The Bampton raft race is an event the S-Club 5 have supported for a number of years. It has featured in this blog on several occasions, here and here. We always try to dress up and this year we were Grumbies of Monty Python fame. Yes my brain does hurt.
Imagine my surprise then when we were featured briefly on ITV this week. ITV have been following a group of children from when they were seven years old up to the present time, and they put together a programme charting their life, every subsequent seven years. The current series is called 56 UP.
One of the featured people is now a lay preacher and Bampton is one of the villages he frequents. I do remember a film crew being there last year but assumed it was for the local news. Instead, there we are singing merrily as we paddle towards the finishing line, all grumbied up.
I do hope the ITV exposure does not alert the health and safety jobsworths from Kendal to the raft race.It exists in the sort of environment the 56 UP participants will have been familiar with when they were growing up as seven year olds all those years ago. We in the S-Club do feel that our involvement has seen the event grow into the thirty raft event which it is at the moment, and it would be tragic if it is canned as a result of over planning. Long may it continue unencumbered and de-regulated........aaaargh!
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