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Every part of England is now in one of three Covid-19 alert levels. Tier 1 is medium, Tier 2 is high and Tier 3 very high. Here’s a summary of what the latest C-19 government guidance means for sport and physical activity:
If you don’t ‘do’ Amazon, our fencing books are now on Kobo in e-pub format via the Kobo book stores internationally.
Kindly given to us to mark our post-lockdown restart last week: fencing-themed cupcakes from The Baking Buccaneer (taking orders now).
It was good to be back together this evening for the first time in six whole months. Carefully managed, as C-19-safe as we could contrive, regulars and visitors kept to the protocol and got back to what we like to do best.
We have confirmation of our booking for the College Gym in the slightly later timeslot 8.30-10pm on Thursdays, commencing September 10th. This may disrupt folks’ mid-evening cocoa, but with booking congestion resulting from lack of other venues around town, this is the lesser evil.
The worst August in some time continues, with a forecast of thundery showers right around our start time tomorrow. I’m going to call it off now so everyone can plan for not travelling to Okehampton.
We’re ahead of the game this year for FIE World Fencing Day 2020. World governing body the FIE is making this year’s event all about family.
Regrettably, the current unsettled weather doesn’t give me a lot of confidence for Swords in the Park tomorrow evening (20th Aug). The park is already very wet, with more rain forecast today and tomorrow afternoon/evening. Safety being paramount, I’m going to call off the session now so nobody travels for nothing.
As you may have seen, we have guidance from BFHS for restart of sessions. I am sticking with the original plan to resume Swords in the Park on Thursdays from 7.30 until around 9pm, bad light and midges allowing.
