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th 24 Aug 2023	We've been trying to manage our continually sprawling Facebook albums resulting in a growing London Roller Girls album of roller derby in the days of two whistle starts.
tu 15 Aug 2023	The BBC have sold the Maida Vale Studios in that there London for probably around £10 million. It was built in 1909 as the Maida Vale Roller Skating Palace. We've worked there a number of times and noticed some of the floors were impressively smooth.
sa 1 Oct 2022	When we saw the silent German epic Metropolis in the Academy cinema the live pianist added several musical jokes. Different humorous obligations for Tom Horton at the Halesworth Cut Wednesday night.
su 12 Jun 2022	This year the Aldeburgh Festival has some innovative programming, a cycle sportive on the nineteenth and 2-3 July watch big screen Wimbledon on the Red House lawn ... although their website doesn't seem to know about it last time we looked.
th 28 Apr 2022	Hogg Hill principal Alex Ireton is now a world record holder ... mind you he might have been one before.
fr 3 Dec 2021	As a kid we went over the handlebars on the cobbles then in Stratford Broadway, other *rolling* on cards updates includes Hispanic bad taste and both British and US endurance roller skating.
mo 29 Mar 2021	Nice to see rolling in Clissold Park Stoke Newington, we used to jog there with a three legged dog call Spock ... we could usually keep up with her.
sa 6 Mar 2021	It took us a while to work it out but if a parachute was used to land the Perseverance rover then Mars must have an atmosphere. The vehicle has now moved 21 feet ... so a bit like the North Circular then.
su 1 Nov 2020	In 1982 and that there London we had mislaid a reference library possibly around Holborn and were standing bemused on a corner. Sean Connery stopped to ask the way. He was driving a lhd rather grubby blue Mercedes but looked great; freshly pressed sports jacket and everything neatly trimmed. RIP Sir Sean.
su 26 Apr 2020	877 confirmed Covid-19 cases in Suffolk and total so far. The thirty fourth reason to be cheerful ... *London* Roller Girls eh?
su 15 Mar 2020	Paris-Nice ended a day early yesterday, the UK Women's Tour (which has a stage finish in Felixstowe) postponed from its June start, both the Ipswich Cardinals and in Norwich the Iceni Spears have suspended training. Friday we were supposed to see Eric Church in that there London but yes, it was postponed. The world's going to be a bit duller for a while ...
sa 8 Feb 2020	The big hats and nipped in waists of suffragettes at the 1909 Women's Exhibtion in the Princes Rink Knightsbridge. Princes was the second largest rectangular rink in Britain making it a venue for ice hockey.
we 1 Jan 2020	Happy New Year. The bit of Suffolk that is near the coast tends to go into hibernation during January but we'll forage for any stirrings. In the meantime here's the pic we meant to use about bank track roller derby in that there London and the 50s.
we 27 Nov 2019	In our childhood we read from the public library an autobiography of a Canadian sports promoter working in 1950s London. Not surprisingly he promoted ice hockey but perhaps more surprising also bank track roller derby, The long term result of our reading was when ... more here
mo 18 Nov 2019	A pleasure to visit the imaginatively made over Campsea Ashe Station House yesterday for the last day of Artdog's show. Artdog will be showing Saturday at Brockley Open Studios in South London and in Framlingham next month.
th 14 Nov 2019	Saturday in Norwich was women's flag american football Opal series round four. Hosted by the Iceni Spears we were very pleased to see their numbers have grown to offence and defence plus players over but not GB defensive end Victoria Ware as she'd injured her ankle playing netball. In contrast the Hyde Park Renegades (in white) had the just the minimal five and were devastating.
sa 19 Oct 2019	Sunday we arrived at Hogtoberfest on the outskirts of London in time for the presentations but there was freeriding afterwards. Hogg Hill continues to develop with new to us dance and street luge. We were particularly impressed with a very young woman who despite a dressing on her right leg and struggling to slow in the first right hander was still buckboarding.

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