00

We shall be holding our first Anniversary Social on the 31st July.
Time flies was it so long ago that we had our first every meeting?
This year we will be hosting our Twinning group from France and other invited guests who have supported us over the last year.
A cake is being made, so bring on the wine lets enjoy the day

Cranleigh v Bedouins.

2010-07-22T22:50:00.000+01:00

Tonight we travelled to Oxshott for our first visit with the Bedouins.
Slight problem they where playing Crondall Tigers.
Did I get the dates wrong? Was it the wrong night?

NO they emailed us we replied but they still played Crondall.

Just sent my first ever complaint to the Sec of the NDL

Cranleigh Team.
Tony, Lesley, Sue, Joan, Daniel and Jeff

North Down League End of season Melee

2010-07-15T20:08:00.002+01:00

Hi Everyone,

We would like to announce the date of the North Downs League Melee so that you may add it to your diaries

This end of season event will take place at Cranleigh Sports and Social Club on Sunday 10th Oct.

We have come to an arrangement with our catering manager to supply Bacon butties on arrival and a Roast Lunch on that day, I will publish costs and details during September.

Wednesday Evening

2010-07-08T20:43:00.000+01:00

Cranleigh hosted two teams tonight, one from Cranleigh 41 club and the other from Ex RT of Guildford (a few of these players came from Cranleigh).
This is an annual event for these clubs, they have played inter club competitions in Stall ball, Golf, Tiddly Winks etc etc. This year it was boules.
8 players from each team played doubles and the eventually winners where Guildford.
Cranlegih Village Club provided a two course dinner with coffee for all of the players plus 10 spectators.
This was a very sucessful event and they have promised to come back.

Home Nations Qualifier at Luton

2010-07-05T20:22:00.002+01:00

Tony, Lesley, Sue and Jeff

The team from Cranleigh travelled up to Luton on Sunday to take part in The Home Nations Qualifier.
This competition is to select 8 teams to travel to Inverness in August to play against teams from Scotland and Wales.
Thirty teams traveled to Luton for the competition from all over the UK.
We went for the experiance of a top class competition.
After arriving at 8.45 we booked in and awaited the draw. It was very hot and very windy.
Our first game was against a strong team comprising two members of this years English team.
After we took a 6 - 1 lead, they got their act together and took the game 13 - 6
We went on to win the next 3 games against very good competition including Graham and Kim from Adur assisted by our regional President Bernie.
We went into the last game knowing that we must either win or get a very high score to make it to Inverness.
Our team quickly made it to 11 - 6, then the oppostion changed the line up of their team and went on to beat us 13 - 11.
We spent the next hour awaiting for all of the results to come in, hoping that our points difference would take us through. But alas we didn't do enought.

We went to play and we played well. Bring on Wales next year

Luton Piste

Relaxing between games

North Downs League Group B

2010-07-05T19:50:00.000+01:00

League table upto date

Crondall                played 3          25 points
Cranleigh               played 3         22 points
ABC Wasps         played 3         14 points
Claygate Beduins played 1           4 points

Adur Bastille Day Competition

2010-07-03T22:43:00.000+01:00

Adur Bastille Day Competition.

TO BE HELD ON SUNDAY

18th JULY 2010

@ THE IMPULSE LEISURE CENTRE

LANCING MANOR PARK

LANCING BN15 0PH

REGISTRATION 9.30am for PLAY 10am

£8.00 per team

WELCOME TO BRING YOUR OWN

FOOD/DRINK

BAR WILL BE OPEN FOR FOOD/DRINK

CONTACT: VERONICA TAYLOR

01903 503716 e-mail Veeat23@aol.com

North Down League Cranleigh v Crondall Tigers

2010-07-02T22:47:00.003+01:00

On a beautiful warm evening, Cranleigh played host to Crondall Tigers in our return match in the North Down League.
We started early because we still don't have our floodlights up and running yet, just another couple of weeks and everything will be in place.
In the first round of games Crondall took two games and Cranleigh took one.
Second round Cranleigh took two games and Crondall one
In the final round Cranleigh took all three games.
Well done Cranleigh a good result against a very good opposing team.
We now have two wins and one loss with three games to play.
The evening finished with sandwiches in the Club with music from a live duo plus dancing for those who had the energy.
Sorry there are no photo's, I did take the camera but was too busy playing to take any snaps..
Cranleigh Team. Sue and Tony, Joan and Ash, Lesley and Jeff.
Spectators. Dan, Simon, plus two.
Our triples will be playing in the Home Nations qualifiers at Luton on Sunday, wish us luck...

France trip 2010 (1)

2010-06-27T18:03:00.000+01:00

Our first club visit to Portrignes Club

Ray having a nap, Bob and Jackie know who's on.

Pistes at Portrignes

Piste at Portrignes

Club house at Portrignes ( Fanny Petanque)

Jan and Sonia

Butter wouldn't melt.

The Party from Wales plus Daniel

Preparing Dinner

Eclairs for afters

Jeff and wife

Serge and John

Mike and Mary do a little dancing.

Visit to Semur en Auxois

2010-06-13T21:01:00.001+01:00

A Few Shots in and around the Town Square

Arundel Open doubles

2010-05-25T21:43:00.001+01:00

ARUNDEL PETANQUE CLUB

Mill Road, Arundel, BN18 9PA

SUNDAY 13th JUNE 2010
Registration 9.30am Kick-off 10.00am

You are invited to enter this prestigious competition for the cost of

£5 PER PLAYER (JUNIORS £1)

Bacon Rolls available in morning.

BBQ at lunchtime.

Entries to: Mike Knight, 44, Ripley Road, Worthing, West Sussex. BN11 5NG (01903 501641)

kathknight@ntlworld.com

by

WEDNESDAY 9th JUNE 2010

PRE-ENTRY ONLY

Any cheques to be made payable to the Arundel Pétanque Club please

Free parking in Mill Road

Bring a chair if desired

Sunny Saturday

2010-05-22T23:40:00.000+01:00

Saturday was the hottest day of the year to date. Just right for playing boule and just taking it easy.
We had 14 members turn up plus a couple of guests. We used both pistes and added three more games to our running totals. Hope to publish the details over the next few days.
After our team played well in the final regional qualifier, we now have entered the Home Nations qualifier, This will be very good experiance for our new team.

Full results of SCPA 2nd Regional Qualifier, Farmhouse

2010-05-17T19:37:00.000+01:00

SCPA 2nd Regional Qualifier, Farmhouse

The day began chilly and cloudy but luckily there was very little in the way of showers with the sun peeping through during the afternoon. There were some closely fought contests, especially amongst the teams with the greater wins. All looks well for some close games in the Masters competition, to determine the final playing order, on 10th and 11th July at Arundel.

1st Demonus Pauline Baxter, Chris Wilcox, Christine Peat, Frank Charlesworth 8 wins + 22

2nd Red Star S’ton David Plumhoff, Daniel Hill, Graham Galton, Wayne Thatcher 7 wins +46

3rd Cobbetts 1 Steve Lombard, Dave Stubbs, Richard Greeves 7 wins +34

4th Triple X Carol Paice, Dave Lucas, Stan Ash, Richard Baker 7 wins +27

5th Outrage Michael Tull, Ashley Odell, Harrison Ash, Matt Slater 7 wins +16

6th KGBA Kim Elcome, Graham Elcome, Bernie Miles, Andy Barron 6 wins +38

7th Tutti Fruiti Debbie Elcome, Chris Barron, Dean Seville, Gemma Streatfield 6 wins +31

8th L’Escargot Richard Patterson, Mark Robertshaw, John Inglis 6 wins +16

9th Arundel Aardvarks Kath Knight, Mike Knight, Tomasz Rypien, Ben Barratt 6 wins +13

10th Cobbetts 2 Steve Love, Susan Sandy, Alison Stubbs, Mike Porter 5 wins +1

11th Graduates Andy and Gill Harrington, Richard Foulsham, David Wicks 5 wins -2

12th Admiral Lime Jack Hilton, Danny Corp, Tony Jones, Karen Robertshaw 5 wins –23

13th Farmhouse Ben Treend, Trevor Treend, Sean Prendergast, Karen Lombard 4 wins +11

14th DDT Derek Coates, Tim Lawson, David Newbold, Matt Silvester 4 wins -31

15th Cranleigh Sue Ross, Lesley Lewis, Tony Lewis, Jeff Fox 4 win –37

16th Limesdowne Jed Stone, Paul Hayward, Sheila Hayward, Malcolm McKenzie 3 wins –15

17th Bordon Dave Pearman, Sue Marshall, Steve Snudden 3 win –27

18th Sky Larks Liz Farrow, Roz Silvester, Lynn May 3 win –27

19th Royal Oak Sally Squires, Brian Squires, Dan Saxby 3 wins –44

20th ABC Wasps Mike Kateley, Christine Kateley, Sonia Lee 1 win –49

Regional Qualifiers at Farmhouse

2010-05-16T20:20:00.001+01:00

I am really proud to have taken our team to Farmhouse to play the SCPA qualifiers.
With Sue, Lesley and Tony we played five games and won three. The two we lost were against Dave Stubbs, Richard and Steve Lombard, we took them by surprize at first running up a 8 - 0 lead but class held out and they beat us 13 - 9. Our second loss was against The Blue Army, they played with us and enjoyed a leisurely romp to 13 - 0.
This gave us a 4 wins total and a minus difference, but we still had to wait for the final games to see if we had to play in a play off. Sorry to say we missed the cut and ended up 15.
Thanks everyone for a good couple of days boule. I hope you all learnt enought to win next year

Jeff

Saturday at Cranleigh

2010-05-15T21:47:00.000+01:00

This as been quite a week. In total we have had 5 possiblly 6 new members all signed up and ready to go.
It means we have just passed the 30 mark. It looks likely that we will be gaining a few more U3A members as we are in town and they dont have to travel so far.
Also this week we have added a couple of trees alongside our piste, this breaks up expanse of flat ground, we may add a couple more after our French trip.
The new piste is very good, it looks simple but is far from it.
Our team goes into the next round of the regional qualifiers on Sunday, we have a lot to do but will all do our best.

Re Pennock Cup

2010-05-13T19:39:00.000+01:00

As ABC are now directing their members to this site, I will add the email I sent to Mike and Paul.
This was after I met Mike at CVSS on Tuesday. He said to me the blog was insensitive and to expect a letter from their Chairman..

Dear Mike,
Thank you for speaking to me today at Cranleigh Village Club, I was very surprised to find that I had upset various members of ABC. I had to wait until I got home to re read my insensitive blog. After re reading my account I find it very hard to understand how people can be so disruptive and troublesome.

I have always totally supported ABC as a club and really enjoy playing socially and in competition at Kirdford. Some members of ABC still see Cranleigh PC as a threat, we are doing our utmost to run the new club for the benefit of all Cranleigh and we are trying not to interfere with ABC in any way.

ABC is our nearest rival in the game of Petanque but we all should be pulling together to improve the game in this area, when I carryout SCPA work at Horsham and at the Cranleigh carnival if people wish to play and live nearer to ABC than Cranleigh I pass them on to your club.

Some of the members at Cranleigh belong to two or three other club, as such all of their triumphs or failures in any competition are truly exploited on our Blog.. A blog for Cranleigh PC open to all but entirely for Cranleigh.

If anyone has problems with the Cranleigh Blog please get in touch with me.

What does upset me is, it is now coming up for two week since the Pennock Cup, The ABC blog is still without a report or pictures that were taken on the day even the EPA do better than this.

My answer to Chair of ABC

2010-05-12T17:46:00.000+01:00

Thank you for email, the contents will be added to the blog, for those wishing to see it.

As I have stated before, Cranleigh Members winning competitions in any forum will receive our applause and will be added to our blog to encourage other members to take part in competitive boule.

Email received from the Chair of Amities Boules Club.

2010-05-12T17:42:00.000+01:00

Dear Jeff
I have read your item from the Cranleigh PC blog. I want to tell you that I am rather disappointed by the content of the article.
You will probably be aware that the Pennock Trophy is the oldest trophy played for within the Amities Boules Club. It was presented to the club by Wendy Pennock – a very dear friend, sadly no longer with us. It was originally hosted by Wendy’s Family for ABC and invited guests. The longstanding members of ABC will have fond memories of past competitions at Birchetts Brook (the family home). Although the trophy and plate were always keenly contested the emphasis was always on a friendly sociable occasion. Wine flowed by the wheelbarrow load and various members of the club have spent happy hours sleeping off hangovers in their cars during the afternoon of the competition (including this year’s winner!)
After Wendy’s death, ABC took over the running of the trophy, with the intention that this tradition of friendly competition should continue.
Dan and Joan played very well and thoroughly deserved to win the trophy. For a long time they were stalwart members of this club and I can think of no people more deserving of having their names on the cup. But they played as members of ABC. The trophy is only open to members of ABC and specially invited guests. Your article claims theirs as a victory for Cranleigh PC.
At best this is insensitive to the memory of a lovely lady. At worst it is divisive and designed to cause friction and point-scoring between the two clubs. A number of our members have said how upset they are at this. If this was not your intention then I would urge you to correct the impression which your article gives.

I would agree that we should have posted an item about the Pennock trophy before now. But surely a well considered article albeit a little late, is better than one put together in haste filled with errors?
Paul

What a busy month in Cranleigh

2010-05-02T12:59:00.000+01:00

Its as been a busy few days at Cranleigh, firstly we had 20 tons of gravel deliverey and it was finally layed last Friday.On the day of the deliverey Emma, Ash and Jeff trenched in the wiring for the lights and power and set in the posts for the poles to hold the lights on.

Wednesday evening we travelled to Crondall for our first North Downs league match, we lost 6 - 3 but had a very good evening.

Saturday we entertained ABC Kirdford for our first home match in the North Downs league, the weather was wonderful. The match went down to the last game, being all level at 4 - 4, we took the last game and the match. Ten of our members played in the match and 3 more watched from the sides, Thanks everyone for turning out.

Thursday night saw the start of our evenings play at Cranleigh, also we would like to welcome Jill as a new member to the club she made her first apprerance on Thursday.

Sunday saw Lesley, Sue, Tony and Jeff take part in the regional trials at Crondall, not a good day but we did beat ABC Kirdfords team in the last match.

Next week we will be using a vibrating roller to flatten the top surface and hopefully we will be ready to play next Thursday.
Having trouble with photo at present, but will put them all up shortly

Pennock Cup at Kirdford.

2010-05-01T22:29:00.001+01:00

Pennock Cup
Winners. Joan and Dan

Joan and Dan play some very consistant boules to take the Pennock Cup today, beating Jeff and Bob in the semi's, they went on to beat Paul and Tony F in the final. A terrific result for Joan and Dan also for Cranlegih PC.

In the Plate competiton Sue and Melanie beat Jan and Carolyn in the semi finals but where beaten in the final by Chris and Muriel.

Well done to everyone pics to follow.

Re new piste

2010-04-30T21:45:00.001+01:00

Here finally is the new piste, finished laying the grit Friday evening, next Wednesday we have a roller coming to flatten it and get it ready to play on, hope you all like it...Thanks Lesley for the jpeg.

Saturday 10th April. Another sunny day.

2010-04-10T19:54:00.002+01:00

Once again a really lovely days boule, with 14 members playing and a couple watching it was good to be out in the sun..
Easter Monday, Tony & Lesley and Jeff & Sue went to Crondall for their open, it was very overcast and a cold wind blew across the terrain. We played three games in the morning and two in the afternoon. We didn't get into the prizes but made lots of new friends where made and we all had some good games.

We have decide to enter a team in the Regional qualifiers event, this will Tony, Lesley, Sue and Jeff. We will play our first round on the 25th April at Crondall, 2nd round at Farmhouse.

The first round of the North Downs league will take place on the 21st April, again it will be Crondall, I hope we all will be use to their terrain by then.

On Wednesday, we are hoping weather permitting to get a trenching machine to lay in the wiring for our flood lights and cement in the posts. This will be the first steps in getting lighting and extending our play to a Thursday evening. Also we have ordered the top dressing for the 2nd terrain, this will give us a flatish surface so that we can teach ball control and movement.
And finally we will start to erect our mini pavillion, (6ft x 4ft). This will enable us to store our scoreboards etc. Once all the work is finished, we will start saving so that we may build a proper sized Pavillion

Sunny Saturday morning

2010-03-27T20:30:00.000Z

Today started well, we had 12 members playing this morning, then we were joined by Sara and Oliver, this was their first time and they enjoyed the session.
At lunch we put in are order for the new club strip. Hopefully this will arrive before we have our first league match against Crondall.
Don't forget that it is our Car boot sale on Sunday.

CRANLEIGH – SEMUR-EN-AUXIOS TWINNING

2010-03-20T16:43:00.001Z

It was a good morning socializing with our Twinning Group, this gave us a platform to show off Cranleigh Petanque and to meet lots of like minded people. Pity it rained so hard, but we did erect a shelter so that people could try throwing the boules without getting wet

North Downs League programme for 2010

2010-03-18T23:02:00.003Z

Group B

To be Played by Home Team Away Team

24 Apr ABC Wasps v Claygate Bedouins

24 Apr Crondall v Cranleigh

22 May Claygate Bedouins v Crondall Tigers

22 May Cranleigh v ABC Wasps

19 Jun Cranleigh v Claygate Bedouins

19 Jun Crondall Tigers v ABC Wasps

17 Jul Claygate Bedouins v ABC Wasps

17 Jul Cranleigh v Crondall Tigers

14 Aug ABC Wasps v Crondall Tigers

14 Aug Claygate Bedouins v Cranleigh

11 Sep ABC Wasps v Cranleigh

11 Sep Crondall Tigers v Claygate Bedoiuns

North Downs League Meeting

2010-02-23T17:21:00.000Z

Jeff, Tony and Simon attended the North Downs League AGM on Monday evening which was held at Crondall PC.

As there were nine teams registered this year it was decided to run two leagues.
League A.
Racing Club
Crondall Lions
Bordon
ABC Bees
Oxshott

League B.
Cranleigh Cranes
ABC Wasps
Claygate Bedouins
Crondall Tigers

Matches will start in April dates to follow.

The Secretary asked clubs to indicate where this years end of season melee should be held..Both ABC and Cranleigh said they would be happy to host the event.
It was decided that Cranleigh will hold the event during the end of Sept/begining of Oct. date to be decided.

One alteration to the rules was voted on.. This was that the winners of each match would be awarded 4 points plus 1 point for each game won.

The meeting ended around 9.30.

Valentines Day Doubles

2010-02-15T20:42:00.001Z

We left home in brilliant sunshine, on the way to Cranleigh, my wife said that she thought that it wasn't frost on the roofs....Then it started settling on the roads...Snow...
As we erected the tent it snowed quite heavily, who would turn out in this?...by 9.30 14 teams had arrived and were tucking into Bacon butties and coffee and tea.
The competition started spot on time with a great class of players present. We had 3 games in the morning, this was followed by a wonderful lunch provided the the village club.
The afternoon play started prompt at 2pm giving us 2 games to play.
After an hours snow, abit of sun, acouple of hours rain and finally an overcast finish the day ended just before 5pm.
The Results.
1st Richard Patterson and John Inglis from Adur 4 wins + 28
2nd Mark Duncan and Ian Birchets from Hampshire Rose 4 wins + 21
3rd Mark Slater and Micheala from Bordon 4 wins + 21 (Marks team had a better score in the game they lost)
4th Frank an Chris from Oxshott.
Cranleigh Petanque Club would like to thank everyone for turning up on a horrible day, and playing some great boule.
Photo's on their way....Debbie!

Spring News Letter

2010-02-06T21:20:00.000Z

Cranleigh Petanque Club are now preparing for the forthcoming new season, over the next two months we shall be adding a new topping to our second terrain and installing the lighting to enable us to play in the evenings and take part in our league competitions.

This season begins with an Open Doubles competition on Valentine’s Day, we are hoping for 20 teams from the south to compete over 5 rounds.

This season we have joined the local North Downs 6 aside league. This involves nine games over an evening, one away and one home match every month. The opposing teams come from Oxshott, Crondall, Bordon, Kirdford, Claygate, and Basingstoke. This league was started to get new players involved in playing competitive competitions.

We shall be holding a Car boot sale at the Cranleigh Village Club on 28th March please come and support us by either running a stall or coming and buying some goods.

As a new club, we require new members to get involved in the sport. At Cranleigh we are able to offer coaching to assist members in any aspect of the sport, whether they want to play socially or to take part in regional or national competitions.

Please come and join us on Saturday mornings 10.30 till 1.30 at the Cranleigh Village Sports and Social Club, Parsonage Road, Cranleigh or contact Jeff Fox on 07710 908084. No experience necessary just come and join the fun.

Saturday in the Sun

2010-02-06T21:00:00.000Z

It was good day at the club today, 9 of us spent the mornng playing in the sun with just a little cold wind.
The ladies lost the triples to the men, never mind come back and try again.
We discussed the next open (we have 9 teams pre booked so far) and organised the raffle, then went on to talk about the March Car Boot sale,
Prices for a stall will be £5 and a van £7. The sale will be 9 - 12, setting up at 8.
Anyone wanting to take part, get in touch with Lesley or Tony.

2010 Calendar

2010-02-03T21:54:00.001Z

Club Competitions/Events

14 Feb. Valentine’s Day Open doubles

28 March. Car Boot Sale (Cranleigh Village Club)

9 May. Pub and Club Challenge

28 May – 14 June. French Trip

26 June. Lions Carnival (we have a stall and a shooting competition)

7 August . Anniversary Cup

29 August. Cranleigh Open Triples

3 Nov. Club AGM.

The North Downs League dates will be added when dates are confirmed.

Additional events and dates will be added as necessary.

Regional Events

3 May. SCPA Adult and Junior Doubles, Burridge

25 May. SCPA 1st Regional Qualifier Crondall

16 May. 2nd SCPA Regional Qualifier, Farmhouse

10/11 July. SCPA Masters. Arundel

18 July. SCPA triples Southampton City

26 Sept. SCPA Singles and Shooting Competition, Shedfield

18/19 Sept. Inter Regional Championships. Brean Sands weekend.

24 Oct. SCPA Doubles

7 Nov. SCPA Secretary’s Cup, The Ship

21 Nov. SCPA AGM and Winter melee, The Limes

Cranleigh Open Doubles

2010-02-03T19:03:00.000Z

Valentines Day Open Doubles

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Cranleigh Petanque Club

Open Doubles Competition

Sunday 14th February

Registration 09.30

(Maximum 20 teams)

Food and drinks from the bar please.

Bacon butties from 9am.

Entrance £10 per team.

Contact. Jeff Fox 07710 908084 or jefforfredfox@aol.com

Address. Cranleigh Village Sports and Social Club, Parsonage Road, Cranleigh, Surrey, GU6 7AN

Saturday 2nd Jan 2010

2010-01-02T23:38:00.001Z

Today was the first day of our new year, it was very frosty and the ground was hard. 11 members turned up to play boule..two games then coffee another game then lunch, we all went up to the Little Park Hatch, our club was not serving food until after the new year.
Plans are underway for Xmas lunch at the Bricklayers on the16th.
Then our Valentines Day Open Doubles..at least one member of the pair must wear a skirt, maximum 20 teams.
Poor Simons blue boules are loosing their colour, must be because he keeps shooting everyone out...

SCPA Vice Presidents' Award

2009-12-30T19:38:00.001Z

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?

2009-12-20T15:36:00.002Z

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

2009-12-07T21:36:00.005Z

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

2009-11-30T18:59:00.001Z

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

2009-11-16T21:26:00.000Z

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

2009-11-16T21:15:00.004Z

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

2009-11-05T22:42:00.010Z

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

2009-10-20T19:49:00.002+01:00

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

2009-10-18T15:04:00.000+01:00

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

2009-10-10T21:21:00.002+01:00

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

2009-10-04T19:37:00.001+01:00

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

2009-10-03T21:23:00.003+01:00

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

2009-10-03T21:17:00.001+01:00

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

Las Vegas Petanque Club

2009-09-24T06:29:00.004+01:00

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

2009-08-31T21:01:00.006+01:00

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

2009-08-30T13:00:00.001+01:00

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

2009-08-28T19:18:00.002+01:00

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

2009-08-28T19:14:00.003+01:00

"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

2009-08-23T21:29:00.002+01:00

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

2009-08-22T18:23:00.004+01:00

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

2009-08-16T16:24:00.006+01:00

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

2009-08-08T19:46:00.002+01:00

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

2009-08-08T19:33:00.005+01:00

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

2009-08-01T18:34:00.003+01:00

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

2009-07-27T20:51:00.002+01:00

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

2009-07-26T13:56:00.002+01:00

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

2009-07-24T20:48:00.004+01:00

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

2009-07-16T17:00:00.002+01:00

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

2009-07-14T20:34:00.007+01:00

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.

Tuesday is the day

2009-07-13T21:27:00.003+01:00

Tuesday the builders move in, we start by digging out the top soil. Then we add the weed membrane. Then we drop in 40 tons of crushed concrete. Then we build the surrounds with 8 x 2 timbers. Then we add 40 tons of scalping's (MOT1). Then we add a few tons of loose grit....exact type not decided yet. Finally we landscape the excess soil so that we can add the grass seed. JOB DONE. Next week we will be playing on the new terrain.

Horsham French Fest weekend

2009-07-06T20:21:00.002+01:00

Horsham weekend was again a tremendous success. The weather was hot just a few spots of rain and loads of people wanting to find out how to play boule. Cranleigh ended up with two prospective members, and Horsham may now have its own club. We hope everything goes well for them

The New Terrain

2009-06-30T22:55:00.003+01:00

We now have a start date of 14th July. Our builder Steve will make a start on the 14th and it is hope weather permitting to have a test on the terrain around the 20th July. Still on course for a Grand opening on 1st August wish us luck

Cranleigh Carnival

2009-06-28T20:28:00.006+01:00

Our new sign ready to be added to the tent

Sue and Jan check out the boules .

Saturday was a terrific day for everyone. The weather was very warm in the morning and the afternoon was a scorcher. We had a lot of interested people who where interested in the club and we took £46 on the shoot the egg competition. We are now on line to start building the piste the second week in July and to open the club on Saturday 1st August

Cranleigh Carnival 27th June

2009-06-16T19:44:00.002+01:00

Hi Everyone, This will be the first outing/fund raising/ recruitment drive for our new club. We will be holding a shooting competition in the form of smash an egg at 10 metres, £1 for three boule, all successful egg smashers will be put into a draw for a bottle of Ricard. There will also be an area for juniors ie under 18's this will include a little shooting, throwing a cosh etc.. All kids will receive a bag of sweets. During this time we hope to promote the club and take names of possible new members. Anyone with spare time on Saturday, please pop along and give us an hand.

Lottery Grant

2009-05-17T22:14:00.002+01:00

Hi Everyone, Very bad news today, Thursday 14th May. "Your application was unsuccessful for the following reasons. Your application did not clearly show the need for your project, how you identified it and how will your project would meet it. Your application would have met our assessment criteria more closely if. there was more evidence of the need for your project. a wider range of people would benefit from the project. Our decision is final, but I hope that you find our reasons clear and helpful." It is now down to us to raise enought to build a terrain to continue our club.

Lottery Grant

2009-05-10T18:49:00.005+01:00

Just received email from lottery saying that we should have results within the next 30 days. (End of May). We shall then be in France on our trip, so have asked if they could inform us before 25 May or After 6th June. Keep you fingers crossed

First Post

2009-02-26T21:48:00.002Z

We now have a place to build a terrain. We now have a committee, first meeting was 24th February. We now have recognition from the local council, the EPA, the SCPA, the local twinning group. We have received two large loans from members. We have filled in the lottery grant application form and sent it off. Lets hope it all goes to plan.