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TERRY HARDIE TALKS INDOOR BOWLS COMPETITION PLUS LOCAL SPORT ROUND UP · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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This is Kevin Sports very Daily here on one oh five point nine Academy FM.
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They're bringing you the Folkston and Hive Sports Show. On today show,
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we have the reports on We've got reports from the usual suspects. We've got
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football, rugby and hockey, plus we've got wheelchair basketball. We've got to
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write up on some part run anniversaries. We've got my report on the Canterbury
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ten Miler which took place on Sunday with lots of folks and athletes taking part.
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We've got a report on a very very special, unique event that took
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place on Monday evening at the Three Hills. And we've got a special guest
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in the show. We've got Terry Hardy from the Folks and Indoor Bowls Club
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and he's going to be telling us about a team from the Indoor Bowls Club
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who've made their way to the quarter finals of a national club Unfortunately, our
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other guest, Josh Kennedy, couldn't make it today. Something cropped up,
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so we understand that, so we're hoping to get him in next week.
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In the meantime, let's listen to a bit of Billy Ocean and some local
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music. Local music there, Lenny, and the way down on Moscow,
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all the way from Folks In to Moscow, because that's a long way.
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Anyway, Today this is Kevin Day here on Sports Show and one oh five
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point nine and we're doing We've just got Terry Hardy back in the studio from
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the Folks and Indoor Bowls Club. Hello, Terry, Okay, thanks for
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having me back. Okay, Well, it wasn't so long ago. I've
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looked it up. It was back in October you came in and we're going
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to come on to why you're in today. But last time you came in,
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we were talking about the open day. Now, how did that go?
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What an amazing success. I mean we even we even had Missus Ferrick
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come in as well to have a little try. Absolutely brilliant. We had
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some eighty five people come through the doors on that day, which is a
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huge amount of people. Yeah, yeah, and I believe there's somebody from
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your organization here who actually kind of hopefully enjoyed themselves. Yeah. No,
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as we said before, we had to go and my ball ended up in
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Morrison's I think, yeah, yeah, or the graveyard opposite. Yeah,
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but else is that up? The eighty odd people who come through the doors.
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We actually signed up twenty plus members to cry. Yeah, absolutely amazing
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good numbers. These people have now progressed through their coaching and are out bowling.
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Are they are wonderful? Yeah, they're smiling, they're happy, they're
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enjoying it all, saying like most people have our latter years. I watched
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it, D have done it earlier a long time ago. Yeah, And
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talking about a latter of years, what sort of age category were they?
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Were they elderly people with time on their hands or young? No, no,
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no, there was a great mix of Some of them have brought their
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grandchildren along, sort of middle aged people as well, and of course some
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of the over sixties as well. That we you and I might just briefly
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have gone over in time. I just might make that yeah, yeah,
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right, okay, So that's good for the club, and that obviously word
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is going to get out and there'll be a knock on the face hopefully.
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Yeah. And we're still run regular coaching sessions on a Wednesday lunchtime twelve o'clock.
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If any of your listeners out there still fancy coming to go but they
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haven't been able to get yet. We're there every Wednesday, lunchtime, twelve
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o'clock. Just turn up with some trainers and we'll give you a guar of
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it. Excellent, right, Terry. Now the reason we called you in
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today that I picked up that one of your teams has made the quarter finals
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of a national cup. Is that right? Yeah? Absolutely amazing. All
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credits to these guys, you know, still playing a hot, good competitive
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some of them eighty five years old. I think one of the oldest ones,
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although you'd never know it, he looks as fit as a butcher's dog.
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Yeah, they play. They're playing this coming Saturday in a trophy called
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the Denny Cup. The Denny Cuppa has been running since nineteen thirty three.
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It's a national tournament and this year we've had one hundred and eighty three clubs
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enter this tournament up and down the country, and as you said earlier,
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they're through to the last day. How good is that for our club?
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Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Because anything that happens in folks and sport wise,
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they've got a disadvantage that the the captive area, the captive audience isn't
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isn't that great? Because we've got to sea on one side, haven't we?
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So we lose any sort of chance of getting any value there. Yeah,
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So anything that happens like that down here, it must be they must
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be really making lovely noises down at the club. Yeah, absolutely, and
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it's renowned in the air. Has been such a great club anyway. Yeah,
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great coaching, Oh I'm the coach. I think great coaching, great
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facilities, licensed restaurant, licensed bar, you name it, it's got it.
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It's a fantastic venue. You know yourself, you've been there. It's
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a wonderful place. The restaurant's got a great reputation for great food. You
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know it's it's just great for the club. We've we've actually got through to
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this this quarter final Denny Cup. So how how does this work? Where?
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Where? Who are your opponents and do you have to travel or do
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they come to you? Well, our opponents in your next round in this
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quarter finals is talky talky, Yeah, not exactly on our doorstep. But
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because there's such a vast distance between the two clubs, what they what they
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have decided they're going to play on neutral ground halfway between the two clubs,
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so it lessens a lot of the traveling. So one club makes sense.
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And like I say, it's on the SAT this coming Saturday to twenty seventh.
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It's being played in Newbury down the M four at the North Berkshire Bowls
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Club. So they're all after there that this coming Saturday, four rinks of
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four men. So there's sixteen guys going down there to play this coming Saturday.
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Let's hope that they do really well. I know all of them personally.
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They're a great bunch of blokes. They love playing their bowls and they're
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pretty damn good too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So what's the format
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of sixteen guys going down how's that going to work? Then? Yeah?
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Okay, So for the uninitiative, yeah, sure, because you say four
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men, four rinks, but explain that we actually play on four lanes,
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as it were, and on each lane, if you like it, you
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have four from each team. So there's eight people, four people playing against
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each other, so eight per per per lane if you like, and there's
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four of those and basically the winner. We add up all the scores at
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the end of the game off of all of those four lanes or rinks or
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whatever you want to call them, and whoever scores the highest total aggregate score
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are the winners. And how many How many times do you actually bowl them?
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Is how many games you play? Yep, it's up and down in
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effect, up and down the rinks twenty one times. Really, so it's
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a long game. It will probably last three to three and a half hours
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really, Yeah, yeah, okay, so that is that's quite It's quite
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a long time on your feet, isn't it. I mean, and when
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you're focusing concentrating on your game and you're up and down. Yeah, yeah,
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but it's I mean, it's a great game, you know me,
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keV. Yeah, I love I love the game. I love everything about
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it and I will always do everything I can to promote it. Yeah,
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it's think that a lot of people out there are missing out on yeah,
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not playing this wonderful game. Right, And what sort of time of day
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Newbury? What's that? A couple of three hours? Perhaps it's about two
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and a quarter hours, two and a half hours, But a lot of
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them are going up the night before and staying over because it's it's I think
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it's a ten o'clock start, eleven o'clock start, and it's a long way
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to go. With any problems with traveling in the suchive, you've got to
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go around first, Yeah, so it could be in trouble all right,
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and will there be I don't know if if the technology has reached the Indoor
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Bowls Club. Is there any feedbacks who we can find out how they're getting
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on. I don't think that's available. I'm afraid we're still on steam down.
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Yeah, we haven't quite got electric yet. No, No, I'm
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sure there'd be little phone calls now and then yeah, yeah, let me
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be sure you'll get the answer by the end of By the end of the
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day, I'll personally let you know how it all went. And who knows.
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Let's hope it's a successful story for and we get through to the semi
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finals. We've never got this far before. The best we've ever done has
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got through to the semi finals of the plate competition, which is for the
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first round losers, and that's then ninety clubs participating in that. But to
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get this far this time, this could be it. This could be really
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something special for the club, and not only that, for the club,
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for Kent as well on there and for the area and for your club and
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for the membership and everything. Now you said about having two different no meeting
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in the middle for the competition. But do we know yet if the finalists
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are like, you know, five hundred miles apart, will they meet in
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the middle or is there a set venue that they go once again, because
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it's probably going to be you know, we're down to eight in the whole
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country. It could be anywhere, yeah, where at all. So the
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same parameters will be put in place so to lessen the traveling for one club
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or the other, because what normally happens here is all the time, it's
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fairly local ish. We played two lanes or rinks at home, and we
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played two lanes or rinks away. I see. But because we're up at
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this level now to say the traveling forever, you know, for some people
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it's it's got to be a little bit more low. Yeah. Yeah.
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In the last round we played against Eastbourne, so so two of our four
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players, so eight of them went down to Eastbourne and eight of the east
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Eastbourne players come up to folks to playing that. But on this occasion it's
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going to be slightly different, yeah too. Well, And of course you
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won't know anything about this club talk ki, I don't suppose you've ever played
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them before. Got any secret spies gone on? I've heard so far,
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whereas we did know a bit about Eastbourne because they some of the Eastbourne players
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come to Folkston our Easter tournament and they play our Easter tournament, so some
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of them know the folks and players and we indeed there's a couple of folks
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and players who play Eastbourne now. So bowls is like that. It's like
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a real big family of people who all just want to say, men's to
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enjoy the bowling. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. And one question
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that I must ask you, it's probably obvious to you, is it only
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men that are going down? Is it a men's men's game in this particular
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one, Yes, but there's other national mixed trophies and National ladies trophies as
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well. But this year the men seem to have done exceptionally well. And
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you know, here we are, let's fingers crossed for this coming Saturday.
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Yeah. I've been doing a bit at homework about this Denny Cup and it's
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one of those things that's kind of well, it is definitely under the radar.
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I've never heard of it till I went in the other day and spoke
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to your chairman. And it goes back, it goes back years, doesn't
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it nineteen thirty three? Indeed does it? You know, you must remember
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it. Nineteen thirty three. I was on the radio then. It was
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set up by a chap called Leonard Denny and he was the president of the
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Middle Sex Outdoor Bowling Association and he thought what a great idea would be to
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have a national Bowls competition. And ever since then it's been run up until
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today, which is you know, nineteen thirty three, seventy eighty odd years.
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Yeah, yeah, and it's still going strong. It's still well known
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throughout the country and I like the idea that I think it's very ahead of
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its time. It's like two venues, you know, or one team goes
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down home and away, so you're not you know, you're not all in
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each other's faces and you're probably wondering, you know, you're playing your own
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game and wondering how your mate's getting on down. Absolutely, yeah. But
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what we normally do when we play these home and away games we always have
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these days. It's a lot easier obviously, would tell it. You know,
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mobile phone contacts. We always have somebody keeping us abreast of what's going
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on at the other rinks as well. So we can and that will be
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put on our board as well. Yeah, yeah, so we can continually
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know how we're doing comparatively home and away. Yeah excellent. But like I
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say, yeah, that's cutting edge stuff for nineteen thirty three. Yeah,
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yeah, it was. Hell did they travel in those days? Yes?
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Right, yeah, I've been looking down actually some of the teams that are
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on that bit of paper and the two competitors. Oh, there's a lot
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of mileage in between the two teams. Yeah, certainly is Yeah. When
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Margate played thinking about nineteen thirty seven or eight against someone from absolutely miles away.
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Oh yeah, yeah. When you have a look at burning Birmingham to
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Cambridge, yeah, you know wow, and that was in nineteen forty nine.
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Yeah, how did they travel? I mean it's a lot easier now,
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of course, especially forty nine just after the war, because it stopped
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during the war, isn't it? Absolutely Eli of Eli to Nottingham. Yeah,
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for example, a lot easier now, of course. Yeah. But
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it is top and top and bottom of the country certainly. Okay, but
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a very well supported club. Great okay, Terry, Now before we go,
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we can't let you go without just the recapping. How people can get
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involved. They've heard this, they've they've heard of the open day was a
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success. How can they involved and come down and tell us some dates and
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times? Yeah? Sure, As I said, some people couldn't come to
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our open day. But if you're still interested in just to come along and
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have a go. You know, there's no commitment to this. All we
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do. All you need is a spare pair of trainers that you can change
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into. We provide elder kit. Come down on a Wednesday lunchtime for the
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next six weeks because then it all changes a little bit because we're going to
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summer and come down, introduce yourself that you want to have a go at
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bowling. Never done it before, or you might have done a few years
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ago, and you'd like to come back, and you'll be ushered into the
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bolts Hall and it's all free, you don't have to pay for it.
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And the coaches, a team of coaches normally four to six of us will
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be there to lead you through it and give you some good basic information.
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So it's every Wednesday for the next six weeks. Turn up about quarters of
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twelve and you'll be there for a couple of hours. Okay, excellent Terry
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thank you so much for coming in. This has been a great st I
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love promoting bowls, you know, because it's one that is just kind of
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doesn't get enough enough promotion, does it. And we've had some good stories
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come out of this year in the plast And I might even pop down on
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Saturday and have a little look at that board, see how they get in
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on. Yeah, well it won't be at home. It won't be a
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homeless Saturday because we haven't got a game at home thiss, so won't be
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down there, but I'll have a look. I can get you a contact.
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I'll pop him for a pint anyway, and someone to tell me I'm
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sure Terry, thank you so much once again. And here's a little song
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that I think you might enjoy it. Two great tracks there Tennessee c I'm
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Not in Love and David Bowie's darm and style Man. Rather. I know
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Terry, our guest, loves David Bowie, so we found that song for
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him. And I do have to have a little chuckle when I see David
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Bowie because I remember back in the day when only fools and Horses were on
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and they were down the pub and someone said, oh, they've got a
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David David Barry tribute at coming in. It's called Ziggy Sawdust. Okay,
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let's get back to what we know best sport and football news now. Well,
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there isn't much for last Saturday as the Hive and Hawkins matches were postponed
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due to frozen pitches. Folks in Victor, however, traveled to North London
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where they played Harring Burrow Harrying gay Burrough. Sorry, and there was a
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great commentary of the the whole game, sorry, not just the second half,
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the whole game by Charlie Prescott and Ad Dowks, who was in last
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week. He's like the brains behind Folks in Victor radio and Charlie helps him
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out and Charlie was our man on the spot. And so just have a
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little listen to this. You join me from Cole's Park Stadium where Folks and
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It's traveled to take on Harring Gaye Bura. All the games around us are
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off but there was no ice left on the pitch and an artificial surface,
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so the game was given the green light to go ahead. Chris Thesson,
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you I missed out on this one for injury, so there was a slight
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reshuffle in the back line for folksing the Victor. Kane Penn moved back across
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the right wing back and Toby Byron made his return from injury, starting the
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game at left back. Andy Dury his strengthened the squad in the week and
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all three signings came onto the bench. Dean Rants, Eddie Also and Louis
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Collins were all eager to make their folks And debuts, but Paron Gaye,
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not playing a game for a week and a half, Folks and started the
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game the more lively for two teams. Toby Byron early on had lots of
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space to drive into from the left hand side, we couldn't quite make the
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most of it. The only real chance for the first half came for Folks
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and the Victor. Scott Heard swung in a corner from the left hand side.
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It flicked on and the near post by Jake Goodman and day Smith came
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charging in at the far players with a free running goal. We couldn't quite
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direct the ball goals and it went sailing over the bar. So the two
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teams headed in at halftime Neil neil. But two teams were very evenly matched
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in the second half being in the game fizzled out. The only real talking
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point was a decision to give Jason freching Out a yellow card. The balls
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played over the top by the Harringayala fence and a striker. He brought it
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down quickly bearing in our goal. They just caught his man. They looked
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like he was three on goal with the referee toosters. They finished his pocket
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and only are all Jason Elacard so focusing the Victor scene, so maybe get
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away one a little new signings. Louis Collins, Dean Rants and Eddie also
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all made their debutes in the second half, facing me to travel on Tuesday
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to Cave Islands. They to continue their unbeaten round to twenty twenty four under
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ADDI jury. Charlie Prescott reported from Cole's Park, whereas Harry Gay Burrow nil
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focusing Victor Niler. A big thank you to Charlie there for that report.
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There was one thing, one quote actually during that game where you knew you
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were literally that are listening to grassroots football and Charlie said, oops, it
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looks like they're going to need another ball that that one's gone over into the
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allotments. So that did make me chuckle. Now that trip to Canvy Tuesday
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evening it was another Worldway fixture trip to Canvy Island at the Movie Star Stadium,
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and I'll tell you a little bit about that in a minute in Essex
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where it finished two to one to Canvy, unfortunately not the result they wanted,
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especially after a Jason Friggenager hit the crossbar in the last minute. Moving
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on this Saturday, it's a home game against carl Shulton Athletics where they hoped
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to pick up another three points. So no game four Hythe on Saturday.
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But Tuesday the Union they welcomed Sitting Boorn to Reachfield for a Kent Senior Cup
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second round. High So sit back and listen to this report from a man
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pitch side, Tom Ellerby. Hythe reached the Kent Senior Cup quarter final on
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a dump Tuesday night at Reachfield, narrowly beating sitting Born two to one.
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Hithe managed to score the first with nine minutes remaining in the first half when
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Cain Philip tapped the ball towards the goal. The keeper got a touch but
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it trickled in to give High the one nill lead. The visitors scored their
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equalizer on sixty nine minutes, Gabrielle Pilkowski swung a ball into the box and
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the byline before it was guided in by the head of Mitchell May. Despite
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this, it was the Canons that scored the winner, and it came in
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the final minute of normal time as Jared Trustadin sent a free k Sickens to
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the box. There was a melee in the area before the ball was tapped
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in by substitute Jaykenbury. The full time whistle blue to mark Hive's first winner
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of twenty twenty four. They will now go on to play Chathamtown in the
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quarter final of the competition. Hi have a whole host of league games to
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think about first. Steve Wat's men traveled to seven Oaks Sound next Saturday at
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three pm, before they host Home Bay on Tuesday thirtieth at reach Field's at
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seven forty five pm. There go thanks once again Tom for sending in that
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report and as Tom says, it's back to league action in an away fixture
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at seven Oaks now. Because of their cup runs, I've only played seven
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games in the league, whereas some of their opponents have played twelve. So
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it's going to be a long, tough second half of the season. They
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are currently eleventh in the table. Only four fixtures out of the eighth survived
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in the Kent County Premier Division. Unfortunately Hawkins was in the other four.
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Their game was their game against Idleheill was postponed and you've guessed it frozen pitch.
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Saturday they try again with a visit to Kent United, which means a
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trip to Dartford. The Hawks are currently in second place with Hal's AFC equal
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on points on top as they have a better goal difference and a game in
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hand. Kent United, by the way, in eighth place. Now,
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whilst listening to the Invictor game, Charlie every now and then gave us an
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update on the focusing in Victor Disability Football team's game away at Waltha Mabbe Focus
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FC. That's where Charlie's brother Jared was involved. And what a game this
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was too. Now, I contacted Garrant Wilson and he gave me the rundown
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and this is how it went in. Victor went one kneel down, then
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two on up at halftime thanks to two goals from Peter Lee. In the
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second half, they found themselves four to two down, then Peter Lee completed
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his hat trick, making it four to three, and then they conceded again,
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losing five three, but the game was by no means over in Victor's
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fourth goal came from the penalty spot, scored by Billy Hayter, making it
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five to four. Focus Paul one back to Leeds six to four, being
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Victor were not finished. Troy Harding outpaced the defense and put one away in
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the corner of the net, making it six to five with just five minutes
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left. As the game went into stoppage time, in Victor were awarded a
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free kick within shooting range of the goal. Billy Hater stepped up and put
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it in the back of the net, making it six all. Focus kicked
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off but the ref blue in Victor celebrated as if they was a win.
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Focus left the field as if it was a defeat, but in fact it
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was a very exciting drawn game. Man of the match, chosen by the
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opposition manager, went to hat trick hero Peter Lee. But it just goes
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to show what determination and what a gutsy side that Garren Wilson has got there.
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So world unfellas what a great game that must have been now as I
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said earlier. Canvey Island play their fixtures at the aptly named movie Star Ground.
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Now I looked it up. Movie Star is like a local independent cinema
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which is in Canvy Island on the seafront there. Mediately reminded me of this
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song. When was the last time you heard this one? Love Your Peace
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Dave's Miller banda joker, Love Love Love, And before that we had our
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football stadium song movie Star. I don't know. There must have been a
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one hit wonder and do you know who sung it? Well? I didn't,
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I had to google it. It was in nineteen seventy five and it
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was sung by a gentleman called Harpo and no one's ever heard of him again.
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Right back to the sport now, time for some wheelchair basketball news.
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The Folks and Arrows made a journey of one hundred and thirty two miles on
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Saturday to a place called Thatchem in Berkshire to play Top of the Table Thames
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Valley Kings the Arrows. The Arrows, by the way, are second so
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specs of a tough game. However, the journey was all well worthwhile as
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they came home with a smile on their faces after winning fifty three points to
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twenty four. Now, the long journey prompted me to take a closer look
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at the teams in the league, which is Division three South of the National
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League. This consists of seven teams and I was surprised to see how much
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traveling was involved. So I scrolled down the table and here's what I found.
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In third place are the Southern Sharks who come from Chichester. That's one
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hundred and sixty miles. That's a one way trip, and the fourth are
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Cardiff met Archers two hundred and twenty five miles. Fifth place are Herowood Heat
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that's near Cambridge one hundred and eighteen miles. The London Titans who play at
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Stanmore or Bushy depending on what venue they can get, well that's at least
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one hundred miles. And the Hampshire Harriers who come from Southampton. That's a
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one way journey of one hundred and forty two miles, so a lot of
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traveling in there, and they make and the Hampshire Harriers actually make the journey
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to Folkston for Arrow's next fixture on the seventeenth of February. So if you
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want to help the Arrows, contact Ben or Becky Potter to see if there
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are any tables left for the fundraising quiz, which is on this Saturday at
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the Hawkins Community Center for a seven pm start. Okay, we're going to
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get back to the music now, and it's time for a bit of a
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Bruce Springs day in Dancing in the Dark. Bruce Springs Day in Dancing in
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the Dark. Now, on that note, if you've got a song that
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immediately reminds you of a sporting venue, a sporting event, then please please
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get in touch and we'll try and find it in the playlist. You know,
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it might be a song that you heard the first time you went to
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a football ground, or it might be a song that you use for your
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warm up during your run in, could be a song anything sport related,
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and there's really really sticks in your mind, then please don't hesitate getting touch
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and we see if it's on our playlist. Okay, so that's nearly coming
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up to the end of the first hour. In the second hour, unfortunately,
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our guest Josh Kennedy couldn't make it this morning. He texted me this
26:15
morning to say it's really really sorry. Something he's cropped up. But these
26:18
things happen. We understand that. But just briefly, Josh just started a
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little boxing club down at the Folks and Sports Center and there's a lot of
26:29
youngsters there, I think the age group six to twelve. I've seen the
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pictures on his Facebook page and it looks really exciting. It looks like it's
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getting a great following and it's pretty good and the parents can go along and
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watch as well. So but in the second half, what have we got.
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We've got some oh with some park round news, some hockey news.
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I'm going to do a report on the Canterbury ten and we've got an event
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that was called Let's Lift the Curfew, which was a lady's own running event
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about keeping yourself safe in the dark. So taking us up to the news
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now, we've got decon blue and a bit of dignity. Welcome back to
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the second hour of the Sports Show. Where have you been? If you're
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just tuned in, this is Kevin's Sports Very Daily on one of five point
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nine, and it's my aim to find as many sports locally and get as
27:38
many news roundups and stories as I can. So if you've got a story
27:44
that's gone under the radar, any local heroes that you know at your club.
27:49
The deserve mention. Then please please get in touch. You can catch
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up with me Kevin Dalley on my Facebook page. Coming up in this hour,
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we have got We've got some hooky news, You've got some rugby news.
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We've got a lovely story about an anniversary at the Park Run. We've
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got to write up about Let's Lift the Curfew, which was a running event
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for ladies only which was held on Monday at the Three Hills. A bit
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more about that later. Had a report on the Canterbury ten. Now that
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was a race that I compared. I was on the mic there. But
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there were loads and loads of runners from Folkston and around the area and a
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lot of first time is running as well, So plenty to look forward to
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in this hour. Don't go away, make that cup of tea can push
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your feet up. Okay. Signed for a bit of music from Sister Sledge
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He's the Greatest Dancer. And some local music Vox Deluxe and Broken Melody,
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So Fast, Local Music Vox Deluxe and Broken Melody, Time Rail where you
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look at the folks and Optimius Hockey Club. Now last Saturday, three games
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out of the twelve were cooled off. You've guessed the frozen pitches. Now,
29:33
all these games are actually in sort of northern Kent, you know Maystone
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Chatting way that up there, so it must have been a bit colder up
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there. Bere in mind that all hockey games are played on artificial services,
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so if they've had a bit of rain and then it freezes, well there's
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no where they're going to play. Now. The summary of the nine games
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that went ahead is as follows. They played nine who won, seven,
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drew, one lost one. Goals four was twenty nine and the goals against
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was ten, so quite productive weekend now. The men's first eleven beat Herne
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Bay six nil, the goals being shared about a bit. Will Mead scored
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twice and the rest came from Josh Clifford, Jamie Miller, Hastings, Harvey
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Lill and Garrett Llewellen. They all got one each. The men's second team
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beat Tumbridge Wells five nil. The men's thirds beat University of Kent three nil.
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The men's fifth drew two all with seven Oaks. That's the seven Oaks
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seventh teen and the men's sixteen beats seven Oaks eighth to him two to one.
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The Ladies first eleven beat Woking two to one, keeping them second in
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the Southeast Premier League, goals coming from Nick Ball and Becky Whyatt. The
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Seconds lost five nil to Hulcombe, the fourth beat Seven Oaks two to one,
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and the fifteen beat Faversham seven nil, with Becker Swan grabbing a hat
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trick. Janet Fuller scored twice and one each from Wendy Blackwell and Hannah Downey.
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This keeps the fifth team in top spot in the league, six points
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ahead of the old Williamsony, that's the old Willes to you now. They
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play them at home next week once again a full week of twelve fixtures.
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The men's first are at homes at Eastbourne and the Ladies first are away to
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seven Oaks. So I'm massive thank you once again to Amy there for providing
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all that information on those reports. Now getting away from sport a bit for
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the moment. I was watching the Telly last night and I've got to put
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my hand up. I'm a bit of a heartbeat addict right now. I
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only like the early ones, the sixties, you know, with Nick rowing.
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After that, I kind of didn't bother watching them too much. But
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back in the summer, me and missus Ferrick we actually went up to Heartbeat
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Country. We took the train from Pickering and the old steam train and got
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off at the station at aidens Field. They call it Goatland actually, but
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in the program the Heartbeat, the village is called Aidensfield. We had a
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pint in the Aidensfield Arms and across the road and led a look at Grips's
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garage. And it makes you laugh because they used to say, oh,
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we're in the pub the Adiens Few alarms. We needed a taxi for the
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station. Well the station is only about two hundred yards away. Anyway.
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It was really I loved it, I really did. And sitting there last
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night watching Heartbeat, there's that great link with the sixties music, and then
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this song on and this song came on and I know you're going to remember
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it. It's the Rolling Stones and painted black as base there whatever happens to
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them. I think that they made two songs, didn't they But they were
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great songs. But they've never heard of them since, have we. Oh?
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Okay, so let's move on to some park run news. Now,
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park run lots of lovely stories come from the park run community and this must
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be one of the best. This report was sent to me by a regular
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park runner and former guest of the show, Jay Hopkins. Gay Trevellion and
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Mick Marshall each did their two hundred and fiftieth park Run today. That was
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last Saturday. They both have friends and family come to the event to celebrate
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their milestone, and some of the friends they run with the drink coffee with
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organize the cake. Mick is eighty one and Gavin will be eighty one this
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month next week, I think so they have over five They have five hundred
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part runs and currently one hundred and sixty one years between them. Those big
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numbers were announced at the start of the run and received a massive applause.
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Mick and Gavin are amazing people, always happy to run with new people and
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an inspirational example to the rest of us. Mick was at the first ever
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part run back in twenty fourteen has encouraged lots of friends to join in since
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Gavin started running in twenty fifteen and has been to twenty four different venues,
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including some when he's gone back on holiday back to his native South Africa.
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They are both generous with their time and have done lots of volunteering in various
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communities in their lives. When it comes to park Run, Gavin has volunteered
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forty times and Mike fifty seven times, so they helped make sure this brilliant
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event keeps running. As octogenarian park runners, they were both invited to attend
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the anniversary run at Bushy Park this summer. They were amongst eighty five listened
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to this eighty five over eighties who finished that event that week, and Jay
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finished by saying she feels very lucky to count them as friends. Now that
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is an amazing story too. Over eighty year old still out there at the
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park Run. Now, have you ever thought of doing the part run?
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But hell back, well, this story should really just give nothing but encouragement
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to take that step. Park Runner is at nine am on the Lees every
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Saturday. It's free. You just need a barcode so you could tie.
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Your time can be recorded, but your time really it doesn't matter. It
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doesn't matter at all if it's just your first one. And as they keep
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telling me every time I go up there on a Saturday, it's a run,
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not a race. So please go to parkrun dot org to register and
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you can run, you can jog, you can walk, you can take
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your dog, you can take your buggy. It's a really great community and
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the numbers have grown over the years. We're probably clocking about well around about
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the three hundred every time. So it's really really and with the summer mumps
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coming on, it's a good way of getting out of bed on a Saturday
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morning. Now, this song was another song from the sixties and I was
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just reminiscing there about my time up in Heartbeat Country. As I say,
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we took the steam train from Pickering, went through Goatland, which is the
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village of Adensfield, and then we went on to Whitby at a walk around
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Whitby and it's amazing how many places that I spotted in Whitby that were actually
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in the in the Heartbeat series. And it's graz isn't it. When you
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go somewhere and you think I've seen that on the telly, and then you
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go home and you watch it again and you say, oh, yeah,
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we walked past that bit, or walk past that church. There's really really
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something to you. I like doing that, you know, to go to
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venues where they've been filming and so you can say yeah, I was there
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anyway. This song from the sixties is by Edwin Starr. It's called SOS
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Academy Folston one five point nine FM and online at them Foston dot com ABC
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all of my hearts from the eighties nineteen eighty two to be precise. Al
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Right, it's the turn of the Folks and Rugby Club now. The first
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fifteen lost at home to Westcombe Park by twenty one points to twelve. This
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lock folsting off top spot being replaced by park House, but there's only one
36:59
point in it. The Saturday is a way to Vigo, which means a
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trip to Gravesend. The Seconds game may have been frozen off. I couldn't
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find a result for that one. This Saturday they're due to play top of
37:08
the table Rye at home. The Seconds are currently third, so this will
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be a bit of a tough game. Also, I couldn't find a result
37:15
for the Thirds. This week they welcome local rivals Dover to Burlington Fields.
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Dover our second folks on Unfortunately their bottom at a table, so they'll be
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playing for the bragging rights and for a bit of pride. And finally,
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sadly, the Ladies lost twenty nine zero That was on Sunday. A Way
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to a Strong maidstone Side then its game is a Way to Uckfield. On
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the fourth of February now a unique event called Let's Lift the Curfew took place
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at the Three Hills on Monday evening, attended by at least seventy a lady
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runners. This was and I quote for empowering women to take back to the
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streets and feel confidence to run during the darker evenings. It was organized by
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Rossie Smith and Jordan Mann of the Sports Trust Juliet's with top coach Katherine O'Connor
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from the Folks and Running and Athletics Club. Catherine gave advice about warming up
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and some three Kent Police runners were there giving advice on safety, handing out
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panic alarms and torches. The main recommendations were wear hi y's vest, don't
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wear earphones, running brightly lit roads, you could tell someone that you're going
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out running and so on. You know, some of the things are pretty
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obvious, but it might need remind him now. The evening consisted of Catherine's
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advice and warm up and then a fifteen minute jorg in groups of ten or
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twelve with a run leader around the streets and then back to the Three Hills
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for a run around the new track, which would be your first time for
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many of the ladies. Now, the groups were made up of ladies from
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the Folkston Club, as we said, Dover Road Runners were there, Hawkish
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Hurricanes, Blister Sisters from Hythe and a group that I've seen around but I
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didn't know what their name was. They are the Hamro Run Club, which
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is made up from the Nepalese community, which is really nice to know.
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They run do their own little thing on a Saturday morning and I'm sure that
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they joined in. When we did the inaugural opening of the track back in
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the day, a lot of Nipoalese came along and very fit. They did
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look too. Now we were talking about Heartbeat and it's got me thinking,
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you know about places that I've been that's kind of famous places in our country,
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and certainly one that sprung to mind was Liverpool. Now, a couple
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of years ago, Missus Ferrett and myself went up to Liverpool. We spent
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there a long weekend up there and I'd never been to Liverpool. You've got
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a bear in mind, we live a right bang on the southern coast.
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We couldn't be further away from Liverpool, and I was in my teen years
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when I grew up here in some of the early songs. But we took
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the Magical Mystery tour and there was a commentator presenter giving us the spiel,
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and we looked at the people, you know, John Lennon's house and Paul
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McCartney's house, and we went down Penny Lane and then we went to a
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place which will always stick on my mind called Strawberry Fields. There's a great
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history to Strawberry Fields, and perhaps go into it another time, but I
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think the other highlight was taking the ferry across the Mersey and as soon as
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you started leaving the dock side ferry across the Mersey started playing put the Poor
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Captain and the crew just absolutely sick of the song. But for us we
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loved it anyway. One highlight was stopping off at Strawberry Fields and having our
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picture done by the gate. So have a little listen to this. Let
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me take you down. Thank you boys. They are trying to get you
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in the summer mood. It's been miserable lately and it's just been dark and
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cold, and today's wet, so we need a bit of cheering up beach
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boys, surfing USA and music and sport go together. That song took me
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immediately, strangely enough, to broad Stairs Beach now every year had about June
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time, I think it is. I compare a run or along the seafront
41:21
there, and they do actually start on the beach on the sand, and
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they just have to wait till the tide goes out. And it's called the
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harbor wallbanger, right, remember that, the harbor wallbanger. And what they
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do They run along the beach from Broadstairs to Ramsgate. Then they have to
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bang on the wall of the harbor hence harbor Wallbanger, and run back and
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it is a great day. It's a tough race. I can't remember how
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long it is, but running in the sand makes it even tougher, you
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know. But I take my pa stuff, I pointed music out to sea
41:53
and crank it right up and everybody's having a great day. So music and
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sport are related. And if you've got a song like that, it might
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remind you of a sporting event or a venue. And please get in touch.
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Now switching my attention to the Canterbury teen first of all that was a
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cold, freezing windy day at last Sunday. Now that saw me up early
42:14
and the race started at nine o'clock now with the start finished being in two
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different places caused the course change caused by a course change due to road works.
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This miant I arrived at six thirty and started setting up in the dark,
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something I just didn't think about, you know, because to be honest,
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it didn't start getting light to half past seven. But the start and
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the finish were in two places, so I had to set the pa up
42:36
at the start, take it all down then move it to the finish.
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Now, this is a highly competitive race, attracting nearly twelve hundred runners from
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a far away as Lothian in Scotland. The first mail back was Cole Gibbons,
42:47
running for Tunbridge, in a time of fifty three minutes thirty three seconds,
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and first Lady was Chelsea Baker, who runs for Bristol and West Ac
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and she finished in fifty eight minutes ten seconds. Strangely enough, they both
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came first last year, twenty nine runners from the Folks and Running and Athletics
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Club took part. First runner home for the club was David Tyler, who
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was six overall in fifty five minutes thirty seven seconds. First lady home was
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Nicky Goodwin in one hour, nine minutes twenty nine seconds. Two lady runners
43:16
from the club used it to kickstart their London Marathon training. Former guest to
43:21
the show, Louisa Eid finished in one hour twenty minutes and two seconds and
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Autumn richardson one hour forty seven thirty six minutes. They're not forgetting. Despite
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the course change, it's still a tough, hilly route and well donees go
43:36
to Tom Saunders, who run his first ever ten miler in one hour fifty
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three forty three. Seven runners from South Kent Harriers took part. First one
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home for the Harriers was Kieran Pilcher in one hour fifteen eleven seconds. Melnroyd
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Powell run with Mel's daughter Keeley, who also run her first ten miler as
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she prepares for her first London Marathon raising funds for Kids Cancer charity, and
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she looked really good when she finished as she crossed the line. Special mentions
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must go to Mandy Punnet, Elis Stir and Henry Cornbill their future challenges see
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Mandy taking on Ultra now ultra could be any distance over twenty six point two
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miles with Ellis and Henry running their first ever marathon in London, raising funds
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for a diabetes charity. All three belong to Beginners to run Us Club in
44:22
Hythe and you could see the smiles of happiness and achievement on their faces as
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they cross the line together. Now, big thank you goes out to Glenn
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Mosley and Nicky Old who are the driving force behind this race, which was
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hosted by in Victor, East kent Ace, and a donation of which they
44:38
will make to the local charity De melsa House. Now, the people from
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Demelza were there. I had a little chat with the lady and they do
44:46
some great stuff. There's actually three De mels of houses. The nearest one
44:50
is in Sitting Born. So getting back to the music. Now, time
44:53
for the Beautiful South and everybody's talking like beautiful South there and everyone's talking.
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Letting that one fade out a little bit because I just want to say goodbye.
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Really, I've been talking a bit too much myself this week. Unfortunately,
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our guest Josh couldn't make it, so we had a bit of extra
45:16
time on our hands. We're hoping he'll come in next week, and he's
45:22
organizing of boxing a small academy I suppose you call it. It's a little
45:25
school for six to twelve year olds to take up boxing. I mean they
45:30
don't actually get in there and punch it out of each other. It's more
45:34
about having fun and about getting fit and having a good time. The parents
45:37
are more than welcome to go along, and it's becoming really successful. So
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I do hope that Josh can make it next week. So next week,
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I haven't got any guests for just Josh, I hope, and so I'll
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be looking out for a guest. If you know somebody that you think might
45:52
be worthwhile coming in for a chap unsung hero from a sport, then please
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please let them come in. Okay, this is Kevin Daley and now I've
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been spoken too much, so I've only got a little bit of blondie to
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play out with. But it's going to be a sogie all weekend, so
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stays right and I catch all next time.