Last day of work experience and was told that I would be heading to Wimborne in East Dorset. So left Daily Echo office and continued walking to the car with fellow employee with camera and notepad in hand. We got into the car and drove from Bournemouth all the way to Wimborne using the satnav to guide the way. After about 30 minutes in the car we finally arrived at the house of East Dorset MP Nick King. We parked in his driveway and knocked on his door where we were greeted by his mother. She said we could park there until her husband came back from work. We walked into Wimborne and interviewed people on the street about what their opinion on the general debate between Clegg, Brown and Cameron. Most people were not willing to give much away instead telling us that that ‘Car park ticket expiring’ or ‘need to catch a bus’. We got some people to open up about their opinion which came mainly in the form of older generation with few younger people having an opinion at all. We finished up talking to people on the street. Many people had decided that they would be voting for Liberal Democrat to stay in power. East Dorset was the only area in the south to have Lib Dem council leader. This meant that straight away it was going to be tough job for Nick King to overcome this type of pressure.
After lunch walked back to Nick King house. It was easy to find this house as the fences were covered in posters saying ‘Vote for Nick King as your conservative MP, You deserve a change’. The posters were covering the fences of his house and being that it was a corner house on busy road there’s no doubt that people driving past or walking would take notice. Finally arrived at the house again and was let in by his mother who was awaiting us with coffee. We entered the house which felt much more like a mini factory. Two dogs were running around with their tongues out hoping that we were there to feed them. We sadly were not there for that. We met around ten members of family or employees, it was hard to take in everyone name. We drank coffee and ate some freshly made cookies which made the dogs get very excited when a single crumb fell to the floor. Nick King brother was there to be friendly trying to promote his own business which is a cabaret club in Bournemouth town, an area I tend to avoid if I can. When looking around the house it had hardly any room to sit around. Every inch apart from kitchen surfaces were covered in boxes of leaflets with vote for Nick King on the front. The only noise that was constant was the sound of the printers on overload as more and more constantly pumped out. Luckily were enough people to sort them out otherwise that would be very chaotic.
After waiting for around thirty minutes talking to his mother, sister and brother, Nick King came slyly through the back door nearly hitting me with the door. He was pleasant man balding hair and short as he greeted the two of us. He joked about being on time something he states was not his best quality. He decided that it would be best to enjoy the sun so we went outside and set up camera equipment. We talked bit bout what he was up to and he said he had come back from meeting which involved all the local MP’s in the area. He told us that he believes that Conservative deserve to get in power in May but that Nick Clegg did seem the most convincing on the night of the debate. He handed us one of his leaflets which I took although had no intentions to vote for both reasons that I am strongly against Conservative government and also because he was not an MP in my area. We discussed that we were doing a one minute manifesto on local MP from each of the Dorset areas that adventure would be East, West, North and South Dorset. We also discussed how people were still thinking about voting Liberal and how he felt about changing peoples minds. He responded that he has what it takes to be more public man and allow people to feel at ease to talk to him if they have any problems.
The manifesto began after plugging in the mini microphone on his shirt collar and after four takes he finally decided that he was happy with it. It was noisy background but luckily the noise of cars and lorries did not get recorded in the background. His manifesto followed the lines of ‘we believe in the strength and importance of family, of deregulated business, of healthcare that is delivered on a local level, of policing that is comprehensive, of a society that places social justice and respect at the top of its agenda. We firmly believe in free speech, the encouragement of creativity and enterprise, and the promotion of charitable causes, whether in terms of social housing or other local initiatives to give to those who need it most. Furthermore, we believe in a foreign policy that favours international development over unnecessary conflict’. He also said jokingly that everyone Is fed up with Gordon Brown so why wouldn’t they vote for him.
Finally we had what we wanted and he said thankyou to the both of us shaking our hands. He asked us who we were voting for in the election we both said we were still deciding, as best not to say it was Tories.
Thursday, 22 April 2010
Tom Wolfe And New Journalism
How and when the term New Journalism began to refer to a genre has not been clear. Tom Wolfe, a practitioner and principal advocate of the form,wrote in at least two articles in 1972 that he had no idea of where it began. Trying to shed light on the matter, literary critic Seymour Krim, offered his explanation in 1973.
I'm certain that [Pete] Hamill first used the expression. In about April of 1965 he called me at Nugget Magazine, where I was editorial director, and told me he wanted to write an article about new New Journalism. It was to be about about the exciting things being done in the old reporting genre by Talese, Wolfe and Breslin. He never wrote the piece, so far as I know, but I began using the expression in conversation and writing. It was picked up and stuck.
But wherever and whenever the term arose, there is evidence of some literary experimentation in the early 1960s, as when Norman Mailer broke away from fiction to write Superman Comes to the Supermarket A report of John F. Kennedy's nomination that year, the piece established a precedent which Mailer would later build on in his 1968 convention coverage (Miami and the Siege of Chicago) and in other nonfiction as well.
Wolfe wrote that his first acquaintance with a new style of reporting came in a 1962 Esquire article about Joe Louis by Gay Talese. “ ‘Joe Louis at Fifty’ a wasn't like a magazine article at all. It was like a short story. It began with a scene, an intimate confrontation between Loius and his third wife...” Wolfe said Talese was the first to apply fiction techniques to reporting.
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I'm certain that [Pete] Hamill first used the expression. In about April of 1965 he called me at Nugget Magazine, where I was editorial director, and told me he wanted to write an article about new New Journalism. It was to be about about the exciting things being done in the old reporting genre by Talese, Wolfe and Breslin. He never wrote the piece, so far as I know, but I began using the expression in conversation and writing. It was picked up and stuck.
But wherever and whenever the term arose, there is evidence of some literary experimentation in the early 1960s, as when Norman Mailer broke away from fiction to write Superman Comes to the Supermarket A report of John F. Kennedy's nomination that year, the piece established a precedent which Mailer would later build on in his 1968 convention coverage (Miami and the Siege of Chicago) and in other nonfiction as well.
Wolfe wrote that his first acquaintance with a new style of reporting came in a 1962 Esquire article about Joe Louis by Gay Talese. “ ‘Joe Louis at Fifty’ a wasn't like a magazine article at all. It was like a short story. It began with a scene, an intimate confrontation between Loius and his third wife...” Wolfe said Talese was the first to apply fiction techniques to reporting.
> from number of sources
Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich's discovery of orgone began with his research of a physical bio-energy basis for Sigmund Freud's theories of neurosis in humans. Wilhelm Reich believed that traumatic experiences blocked the natural flow of life-energy in the body, leading to physical and mental disease. Wilhelm Reich concluded that the libidinal-energy that Freud discussed was the primordial-energy of life itself, connected to more than just sexuality. Orgone was everywhere and Reich measured this energy-in-motion over the surface of the earth. He even determined that its motion affected weather formation.
Not everyone liked the theories Wilhelm Reich suggested. Wilhelm Reich's work with cancer patients and the Orgone Accumulators received two very negative press articles. Journalist Mildred Brandy wrote both "The New Cult of Sex and Anarchy" and "The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich". Soon after their publication, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) sent agent Charles Wood to investigate Wilhelm Reich and Reich's research center, Orgonon.
Information from internet sources
Not everyone liked the theories Wilhelm Reich suggested. Wilhelm Reich's work with cancer patients and the Orgone Accumulators received two very negative press articles. Journalist Mildred Brandy wrote both "The New Cult of Sex and Anarchy" and "The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich". Soon after their publication, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) sent agent Charles Wood to investigate Wilhelm Reich and Reich's research center, Orgonon.
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked..."
Specifically, his views contributed to the rise of the more current philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.
Existentialism is a term applied to the work of a number of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, generally held that the focus of philosophical thought should be to deal with the conditions of existence of the individual person and their emotions, actions, responsibilities, and thoughts. The early 19th century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, posthumously regarded as the father of existentialism, maintained that the individual is solely responsible for giving their own life meaning and living that life passionately and sincerely, in spite of many existential obstacles and distractions including despair, angst, absurdity, alienation, and boredom.
Counterculture (also written counter-culture) is a sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition. It is a neologism attributed to Theodore Roszak.
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He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked..."
Specifically, his views contributed to the rise of the more current philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.
Existentialism is a term applied to the work of a number of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, generally held that the focus of philosophical thought should be to deal with the conditions of existence of the individual person and their emotions, actions, responsibilities, and thoughts. The early 19th century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, posthumously regarded as the father of existentialism, maintained that the individual is solely responsible for giving their own life meaning and living that life passionately and sincerely, in spite of many existential obstacles and distractions including despair, angst, absurdity, alienation, and boredom.
Counterculture (also written counter-culture) is a sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition. It is a neologism attributed to Theodore Roszak.
>Information Taken From Various Sources
THE AESTHETIC OF BRUTALITY – REVOLT AGAINST ROMANTICISM AND THE AGE OF HIGH MODERNISM
Tom Wolf
Throughout his career Wolfe's subject matter, eccentric literary technique, and bold opinions have aroused much controversy concerning the significance of both New Journalism and his own work. After the publication of The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, some critics objected to Wolfe's unorthodox prose style, although many argued that the work contained innovative studies of popular trends. The critical reaction to The Pump House Gang was predominantly positive; several reviewers singled out Wolfe's portrayal of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner as among his most trenchant studies of class structure and America's obsession with status. Critics widely acclaimed The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for its surreal and vivid descriptions of the 1960s drug culture. C. D. D. Bryan called the book “an astonishing, enlightening, at times baffling, and explosively funny book.” Several reviewers faulted Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, for degrading the integrity of the black power movement and accused Wolfe of biased reporting, while others saw the book as a vigorous critique of liberal naivete. Both The Painted Word and From Bauhaus to Our House met with sharply mixed reviews, but The Right Stuff received almost unanimous praise from critics and audiences alike. “That Wolfe can weave together [the] ragged strands of the astronaut story without minimizing the extraordinary courage, the sometimes incredible technical virtuosity, of these hand-picked space explorers,” one reviewer remarked, “… is a tribute to his skill as a journalist and his sensibility as a student of humanistic values.” Although some reviewers considered Wolfe's characterizations in The Bonfire of the Vanities superficial, many praised his incisive examination of New York's criminal justice system and the city's turbulent social and ethnic divisions. A Man in Full was met with generally favorable reviews. Some complained of the book's length and Wolfe's tendency to indulge in cultural stereotypes, with several major critics voicing disappointment, such as John Updike who called the novel “entertainment, not literature.” Despite the critical contention that Wolfe's exuberant prose style and his use of fictional devices distort or overwhelm the events he reports, many agree with Joe David Bellamy's assessment that Wolfe is “the most astute and popular social observer and cultural chronicler of his generation. … No other writer of our time has aspired to capture the fabled Spirit of the Age so fully and has succeeded so well.
Frederick Neitzsche
Throughout his notes and published works, Nietzsche establishes relations between his own reflection and the dominant intellectual currents of his own day. A partial list of what was then fashionable would necessarily include: Darwinism, idealism, irrationalism, vitalism, Marxism, socialism and positivism. Although his mind seethed like a Romantic he remained opposed to Romantic idealism and spiritualism. In an oft-quoted phrase, what Nietzsche sought was "the revaluation of all values."
Nietzsche does not belong to any well-defined movement. His mind and method of reflection defines his position as solitary, profound, unique and at times, pessimistic. But, he does use his knowledge of intellectual movements and currents as dialectical elements for the forging of his own thought. Enigmatic as he was, Nietzsche belongs both to his own time at the same time that he rises beyond it. If anything, what he offered was a fresh, reflective, psychological, and poetic perspective. The only way his thought can really be studied is by going to the source, by going to his principal published works. It is for this reason that while I was reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra several years ago, I abandoned reading any published commentaries or critiques of Nietzsche. Perhaps it is better to see the film on my own then be guided by some misguided critic who has his own agenda to press upon me, a critic who perhaps possesses but no longer seeks.
>Information Taken From Various Sources
Throughout his career Wolfe's subject matter, eccentric literary technique, and bold opinions have aroused much controversy concerning the significance of both New Journalism and his own work. After the publication of The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, some critics objected to Wolfe's unorthodox prose style, although many argued that the work contained innovative studies of popular trends. The critical reaction to The Pump House Gang was predominantly positive; several reviewers singled out Wolfe's portrayal of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner as among his most trenchant studies of class structure and America's obsession with status. Critics widely acclaimed The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for its surreal and vivid descriptions of the 1960s drug culture. C. D. D. Bryan called the book “an astonishing, enlightening, at times baffling, and explosively funny book.” Several reviewers faulted Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, for degrading the integrity of the black power movement and accused Wolfe of biased reporting, while others saw the book as a vigorous critique of liberal naivete. Both The Painted Word and From Bauhaus to Our House met with sharply mixed reviews, but The Right Stuff received almost unanimous praise from critics and audiences alike. “That Wolfe can weave together [the] ragged strands of the astronaut story without minimizing the extraordinary courage, the sometimes incredible technical virtuosity, of these hand-picked space explorers,” one reviewer remarked, “… is a tribute to his skill as a journalist and his sensibility as a student of humanistic values.” Although some reviewers considered Wolfe's characterizations in The Bonfire of the Vanities superficial, many praised his incisive examination of New York's criminal justice system and the city's turbulent social and ethnic divisions. A Man in Full was met with generally favorable reviews. Some complained of the book's length and Wolfe's tendency to indulge in cultural stereotypes, with several major critics voicing disappointment, such as John Updike who called the novel “entertainment, not literature.” Despite the critical contention that Wolfe's exuberant prose style and his use of fictional devices distort or overwhelm the events he reports, many agree with Joe David Bellamy's assessment that Wolfe is “the most astute and popular social observer and cultural chronicler of his generation. … No other writer of our time has aspired to capture the fabled Spirit of the Age so fully and has succeeded so well.
Frederick Neitzsche
Throughout his notes and published works, Nietzsche establishes relations between his own reflection and the dominant intellectual currents of his own day. A partial list of what was then fashionable would necessarily include: Darwinism, idealism, irrationalism, vitalism, Marxism, socialism and positivism. Although his mind seethed like a Romantic he remained opposed to Romantic idealism and spiritualism. In an oft-quoted phrase, what Nietzsche sought was "the revaluation of all values."
Nietzsche does not belong to any well-defined movement. His mind and method of reflection defines his position as solitary, profound, unique and at times, pessimistic. But, he does use his knowledge of intellectual movements and currents as dialectical elements for the forging of his own thought. Enigmatic as he was, Nietzsche belongs both to his own time at the same time that he rises beyond it. If anything, what he offered was a fresh, reflective, psychological, and poetic perspective. The only way his thought can really be studied is by going to the source, by going to his principal published works. It is for this reason that while I was reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra several years ago, I abandoned reading any published commentaries or critiques of Nietzsche. Perhaps it is better to see the film on my own then be guided by some misguided critic who has his own agenda to press upon me, a critic who perhaps possesses but no longer seeks.
>Information Taken From Various Sources
Saturday, 17 April 2010
Bournemouth Event
The Heart of Bournemouth
AFC Bournemouth welcomes you to special evening of entertainment at Dean Court for all of you who love sport.
The club chaplain, Andy Rimmer, together with ‘Christians in sport’ have come together to put on a very special sports quiz on Thursday 29th April from 7.30pm in the Balfour Suite.
The quiz called ‘The Final Score’ is a multi-media ‘Question of sports’-type quiz which is ideal for all those sports lovers in Bournemouth. The event is open to all ages so perfect for all the family. Make a team of 5-8 or join in a team of individuals. There will even be appearances from AFCB player and team of coaches to liven up the atmosphere.
The bar will be open to all those who turn up and entry is only a small donation of £3 pounds per person with profits raised going to the AFCB centre of Excellence.
Feel free to contact Andy Rimmer on (01202) 883630 or
andy@rimmerteam.com for any more information about the event.
AFC Bournemouth welcomes you to special evening of entertainment at Dean Court for all of you who love sport.
The club chaplain, Andy Rimmer, together with ‘Christians in sport’ have come together to put on a very special sports quiz on Thursday 29th April from 7.30pm in the Balfour Suite.
The quiz called ‘The Final Score’ is a multi-media ‘Question of sports’-type quiz which is ideal for all those sports lovers in Bournemouth. The event is open to all ages so perfect for all the family. Make a team of 5-8 or join in a team of individuals. There will even be appearances from AFCB player and team of coaches to liven up the atmosphere.
The bar will be open to all those who turn up and entry is only a small donation of £3 pounds per person with profits raised going to the AFCB centre of Excellence.
Feel free to contact Andy Rimmer on (01202) 883630 or
andy@rimmerteam.com for any more information about the event.
Animal Cruelty Case
Kittens mistreated by animal carer
An elderly woman has been accused of cruelly neglecting animals in her care home in Wimborne.
Gillian Mary Hughes, ages 60, has taken into her care many abandoned and stray kittens since 1982. Although after recent inspections from RSPCA it has become clear that six kittens have been very poorly mistreated. The kitten’s conditions were described as confined and smelly, while the litter trays were full, the shed where the kittens were kept had bad ventilation and only a small entrance.
The six kittens, four of which only weeks old and two slightly older were suffering from problems like chronic disease, flees, conjunctivitis and lice. Many of the other kittens also were very thin but were in much better health.
Mrs Hughes stated that ‘I noticed they had eye issues, but I thought they were just mucky and that I could wipe them clean’. Mr Hughes states that she always looks after the animals which also includes horses, rabbits and dogs and that she does the best she can looking after the animals with the amount she gets from her pension. Mrs Hughes also states "I have never mistreated the animals in my care, I have cared for them all my life and I would do anything for them"
A close contact Phillipa Roddell claims that after recent inspections of Mrs Hughes house there have been much improvement in the conditions that the animals are being kept in and that they are being treated up to the required standard set by the Animal Welfare Act 2006. The law enforces that those who are looking after animals must makes sure they have all the adequate resources to maintain the animal conditions.
On Monday afternoon Mrs Hughes was given a conditional discharge of two years and fine of £500 pounds after being told she had the right intentions but will be forced to continue the improvement of her care.
An elderly woman has been accused of cruelly neglecting animals in her care home in Wimborne.
Gillian Mary Hughes, ages 60, has taken into her care many abandoned and stray kittens since 1982. Although after recent inspections from RSPCA it has become clear that six kittens have been very poorly mistreated. The kitten’s conditions were described as confined and smelly, while the litter trays were full, the shed where the kittens were kept had bad ventilation and only a small entrance.
The six kittens, four of which only weeks old and two slightly older were suffering from problems like chronic disease, flees, conjunctivitis and lice. Many of the other kittens also were very thin but were in much better health.
Mrs Hughes stated that ‘I noticed they had eye issues, but I thought they were just mucky and that I could wipe them clean’. Mr Hughes states that she always looks after the animals which also includes horses, rabbits and dogs and that she does the best she can looking after the animals with the amount she gets from her pension. Mrs Hughes also states "I have never mistreated the animals in my care, I have cared for them all my life and I would do anything for them"
A close contact Phillipa Roddell claims that after recent inspections of Mrs Hughes house there have been much improvement in the conditions that the animals are being kept in and that they are being treated up to the required standard set by the Animal Welfare Act 2006. The law enforces that those who are looking after animals must makes sure they have all the adequate resources to maintain the animal conditions.
On Monday afternoon Mrs Hughes was given a conditional discharge of two years and fine of £500 pounds after being told she had the right intentions but will be forced to continue the improvement of her care.
Ryde Trust
Ryde trust will be hosting a members only meeting on Saturday 17th April 2010 to discuss the future of Paddle Wheels vessel situated in Bath.
The Ryde trust has started a petition to help save the vessel from being demolished and within 14 days, 2,100 signatures were collected. The Ryde trust had been awaiting a reply from the brokers handling the sale on behalf of Island Harbour Holding LTD after an offer has been placed.
The Ryde trust have been asked to re-submit their offer for the ship, but it does mean that this time a business plan is needed to show possible options for the vessel. The vessel biggest problem is that she is ‘hemmed in’ by the mud and the silt at the harbour and the channel would have to be either blasted or dug out to get her out of the area.
Ryde trust hopes to get as much support, not just for PS Ryde vessel but also other vessels. Even more support would be welcome by signing the petition at
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/PSRyde/.
The meeting will take place at The Best Western Walton Park Hotel, Clevedon in Somerset at 1.30pm. Tickets are £20.00 and available through Mr Patrick Murrell.
The Ryde trust has started a petition to help save the vessel from being demolished and within 14 days, 2,100 signatures were collected. The Ryde trust had been awaiting a reply from the brokers handling the sale on behalf of Island Harbour Holding LTD after an offer has been placed.
The Ryde trust have been asked to re-submit their offer for the ship, but it does mean that this time a business plan is needed to show possible options for the vessel. The vessel biggest problem is that she is ‘hemmed in’ by the mud and the silt at the harbour and the channel would have to be either blasted or dug out to get her out of the area.
Ryde trust hopes to get as much support, not just for PS Ryde vessel but also other vessels. Even more support would be welcome by signing the petition at
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/PSRyde/.
The meeting will take place at The Best Western Walton Park Hotel, Clevedon in Somerset at 1.30pm. Tickets are £20.00 and available through Mr Patrick Murrell.
Silly Army
The Silly Army wants You!
A New sports club invites young and old to join The Silly Army, the most exciting and fun way to keep fit in Bournemouth this Easter.
The club meets every Sunday afternoon at King’s Park, in Boscombe at 1pm. The event consists of a wide range of silly and not so silly sports and games, usually around 10 to 12 per session until everyone involved is tired out.
So if gym prices are too expensive, jogging is to boring or you are intimidated by most of sports clubs around than this is a perfect way to find the right sport for you. The sports and games consists of inventions like spacehopper polo and spacehopper sumo, gymball-dodgeball, combination ball (mix of volleyball and football) as well as more known sports like hockey, catchball and rounders. The children games include crows and crumbs, splat and bulldog.
The clubs chairman and co-founder Pete Reed says about the event "The things we play vary each week, we are always inventing and trying new games, and in the summertime, to keep cool everyone brings along water guns".
While Club secretary and co founder Dave Hamm says "Whilst we are fairly competitive when playing, we don’t take things too seriously- we want members to laugh a lot, let their hair down and be kid’s again for a few hours.
Membership for the Silly Army is free and the club has recently been awarded a grant to purchase more quality equipment.
More information email The Silly Army at
thesillyarmy@yahoo.co.uk or visit the website at www.thesillyarmy.org.uk .
A New sports club invites young and old to join The Silly Army, the most exciting and fun way to keep fit in Bournemouth this Easter.
The club meets every Sunday afternoon at King’s Park, in Boscombe at 1pm. The event consists of a wide range of silly and not so silly sports and games, usually around 10 to 12 per session until everyone involved is tired out.
So if gym prices are too expensive, jogging is to boring or you are intimidated by most of sports clubs around than this is a perfect way to find the right sport for you. The sports and games consists of inventions like spacehopper polo and spacehopper sumo, gymball-dodgeball, combination ball (mix of volleyball and football) as well as more known sports like hockey, catchball and rounders. The children games include crows and crumbs, splat and bulldog.
The clubs chairman and co-founder Pete Reed says about the event "The things we play vary each week, we are always inventing and trying new games, and in the summertime, to keep cool everyone brings along water guns".
While Club secretary and co founder Dave Hamm says "Whilst we are fairly competitive when playing, we don’t take things too seriously- we want members to laugh a lot, let their hair down and be kid’s again for a few hours.
Membership for the Silly Army is free and the club has recently been awarded a grant to purchase more quality equipment.
More information email The Silly Army at
thesillyarmy@yahoo.co.uk or visit the website at www.thesillyarmy.org.uk .
National Trust
Volunteers needed
The National Trust is looking for volunteers to give their time to support Stourhead this Saturday in Wiltshire.
The open day at Stourhead’s house and gardens is in need of some volunteers to help with vital work to keep the estate running smoothly and to help provide a great experience to all the visitors. The volunteers and staff will be around to discuss or answer any questions from 11am to 2pm at Stourton Memorial Hall.
Visitor services manager Leanne Clements from the Stourhead estate says I would love people to come along, even if they just want to find out more. Further to this she says ‘You can sign up on the day for any of the roles or just to see what’s on offer’
Some of the jobs on offer for volunteers include driving the shuttle bus, guiding people through the gardens and wider estate; fundraising and catering. So whatever your ability there will be something that is well suited to everyone.
One volunteer state’s ‘I love volunteering just to get my ‘fix’ of the lake: the colours and calmness; the beautiful gardens, and the lovely house all year round. Volunteering manager Richard Watson adds ‘ Stourhead needs you! Whatever your interests, there really is something for everyone. Volunteering is a great way to enhance your CV, keep your skills up to date and to develop new ones’.
This event is perfect if you a spare few hours a week to give to help National Trust preserve Stourhead in all its glory. Drop in anytime between 11am to 2pm at Stourton Memorial Hall, Stourhead BA12 6QD. Please park in main Visitor Car Park. If you require any further information feel free to contact the Estate Office on 01747 841152 or Tara Burke at Tara.burke@nationaltrust.org.uk.
The National Trust is looking for volunteers to give their time to support Stourhead this Saturday in Wiltshire.
The open day at Stourhead’s house and gardens is in need of some volunteers to help with vital work to keep the estate running smoothly and to help provide a great experience to all the visitors. The volunteers and staff will be around to discuss or answer any questions from 11am to 2pm at Stourton Memorial Hall.
Visitor services manager Leanne Clements from the Stourhead estate says I would love people to come along, even if they just want to find out more. Further to this she says ‘You can sign up on the day for any of the roles or just to see what’s on offer’
Some of the jobs on offer for volunteers include driving the shuttle bus, guiding people through the gardens and wider estate; fundraising and catering. So whatever your ability there will be something that is well suited to everyone.
One volunteer state’s ‘I love volunteering just to get my ‘fix’ of the lake: the colours and calmness; the beautiful gardens, and the lovely house all year round. Volunteering manager Richard Watson adds ‘ Stourhead needs you! Whatever your interests, there really is something for everyone. Volunteering is a great way to enhance your CV, keep your skills up to date and to develop new ones’.
This event is perfect if you a spare few hours a week to give to help National Trust preserve Stourhead in all its glory. Drop in anytime between 11am to 2pm at Stourton Memorial Hall, Stourhead BA12 6QD. Please park in main Visitor Car Park. If you require any further information feel free to contact the Estate Office on 01747 841152 or Tara Burke at Tara.burke@nationaltrust.org.uk.
Work Experience: Published page 4 story.
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8105076.___Just_lunacy____as_a_newly_laid_pavement_is_dug_up/
After working for daily echo for a week work experience i was fortunate enough to turn what seemed a none story into what came about as something a little better.
First published piece couldn't be happier.
After working for daily echo for a week work experience i was fortunate enough to turn what seemed a none story into what came about as something a little better.
First published piece couldn't be happier.
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