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The frustation....

The frustration....  OK, trying to get my group - redhillpickleball.co.uk -  some competitive games, I think we have a core of players who would benefit from playing others rather than just each other all the time.  Hopefully a few of us will get onto the next K2 event in the South East Doubles League (not a club competition, but great fun round robin on the same court). And, looking at PickleballEngland.org there are leagues running - the South East Pickleball League, and the Kent and East Sussex Pickleball League, both relatively close, both seem to be full and trying to find contact details for the leaders is proving tricky.  Do I set up a local league? Who do I invite? Do I need permission from PBE? If it is short term just over the summer is that OK?   And a quick mention of the PBE website - I really respect those running PBE, they are doing a great job growing the sport, but the website doesn't do them, or the sport, justice, but I am told that big things...

1st post, musings on blogging

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Hmmm... Where to start... I was chatting to one of the players at a pickleball session yesterday and she asked me if I blogged about this stuff... To which my response was "erm...."... it had never even occurred to me that people might be interested in my thoughts... And here I am, complete with far too many ellipses ... It seems a very strange, almost narcissistic thing to blog, as if anybody cares what I think! But it does take me back to pre-Rupert H2G2.com, I guess some of that was proto-blogging. So, I'm into something new - Pickleball - thanks to Dave from Boom Tennis, and that gives me something to talk about - apparently either the fastest growing sport in the world or second only to Padel. I've been playing since October 2024, so maybe I'll just put down how it started and where the journey is taking me. But that's for another blog/day, give me a bit of time to get my thoughts in order rather than this stream of consciousness stuff...  I will continue...