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So that’s another milestone. My last evening to introduce a speaker before I finish my tour of duty in two weeks time. A good speaker again this time from NSPCC. Some interesting but worrying facts such as there are 85 calls every day in our region to the Childline which is now run through NSPCC. […]
Last Sunday I did the 77 mile Highclere Sportive along with and ably assisted by son Stuart. It was very hard with some mean hills, 1700 metres in climbs. It was a bit much for me and next day, twang went my back again. So it is now back to slow recovery. Fortunately it is […]
I am now the proud owner of a 24inch iMac- Wow!! Unfortunately I managed to ruin the straight forward migration process from the old computer. Something to do with messing up the system permissions apparently. The result was that both computers crashed and failed to re- boot despite all attempts through usual channels. Many tears […]
After all the worrying about lack of numbers attending, our joint Rotary clubs charity Concert at Mote Hall on Saturday was a success. No word on money raised yet but we probably had about 400 in the audience- not the 800 we had hoped for but as I hear that the Jim Davidson Concert next […]
Before dinner I read a card from Mike S thanking the club for the flowers and card following Margaret’s funeral last week.It was good to see Andy and and Lloyd back at club so soon. We hope that being with friends will help in some small way to ease their pain. Good to welcome back […]
A CD was recorded of some of the songs that were performed by Ross & Clare at my Presidents night. You can hear them including “Rotary the World Over” the song that I wrote and performed on the night on the Riverside Rotary website http://www.rotary1120.org/riverside/ However, I have copies of the CD available for a […]
Modesty prevents me from making comment after reading Nic’s account on our website!All I will say is that everyone involved in this remarkable evening has made an old man very happy. It was for one night only and my retirement at the pinnacle of my musical career is a sensible move as one can only […]
Nice little job on Friday. Along with Chas I presented a cheque to a local junior school. The money will go towards a trip to the Science Museum in July. I had the privilege of announcing this trip to the youngsters- they were overjoyed. Without our donation it is unlikely that the trip would be […]
This weekend was the highlight of my year. Martin and I rode my 1934 tandem to meet up with other club members and Rotarians in Dordrecht. Here is a small report and some pictures. “This trip was very much a symbolic ride but great publicity not only for our charity, Alzheimers Society but also an […]
3 weeks now and Amanda is progressing well. getting better balance using arms and a lot of confidence, Need to work on her lateral flotation. Early days but good signs so far. My old swimming mate Arnold has joined me as a helper, great timing, he is looking after Claire along with our E Sutton […]