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08:24, 02 September 2008

Welcome to Bob’s Blog, the innermost thoughts of kmfm breakfast show presenter Bob Mower.

You can listen to Bob on weekdays from 7am-11am at 106FM.


I spotted that the alleyway off Cromwell Road in Whitstable that runs up the rear of the Juniors and St Alphege School has been adopted.

A workman installed the sign that declares that it’s now known as Wallace Harvey Way.

Wallace Harvey was a notable Whistable historian but I still prefer my kids name for it . . . Poo Alley!

On the show last week I spoke to Alan Makey, an old friend from my Supergold days.

He used to run the Norton Ash Garden Centre in the 1990s but for the past 10 years has been chairman of the Kent Family History Society.

They are holding an open day at the University of Medway on September 6 with experts on hand to help you to trace your roots.

I have mine in Suffolk apparently but I’m not, as a listener suggested, the offspring of a Suffolk Punch!!! (The mower not the horse).


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Took some stick over my prophesy that my beloved Tottenham Hotspur would come good this season and become the Big Noise in North London.

A small Gooner baker in Whitstable who answers to the name of Champs took me to task along with some Man U fans as I had mentioned that they could be facing relegation this year – (why is it Man U fans never seem to have a sense of humour?) Tottenham, true to form, have failed to be at all convincing so far even though pre-season they were banging in goals for fun – maybe it’s something to do with the unsettling effect that the bolshi Bulgar is having on the team. My Dad always told me you should stear well clear of a man wearing an alice band.

Catherine Herbert was on the show, she is the arts and heritage officer for Swale council and talked about the Faversham Hop Festival which took place over the weekend.

The hop festival now in its 18th year celebrates the heyday of hop picking when local labour was supplemented by over 100,000 Londoners who would crowd into every carriage the old Southern Railway could muster and haul them down to Faversham or Selling stations.

Although most hops these days are grown abroad Shepherd Neame still manage to find enough local hops to add some bite to their fine beers.

• Look forward to you joining me for breakfast on kmfm. You can contact me on 01227 786106 or email me via our website, www.kmfm.co.uk/canterbury

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