184th Post

Unusually, the weather conspired to prevent play for consecutive Wednesdays.  Brogan had cleared the pistes but with only five attendees and a threatening sky we decided to retire to the coffee shop and discuss the game rather than play.

Hopefully the next three Wednesdays will be fine enough to permit us finish Competition D before the year-end.

The following article is an interesting expose on the place of Petanque in the French psyche.

https://www.francetoday.com/activity/petanque-its-not-a-game-its-a-religion/

Also, Petanque in prison..........

Interesting...........google translated from French.......

The facts go back to Wednesday, July 11. A man is caught in a sports shop in the middle of the shop. The police are called and pick the individual out of the store. He has in his pockets four balls of petanque and a stocking, also stolen, under his pants. 

By looking at his car, the police noticed that the front and rear plates do not match. One of them was falsified. This is a vehicle that was stolen two days earlier in Saint-Lambert-des-Levées.

To this must be added that this 28-year-old Saumur driver was driving without a driver's license (he had been taken away), that he had refueled twice without paying and that he had damaged the stolen car. In short, it was enough for it to be presented in court on Friday at the court of Saumur, in the context of an immediate appearance. For all these flights and for driving without a license, he was sentenced to 6 months in prison, 4 of which were suspended. A 4 month reprieve was also revoked. He was taken to the prison house last night for six months.

Read in the Western Mail of Saturday, July 14, edition Saumur

Music link supplied by Dave....... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL7ZjFp1Z5s