THE MOTHER OF ALL COMEBACKS.

Last week the visiting darts team did not turn up for the first fixture of the season so we got a 19-0 victory. But Thursday was different as The Auberge pub in Matignon (a real local derby) turned up expecting to whip our sorry backsides, especially as they have 2 county players in the team. True to form we were dreadful as they raced into a 8-2 lead. They were hitting bullseyes for fun. Then one of those strange things happened as we won 7 on the trot to lead 9-8. We lost the next game, but fluked the decider to win 10-9. I don't think I have played in any sporting game with a turnaround like that.

THE WEEK AHEAD

Not a good week to be Kip. He is in for castration tomorrow. There will be no ball playing in the garden for a while. Or infact no ball playing of any sort ever again.

Al has darts on Tuesday and pool Friday, then on Sunday is the re-arranged football game against St Cast where he is linesman

NEW POOL SEASON BEGINS

What happened on finals day last week? Well, not a lot. Al pulled out because the dog was at the vets, John wasn't available, and David was at a wedding. So a weak team went to the finals and lost in round 1.

The winter pool league started last night. 10 teams in a group, 5 players in each team, and 10 games played per match. We are in Brittany region 2, but the competition is national. In the Brittany regions there are 1956 registered players. Might be a bit tought to win the individual.

We kicked off agains La Yatoumi bar from near Dinan and were 4-1 down at the halfway stage, then 5-3 down. Isobel won the next game for us, so that left Al to snatch the draw in the last frame.

NEW DOOR.

The new double glazed front door was fitted this week. What an improvement. No more creaking old door in windy weather.

The window opens too. Handy for selling iced lollies to children Mr Glitter

THE RAVE LAST WEEK.

My brother sent me 2 links with footage of last weeks rave at St Potan. It can be found under the "What's happened this past week" posting and in the comments section.

Just cut and paste the links to view.

I would like to point out that it is not Marie hugging the speaker in the second clip

A TALE OF TWO DOGS.

As mentioned earlier, Kip was very ill Friday and had to spend the night at the vets. He had a gut problem, was quite ill at both ends.

By Saturday night he was back to himself.

On Monday, Bella went to be neutered. She went in at 9am and came home at 5pm. She was a bit sleepy from the pain killers, but today apart from the bandage, ahe is 100% and as I write this is sat in the front room munching on a rawhide chew.

So to sum up..

Male has runny bum and a sore tum and is hospitalised for 24 hours.

Female has womb ripped out and is home within 8 hours almost back to normal.

Perhaps there is something in the "man flu" theory!!!

Kip can't make his mind up. Soft furry bone, or killer blue spikey hedgehog.

Bella lies flat out just a few hours after her operation. She has the cone collar to put on but she has shown no desire to play with the stitches.

LOST AGAIN.

4 games. 4 defeats. Consistant aren't we?

Latest defeat 3-0 to top of the table Evran.

The good news is that 4 of the better players will be back in 2 weeks after working abroad during the summer.

The piss poor stand at Evran has enough cover for 40 people, or 25 if you wanted to breathe!

A new rule bought in this season to give crap teams like St Potan a chance, is to force the league leaders wear pink each week (an idea taken from the yellow jersey from the Tour de France) The table toping team can then be mocked with "gay" chants to put them off.

It didn't work for us!