Anyone for Pétanque...?

Unlikely sports comeback news now. I'm reliably informed that pétanque is very much now the summer game of choice, whether you're one of those trendy, slim actress-y types in hats or even a trendy, slim actor-y type with your own belt. Fancy chucking a ball into a collection of balls aiming to hit a tiny ball? Then pétanque is very much the game for you. What?... Pétanque, it's French and obviously very classy...?... Fancy chucking boules into a collection of boules aiming to hit a very tiny boule? Non?

And just when you thought this assertion couldn't be any more from the pages of Sugar Ape magazine, Olly Dixon of London synthpop group Filthy Dukes recently co-founded the East London Pétanque Association, staging "guerilla pétanque" events at selected summer festivals. I know I say this a lot but THE MEDIA HAS EATEN ITSELF blah, blah, blah HELL IN A HANDBASKET.