Holbeck Working Men's Club may close.So I don't live in Holbeck, or even Leeds, but I do listen to BBC Radio Leeds. A story this morning was that the club is to hold a family fun day in order to attract new members. They see their decline as being part of the decline of the …
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Hello old friend
After a long time, and old friend has got back in touch.Noel was a fellow member of a series of bands I was in in the seventies and eighties. In fact we were the only constants in a very changing lineup. For about half of that time I've been working shifts, which makes being a …
Car Hits Cyclist
Car Hits CyclistThis is the sort of story that attracts me, having spent the last seven years with an injures foot due to having been a cyclist in collision with a car. But instead of a diatribe against motorists, which is what people would expect, I'm taking the other tack.Like most cyclist I don't want to own the roads, but I …
A night to remember
Two years ago a local Christian youth group in our town had three members -- questions were being asked about whether to continue. Now there are seventeen of them, last night ten of these made history by being in a very ecumenical service. Rather than split them up so that those attending the Anglican church …
Making an ass of myself 