New Year's Eve at the Plough & Harow Tilmanstone

Adrian O has organised a New Year's Eve event at the Plough & Harrow, Tilmanstone (between Dover & Eastry) http://www.ploughandharrowtilmanstone.co.uk/ starts at 8pm to well 12ish .... Driftwood will be making an appearance....

Deal Folk Club Xmas Bash 2009

Deal Folk Club had a packed session at last night's xmas bash. Driftwood were there (with Rose in full evil pixie attire); Dave had one of his christmas wishes (fanasty? Ed)  come true as he was in the front seat with seven women (and Adrian!) . Good friends Mike Broomfield and Steve O'Kane did some great numbers; Lynda excelled herself with her witty lyrics. All under Avril's gentle direction....

See all the photos at the Driftwood flickr site

its time to sport your festive bra....

New Years Day 2010 sees the 6th running of
Deal Tri Bra Run.

This is aid of Breast Cancer Care and is 5k along Deal seafront, which you can run, walk or crawl around if you over did the night before. The only stipulation is you wear a bra! There are lots of prizes for best decorated ones & children's fancy dress. Its great fun and a fanastic way to kick off the New Year.

The Race starts at 11am in front of Deal Castle. Entry is £9 before 31st Dec or £10 on the day (Juniors £5). Race HQ is in Walmer Sea Scout hut (near the paddling pool) and you will find a member of Driftwood helping on the desk. You can get an entry from the DealTri website http://www.dealtri.co.uk/  or by clicking here

It may just be coincidence, but the roadie always does his best time for a 5k when he sports one .... So stop that sniggering in the back row chaps;
Time to do one for our sisters.

I don't win things but ....

The usual response from colleagues and some family members to my running career is 'Did you win then ?'.
When this is asked after the London Marathon, where I come in at good 3500th it feels something has been lost in translation.

The odd thing today was I actually won something. It was at the Fowlmead 5miler Christmas Cracker. Ok it not exactly the New York Marathon but a race is a race. The announcer listed the winning men's team ... 'Deal Tri with Gordon, Steve... and Stephen Wakeford'.... and I got a bottle of red wine.

This was a trophy destined for the mantlepiece, well so I thought. When I got home holding the trophy bottle  my beloved Rose looked wide-eyed (I sub-contract all my drinking to her) - 'you can win wine at these things? - You are going to have to train a bit harder in the future ....'

I dare say the 'trophy' will not last long - its the Xmas bash next Friday at the Deal Folk Club and I can see the said bottle will be used in the Driftwood warm up... c'est la guerre.

Roadie

PS. My time was 0:33:32 a seasons best...

The good, the bad and the muddy

The roadie ran the Gower peninsula coastal trail marathon on saturday - a very scenic course (which is code for hills and more hills) around the south welsh coast in 5:07 - it had over 5000ft of accent including a lovely 600ft climb in the last two miles (and a suicidal descent to the finish - think vertical mud and rocks). The course was so magificient that the organisers decided to extend it to over 28miles!

PS: Just found out today 14th Dec - that I won the age group prize for V50. Gosh twice in one week!

Rumble in the Jumble

Driftwood the band that will play anywhere (especially for a good a cause) were in full motion at Deal Craft Fair on Saturday 5th December.



The fair was raising money for the repair fund at St Leonards in upper Deal and organised by our good friend & fan Lynda

Also on the bill was Deal Folk Club's favourite Mac McLean

strumming and singing