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TERRY AND LINDA HARDIE CHAT ABOUT THE OPEN DAY AT THE FOLKESTONE INDOOR BOWLS CLUB AND RAY JOHNSON ABOUT THE FOLKESTONE HALF MARATHON · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kevin's Sports Daily here on Radio Folkston bring
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  Speaker 1: you the Folkston in a high sports show.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up locally this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: We have two big events and we have two special guests,
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  Speaker 1: even three special guests to tell you all about them.
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  Speaker 1: Our first guests are Terry and Linda Hardy, who will
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  Speaker 1: be telling us all about an open day happening at
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  Speaker 1: the Folkston Indoor Bowls Club on Sunday. And our second
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  Speaker 1: guest coming on later on is Ray Johnson, the race
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  Speaker 1: director of the nineteenth Rotary Half Marathon, which also takes
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  Speaker 1: place on Sunday. Added to that, if we have time,
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  Speaker 1: I have got reports on local football, rugby, hockey and rowing.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't get them in today, then we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to squeeze him in on Saturday with the eighty Duks
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  Speaker 1: on the Saturday Sports Show. So we better get straight
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  Speaker 1: to the starting line, and we're under orders and we're
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  Speaker 1: off with a bit of a Genesis. I'll tell you what,
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  Speaker 1: I love that track. That's a Genesis Invisible Touch. So
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  Speaker 1: if you like your eighties and your nineties in fact,
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  Speaker 1: come along to the Three Heels on Saturday, the twenty
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  Speaker 1: sixth of October. We're in our very own Rodeo Folks
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  Speaker 1: that presents a night of eighties and nineties music. The
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  Speaker 1: man to get in touch with is Paul Reynolds and
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  Speaker 1: he's got a lovely easy email address Paul Reynolds nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy three at gmail dot com, so if you just
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  Speaker 1: drop him a line. Tickets are ten pound each and
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  Speaker 1: you've got to be eighteen plus to come along, but
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  Speaker 1: look forward to a good night. We've also got live
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  Speaker 1: music from the fabulous Karen, Marie Bruff and Crimson Medici,
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  Speaker 1: so make sure you're there now, Surrey. This coming Sunday
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  Speaker 1: at the Folks and Indoor Bowls Club, there is an
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  Speaker 1: open day and we're joined by Terry and Linda Hardy
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  Speaker 1: from the club.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Terry, morning Caves. Nice to see you both.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in. Mob had it today. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I like to see. So we'll start with you. Terry
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  Speaker 1: tell us, well, tell our listeners what your role is
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  Speaker 1: at the club.
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  Speaker 3: To start with, Yeah, I'm one of the trained coaches
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  Speaker 3: at the club. There's some six or seven of us
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  Speaker 3: on a level two. We've got four level twos and
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  Speaker 3: three level threes, so quite an in depth group of coaches.
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  Speaker 2: Most of who will be there on Sunday morning, just.
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  Speaker 3: Really not to show anybody the game in depth, but
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  Speaker 3: just a sort of a light hand on the top
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  Speaker 3: of the shoulder to say, come on, this is how
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  Speaker 3: we do it, this is the way of doing it.
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  Speaker 3: It's nothing really pressurized or anything. Come on, I have
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  Speaker 3: a go at this fantastic game. Right, And Linda, what's
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  Speaker 3: your role at the club?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm the company secretary, which basically involves paying all
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  Speaker 4: the bills, the looking after the staff and obviously paying
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  Speaker 4: their wages, and just all the basic general running of
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  Speaker 4: the club and the building and keeping things hopefully in line.
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  Speaker 1: Really right, okay, and what about membership you get involved
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  Speaker 1: in at as well?
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  Speaker 2: I do get involved in membership.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and we've currently got obviously we're a members club.
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  Speaker 4: We've currently got over three hundred playing members and about
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  Speaker 4: three fifty social members.
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  Speaker 2: Three hundred playing members. Yeah, well that does surprise.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're actually trying to grow that as well, because
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  Speaker 4: we do still have capacity for rink usage in the
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  Speaker 4: afternoons mainly, and we'd love to get more members to
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  Speaker 4: feel those.
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  Speaker 1: Really, So Terry over to you now coaching. Do you
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  Speaker 1: still play actively as well? You stalking the team.
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  Speaker 2: Yes I do.
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  Speaker 3: I play in the Kent League Men's Kent League, which
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  Speaker 3: is everywhere in Kent. Last year where you were actually
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  Speaker 3: league champions. We were the champions of Kent. Yeah, fantastic achievement.
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  Speaker 3: Hadn't been done by the Folkstone Club for a long
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  Speaker 3: long time, right And what's the furthest you travel? Do
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  Speaker 3: you think the nearest furthest Tumby Tweils? Where else do
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  Speaker 3: we go? All of North Kent, Dartford, Graysend, Isle of Grain,
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  Speaker 3: Medway Town switched the ball than it?
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  Speaker 2: Bromley is all indoors, all indoors? Yes, okay? And are
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  Speaker 2: they games that are played at the weekend?
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  Speaker 3: The men's games are played at the weekends, but there's
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  Speaker 3: also the ladies play in the Kent League as well,
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  Speaker 3: playing a similar type of venues as what the men do,
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  Speaker 3: but there's is midweek rather than the weekends.
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  Speaker 1: So getting back to coaching, if you've got someone that's
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  Speaker 1: become a member, they love the game and they're showing
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  Speaker 1: a bit of interest in coaching, can you point them
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction?
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  Speaker 5: Yep?
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  Speaker 3: Next the next step if people come along and really
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  Speaker 3: get the bug for this, And I always say to
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  Speaker 3: pick new people. When they ever go at bowls, they'll
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  Speaker 3: be bowling up and down and say, oh yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: like this, this is really good fun. I say to
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  Speaker 3: them on day one of their teaching class, You've got
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  Speaker 3: to be prepared for this because you might get addicted
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  Speaker 3: to it. Very addictive game. So what we do if
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  Speaker 3: people show an interest every Wednesday from I just got here,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes from next Wednesday every lunch time, turn up about
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  Speaker 3: ten to twelve they or thereabouts. There's coaches there to
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  Speaker 3: give you proper formal training and that lasts about two
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  Speaker 3: to two and a half hours, and then we do
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  Speaker 3: about five week course. And at the end of that
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  Speaker 3: five week course, always on a Wednesday, you'll be you'll
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  Speaker 3: have the idea of one how to bowl, you'll know
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  Speaker 3: the rules, you'll know the protocol, and you know you'll
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  Speaker 3: be out of bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Do you get them?
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  Speaker 1: Is this all in sort of in house or do
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  Speaker 1: you get other people from different parts again come over
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  Speaker 1: to do a course.
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  Speaker 2: Generally not No, it's mostly localhouse. Yeah yeah, yeah. But
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  Speaker 2: also we also do sort.
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  Speaker 3: Of continuation training as well for those who have gone
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  Speaker 3: through that process. And just one another little touch on
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  Speaker 3: the tiller to get them up to a better standard.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, Over the years, Terry, you've brought guests in
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  Speaker 1: and so I've got to find out more about bowls
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  Speaker 1: than I have thought I ever would. And I realized
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  Speaker 1: that the summer season is coming to an end now.
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  Speaker 1: So do you get a big rush of people coming
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  Speaker 1: to use your indoor facility?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: In effect, during the summer everybody plays at their outdoor clubs,
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  Speaker 3: and that could be four in Folkstone, like where Bay
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  Speaker 3: Folkstone itself, by the Morrison's round the Park, Cheriton, New
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  Speaker 3: Romney Hives, Baram four Indover. I mean there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of outdoor rinks, there's very few comparatively indoor rinks. So
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  Speaker 3: once the outdoor season stops, everybody from all of those
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  Speaker 3: local clubs, mainly local clubs, although we do have people
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  Speaker 3: come down from Canterbury as well. They then come to
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  Speaker 3: our club and join the Folkston Indoor Bowls Club.
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  Speaker 1: I see right, So if these clubs, if you like,
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  Speaker 1: tell me where the other options are for indoor bowling
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  Speaker 1: along the coast is so they wouldn't have to travel
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  Speaker 1: too far.
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  Speaker 3: No, the nearest ones really from from Folkston is Thanet Whitstable.
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  Speaker 3: Then going the other Way, Ashford, Madstone, Tunbridge, seven Oaks,
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  Speaker 3: Tumbridge Wells and then going up the other way sitting Bourn,
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  Speaker 3: Medway Town's Isle of Grain, Dartford ten. Yeah, but not
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  Speaker 3: obviously because they're very expensive things to run. There's not
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  Speaker 3: so many of them.
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  Speaker 1: What I was going to say to you, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: when I first came into the indoor Balls Club in Folkston,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, oh my word, this is the tardest.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it is huge.
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  Speaker 1: Is you're a club extremely huge or the others are
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  Speaker 1: a bit smaller.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the.
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  Speaker 3: Biggest ones in the county. It's got seven rinks that
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  Speaker 3: we play on. Most of them in the county are
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  Speaker 3: all six, some of them have eight, a couple of
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  Speaker 3: them got eight. But we know we're one of the biggest,
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  Speaker 3: and we're certainly one of the longest. Our one is
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  Speaker 3: thirty seven and a half meters. The standard sort of
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  Speaker 3: size is thirty two thirty four.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so it's slightly longer, but you can bring it
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  Speaker 1: in and I suppose put the jack up the other income.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's that's all part of the game, you know,
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  Speaker 3: playing playing a short jack, which can be anything up
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  Speaker 3: to twenty three meters or a long jack that can
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  Speaker 3: be thirty four meters right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now Linda, coming back to you, judging by your
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  Speaker 1: three hundred members, I mean I want to ask you
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  Speaker 1: for all their postcodes.
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  Speaker 2: But do you have people that are quite live quite
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  Speaker 2: a way away and not all down the marshall any.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we certainly have people from the marsh Like Terry said,
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  Speaker 4: we have some that come in from Canterbury. We have
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  Speaker 4: some that come from Ashford, even though there's an indoor
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  Speaker 4: center at Ashford. We've also got people from Sandwich and
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  Speaker 4: some of the some of the sort of fanny areas,
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  Speaker 4: but not too many because they tend to go to
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  Speaker 4: the ones closer to them. But I think where our
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  Speaker 4: club differs with a lot of the other indoor facilities
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  Speaker 4: is that we have a separate hall and a separate
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  Speaker 4: bar and dining area. A lot of the purpose built
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  Speaker 4: newer clubs, it's all in one, so you wouldn't necessarily
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  Speaker 4: be able to block off the bowling from where you
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  Speaker 4: sit in, eat or have a drink.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So we're quite unique in that regard as unique
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: And it's good also that you can have the bar
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  Speaker 1: and you can shut off the kitchen area as well. Absolutely, yeah, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: Well we're chatting away here. So what we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do now, we're going to play a bit of music,
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  Speaker 1: but we're going to come back and you can both
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  Speaker 1: tell us all about the open Day. So Terry, I
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  Speaker 1: think you might like this one there go. That was
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  Speaker 1: David Bowie and Starman nineteen seventy two. And as for you, Terry,
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  Speaker 1: and you seem to know what album it was often.
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  Speaker 3: Unky Dory, fantastic, one of the best Bowie albums ever.
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  Speaker 2: I know he was a Bowie fan. So there you go,
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  Speaker 2: yes for you?
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  Speaker 1: Who right, Okay, time to talk about the open day.
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  Speaker 1: So let's start with you Terry. First of all, if
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  Speaker 1: you like, if there's someone listening here and just move
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  Speaker 1: to Folkston, start with telling us where the club is
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  Speaker 1: and we start from there.
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  Speaker 2: What times the open day is? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Sure, The Bowl Center is situated along at Chelson Road.
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  Speaker 3: If you know where Morrison's is, it's just right next
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  Speaker 3: door to Morrison's, just this side of the Sandwich, nicely
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  Speaker 3: between Morrison's and the Harvey Grammar School. Wonderful place where
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  Speaker 3: I spent my education. Of course, I can't believe he's
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  Speaker 3: still there.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many people that, if you like senior citizens
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  Speaker 1: a chat with over the course of a week, say oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I used to go to Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: People don't believe it that I ever got there, but
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  Speaker 3: it's true. I've got me pieces of paper saying I
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  Speaker 3: did pass me. Yeah, your name still scrawled on a
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  Speaker 3: desk somewhere. Is it under a desk? Terry loves Linda,
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  Speaker 3: that's the one. Yes, But they're come back to the bowl.
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  Speaker 3: So that's the place Cherum Road near the Three Hills.
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  Speaker 3: If you know where the Three Hills are, or the
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  Speaker 3: football club or the Harvey Grammar School or Morrison's, you can't.
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  Speaker 2: Miss us, right, So what time is it?
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  Speaker 3: The actual open day itself is listed from ten till four.
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  Speaker 3: Just pop along at any time. We'll be able to
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  Speaker 3: fit you in anytime during the day. If you've never
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  Speaker 3: done it before, have a go. You just never know
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people that I've dealt with before and
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  Speaker 3: when I suggest it, they come and say I'm not
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  Speaker 3: old enough yet. Well, let me tell you this. On
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  Speaker 3: a Saturday evening we have a lot of youngsters come along.
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  Speaker 3: We actually put on a Youngster's Evening every Saturday starts
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  Speaker 3: at five o'clock. The Junior Club, we sometimes get fifteen
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  Speaker 3: twenty youngsters and they start from anything from five five
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  Speaker 3: years of age up to seventeen years of age. So
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  Speaker 3: what I would say is if you're over five, I
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  Speaker 3: think you'll find you're old enough.
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  Speaker 1: Right, just on that point, we were talking about the
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  Speaker 1: length of the court or the pitch or the rink.
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  Speaker 3: Drink, drinks, drink. Yeah, for juniors, do they bring it
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  Speaker 3: in no same length, same everything. Yeah, they just we
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  Speaker 3: have a set. We have lots of sets of smaller,
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  Speaker 3: smaller woods for smaller hands.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I see, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, so right, so
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  Speaker 1: we've got the junior So okay, someone comes up and
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  Speaker 1: comes in the door, someone jump on them and give
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  Speaker 1: them a cup of tea or anything like that, Linda.
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  Speaker 4: They will, indeed, yes, we'll ask for a few details
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  Speaker 4: from everyone, just really for us to follow up to
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  Speaker 4: see how they feel it went. And yes, they will
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  Speaker 4: have a trial at bowls and they will be given
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  Speaker 4: a ticket for a free cup of tea or coffee
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  Speaker 4: or a soft drink out of the pump.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, then someone shows them all around.
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  Speaker 4: Indeed, yes, we've got lots of willing volunteers. Sort of
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  Speaker 4: lined up to show people around the facilities and obviously
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  Speaker 4: to aid with them getting started with bowling.
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  Speaker 2: And how many in the past, how many open days
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  Speaker 2: have you had? This is our third one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we've had two very successful ones previous two years
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  Speaker 4: and we're hoping judging by the previous two years, we
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  Speaker 4: might get upward of one hundred people come along and
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  Speaker 4: have a go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So if we have more, that'll be a real bonus.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, brilliant. And what can I say? Are they successful?
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  Speaker 1: Do you get members out?
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  Speaker 5: We do?
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  Speaker 4: We definitely do, both playing members and social members.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's great now Terry, getting back to you, I
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  Speaker 1: mean over the years, as we know, going back, you
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  Speaker 1: bought a team of youngsters in, didn't you, and they
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  Speaker 1: were so successful with the girls from Cheriton, weren't they.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that's right, Yeah, team of I think they're bowling
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  Speaker 3: outdoors and they got through to the national finals at Lemington,
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  Speaker 3: which is like, I don't know, the Wembley of It's
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  Speaker 3: the Wembley of Wembley. It's the place they did very well,
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  Speaker 3: got through to the finals.
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  Speaker 2: One of them still is playing. Leah Bamford.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, she has now moved up to Essex with a
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  Speaker 3: with a boyfriend and she will now be playing out
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  Speaker 3: of Essex. Stacey went down to the West Country where
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  Speaker 3: she got married.
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  Speaker 2: I believe.
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  Speaker 3: The Anna who who also was part of it, doesn't
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  Speaker 3: play anymore and not as Rosin, although Rosine is still local.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Unfortunately, you know, people's yeah, move on, don't different things.
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  Speaker 3: But at the time they were very, very successful.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to know Lea's dad, you know, Peter, I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking to be listening in or we can hear
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, but I mean he was telling me that
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  Speaker 1: now it was might have been eight or nine years
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  Speaker 1: ago that they all came in. But Lea has now
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  Speaker 1: gone past that twenty three age group.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but.
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  Speaker 1: Now she's moved up into a class where she's really
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  Speaker 1: competing against more senior players, isn't she? Whereas before I
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  Speaker 1: think it was under twenty three she was in that group,
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  Speaker 1: that's right.
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  Speaker 3: She's now actually into adult bowls. Yeah yeah, and has
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  Speaker 3: been on the fringe of the of the England team
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Was she a reserve or something, wasn't she? Yeah
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  Speaker 2: she was, yeah, I believe so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but very very talented and still is excellent
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  Speaker 3: lovely to see it.
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  Speaker 1: So what else we got on open day? Anything else
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  Speaker 1: we can talk about. What other facilities have you got
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  Speaker 1: at the club? I mean, I've been there, but let's
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  Speaker 1: describe it. You go in the door and kind of
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  Speaker 1: give me a walking tour of what's in there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: In for the door, turn right is the huge bar area,
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  Speaker 3: and it is a huge bar area, always manned. Whenever
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  Speaker 3: there's balls going on, there's always the bar is always open.
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  Speaker 3: You've got if you then look straight ahead of view
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  Speaker 3: with the bar on your left hand side, you've got
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  Speaker 3: the outdoor rink that currently has been put to bed
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  Speaker 3: for the winter. That will be brought to life again
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  Speaker 3: probably in April of next year. So it's at the
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  Speaker 3: moment it's just similing away nicely on the back burner
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  Speaker 3: and come next year it will be a fantastic green
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  Speaker 3: like it was this year. We've got we do the
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  Speaker 3: green ourselves, a couple of volunteers do it, and a
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  Speaker 3: few other helpers as well around the green to make
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  Speaker 3: it look nice. It's all about volunteers, it's all about
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  Speaker 3: being part of it, and we've got a very good
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  Speaker 3: team that manage it and look after it in the winter.
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  Speaker 2: Months as well as the summer months.
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  Speaker 3: And then as you're looking at that on the left
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  Speaker 3: hand side, we've got the restaurant which is a ninety
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  Speaker 3: cover restaurant, a la carte Mills change every day. Linda
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  Speaker 3: would know the opening days for that in the summer
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  Speaker 3: because they're slightly different in the winter.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're open on a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday lunchtimes and
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  Speaker 4: Sunday carvery Sunday lunch time for carvery and also any
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: sort of private functions we have. There's obviously food provided
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: for those. Unfortunately, one daywnside, you do have to be
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: a member of the club to actually use the facilities,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: unless you're obviously brought in as a guest.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: So yeah, well that's not a bad thing really because
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I am a member. I've just renewed my membership and
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: it's just so nice to pop in there.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: They're so welcoming and you.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Know, absolutely and of course as well as a bowling membership,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: we also do social membership as well for those who
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: don't you know, haven't really got any thoughts on playing bowls,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: but they can go along as a social member.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: We do offer with the social membership obviously the chance
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: to come along and enjoy the quiz nights, bingo nights,
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: the occasion, your race night, and any other musical sort
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: of musical evening that we put.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: On it and use the restaurant as well. Oh absolutely, yeah, yeah,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: So it's not all about bulls. I mean, Sue and
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: I have had a couple of lovely Sunday lunches up there, and.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Really you think it's great, very good, very good value.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, getting back to the bulls though, So we're running
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: out of time now, So is there anything else you
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: want to add? Is there any thank yous, there any
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: welcome in or absolutely anything terry?
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Generally speaking, the club works with volunteers. Yes, there are
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: some paid staff there behind the bar, because it's run
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: very professionally and you know, it's a well stopped bar
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: and it's well covered. But generally speaking, you need volunteers
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: to help out to run it all. And all credits
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: of those volunteers who work very very hard behind the
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: scenes to maintain the leagues and to maintain the greens
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: and to maintain everything else that needs to be done
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: in a bowls club. And it's what a number to
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: be quite honest.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, excellent.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: So Linda, anything you know, finally to add from you,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: So you'll make yourself known to people that come in
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the door on Sunday.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Money will yet, that'd be myself and Samantha. We'll be
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: at the door sort of welcoming people and taking some
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: details from people and just basically showing them where to
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: go and just look forward to seeing as many people
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: who can get there really.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Right well too, Well, we could talk forever, but I've
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: got another guest coming on in a minute, and I
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: know he can talk forever as well. So I just
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: want to say a mercy thank you to you both
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: for coming in, and I really do hope that you'll
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: get loads of new members and you're going to have
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: a successful day.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, thanks very much, thank you, thank you.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, time for a bit of a green day. Well
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: there go Green Day and Holiday as a bouncy old
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: song to keep us in the mood. Right now, I'm
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: going to crack on because to be honest, I don't
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: think I'm going to get all these reports in, but
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: do not despair back on air on Saturday. But one
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: report I do want to get in is that we've
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: got some news from the Folkston Rowing Club Now this
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: is really interesting, this one. Two childhood friends, Craig Coveman
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: and Sam Milton, felt the need for a rowing challenge.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: They had rowed the channel before and thought it was
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: about time they did something else on the water, so
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: they headed off to Scotland to row twenty one miles
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: along lock Ness. Now, I've been doing some research on
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: this event, called a monster the lock it's called, and
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: it attracts rowers from all over the world. It's a
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: mass start and all the boats must be human powered,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: so no motors or anything like that. It's got to
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: be all down to a muscle power. And the boats
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: must be seaworthy, yes, seaworthy in case it cuts up rough. Now,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: a video I watched from a previous race shows boats
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: of all shapes and sizes, some single handed rowers and
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: others with crews as big as ten. Now, the race,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: as I said, is twenty one miles long, and the
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: lock is actually twenty two miles, and it's a race
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: which goes from A to B. So Craig and Sam
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: were grateful for the support crew of Craig's parents who
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: were at the finish line and drove them back to
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the start. Some of these that you have to think
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: about this, don't you, you know, because you don't expect them
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: to row back on other twenty one miles to pick
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: up their kit Anyway, the pictures I saw Craig and
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Sam looked really smart on the yellow boat. The yellower
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: boat actually was called the David Rumbold. It was named
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: after a long standing member of the rowing club, and
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: they were kitchen out in the yellow tops, sporting the
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: club badge and the club colors. Gray told me that
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the course was very misty with rough water for about
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: half of it. Their official time was two hours, fifty
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: eight minutes and thirty eight seconds, come in twenty fifth
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: out of one hundred twelve. So that's a really good position.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: As they thought to themselves, do you know what, next time,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: we might have to do a bit more training than
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the four training sessions we did for this one. And
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: after seeing the pictures of the blisters on their hands,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I think I've got to agree with them. But still,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: let's get this in perspective. They made a fourteen hundred
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: mile trip round trip to Row twenty one miles for
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: a challenge. This is the story of two local lads
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and great friends stepping outside the box and challenging themselves.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: One driving force that kept them going was thinking about
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: their family members who had been affected by cancer. So
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: massive well dones to Craig Hoveman and Sam Milton, two
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: more local sporting heroes, and a big thanks to Craig
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: there for sharing that story. Okay, coming up now, we've
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: got a bit of music from Christina Aguilera.
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: Ah Dirty then to Clean, I love Them run Wild
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: of production.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Well it says it's still playing this song.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Got another nine seconds there, but it's all gone very quiet,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: so there is officially finished that song. That was Christina Aguilera. Okay,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: so we're moving on now to some hockey news. Well,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the focused on Optimist Hockey Club season started with obaying
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. Twelve out thirteen fixtures played with seven wins,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: four draws and just one loss. The one fixture that
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: wasn't played was the men's first eleven, whose home game
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: against Oxted was canceled as Oxted have was drawn from
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the league and we don't know why. I did try
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and google everything, but I couldn't find out why why
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: they've drawn it pulled out at this late stage and
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: so we're just crack on with the rest of the results.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Now we're going with the men's team. The men's seconds,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: and they had a great start. They beat Canterbury Pilgrims
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: by two goals to one, both goals coming from Lorcan Doyle.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: The men's third team, they beat theal four to three,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: goals coming from Archie Bates, Freddie Brown, Nick Ward and
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Jack Timmins. The men's fourth team, who were promoted last season.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Now they had nine debutantes playing. They probably moved up
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: from the fifteen as people do. They drew two all
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: with Maldron Russets and they were a bit choked really
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: because they were winning two to one and they proceeded
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: a very very late goal to make it two all.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: But the goals there came from Judefile and Ben Williams.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: The men's fifteen they drew a three all with Gillingham
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: and Coourion's Ben Taylor getting two goals and Andrew Reedy
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: getting the third. The men's sixteen well, they sadly were
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the only team that lost, but they only lost by
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: one goal to Neil, so come on. So they they
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: lost to New Beckahamians. The men's seventh team they won
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: seven nil against Maidstone and this must be the player
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: of the weekend. Matt Carter got five goals and Josh
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Loho got the other two. And the men's eighth team
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: they drew three all with Gore Court Development Stuart Graham
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: getting two and Oakley Nichols getting the third. The Ladies
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: first they drew a nil nil away at Oxted and
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: that was a good away point for them because Oxted
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Ladies are aside that we will be pushing for promotion
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: at the end of the season. Lady second eleven they
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: beat Canterbury one nil, Evie Little getting the goal.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: The Ladies third.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Team they won two nil away at Tunbridge Wells, Vicky
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Bates and Katie Morgan scoring there. The Ladies fourth team
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: they beat Madstone a free one, Phoebe Norman and Tessa
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Reegian's getting the Phoebe got two and Tessa got one goal.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: And the Ladies fifth team were they had a good
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: victory six to two away at Bromley and Beckenham. Isila
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: gallaher three, Hillary to Hillary Mercer got two and Janet
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Fuller got her name on the score sheet as she
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: does most weeks. To be fair now this Saturday. It
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: looks like the men's have a game in the league.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: They didn't have a game last week, but this surprised me. Actually,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I thought they had a friendly because they're playing the
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Opps second eleven, but they're not. The Ops second eleven
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: got promoted last year. But what I didn't realize they
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: got promoted into the same division as the men's first team,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: so they are actually playing each other in the league
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: this year. So that's gonna be great for a bit
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: of interclub banter, isn't it. So we see what AM's
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: there as the season unfolds, and all the eleven other
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: eleven teams, I won't go through them all, but they
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: all seem to have a fixture scheduled. So let's keep
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: that good start going. Okay, So coming up next, we've
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: got a song called Waterfall by Disclosure.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: Radio Focus Stone Radio.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Folks Stone.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: There ago that was Disclosure and water Pool. Now then
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: this Sunday sees the nineteenth of Folkston Rotary Half Marathon,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: and I've joined by race director Ray Johnson. Welcome to
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the show, Ray, Hi Kearn, great to be here. Make
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: me feel old. We'll have a chat about that and
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: in actual fact, Before we talk about Sunday's race, let's
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: go back in time if you're like, tell us how
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: it all started.
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was back in two thousand and six, and
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: having done the London Marathon in two thousand and one
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: and I've been doing it every year since, I wanted
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: to bring an event to Folkstone which would be the
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: half marathon. So it's really enjoy the ambience and you
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: know kind of the stuff that goes on in London
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: down here in Folkston, and then since then it's taken off.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: It's been great, I know two thousand and six. Yeah,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: can you remember who won it the first time round?
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I can't actually, I'll put you on the spot there
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: because I did have to look it up myself. Yeah,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: but in two thousand and six, John Creane won the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: first one, okay, and Rona lapso I was the first lady.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: And can you remember approximately how many runners you got
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: that first one? Yeah?
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: I think it was about three hundred odd.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, three hundred and eleven. Yeah remember that? And how
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: many are you expecting on Sunday?
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: Well, it's been a record year this year, it's great.
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: So we've already got seven hundred and twenty. Book ten
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: we've got another thirty places available. They may be taken
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: up today, So if anyone is listening, you've got to
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: hit the buttons now because I think it'll be a
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: sellout probably tomorrow.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: So you have a maximum seven fifty. Yeah, so yeah,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: we're all good. So it's all gone crazy, Okay, Yeah,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: now it's the nineteenth year. But I was thinking, I
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: remember we did one strange race, whether it was just
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: after COVID or not, but did COVID stop you doing
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: a race?
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: No, So we were like the half marathon was one
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: of the very few races during that period.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: So managed to pull it off.
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: I thought, I need to make this to happen, and
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: luckily we took it all apart and put it all
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: back together again, made it all COVID and implying. So yeah,
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: twenty twenty, we managed to do it. I think that
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: was at the end of September.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Is that the week we set them off in waves,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: but it was absolutely poor and down.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: It was bad weather.
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: There was three hundred runners, so we had to close
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: it at that and as you say, we had waves
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: of ten So.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a bit bizarre and the weather was
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: all for I do remember that looking back.
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: I mean the runners absolutely were thrilled that they could
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: just get to an event.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: So that was really good.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, Now, one thing that occurred to me is that
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: you have a children's race, But did you have a
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: children's race back in the day the first one we did?
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we have every year other than unfortunate co covidea
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: and yeah, the kids love it. You've already got twenty
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: five book ten, so you know it's a great little
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: run for them as well.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, get the family there.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm I'm conscious of the time here, so I
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: really want to I want you to tell us we
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: all know, folks them that the road remembers has closed
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: and been closed for a long time, and a lot
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: of the runners are thinking, oh, thank goodness for that.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: I haven't got run back.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Up that well, but you can't get down to the
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: promenade without going down a hill, can you. So if
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: you like, tell us about the course and if there's
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: been any headaches where you've been trying to reschedule it.
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: Remeasuring Yeah, So I mean I must say that Kent
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: County Council, folks in High District Council have been great.
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: So I Leo's with them first thing to see if
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: we can get a possibility of it being open, and
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: then you might recall that they did officially close it.
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: So I thought, this isn't going to happen, so try
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: to work around that, see if there was any way
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: we could do it, and it just wasn't for sure,
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: so I had to reroute it. So I did a
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: few trial runs myself. I did eight runs, all different
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: ways and things like that, and felt, you know, what
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: would this be like? And essentially I've moved it where
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: we've rerouted, so it's going to happen, which is the
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: main thing. So we're going to start outside the ground,
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: go down to the town, which is what we've always done.
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: There's a little loop at the top to begin with,
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: but get down the town, go round the town, so
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: it's nice to keep the town in. I want to
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: keep that involvement going on. And when we come to
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: the top of the road remembrance, we hook a right
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: and go up the Lees again to pass the Lees
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: Lift entrance and then all the way back up and
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: then we turn right into Dick'swell Road onto the two
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: five nine, which people may be familiar with. There by
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: the doctors and then we hook a left on the
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: path and we go down to Radne Cliff Crescent, so
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: it's where it bends round where the vets are Cooling
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: Road junction, so it goes round VIA's Round and then
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: goes down to the top of Radna Hill, which we
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: are familiar with because we've done that in.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: The running club.
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: Goes down the Radney Hill and then goes through the
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: Riviera and they've been fantastic. The residents there have let
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: us have the rights of access and right away yeah
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: private road. Yeah, they're going to let it all open,
• 32:49
  Speaker 7: open the gates, so it's really good. And then we
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: get onto the seafront, onto the promenade, but we have
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: to go left to make up a bit of distance,
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: so effectively we're going to be going up past the
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: Mermaid Can back to wards posts and then do a
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: turn round and then come all the way back to Hive,
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: do the loop in Hive and then come back up
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: the Riviera and up that hill. So we do get
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: that little hill which is a little sting in the town. Yeah,
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: san Gate Hill is not too bad if anything, is
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: a bit longer, but it's not a shop. It won't
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: actually be on Sandgate Hill. It's actually on Radney Hill. Yeah,
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: it's the road that sort of goes sharp, which is
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: where we've done the training, the little sort of shorter
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: bit of present because it's less traffic. We can't we
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: want to get them off that too, Yeah of course, yeah,
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: so cancel being great today. They've cut all the trees
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: back for us, which is good. So it's all made
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: it safe and moved all the billiards and stuff, so we're.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Ready to roll, right.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, I suppose you might have to wait for
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: feedback from the runners, but do you think if you're
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: successful you might keep that or you just got it
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: in your mind to switch it back to it?
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: In my mind switch back here because some people are
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: a bit disappointed, and the Roads Remembrance is such an
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: iconic road and I think to forget absolutely the history
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: and stuff goes on there.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: People like to connect with that as well.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: So I mean it sounds on paper it sounds easy enough,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: but I'm sure you've had to jump through hoops to
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: get permissions, risk assessments, insurances.
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: Sure.
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: So our team of nice work who assists us have
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: been great, as you know the people there, so we've
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: liaised with UK Athletics to get permission and we've re
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: rooted it as you know, so we've rechecked it, we've
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: had it all course measured by a guy called Rob Bright.
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: He sorted it and then we had to apply it
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: to Ken County Council to get approval, which had done it.
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: So they've all gone through the hoops with us to
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: make it happen. So put the word out say look,
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: I don't want to cancel this. We need to get it.
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: We need to make it happen. And everyone's on board,
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: which is really really.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Good, right excellent, So very quickly, is there anything that
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: you need? I mean, how you fix the volunteers.
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  Speaker 7: We've got a strong team of volunteers. If anyone wants
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: to come along, they're welcome to do so at eight
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  Speaker 7: forty five, so it's outside the Grand on the leaves,
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  Speaker 7: so we're going to be doing a marshall briefing. Anyone
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  Speaker 7: is available, just come and see me and then we
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: can put them on the course. So we've got already
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  Speaker 7: sixty five out and then we've also got the police
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  Speaker 7: cadets coming. Oh yeah, we'd be over one hundred and
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  Speaker 7: twenty which is amazing. So it's really good. And we've
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  Speaker 7: got three water stations this year as well, so we've
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  Speaker 7: had to put a lot more out. So it's going
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  Speaker 7: to be interesting, but it's exciting and a lot of
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  Speaker 7: runners are really keen. A lot of running clubs are thinking, wow,
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  Speaker 7: this is going to be an interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, different and it's nice to do the same run
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  Speaker 1: every year, but yeah, sure, it's nice to do a
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  Speaker 1: little different course. So you might be under pressure next
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: year to keep the course, absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: But we need to keep that road remembrance as saying,
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  Speaker 7: of course, we're losing the Coastal Park this year, so
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  Speaker 7: we want to get that back because yeah it's nice.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, right now, I know loads of money is going
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  Speaker 1: to go for charities, but as so we've only just
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: we don't have a real struggle to get this in.
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  Speaker 1: So can you just please name some of the charities
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  Speaker 1: you think might benefit and quickly chuck in some sponsors
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Sure.
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  Speaker 7: So the main charity this year is going to be
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  Speaker 7: Touch Based Care. They're based in Tontine Street, they do
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  Speaker 7: some great work, so they will receive fifty percent of
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  Speaker 7: the profit and then the rest of it will go
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  Speaker 7: to the Rotary Club, which will also help local charities.
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  Speaker 7: Probably too short time to name all those, but we
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  Speaker 7: support lots of local charities in the area.
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  Speaker 5: Sponsors.
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  Speaker 7: We've got a main sponsor which is Alkaline Transport, who
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  Speaker 7: are great. We've got a few others which is tag Trees,
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  Speaker 7: Folks in High District Council.
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  Speaker 5: We've got oh gosh.
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  Speaker 7: Gone blank, but we've got a few, but they're all
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  Speaker 7: on the website. Anyone wants to have a look at
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  Speaker 7: Folks and Rotary website and then hook into the half marathon.
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  Speaker 7: It gives you all the information and if you can't
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  Speaker 7: make it for the run, then come down check it out,
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  Speaker 7: have a look. We've got the NHS coming this year
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  Speaker 7: with a trailer, so they're going to do free health checks.
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  Speaker 7: It doesn't matter who you are, what you are, you know,
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  Speaker 7: if you just want a bit of advice or a
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  Speaker 7: bit of a guidance and they're there to help.
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  Speaker 2: Oh brilliant, just good.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got a strong connection with the gurkhas Are
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  Speaker 1: they involved at all this?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, they're coming down. They're going to be marshaling some
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  Speaker 7: of them and we think some of the team but
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  Speaker 7: there's a change in regiment at the moment, so you know,
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  Speaker 7: it's all happening, so there might be some coming down
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  Speaker 7: to run as well, so that'd be really good.
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  Speaker 1: And in the past I'm not sure if it's this
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  Speaker 1: one or the ten k, but you have teams of
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  Speaker 1: local runners, haven't you.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, So this year we've got all the running clubs
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  Speaker 7: which we're familiar with, but just to let your listeners know,
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  Speaker 7: we've got lots of running clubs coming down in you know, teams,
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  Speaker 7: which is really good. We've got a couple of teams
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  Speaker 7: from East Kent College running. I think Metro Line Security
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  Speaker 7: have got one and yeah, I think they're the main ones.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe Church and White as well.
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  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, okay, last thing then ray. Finally, we've only
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: got about thirty seconds ago. Tell us what time and
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  Speaker 1: whereabout and what time of kids races?
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  Speaker 7: Okay, so it's going to be on the Lee's out
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  Speaker 7: opposite the Grander start finish Children's race nine thirty and
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  Speaker 7: the main race is at ten o'clock on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: That's coming right, and there are just a few late
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: entries which might go.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't think there'll be any on the days
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  Speaker 7: again online and book now, but thanks to everyone that's
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  Speaker 7: supporting and all the runners good luck.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, right, well we have done it now, we have
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  Speaker 1: absolutely crushed it. And thanks for coming in. That's all
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  Speaker 1: we can say. And I'll hope to see you there Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: I hope the weather's nice and we've done a good
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: weather check. It don't look too bad, so