PETANQUE PITCH: - Edinburgh's New addition is ready for round one!
Release date: 19 March 2004
It’s probably what you get for employing a mad Frenchman as your sales manager but when Philippe Larue, said sales manager, came up with the idea of building a Petanque pitch in the warehouse, other companies may have dismissed the idea as a foolhardy notion. Not so here at Friarwood where it was embraced as, well, a great idea: Come for wine tasting, possibly food and round it all of with a game of Petanque; great!
And so it was upon a September morn (help!) that building day arrived. Philippe arrived with the larks, who quickly fled when they realised there was work to be done. Alex Bruce, our esteemed boss, decided along a more familial route and brought his sister Antonia (with barbecue), two small children and some power tools!
Obviously due to some act of technical sophistry, stage one involved building a base and then flipping it upside down. Stage two, as far as I could tell, involved inviting your friends round to marvel at your building skills, then handing them a shovel so they could feel part of the process while you nipped of to procure a sausage from the barbecue.
Much flinging of muck later, the hard work was over and the pitch was, well….a pitch. All that was left was to liberally douse the whole thing in water (please don’t ask; I have no idea why) and finally to play a game.
For those of you, who like I until a few weeks ago, have no idea what Petanque is, it’s kind of the French version of lawn bowls. Only there is no lawn and you throw the balls in a funny manner. That aside it is great fun and a welcome distraction for us hard working individuals here at Friarwood.
Should you be interested in playing feel free to contact us for details but be warned, with all the extra practice that lunch break allows us we are all turning into demon players. There is even talk about joining a league but then that’s another story….
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