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Speaker 1: Out to Mephin Village. Morning to you, Jillian.

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Speaker 2: Held Good, Good morning Luke.

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Speaker 1: Hey, what do you think about the meth and community?

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Speaker 1: Paul getting a couple of hydroslides.

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Speaker 2: An amazing idea.

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Speaker 1: I suspect we may get an update on that around midday.

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Speaker 1: What do you reckon?

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Speaker 2: Well, what a buzzy little town. We had.

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Speaker 1: Something I can sure you was quite legit not linked

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Speaker 1: to April Falls, is.

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Speaker 2: Not at all. I wasn't thinking for one moment.

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Speaker 1: No, something that's returning for these school holidays is the

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Speaker 1: methin scarecrow trail chief. As you we must be a

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Speaker 1: couple of decades into this thing, now.

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Speaker 2: We are we Well, we started that, my daughter and

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Speaker 2: I started it in twenty thirteen. At the time who daughter,

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Speaker 2: my granddaughter was that the Western pre school, great little

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Speaker 2: pre school, great people, doing a good job. We thought

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Speaker 2: we'd do it as a fundraiser, raise for money, and

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Speaker 2: that's where it kind of where it started. So we

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Speaker 2: for the Yeah, it's.

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Speaker 1: Growing to such a delightful tradition. So it's back with

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Speaker 1: the theme once upon a time, So looking forward to

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Speaker 1: seeing some fairy tale characters.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, lots of characters to choose from. There lots of

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Speaker 2: magical characters and lots of very creative people who are

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Speaker 2: going to turn those ideas into something that'll be so

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Speaker 2: much fun to go and find your scarecrows.

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Speaker 1: There's a real sense of ownership here. How many scarecrows

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Speaker 1: do we have?

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Speaker 2: The see one? I think this show wow.

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Speaker 1: And so remind us again, how does it all work?

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Speaker 2: Well, you go to the I Hub or the four

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Speaker 2: Square mess and you pick up a trail mat and

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Speaker 2: there's a map on one side that shows you where

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Speaker 2: the scarecrows are hidden, so you go and find them all.

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Speaker 2: And then on the other side of an entry form

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Speaker 2: where you guess what the character is when you put

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Speaker 2: down the characters name, So you might be looking for

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Speaker 2: the Cinderella or something like that, and you find it

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Speaker 2: right down puts the entry forman and they are privors

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Speaker 2: for people who guess the most correct entries, and the

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Speaker 2: prize for the favorite scarecrow as those for by those

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Speaker 2: who take that.

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Speaker 1: Oh there's a people's choice element. Brilliant.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Are they all sort of, you know, within close proximity

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Speaker 1: to each other. I'm just thinking gas prices aren't overy

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Speaker 1: friendly at the moment. Is this something we could do

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Speaker 1: on foot.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, it's totally a walking trail and we've brought

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Speaker 2: them in from the sort of out There were a

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Speaker 2: few that used to be in the outer edges, so

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Speaker 2: we brought them all within the easy walking distance of

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Speaker 2: the town. And it's something that you can do easily

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Speaker 2: in a day or half a day. Kids on bikes,

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Speaker 2: mothers with toddlers and buggies and yes, so it's it's

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Speaker 2: definitely a family activity and great great school holiday thing

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Speaker 2: to do.

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Speaker 1: We've seen some really out the gates scarecrows in the past,

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Speaker 1: and thinking about just to last year where there was

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Speaker 1: the animated movie theme and was it the team at

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Speaker 1: Jackson Holmes that put together a life sized mammoth many

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Speaker 1: the memmoths from ice Age.

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Speaker 2: You wait until you see what he's done this year.

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Speaker 1: Stop it really wow, Really sit in the bar. I

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Speaker 1: mean that's the thing, right, you know, if you if

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Speaker 1: you sort of set the expectation, that's but like when

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Speaker 1: you get your wife in the elaborate's birthday present, you've

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Speaker 1: got to jump even higher the next year.

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Speaker 2: That's right. He was the first one when we opened

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Speaker 2: for entries for scarecrow makers. He was the first one,

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Speaker 2: for I know what I'm doing going to be bigger and.

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Speaker 1: Better, oh need. So the trail starts on Saturday. How

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Speaker 1: long's it run for.

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Speaker 2: For the entire school holiday? So it finishes on the Sunday,

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Speaker 2: the nineteenth.

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Speaker 1: Nice and it's not just a methan thing, right we

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Speaker 1: can take a drive out from town and be a

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Speaker 1: part of it.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. We get people who come from all over the country.

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Speaker 2: There's big numbers from esperson would be our second biggest

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Speaker 2: after the local meths and ones. So about you know

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Speaker 2: thirty forty percent come from methm similar from Ashburs and

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Speaker 2: then christ Church next, but we you know they come

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Speaker 2: from all over the christ Church South Canterbury area. But

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Speaker 2: also you get people who are here on holiday and

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Speaker 2: that's done too, so they come out and take part.

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Speaker 2: So world famous and I'll tell you.

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Speaker 1: Lukes world famous and what a great chance to spend

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Speaker 1: some quality time with the family. And it's cost effective

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Speaker 1: and the weather is going to be on site for

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Speaker 1: it too, because Goodness knows that we're due a break.

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Speaker 1: The meth and Scarecrow trail which is back in the

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Speaker 1: village therese April school holidays