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Headline : Boule at the Bear!
2nd Headline: North Moreton’s game in the garden..

Distribution Source : Round & About
Date : May, 2007
Author: Peter Savage

Boule at the Bear!
North Moreton’s game in the garden..

Joy of Joys, you’ll be able to play boule at The Bear from May 1^st. (Or, some might say petanque, but we can form a debating society to discuss what to call it. I believe they call it petanque in the South of France and Boule in the North). It’s a great game of guile and bluff, skill and luck and with ‘sledging’ potential, as the aussies call it. Here’s an extract from the www.petanque.org site as a taster...

As in all of Europe this fantastic game can be, and is, enjoyed by all the family. How many times on holiday in the warm early evening have you watched games from the sidelines trying to figure out who was winning. The shouts, aahhs, the laughter and congratulations. Or, late at night after a fabulous supper, have wished you could have a go at this quintessentially European game. Now you can, and locally, but I suspect that the real problem will be in getting ‘a go’ as I’m convinced the new attraction will be a mega hit at the Bear.

It is not hard to play but being good at it is a different kettle of fish…. Don’t worry if you don’t have a set as the Bear will make some available and the rules of the ‘simple game’ will be pinned to a post next to the pitch.

Everyone’s welcome, so pop around and have a game…….