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English Speaking Health Visitor runs a clinic at the Church Centre, St Peters Church in Chantilly every thursday morning between 10 - 12.

For all questions relating to your baby/preschool child.

For more details contact Annemieke on annemieke@vanboxtel.org

Il y a de nombreux ex-joueurs/joueurs/fans/ qui se posent la question de savoir où pratiquer le hockey sur gazon dans le coin! La réponse est simple : à Senlis!

Le club HC Senlis est en plein renouveau et est heureux d'accueillir tout au long de l'année de nouveaux joueurs(-euses).
La municipalité de Senlis soutient le projet de développement du club. En hiver le club dispose deux soirées par semaine d'une salle (Mardi pour les jeunes et Jeudi pour les adultes) et aura son propre terrain gazon au printemps.
Pour nous rejoindre: www.hcvalois-senlis.com ou hcsenlis@gmail.com ou alors 09.60.50.77.37

A bientôt

Bruno Vandenbroucke

It's that time of year again! Thoughts are turning to the Home & Away Christmas Dinner, which, this year, will take place at the Chateau de Raray, 25 minutes northeast of Chantilly, on Saturday December 10th. The format will be the same as the last couple of years; a welcome cocktail, three course meal with wine, water and drinks, and coffee, and (hopefully) dancing afterwards. Many thanks to Annie Marsh for making all the arrangements!

Who's invited? Everyone! Home & Away dinners are a great way to catch up with friends, and to make new ones. Just moved to the area? Perfect! Come along and meet people. The Home & Away diners are just people living in the area who enjoying good food, good wine and good company.

Our Christmas dinner will cost 55€ a head, all inclusive. If you would like to come please get in touch with Vanessa Powell via her email of vanessa @ chantillyexpat.com.

We are also planning a November get together for anyone who just can't wait until December! Details still need to be confirmed but this will follow the usual format of up to 40€ a head for your meal and drinks, and will be held at Le Relais du Bois St Dennis in Chantilly on November 19th. Let me know if you'd like to come along to that one by hitting reply. There's no need to pay in advance for this one.

See you next month!

November 19th - Le Relais du Bois Saint Dennis, Chantilly
December 10th - Chateau de Raray, Raray

At last the, photos you've been waiting for. The public release of Chantilly's participation in the prestigious Paris 20/20 tournament organised by Imperius Asset Management over the weekend of 18th/19th September.    plus ...

11 September dawned wet, much as had the rest of the summer, with the forecast of heavy rain to come . But Rob, our illustrious captain would not be deterred, and Chantilly would be playing their last minute, 25 over match against Lisse. This was the third match against the same team this season, a team who have only recently formed and are looking for as much practice as they can get. They had beaten Chantilly on their first attempt, but at the second had been pegged back giving Chantilly a 78 run victory. So, the series was balanced at 1 a-piece, and Chantilly were keen to stay on top.

As is normal Rob lost the toss, and with drizzle starting to fall CCC were put into the field. Without our star bowler of the season (Eddy Hoyle) it seemed we were destined to struggle, and Lisse set about the bowling with some relish. Regan and Richardson stuck at their task but for no reward, eventually going for 38 and 32 runs respectively off their 5 overs. Heard made a difference when he came into bowl, taking a sharp caught and bowled to dismiss Aru for 14, which unfortunately only brought Baskar to join Bala at the crease. Bala had eventually made 59 when he was bowled by Heard, but other wickets were hard to find. Chantilly’s catching was woeful, perhaps down to the weather, but at least 5 dollies were spilled which cost us dear. Pretsell managed one wicket, bowled not caught of course, but with Baskar finishing not out on 60 Lisse amassed 175 runs for the loss of only 3 wickets in total.    plus ...

Early September saw a close to full strength Chantilly side take on the Embassy team once again, a team who seem to reappear at Apremont with all the regularity of a winter cold. Once again they had their regulars, with the odd ‘ringer’ whose prowess would only be discovered on the pitch. Embassy won the toss and elected to bat – the weather promising to hold fair to allow a contest of 35 overs a side.

Chantilly’s bowling, whilst missing Robin Richardson’s unerring line following his thumb injury (pah, call that an injury – ed), still managed to keep a lid on Embassy’s scoring rate. Eddy ‘Glen McGrath’ Hoyle in particular was almost unplayable, bowling 2 wicket maidens and a maiden in a devastating opening salvo of 4-14, with all 4 wickets clean bowled. Patrick ‘Hammy’ Heard deputised manfully from the other end, proving equally tough to get away, taking a wicket and giving away only 15 runs in his opening 4 over spell.    plus ...

You may or may not be aware that ChantillyExpat.com is putting on a pantomime next year. Preparations are well underway; the main roles are cast, the script is (almost) written, and rehearsals are starting. Our first production is Cinderella, and will be presented over the first weekend of February 2012 - put it in your diary! All proceeds from the panto will go toward completing the restoration of St.Peter's Church, Chantilly. We are hoping to sell around 600 tickets.

In order to move on however we need money. We need to be able to print promotional materials and tickets, to build sets and make costumes and book the venue. All this requires money up front. So we are looking for sponsorship! These will be in two forms:
1) Corporate sponsorship: do you have a business or work for a company that would like to be involved? We are looking for 4 or 5 main sponsors, who can provide at least 500€ of sponsorship. In return your company's logo will be prominently placed on our promotional material (posters, flyers, tickets, programmes etc) with the mention: 'Kindly Supported by...'. With a potential audience of the posters alone of thousands, over the busy Christmas period, this is a great way of showing your company cares for people.

2) Individual Sponsorship: if you would like to support the panto on an individual level we would welcome your contribution. All donors donating 50€ or more would be mentioned by name in the program as supporters of the pantomime. Even if you think you won't be able to come to the shows you can still show your support for us and for St.Peters by contributing in this way.
All profits from the pantomime will go to St.Peter's Church, this is a non-profit show! All donors, if requested, will receive a copy of our accounts.

Please do give this your consideration, and I look forward to hearing from you at panto@chantillyexpat.com, as soon as possible. Publicity will start next month!

Chantilly's run of wins came to an abrupt end at the hands of the Nomads (or was it a France cricket XI?) on the 28th August. Any spectator wandering past at around 4pm would have put a reasonable sum on Chantilly to win. Turning up again 3 hours later to watch Chantilly seal the victory, he would have been lucky to find anyone still up at the ground - and there were certainly no winnings to be handed over.

Chantilly won the toss and put Nomads in for this 40 over game. Opening bowlers Hoyle and Regan kept the lid on run scoring for a long time, between them giving away only 29 runs for 16 overs bowled.

The departure of Surridge, who had battled long and hard just to stay there, brought in Davidson who had scored 90-odd the previous day against Thoiry. His steady start was ominous in the fact that he seemed to play all his shots with the middle of the bat – something rarely seen at Apremont.

After 20 overs the Nomads had still only scored 56 runs, but were starting to accelerate. And around this time Chantilly started dropping catches. Never, on the field at Apremont, has so much been dropped by so many for so few wickets taken. Truth be said, Eddy got a couple of good ones. Maybe we were rusty after our mid-summer break, but poor fielding and the skills of Davidson (who went on to score 114 not out) led to a final score of 194 for 4.

Still, this sort of score is attainable on a good day for Chantilly so we went into tea licking our wounds but not without hope. And a very fine tea it was, with some weird and wonderful sandwiches courtesy of Eddy with some help from Tris.    plus ...

By July, the exceptional spring had degenerated into cool, windy and wet weather . The Saturday had been a washout and Sunday afternoon was forecast for rain - just as well those keen Lisses chaps wanted to play in the morning.

Lisses won on their previous visit to Chantilly back in June, chasing CCC's total over 25 overs. As last time, Chantilly won the toss and elected to bat first. Same format, same result?

Without the 2 regular openers of Pretsell and Sansbury, Eddie Hoyle and Rob Oakley started off the innings for Chantilly. The Lisses bowling was relatively tight but 3 or 4 runs were squeezed out of every over. They saw off the opening bowlers and then accelerated the run rate until Oakley was clean bowled by Balagi for 32.

Patrick "Hammy" Heard came in and helped push things along to 86 before he was run out - or his runner was run out - for 5.    plus ...

Chantilly Cricket Club had their second good reason to write a match report this year - their first victory in the 2011 season, at the sixth attempt. Gawd bless you, Hermits, every one of ya!

The format of the game was decided as 35 overs but with a few tweaks. All players (other than those that really refused) would bowl at least 1 over. As a counter-measure (- to avoid us playing until 10 pm), wides would count as 2 runs and not merit the extra ball. And for fun, no balls would be followed by free hit - T20 style.

Unfortunately, the Hermits had a couple of late withdrawals from the tour, but Chantilly players (strike bowler, Tris Congreve and ace fielder, Mark Hunter) kindly accepted to cross to the dark side.

The Hermits won the toss and put Chantilly in to bat. Sansbury and Pretsell opened up and all looked to be going well until Sansbury pulled to leg and was brilliantly caught by the turncoat, Hunter.    plus ...