W.H.P.S 2014
- 8 July 2014 08:11269072
- 12 July 2014 10:57269229Don't forget this event too. Always a great week-end, so much hard-work and organising put into it.
Roger - 12 July 2014 12:56269235Timetable (subject to change):
Both Days
10:00 - 16:00 Napoleonic artillery piece fired hourly
Saturday
10:00- 23:00 (Outside) South East Kent Astronomical Society sun and star observations
11:05 Napoleonic Drill
12:05 WW1 German display
13:05 Napoleonic Children's Drill
13:30 Book Signing (Phil)
14:05 Napoleonic Display
15.05 WW2 German Army Arms and Equipment talk
16:05 Book Signing (Phil)
Sunday
10:30 -11:30 Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports unveiling a dedication plaque at the Bredenstone.
11:15 Napoleonic Drill, Arms and Equipment talk
12:05 WW1 German display
12:40 Book Signing (Phil)
13:05 Victorian Children's Drill
14:00 (Outside). 'The Green Fortress', a countryside walk by the White Cliffs Countryside Partnership
14:15 Napoleonic battle with the French
15:05 Period firearms demonstration
15:30 Book signing (Phil)
16:00 Mass volley to honour the fallen of WW1 and two minutes silence.
Phil Eyden will be signing copies of the book he has just completed, looks like a cracker.
- 12 July 2014 18:42269243I went up there lunchtime but my back is so painful, I couldn't walk very far and had to leave. I walked carefully to the top of the Grandshaft (not up it) and then back to the car. I couldn't bend down enough to get through the tunnel into then Drop Redoubt, so wasn't able to buy Phil's book.
The weather was O.K. and certainly not cold; didn't see many people though - they were probably in the Drop Redoubt area, where I couldn't go.
Roger - 13 July 2014 03:02269246We are in the same boat Mr Walkden your back my legs .
We do not go to anymore events where there is a lot of walking .
But I hope the public turnout is good funding is always needed to keep the work going even be the workers do not get paid and a big well done to them to. - 13 July 2014 07:29269249Thanks Vic.
I'm hoping my back-pain is temporary, but it is very painful while I have it (about a week or so, so far).
I've just read that it could be that big fat wallet in my back pocket !!
Roger - 13 July 2014 07:36269251They all think that when you are a Cllr but as a small parish Cllr it costs money at times.
So it must cost cllrs who are on bigger councils more but your grant is a lot more then we get but that is not wrong you go to a lot more meetings then I do,
My last year so it does not matter anymore.But going back to the heading the weather looks better for it today so lets hope they get a very good turnout. - 13 July 2014 07:47269256Yes indeed Vic.
Come on everyone, if your back is O.K. get up the Western Heights and if you see Phil, let him know I'd like to buy a signed copy of his book.
Roger - 13 July 2014 10:25269257Roger, one of our sons and our son-in-law are both chiropractors. They have both found that a huge amount of back pain can be avoided by not carrying your wallet in your back pocket. Every time you sit down with something in your back pocket, while it may not be painful at the time, it puts your whole pelvis out of alignment, it is this which causes the chronic pain. So keep it somewhere else for a while and see if it does any good. It worked for me. And make sure you sit up straight at the computer. Hunching over it also causes back pain.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 13 July 2014 14:56269267Thanks Peter. I fully agree with what you say about the back-pocket and putting your pelvis out of alignment, it could be a combination of a number of things.
I don't usually put it in my back pocket, it's usually in my little black "man-bag". In reality, it's not a big fat wallet either.
Roger - 14 July 2014 16:05269313Sunday afternoon on the Western Heights. Usual very good effort by the WHPS and fortunately the weather was sunny and warm.
- 14 July 2014 17:39269316Thanks Ed - great photos. I could see what I missed.
Roger
