SC - SC- petanque (not food)

[Charles McCathie Nevile]

Petanque is a game also known as bocce (by Italians) or boules (by 
French, who use the word petanque). It is played with a little white ball 
and a bunch of heavy steel balls about the size of a lawn bowls ball, in 
a sandy square or somewhere reasonably hard. It is like lawn bowls, only 
instead of retirees in immaculate white uniforms with hats on a manicured 
lawn at a club you have a bunch of french blokes (you know, beret, 
striped shirt, string of onions, red wine, <add your favourite stereotype 
here> ) in a marketplace or near a shady tree. And instead of rolling the 
ball gently and skilfully along the turf you throw it up in the air and 
get it to stop rolling where you want it to be. Same sort of idea, just a 
slightly different approach. And I don't think there is a bias on 
petanque balls like there is on lawn bowls.

Charles Ragnar

On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Stefan li Rous wrote:
> What is "petanque"?
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