Saturday we went to Southend to see the Seaside Sirens bifurcate intoGuns and Roses for their first intra-league bout, and first time for us man derby from Southern Discomfort and LincolnshireRolling Thunder. Blimey! Man derby is 100 mile an hour stuff with very BIG hits and a 'loose' skating style that includes lots of skating backwards and some running backwards on your toes ... but still that roller derby quirkyness.
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Yesterday one Norfolk Brawds' car wouldn't start, another Brawd left her contact lenses behind, in Houghton Regis the satnav decided to send the 50 seater down a tiny lane that had a locked gate across it, just 30 minutes for the after party and a 170-33 beating from hosts Rebellion Rollergirls in a closed door bout that had five Brawds injured including one hospital visit ... but there was the warm enveloping chattering companionship of the 50 seater plus the group laugh passing Stevenage's CHEAP ADULT DVD SHOP and well ... it's roller derby!
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It's been a couple of years since we've seen a cyclocross and though a nice day may have helped it was still impressive youthful involvement at the Amis Velo Supacross in Colchester. Old timers complained like they always have that the course was too easy and national junior cross champion and Ashfield cum Thorpe resident Hugo Robinson won the event with such ease it must have been little more than a training run for him ... mind you he still broke sweat. More pix on PhotoBox
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Last Sunday the 10th annual Goodwood roller marathon had an incredibly mixed 1000+ field of the self propelled raising money for the NSPCC; some real tinies,
hurtling lines of mostly in-line skaters, a girl competing with her arm in a sling and huge support from roller derby ... from Cardiff a coach load of Tiger Bay Brawlers, Southend's Seaside Sirens, the Brighton Rockers, a fledgling yet to scrimmage league from Eastbourne, Haunted City (where's that?) and loads more! Looking forward to next year already.
We think William should dump Kate Middleclass (his dad did it for christ's sake and he was married at the time) and wait for Karen from Outnumbered ... she's played Princess Margaret in The King's Speech so she's forewarned and it would mean a really sensible consort for the monarch later on this century ... who's with us?
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Now that is a loss, Mark Lamarr has left rad2. His three hour God's Jukebox was an absolute joy, who else would almost play country hit ♫Don't the girls all get prettier about closing time♫
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Quite stunning vid of two crows getting involved in a difference of opinion between two cats ... for real, not a cartoon, not clever editing.
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Next Wednesday Haverhill Arts Centre are showing the BFI restored print of Went The Day Well? (sounds like Shakespeare but isn't). As a wartime black and white it is a bit Don't tell him Pike! and the Germans are universally horrid but still a powerful film.
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Some five years ago ex-US airman and ex-Framlingham resident Chris Gray first contacted us and has since become a chum on the bulletin board. Chris served in Viet Nam and back in July his baby brother Andy, who has served in Iraq, was deployed to south west Asia as a Command Master Chief in the naval reserve. Stay safe Andy, those girls need their daddy.
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Wednesday and Big Al the Light Monkey (that's his mum herwithabrainetc hovering) graduated from Nottingham Uni. Bruce Welch of The Shadows (or was it The Beatles?) was sufficiently desperate to be on ntc that he crashed the snap, and again and again ... sad. The official Big Al graduation pic here.
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The three weeks of le Tour de France start tomorrow. Certainly at some point Brit and sprinter Mark Cavendish will at least wear the green jersey and who knows what Brad Wiggins can do.
Framlingham Australia may be a lot smaller than Framlingham Suffolk but 18 year old Tanaya Harradine-Atkinson has been selected for a national netball team.
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Absolutely the best, well certainly the funniest, pitch invasion ever; the lad in the wheelchair around 30 secs ... and there's a guy on crutches later on. The human spirit is invincible, even if sometimes the judgement is flawed.
Saxtead boy and Earl Soham Vic barman Adam Wolley is cycling from London to Capetown to support the Malaria Consortium. In Rwanda he now has more than 20 stitches in his face and mouth after going through a car's rear windscreen.
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Jenny in Earl Soham has pointed out that Adam Wolley from Saxtead is doing a bit of a bike ride to support the Malaria Consortium ... as a matter of fact a bike ride from a large town near Chelmsford to Cape Town ... and on his own ... and he's got as far as Kenya.
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Reasonably pleased with our cd cover pic of Bungay's chicken man Gordon Knowles and it was our pleasure to meet such a genuine bloke.
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As is the way the signs for the Chelmsford Riverside Centre come and go but we did find it and inside an encouragingly good turn out of all ages and all abilities for the Triple Sword Roller Girls. The gentle voiced ... more here
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Now that is a loss, Mark Lamarr has left rad2. His three hour God's Jukebox was an absolute joy, who else would almost play country hit ♫Don't the girls all get prettier about closing time♫
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