Le bouliganisme

From yesterday's Times - "the game of petanque by which generations of under-employed men have marked the long, blissful transition from lunch to sunset is being desecrated by inebriation, incivility and even assault with agricultural implements". This all sounds a bit too close to home as the finishing touches are being put to the newly created petanque terrain in the White Hart cosmopolitan zone.

Worse, other peoples' kids think it is a giant sandpit and take great pleasure walking endlessly around the perimeter. Worse still, the dogs have reverted back to their puppyhood and now use the terrain as Moneyrow Green's largest known cat tray.