These Hawks don't fly, they don't kill other birds but they do race round a cycle speedway track very fast.
Cycle speedway worries me. It looks jolly dangerous. I have watched it over the local park on numerous occasions and to me it takes a special kind of madness to take part - and no I have never taken part. I prefer to watch from a safe distance or take photographs.
So why am I writing about it I hear you ask?
Well Hethersett Hawks went to the Under-10s national finals and came home with three titles. Can you imagine that - three national champions in a relatively small place like Hethersett.
My mate Mel Perkins started the Hawks club when he was just 16 and now well over 50 years later it continues to go from strength to strength with more and more youngsters taking part in both practice and matches.
So five under-10s from the club went to Leicester for the national championships and came back with three titles. I will have full details of this once I receive them. Yes I will be naming names.
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Was watching breakfast television yesterday and they were interviewing Bill Nelson a NASA administrator who was talking about the new photos from space and the mind boggling statistics of billions of stars/planets in billions of universes. Figures you just can't get you head round and something I will develop in a future blog.
But it wasn't this that struck me. Bill, the kind of person that you listen to when he says something, has been into space and looked back on the earth and had this to say:
"When you look back on Earth you don't see religious division, you don't see racial division, you don't see political division. What you do see is that we are all in this together. We are all citizens of Planet Earth."
Seems to sum things up somehow. Perhaps somebody should tell Putin.