During the spring, KHC members were busy collecting Sainsbury's Active Kids vouchers and all the kit we ordered as a result arrived today.
We have two bags of hockey balls, some cones, a couple of agility ladders and some agility rings; a bag of whistles is following shortly.
Thanks to everyone who made the effort to collect vouchers for us.
After a hard Saturday of hockey in the pouring rain, there's nothing quite like a Sunday in the hockey classroom to set you up for the week ahead. Pete, Ralph, Andy and David Mac, Monty, Kirsty and Claire were at the KGV today, taking first faltering steps on the way to becoming qualified umpires. There was a morning of classroom study and and afternoon of very amusing practical sessions (in the pouring rain, of course) to stop us getting too comfortable.
Thanks to Colleen from SHU for taking the time to come down to run the course.
Stirling Wanderers were in town on Saturday for a series of games against the Kobras. Our younger age groups did particularly well in five- and six-a-side games, while the older age groups were more evenly matched at seven-a-side and in a closing full-pitch game.
As you can see, it was worth turning up just for the weather.
In order to make sure that replacing the surface of the pitch will actually solve the problem of it flooding all the time was to do some porosity testing of the lower layers. This involves lifting the carpet and seeing how quickly water drains away. At the end of the video, you can also see what happens to water put directly on the carpet.
The results seem fairly clear - the flooding problem is caused by the carpet.