Yesterday Sue and I attended the Civic Remembrance Day service in Bury. We started with the Parade from the Town Hall to the War Memorial outside the Parish Church and there was then a formal Service of Remembrance inside the Parish Church. When we left the Church it was raining hard and it continued hroughout the March Past where the Mayor took the Salute and throughout the Parade back so we were all glad of the hot soup available on our return to the Town Hall. In the afternoon we attended the Parade and Service in Tottington and in the eveving we attended the evensong and roll call service at St.Anne’s Tottington which is always a very poignant and moving service.
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Remembrance Day
Published November 10, 2008 General 0 CommentsTags: Remembrance Day, St. Anne's Church
Coffee Mornings
Published November 10, 2008 Local Organisations 0 CommentsTags: RNLI, Lutyens Memorial
Lutyens Memorial
On Saturday I went to another coffee morning organised by the newly formed Friends of the Lutyens Memorial Group. They want to try and retain the Memorial at its present site in front of the old Barracks on Bolton Road. The advertised light refreshments turned out to be excellent sandwiches and a wide variety of cakes and snacks. No need for lunch. For the second day running I managed to draw the raffle without drawing out one of my own tickets. In the afternoon much as I would have liked to go to the football and watch Bury play Gillingham I stayed at home and manged to get done quite a lot of very urgent jobs that needed attention, not least of which was tidying my study.
David at Church Ward Dinner
Full Council on Bonfire Night
Published November 8, 2008 General 0 CommentsTags: Bury Council, Councillor Jack Walton, Councillor Yvonne Wright
On Wednesday evening I attended the full meeting of Bury Council. After the recent “Full up” signs during the debates on pay and regrading the public gallery was back to a more usual number - 3.
The main debates were on extending Disability Living Allowance for Blind Persons which was moved by Councillor Yvonne Wright (Con. Tottington) and on the problems caused by the current economic recession. Both motions received support from all three parties.
It was perhaps appropriate as the Council was meeting on 5th November that the Report from Outside Bodies this time was from the Fire Authority and Councillor Jack Walton (Con. Church Ward) gave a full and comprehensive report.
CeeCee Training and Group Meeting
Published November 4, 2008 General 0 CommentsTags: Elton Dog Training Club
Last night Sue and I took CeeCee to another of his dog training class. He is making progress. AS I may have said before the task is as much about training us as the dog! The classes are run by the Elton Dog Training Club and I have to say I have been enormously impressed by their professionalism and enthusiasm.
After the class I went to the Conservative Group meeting at the Town Hall where the main business was a discussion of the business before the full Council meeting tomorrow.
Expensive Phone Call!
Published October 31, 2008 Local Organisations , Political 0 CommentsTags: BBC, Bury Society for the Blind and Partially Sighted
I am often amazed at how at what at the time must seem to the participants to be routine everyday matters suddenly become headline news with enormous consequences. This week we have seen just such an event. Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand made a telephone call and I am sure they could never have guessed at the consequences. It was in my opinion a most inappropriate phone call and I fail to understand why these two very highly paid entertainers did not realise the potential for harm. The consequences have been that two people have lost their jobs at the BBC and Jonathan Ross has been suspended without pay for three months costing him reportedly one and half million pounds. The whole affair has done nothing to change my opinion that the way the BBC operates and is funded needs a significant overhaul.
Sue and I have been out this afternoon preparing for the Christmas Wrapping Service organised by the Bury Society for Blind and Partially Sighted People. It does not seem like a year since we were involved last Christmas but time marches on and this year the service is due to start in the Millgate Centre on December 8th.
This week has seen the Prime Minister use the ‘R’ word for the first time R that is for Recession. The Prime Minister claims that the Government is not to blame because this is a worldwide problem. It may well be but when the world ecomomies were powering ahead in the ten years the Prime Minister was Chancellor I never remember him saying then that the growing UK economy was all the result of worldwide growth, no, it was all due to his “prudent” stewardship of the economy. Sadly for the British public I fear that many people are going to find out that the Labour Government has not been prudent at all as they have put nothing by in the good times. Now when everyone accepts that the present economic crisis has been caused in large part by too much borrowing what do Labour propose? More borrowing!
Sue and I have just returned from a four day fact finding visit to Northern Ireland. We went with a small group and were based in Belfast but we did go out of Belfast on a couple of occasions firstly down to Lisburn and secondly down to South Armagh.
In Belfast we visited Crumlin Jail which following the ending of ‘The Troubles’ now stands empty and there are plans for it to be redeveloped as part of the regeneration of North Belfast. We also met with victims from North Belfast who gave us details of how things in that part of Belfast are far from normal. We also had a private meeting with the High Sheriff of Belfast and a meeting with two of the Commissioners from the newly formed Commission for Victims and Survivors. I will endeavour to expand this post with one or two photos and links when time allows.
Harvest Sunday
Published October 12, 2008 General 0 CommentsTags: North Manor Ward, St. Anne's Church
I have had a busy day which started with attending the Harvest Sunday service this morning. Then after checking CeeCee was alright and taking him for a short walk it was then off to the Sunday Lunch organised by North Manor Ward Conservatives. From there it was off to enjoy Harvest Lunch at Greenmount Golf Club organised by St Anne’s. The roast pork and apple sauce followed by trifle was excellent. Then I attended a special Evensong service at St. Anne’s featuring the music of Ralph Vaughan-Williams as it is 50 years this year since his death in 1958.
I was back in time to take CeeCee for a walk and deliver a few leaflets locally before it started to go dark.
