Vic Patterson

Ryker Jaxon Miles, 7lbs 15 oz, 21 1/2"" long. born April 22/2110 @ 10:43am

All of the above! Dan Dare & Mighty Meakon! 40 Berkley Square (Eagle) Picking williks, Tettie guns, Picking the tar with a stick, Beatle Drives, Saturday morning flix (Tom Mix, Gene Autry, Batman) "Welcome to Workers Playtime" Take your pick, Dixon of Dock Green (evening all) Muffin the Mule (OMG!) B**** & W**** show. Terry O'neil's One O'clock show (nah, not realy) Chips in paper (outside

Hi Harty, Canada (1976)via Bedlington and Blyth.

Hi Harty, Welcome, (I'm also from Blyth) Vic

Thank you Maria, Please pass on our best wishes from up the road in Grande Cache, tell Joe the snow is nearly gone!

Hello Debra, Wecome aboard from abroad!

Happy Birthday Brian, I hope you have a great day, but not too much of the green beer!

After reading "A Rant About Bedlington" I think I might have to retract the above posting!!!

It is certainly the elected officials duty to listen to the public who elected them, then act as they see fit, (but not always necessarily the way the electors feel they should.) there are often many legal or financial considerations that are not known to the public. How well do you know your councilors? have you been to any council meetings or talked or e-mailed them to tell them of your concerns? (not only you but all of the readers) Living here in a small community it is very easy to for us to all that, as we work, live and play very closely, my point is they are elected but only if you vote for them! At work yesterday a good friend of mine said he is being asked to run for Mayor or at least for council, he sees the core of the council being local businessmen with their own agendas! a few years ago my plumber was almost elected as Mayor!!! (failed by less than 20 votes.) We have our council minutes posted on a web site, I read them and often follow up by going to a meeting or sending an e-mail, our local newspaper is a good means of telling the council what the people really think! I think we have many capable readers here who should get involved with the council and the community in general, great ideas and enthusiasm but only lack the formal skills, I'm sure the council read this web site, use it to tell them what you think! Respectively submitted, Sorry for the rant!

Thanks Brian, Oh yes I was spoiled, she let me do the housework at MY pace.....

Thank you Tony and Cympil (cake was great! ) I had a wonderful day relaxing, but it's back to work today

Thanks Pete, Having a great lazzy day, watching the Brier right now(curling) snowed a little on Thursday and Friday but it's melting fast.

Great stuff, hope you all have a good time, I think I recognize your rellie!

A little bit off topic.... If the library were to move with the times it should "go electronic" Who reads paper books these days? the digitized books should be made available, I know quite a few people who go the library before going on vacation or just traveling on business. I also know several people who don't have computers who go to the library to check their e-mail etc. I think this concept has to be adopted into all ways of life, things have always changed with the times so we need to think how to keep up with technology!

Be nice!

The Tyne bridge represents Newcastle, Market place Blyth, what view means Bedlington to you? (Market Cross!)

I too applaud your effort but be careful what you ask for! as long as you have the basic services how much do you really want? most people appear to have some mode of transport (I could be wrong) and Blyth, Ashington, Cramlinton and Newcastle all have the mega stores, fast food outlets and all the garbage that goes with them!5-10 miles is close enough for industry and all the pollution and waist it often produces. I'd be pressing them to clean and tidy what you have and fill up the closed or run down buildings and provide recreation and leisure facilities. Respectfully submitted

Well done Amy

Anyone watching the Olympics? what are you following?

Yes Cympil that is where Walter Dagless lived with his wife Sarah Jane (with 5 bairns!)the door was sharp right in the arch.

My wife's grand parents lived in it, it was called the "Old Hall" sort of a multi dwelling place, she remembers going through an archway to a courtyard that had about eight dwellings. not sure about it being called a work house.

Your certainly correct about the salt and causing rust, we see vehicles from the coast rusting in a couple of years but here in the mountains with dry air and very little salt they wear out before rusting, only my 26 year old Bronco is now showing it! But salt is good to -21c for traction they use more sand than salt.

How much do you want to pay! We get a lot of snow every year and we pay hefty taxes to remove it! Vancouver only get a heavy frost! and hardly budget anything (yeh they do all end up in the ditch !) I buy snow removing equipment (at work) $90,000-$150,000. and it gets used often, if your council bought this stuff how often would it get used? a lot of it can be used all of the year round but things like snow blowers etc can't. If industry comes to a halt without it maybe industry should be taxed to clear the roads (that's not going to happen!) How often in a normal year is it needed? These are 5 year old figures Snow-removal budgets compared with annual average snowfall: • Vancouver — $400,000; 8 centimetres • Calgary — $21 million; 106.5 cms • Edmonton — $49 million; 123.5 cms • Ottawa — $66 million; 202.5 cms • Toronto — $67 million; 133 cms • Montreal — $128 million; 144 cms