Brighton and Hove Petanque Club

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The Winter Singles League started on 14th November and runs through till the end of February 2010. Twenty club members are taking part in the league. These are :-

Ray A               David A               Jill C
Lisa C               Pat C                     Clifford C
Bill C                Sheena C              Max C
Janice D         Jill G                     Terry G
Fergal H         Alan I                  Tony M
David M         Olive S                 Trish T
Jeff T               Ann W Read the rest of this entry »

Jeff Taylor shares his recent experience
Less experienced pétanque players enjoy two great advantages in entering as many competitions as possible early in their career. Firstly, I have found experienced players to be very generous in providing advice and encouragement to those who are just starting out. Secondly, there is far less pressure in terms of expectations. People are impressed if you can get all three boules within three feet of the jack and, furthermore, nobody expects you to hit an opponent’s boule if you have the nerve to play as shooter – they just admire your willingness to have a go.

When people learn how enthusiastic and willing you are you will also find other opportunities open to you. Early in October Ray and Tony found that their regular team members were not available to make up a triples team to play in an open event at Adur and they asked me if I’d like to join them. I said “yes” immediately before they had the chance to change their minds, but I must confess to being more than a little nervous about playing with such good players in the sort of tournament which attracts other toprate players within a considerable travelling distance of the venue. Read the rest of this entry »

Alfresco (West Pier, Brighton & Hove)

The BHPC 2009 Christmas Dinner & Dance will be held at Alfresco on Saturday 5th December 2009. The price is £27.50 per person and this includes a three course dinner (see below) followed by dancing to their resident disco in fabulous surroundings.

A great time was had by many members and their guests last year and this year promises to be even better! If you would like to attend, please contact Terry G as soon as possible to reserve your place(s). A non-refundable deposit of just £10 per person is needed. Read the rest of this entry »

Sun’ 6th September
Following on from our successful Open Doubles in June we held the club’s first Open Triples. Eight teams registered to take part with five of them having members from outside of our own club.

The format for the day was two leagues of 4 teams in the morning. The positions in the leagues would then decide the seedings for the seeded rolling knock-out in the afternoon. The winners of each league (the team with the most wins or greater points difference if on equal wins) would be seeded 1 and 2 respectively. The 2nd place teams in each league seeded 3 & 4, the 3rd place teams 5 & 6 and the 4th place teams 7 & 8. Read the rest of this entry »

On Saturday 29th August the club reached a new milestone  when we recruited our first ever 100th club member. Dona Crisfield, whose husband Max joined the club only a week or two earlier, became our 100th club member.

After handing in her membership application, poor Dona was unsure what was happening when Tony gathered everyone present on the terrain to make the big announcement and to take the photo which you can see right.

We hope we didn’t embarrass Dona too much but this is a great club achievement and one to celebrate. Since 2007 our membership, which at the time of producing this newsletter now stands at 103, is a massive 56% increase. This increase hasn’t happened by chance it is a result of a concerted team effort by the Executive Committee and a lot of our members too as well as having one of the fastest developing pétanque clubs in the country and arguably one of the most high-profile terrains. Read the rest of this entry »