It was a gloriously sunny day in Perth where the annual Perth Petanque Club’s Waverley Vintners trophy competition was to be held. This is an “open doubles” competition, but alas the invitations to the associated club’s members failed to attract them to this event. However, Harvey from the Culbokie club made the trip down to Perth. We rustled up a playing partner for Harvey in the form of one of our junior’s dad who had brought Finlay up from Edinburgh to participate in our event with his granny, Mabel.

In all we had six doubles teams and we played a round robin event. The sun shone all day and we played in the dappled shade of the North Inch Piste, without even a breath of wind. This made a pleasant change from the cold club nights that have been in evidence recently as we move towards the winter months. As usual this was a very competitive event with Frank and Stuart on excellent form as they won all three of their morning ties. Hot on their heels were Ed & Alice and Steve & Jean with two wins each going into the lunch break.

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