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Thursday, March 31st, 2011

It’s March - It’s Cricket!

Kent Cricket Pre-Season Training
Following a few days in sunny Dubai, the Kent Cricket Team returned to the UK for a relaxing windswept and slippery game against Lancashire at Beckenham Cricket Ground!!

I have to say that as Dressing Room Attendant, it’s on days like these that I’m glad to have my job rather than be 30 [...]

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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Bike GPS Expert - Not!

I’ve been quite excited for some while to using my Forerunner GPS with the Bicycle. Work commitments at home haven’t allowed me to use it before coming to Southampton for a few days.
Knowing there’s a spare Bike down here, a good one at that - a Dawes, I brought it down to give it a [...]

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Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Getting on my Bike

I ventured down town on my new bike a couple of times last week, but this Monday I had time on my hands and thought I’d venture further.
The plan was a gentle 10 mile jaunt to the Co-Op, not the Co-Op about half a mile away, but the one in the village of Wye. Wye [...]

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Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Another one bites the dust

According to a recent press report, 52 Public Houses are closing every week. Most of these are being sold to convert either to Housing or Retail. The remainder are being re-opened as Restaurants - not neccessarily under the same trading name.

This week, the story came close to home. ‘The Golden Ball’ at the [...]

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Saturday, October 17th, 2009

Non-League Football - Ashford Town FC

Two hundred or twenty thousand - Attendance doesn’t matter - it’s the Game that counts !

Non-League Football for me is the grass roots of a National Sport. It’s that kind of halfway house between a local Village League and the Football League itself.
The other evening I paid my first visit this season to watch Ashford [...]

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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Parks for all ages

I took the photograph on the right whilst having a few days away at my familes home in Southampton. At the time, it was just a scene, but looking at it again, I found that within it was a story of a typical Sunday afternoon of leisure, activity and being with nature.
The man standing [...]

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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Rain stops play at Kent

With a title like that, it can only be Cricket !
Click here for Down the Lane Cricket Pages
Well, we can’t complain too much about the weather down here at Kent Cricket Club this season. Up to now, it can’t be more than three or four hours lost since we started what
seems light years ago in [...]

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