Hornsey Pétanque Club
Creative Juice
Our sauce bottle runneth over
Our club is bursting with talent and passions. Our very own lights that we won’t be hiding under a bushel.
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Check for yourself…here’s what our members get up to when they aren’t playing petanque.
We...
Talk about paintings
at places like Kenwood House
Go and see bands
including legends and emerging new talent playing iconic London venues and some of the greatest festivals in the world​
Work year-round on our allotments ​
Grow the most amazing tomatoes
that double up as a table petanque set
Make stuff
Like this digital score board for our club petanque matches
Sing in choirs
including Angels of KAOS, Crouch End Festival Chorus, The Finches, Hackney Voices, St Mary’s Hendon, Vox Holloway...
Run amazing events
for others to enjoy, like these...
Exercise
We do all kinds of sporty things including tennis, cycling and pilates
Play instruments and sing in bands including The Hornsey Collective, Lean Two, London Hardingfelelag and The W3
Love pubs
and, as proof of that, one of us runs the u3a beer appreciation group
Quiz
Our boffins and fun seekers do pretty well at the regular quiz night in the Victoria Stakes
Write songs even!
About things like pigeons in WW1 and the humble allotment (Love Pie!) Oh, and petanque-related lyrics to well known country music (’The boules song’)
Write
books (click the image to see more), classical concert and opera reviews