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TODAYS SHOW RECALLS FOOTBALL,RUGBY.MY TRIP TO SOUTHEND,PARKRUN VENUES,SAINTS BASKETBALL,BOXING DAY RUN AND DIP!! · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Well, this is Kevin Sports very daily here on a
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: radio Folkstone for the Folkston and Hive Sports Show. Well,
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: with a festive season approaching, some of our local sports
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: take a season seasonal break, such as hockey and rugby.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: They won't be back until January the tenth, when hockey
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: won't the rugby You've got a game this week. Football
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: season will carry on. Part run certainly keeps going, and
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: I'll be telling you all about an event that's on
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  Speaker 1: December twenty sixth as it enters its forty ninth birthday.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: It's the Salt Word Boxing Day Fun Run. Now. Race
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  Speaker 1: director Greg Borman was scheduled to come in today, but
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately he's gone down with a cuff and a sore throat,
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: so well soon Gregy can't make it. So I shall
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  Speaker 1: be recapping some of the charities that have benefited from
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  Speaker 1: this three miles of mud heels and hangover cure. Well,
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: we've also got news of the Boxing Day dip along
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: the Sunny Sands. There's two crazy charity fundraising events that
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: have been going on for years now. Before I come
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: out and looked at the weather forecast, and I don't
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: think I've ever seen this on the BBC website it
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: said one hundred percent precipitation. Now, just as you're you
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: all up, here's a song from the Eurhythmics is called
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: here Comes the Rain Again Eurhythmics nineteen eighty four. It
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: comes to rain again, And that's what the BBC is saying. Anyway.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to be a white Christmas,
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: more of a silky wet Christmas, unfortunately, But you can
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: never tell with the weather forecast. I mean sometimes you
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: look at the weather forecasting, Oh it's going to be
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: pouring down a rain, and then the next day it
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  Speaker 1: totally changes then't it. So who do you believe? Anyway?
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: Are you ready for christmasse? I'm not, you know what,
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: I've hardly started. I popped into Morrison's this morning. I
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: was about our past eight. I can't believe it might
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: even been earlier than that, and luckily the shelves were
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: full up. So I did a bit of Christmas food chopping,
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: so I don't starve over Christmas, but do a bit
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: of spork, shall we? And I think we should start
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: with football as we normally do. So we're going to
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: start with folks in Victor. Now they are certainly in
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: top form as we near the end of twenty twenty five.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: Now a lot of managers are asked at the start
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  Speaker 1: of the season, how do you think you're going to do?
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  Speaker 1: You're going to win the league, you know you're going
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  Speaker 1: to finish the midway and the stock answer is normally, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's wait until Christmas and see how the league tables look.
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  Speaker 1: We're going into Christmas this year. In Victor our top
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: of the table. Last Saturday they made the trip to
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  Speaker 1: Dartford who were fourth at the time. That being a
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  Speaker 1: Kent Darby it always adds a bit of spice to
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  Speaker 1: the game, doesn't it. With them? Well, there was a
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  Speaker 1: few players there was the former co manager Rowland Edge
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  Speaker 1: Edgy as he's known. He was on the Dartford bench
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  Speaker 1: in the opposition management team, and two former players goalie
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Henley and striker Dan Smith, who are facing last
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: year's former teammates. In Victor went one nil up at halftime,
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: at the goal coming from Joe Piggot. Then Aida Yusuf
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  Speaker 1: came on and only minutes after his arrival he scored
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  Speaker 1: from the spot after being brought down in the box
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: in the It was a bit of a tense finish
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  Speaker 1: though in the eighty eighth minute, Samir Carruthers scored a
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  Speaker 1: scorch in twenty five yarder. There was a free kick,
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  Speaker 1: but there wasn't enough time for Dartford to find that equalizer,
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  Speaker 1: so the final score was at Dartford one hosted in Victor. Two.
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday evening saw fourteenth placed at Cray Valley paper Mills
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  Speaker 1: visit the alkal line and only to find in Victor
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: once again on top four. They went on to win
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  Speaker 1: the game at three goals to nil. Now this puts
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  Speaker 1: in Victor eleven points ahead of second place Brentwood with
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: a game in hand, and they've been unbeaten for ten games,
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  Speaker 1: so halfway through the season. Not too bad, is it.
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: Next up is a home game on Saturday against Canby Island,
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: and then on the twenty seventh. This is the sort
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  Speaker 1: of games over the festive period. On the twenty seventh
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  Speaker 1: another Kent derby, This is a way to Ramsgate and
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: the first game of twenty twenty six is a home
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  Speaker 1: fixture another Kent derby against Chatham on January third. Now
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: in the NLG Kent County League, it was a good
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  Speaker 1: day for our two local teams. Hawkins traveled away to
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: Bexley and came home as seven to one winners, whilst
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: New Romney played in the Kent Intermediate Challenge Shield with
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: a two to one home win over Kent United after
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: going one kneel down. This result puts them into the
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  Speaker 1: semi final. This coming Saturday, Hawkins have another league fixture,
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  Speaker 1: this time away to Cuxton FC, which means a trip
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  Speaker 1: to Rochester and New Romney find themselves are chasing even
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  Speaker 1: more silver with an away fixture into in the Interregional
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: Challenge Cup, and this is against the team which, let's
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  Speaker 1: face it, never heard of, Equinochial FC, their top of
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  Speaker 1: Division one West, so this will mean a trip to
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  Speaker 1: Southeast London. New Romney are currently thirteenth out of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: teams in the Premier League and they've been a good
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: form lately after a poor start. But Equinochial FC are
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  Speaker 1: sitting on top of their division having only lost one
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  Speaker 1: game all season, so this has the makings of a
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  Speaker 1: really close game. On the twenty seventh of December, Hawkins,
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: you're at home to long Lane who traveled down from
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: Kidbrookney Greenwich and New Romney currently don't have a fixture,
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  Speaker 1: well what I can find at the moment the first
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  Speaker 1: games of twenty twenty six. See you're both clubs in
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  Speaker 1: action on the third of January when Hawkins are away
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  Speaker 1: to Kingshill and New Romney are at home to Snodland
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  Speaker 1: Town Reserves, both games in the league. So turning our
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: attentions to Hive Town now, well they didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: game last Saturday is their opponents were in cup action
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  Speaker 1: and results elsewhere didn't do them any favors. It didn't
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  Speaker 1: go their way. They now sits in bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: league and this week they are at home to Stansfield
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  Speaker 1: who are just one place above them, so this really
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: is a must win game for Hive. Their fixture on
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: the twenty seventh of December is at home to Hollins
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  Speaker 1: and Blair. Then on the third of January it's a
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  Speaker 1: way to Larkefield and New Hive So that's a bit
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: of a local round up of the football. So if
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: you do like your football over the festive period, and
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: it's normally games on Boxing Days and there on January
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  Speaker 1: the first, but that seems to have been sideswiped this
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  Speaker 1: year for some reason. But whatever you do before you
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  Speaker 1: travel and the just check social media or the Internet
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  Speaker 1: just to make sure that the games are still going
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  Speaker 1: on at the places that they say. With all this
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: rain about, there could be a few cancelations orsponments if
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: you haven't got a three G pitch, which folks that
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  Speaker 1: now have the benefit of. So please check the internet
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  Speaker 1: or social media before you travel. Okay, now this one,
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  Speaker 1: I love this one. This is nineteen seventy one. Now
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  Speaker 1: this is a great track that I love it, and
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  Speaker 1: I think Eric Clapton was the lead singer of this lot.
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: And do you know what missus Ferret is trying to
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: talk me in to go and see him. He's at
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: saundering him up in Norfolk there not till August. So
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting on the fence a little bit. But are
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  Speaker 1: these artists really as good what you picture them in
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: their heyday? Anyway, let's sit back and enjoy the dulcic
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  Speaker 1: tones of Derek and the Dominoes and Layla. I've got
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  Speaker 1: a bit of local or rugby news now. Folks from
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  Speaker 1: Verse fifteen had an excellent home Vic over Old Alanians
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  Speaker 1: by forty points to twenty one, keeping them in fourth place.
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  Speaker 1: This Saturday, their last game of twenty twenty five sees
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  Speaker 1: a trip to near Maidstone where they face a tough
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  Speaker 1: game against fifth place Alsford Balls. They have a break
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: then until the tenth of January when they welcome Midway
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  Speaker 1: second fifteen to the Burlington Fields. Now, the second team
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  Speaker 1: on paper had forty points to niil a defeat against
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: a Lee of rugby club and this score, this score
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  Speaker 1: always rings alarm bells with me. I'll check the England
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  Speaker 1: Rugby site and it was actually a home walkover win.
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  Speaker 1: So the score automatically goes to forty points to kneel. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this normally means that the team cannot field aside, but
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  Speaker 1: it could be due to just lack of numbers. It
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  Speaker 1: could mean injuries or illness running through the team, especially
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: this time of year. It could be that players are
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: not available due to other commitments. Anyway, let's hope things
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  Speaker 1: are looking better for this Saturday's home game against Canterbury. Now,
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: the Ladies team hadn't played since their twelve five went
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: over seven oaks way back in November the twenty third,
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  Speaker 1: so would they be a bit rusty when they visited
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  Speaker 1: Ashford for a local derby. Well, the answer was a
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  Speaker 1: definite no. As they ran out winners with a seventy
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  Speaker 1: two to nil a victory. Seeing they finish off twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five in second position. Their first game in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six is on Saturday January the eleventh against Lordswood. Now,
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: remember the ladies got promoted last year and it's not
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: a very big league, so they don't play every single week,
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: but they are holding their own doing very well. First
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: team they're doing okay, and it seems like the second
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  Speaker 1: team might be struggling a bit. So let's hope for
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: better things for the second team and everybody down there
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  Speaker 1: at the Burlington Fields. Okay, now this one popped up
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  Speaker 1: again because we see the Illegal Eagles. I know a
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: couple of months ago back at the leeds Cliffe Hall
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  Speaker 1: and they were absolutely awesome. Every note, every harmony was
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: spot on. And I've picked up on social media that
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: they are coming back to the Leeecliff Hall. So it
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: makes you think, she did you go and see him again?
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: You know, you can't get to see supergroups like the
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: Eagles anymore. So this is one of the best tribute
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  Speaker 1: bands going. So I've chosen this one from nineteen seventy five,
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite tracks by the Eagles and it's
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  Speaker 1: one of these nights, but that's the original Eagles, one
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  Speaker 1: of these nights, nineteen seventy five. And you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I've just been checking. Had a quick look find out
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  Speaker 1: when the Illegal Eagles are coming back to the lease
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  Speaker 1: Cliff Hall. And it's on March the first, they're coming back.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll check the tickets, you know, and they nearly
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  Speaker 1: all gone already. So if you are an Eagles fan
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  Speaker 1: and you want to recreate what these guys did back
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: in the seventies and see the illegal Eagles, you better
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: get clicking and get googling because there's not many places
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  Speaker 1: left right. So let me tell you about what I
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: did last weekend. Well, I headed off to South End
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: on the Saturday because I was comparing a race. It's
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  Speaker 1: called the Rudolph Run. I did that on the Sunday,
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: so I had a little overnight stay in the hotel
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  Speaker 1: and on the Saturday I got down there. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm made sure I got down there in the daylight
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: because I wanted to go up the South End Peer.
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: You have I been up the South End Peer and
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: it's over a mile and a third I think it
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  Speaker 1: is and it was getting a bit cold, and I thought, well,
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: I'm running out a bit of time, so I took
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  Speaker 1: the little train up there. And last time me and
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  Speaker 1: Missus Ferrett went up there was a few years ago.
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: We did the walk up. It was really really nice.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason that the pier is so long, it's
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: so obvious, you know, because when the tide goes out
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: isn't it isn't the sea, it's the Thames Estuary. When
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: the tide goes out, the tide just disappears. It goes
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: out about a quarter of a mile. So the idea
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  Speaker 1: was when it was built that if there was any
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: ferries or a passenger carrying boats, they could more up
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  Speaker 1: right at the end of the pier, and so they
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  Speaker 1: didn't sort of what do you call it ground out underneath.
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  Speaker 1: So it is very deep out there in the middle anyway,
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  Speaker 1: So Sunday moving on to Sunday. Sunday was a really
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: nice day. As we started setting up about well about
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: plast seven, I think it's still dark and it was
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: a bit chilly on the Thames there. But they had
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: a junior run with over one hundred taking part that
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: happened at ten o'clock and then a senior five miler
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: where around seven hundred took part at ten thirty. Now,
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: as I said, this was a seafront estuary promenade and
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: the play was packed. I must say this about the
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: South End runners and the Essex people, they do throw
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: themselves into it. I imagine around six hundred of them were
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: done up in festive outfits. We had Santa's, we had elves,
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: we had Christmas trees, grinches, Christmas puddings, a couple of
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: Santa sleighs and we even had a homemade Christmas cracker
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  Speaker 1: run in. Now the sun was out, no rain attachilly,
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: but it was a brilliant atmosphere. It really was fine.
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  Speaker 1: You know, place was buzzing. Now. As I say, the
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: course was alongside the Thames Estuary, the tide was right
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: up and so it was an amazing day. And then
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: luckily after that it was a good drive home to
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: folks them because you never know, doo you're coming from
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: that sort of part of Essex. You've got to hit
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: that tunnel or the bridge on the way back. But
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: I was lucky you went straight through. So coming up
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: for me this weekend on Saturday, I'm on the mic
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  Speaker 1: at the Dover Waterfront Christmas Park Run and then on
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Sunday it's the Nice Work Christmas Cracker Run at BET's
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  Speaker 1: Hager And will just say that it is the junior
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: part run on Sunday and they're having a bit of
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: a Christmas theme there. So parents, if you want to
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: take your children along, if they haven't been for a while,
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: then get them done up in their center outfits, in
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: their elves outfits and take them along to the Junior
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: part run at Radnor Park nine o'clock start. Now on
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Christmas Day, I shall be appearing at the Folkstone Park Run. Yes,
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Christmas Day, they're having one Christmas Day. They make sure
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: they get enough volunteers and then they go ahead, so
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: I'll be there. Then on Boxing Day it's the forty
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: ninth annual Assault with Boxing Day run. So if you
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: want to be a festive exercise, I hope to see
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: you at one of those. Now trawling back through the archives,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: I love this song. I love the Hollis, So listen
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: to this look through Any Window Coolly's nineteen sixty five. Okay,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: let's move on there. We're going to stay in with
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: the park run theme. Really, our park run tourists were
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: out and about the following venues. Alara Parsons she run
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: hers at the Wimbledon Common, Clive Allen was at Bexleet,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Martin Salmon was at Pegwell Bay. Former guests of the
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: show Tom aspinall he's a womba actually he found himself
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: at Seaton Park in Devon. Henry and Amy Akson visited
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: a Swanlea Park Run. Caroline Curtis and Debbie Partment to
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: run at Moat Park, Madstone. Nicki Goodwin was at the
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Thames Path Park Run in Woolwige and finally Oscar Roach,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Simon Ramsay, Neil Adams and Roy Atkins went to the
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Dover Waterfront Park Run. So really well everyone was not
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: too far away, you know, like in the summertime if
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: we get a park runs coming in from Australia, in
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Canada and all over the place, but the furtherest one
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: last weekend was Tom Aspiner who was in Devon. Now,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: park Run that has been just growing stronger and stronger,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: isn't it. And I see that the founder member of
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: park Run was honored by a Luughborough University during the
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: week and well deserved. It's made such a difference to
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: people's lives. You don't have to be a top class athlete.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: You know, if you're a little bit intimidated by joining
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: a running club, you can sign up for a park run,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: get yourself a bar code, and you can go to
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: any park run in the country and it doesn't cost
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: you a penny. So how good is that? You know,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: that's brilliant. And of course the volunteers. We must not
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: forget the volunteers. And it'd be nice to see if
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: more of the runners would give something back on volunteer.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: It seems to be the same old faces, and I
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: see so many posts saying all volunteers needed, volunteers needed.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: So if you're a runner and you've never volunteered, give
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: it a go. You certainly enjoy it. You can run
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: the next week. Okay, we've got about basketball news now.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Two wins out of two for the Saints last weekend,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: and that's the Folks and Saints. The under sixteen eighteen
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: beat s six Rebels by eighty one points two fifty
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: seven and the under fourteens beat Graves and Spartans by
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: seventy seven points to forty eight. And some tennis news.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: This is a lovely bit of news This former guests
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: of the show, Jody Wood, was presented with a Volunteer
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: of the Year by the high Lorn Tennis Club last Saturday.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: This was due to her work, in particular to the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: club's junior section and for supporting events during the year
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: and for encouraging women into the sport. Now, we've had
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Jody on quite a few times in the recent years, actually,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Jody and Chris, her partner, who's a coach down there.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: And in one of the first interviews, I remember asking
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: if she played tennis and she sort of said, no,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: you know, of I'm not really sure, you know. But
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the second interview we had some months later, she had
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: picked up the tennis racket and she reluctantly started playing.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: But now she's playing regularly, and besides playing, she's more
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: than thrown herself into volunteering and her efforts have been rewarded.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: So we're done to you, Jody. Okay. Now, I was
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: looking at the playlist today and I saw that this
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: song hasn't been played on this radio station for three months.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: So this sit back and endure this classic track from
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Smoking Robinson Tears of a Clown, Smoking Robinson. We had
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: to dust dust the cobbs of that one, and before
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: we played it. It hasn't been played for age y
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  Speaker 1: is on this radio station, but it's nice to hear
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  Speaker 1: that one again. Okay, time for a little chat about
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  Speaker 1: the salt Worth Boxing Day Run. Now on December the
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixth, I shall be on the mic comparing the
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  Speaker 1: forty ninth of Boxing Day run. So let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you a bit about it. It first started all those
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: years ago when a group of nine at local lads
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  Speaker 1: decided to have a cross country run on Boxing Day
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  Speaker 1: then spend the rest of the day in the pub.
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  Speaker 1: Now at least a couple of the original lads sadly
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: have passed away. Terry Davis passed away with the motor
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: neurone disease and Mickey Wire from a throat cancer, but
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  Speaker 1: they are still remembered every year now. The motives were
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: both these cancers. Sorry, both these charities cancer and a
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  Speaker 1: motor neurone have been supported by this race. So let
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: me tell you about the other charities and establishments that
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: have also felt the benefit. When you look at it,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: it's quite a varied list, which is nice, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not all about if you like mainstream charities which often
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  Speaker 1: get if you like the pickings of a bunch, don't
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  Speaker 1: they certainly motor neurone Disease and Cancer Research UK are
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  Speaker 1: on that list, along with McMillan Cancer Supports. Now this
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  Speaker 1: was a I remember this year that they did. They
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  Speaker 1: did a they donated some money to a thing called
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: detection dogs. Now what are detection dogs, you ask, Well,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: detection dogs are dogs that are trained Now when people
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: have got if you like, sort of allergies, low blood glue,
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  Speaker 1: coast levels, lots more things like that, the dog, after
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  Speaker 1: training can sense an odor change in the person's body
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  Speaker 1: and if that person needs a little nudge to take
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  Speaker 1: his medication, that's what they do. And well, there was
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  Speaker 1: one year when we was at the presentation and this
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  Speaker 1: chat ball is the detection dog along and the dogs
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  Speaker 1: started getting agitated and keept nudging the owner on his
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  Speaker 1: on his legs and on his knees and things like that,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and it was actually working. Because of all the sort
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: of excitement of the evening, the gentleman had forgotten to
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  Speaker 1: take his medication and this actual dog it's just giving
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: him a little reminder that it was due. So how
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  Speaker 1: amazing is that I've read I've been reading about detection dogs.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they use them as we know as sniffer dogs,
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  Speaker 1: sniffing out explosives and things like that, and their sense
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  Speaker 1: of smell is absolutely amazing. But what else did we find?
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  Speaker 1: So Yes, one year I made a donation to a
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  Speaker 1: Canterbury hospital and the money raised there bought TVs and
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  Speaker 1: furniture for the cancer ward. Local schools have benefited with
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the donation to buy books. The Silwood Village Hall has
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: been helped to upgrade the kitchen and the local church
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: has also had new carpet and money for the roof
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: and even putting money towards the bill. There's a couple
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: of things that I have highlighted earlier on in this report,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: and I just wanted to say a big well done
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  Speaker 1: to a gentleman called Tony Skelton. Now Tony's run at
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: least forty Boxing Day fun run and he's still going strong,
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  Speaker 1: So I hope to see you there on the Boxing Day, Tony.
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  Speaker 1: And there was another one that deserves to mention another charity.
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  Speaker 1: One year two lads turned up on motorbikes, big big
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: motorbikes and they were called blood Runners. Now the blood
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Runners are volunteers, and they're on motorbikes. They deliver urgent
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: supplies of blood. And they came along and they benefited
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: by a donation from the from the from the run itself. Now,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: many of the thousands of people that have taken part
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: in the years. Over the years may not have realized
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: all these facts, but the Siltwood Boxing Day fund Run
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: is a big, big charity fundraising day in the running calendar.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Current race director Greg Boorman was scheduled to join me
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: today in the studio, but he's a coff and a
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: sore throat and thought it was safer to stay away,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: So get well soon, Greg.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Greg was telling me during the week though that he
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: missed the first six years of the run, but then
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: he joined in as a runner and run it for
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: nine or ten years. But then it started to get
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: bigger and bigger, which meant more measures were needed to
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: put it in place, such as risk assessment and medical
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: cover and more sort of control over the entries. It
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: was getting big. I myself run it for many years,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: but now I have the job of being MC for
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the day. In the past, the race has attracted as
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: many as a thousand people, many signing up on the
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: day after agreeing to run it on Christmas Day after
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a couple of drinks. We often get that they get
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: turned up. They turn up and say what have I
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: let myself in for yesterday at the Christmas dinner table.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I'll put my hand upstead, I'd run it now. It's
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: got to be treated as a typical fun run. It's
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: not a PB course because at some points it's very narrow.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: There's a kissing gate where they go over a little stream.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Some runners get a little bit frustrated and do try
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and jump from one bank to another, always ending up
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: in the stream. And however, with hundreds of people turn
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  Speaker 1: up as well spectators to come along and watch it
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  Speaker 1: and support, it really is a buzzy day. Now, if
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: you're going to do it, I would advise entering beforehand
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: or picking up your number early. Registration opens at nine
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: point thirty, the run itself starts at twelve. I mean
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  Speaker 1: you could get up there at nine thirty, you pick
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: your number up and go home and have a cup
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: of two, can't you. Entries on the day are in
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the village hall. Now you can expect the course to
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: be very muddy, as it looks like we've been going
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: to have a soggy festive few days, certainly in this
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: part of the country. Anyway, Greg is going around the
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: course on Monday in cases any obstructions because it does
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: change from year to year, you know, trees coming down.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: So I hope to see you anyway, I hope to
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: see your boxing day for three miles of mud hills
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: and hangover cure. Okay, so this is what I could
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: do with actually another cup of coffee. This is making
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the mechanics, Mike and the mechanics have not that for
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: a long time either of a nineteen ninety five okay,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: so last a few bits of sport now. Now, if
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: you don't fancy a running a three mile across country course,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: you can always join the Boxing Day Dip. And this
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  Speaker 1: event has also been on the calendar for many years
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and also raised the money for local charity. It's organized
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: by the Folkston Lions Club. It's held at the Folkston
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Sunny Sands and this year starts at eleven thirty. This
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: one varies obviously during the course of the year due
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: to the tide times. Registration is from a nine point
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: thirty eleven o'clock. It's a fancy dress Judge in Time
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: and the Difference, as they are known, are encouraged to
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: enter into the spirit of things and put on a
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: fancy dress costume of some sort, doesn't matter what it
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: is as they run into the freezing seas now. Also,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: this event also attracts one hundreds of spectators who have
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the perfect viewing platform along the promenade. The further information
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: on the DIP please visit the Folkstonlions dot org dot
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: uk or just put folks on Boxing Day DIP twenty
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: twenty five in your Google search box. So now you
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: have it to long standing charity fundraising events where you
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: can either get Phil fee Muddy or freezing Cold up
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: to you right, Okay, so we are not too long
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to go now, So we're going to play out with
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: this one. And this is a Phil Collins song. But
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: if you get a chance talking about what can we say,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: tribute bands there, if you get a chance to see
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: a group called No Jacket Required, then please go and
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: see them. They are a Phil Collins tribute band and
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: they are absolutely awesome. So we're going to play this
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: one out and I might have time to have a
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: little chat with you. See what's coming up in a
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: few moments.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Time, Wayne Man turns the corner finds himself with it.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Well that's it from me. I should be back next Thursday. Yes,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: and next Thursday, Christmas Day, there'll be an hour of
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: chat and music. I probably won't be doing much sport.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I'll probably just make it up as it goes along.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: It'd be nice to do a live show on Christmas Day.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: So I'd better start writing out my Christmas card, do
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: my Christmas shopping, hit cracking, get in the mood, stormy.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: All sad.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Storm got a lot of busy part runs and festive
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: runs to do over the Christmas So leaning up to Christmas,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: have a eaight time and I'll catch you all next week.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm