Maggie/915

In the 80s she was at Woodhorn allowing kids or anyone to try and play her pipes.

Some terrible noises could be heard.(not from her)

She now helps young people become involved in the Folk Music Tradition.

The word 'Spelk' is a good word!

Talk propa? Hadaway

This is an article that appeared in yesterday's Guardian page 36

David Almond says as an introduction

Am a Rita, and A kno the common langwij cums from the hart an sole, and must Neva be forgot

He is a novelist and professor of creative language at Bath Spa University.

This may interest new member Les

This lot need to be in the Heritage initiative!

Spoaching again

It was.my grandad who came home suffering not Harry Patch.

My Grandfather was drafted into the army in 1916. Lots of people in the same street went at the same time. Harry Patch, the last Tommy said, 'War is licensed murder'

He came home suffering from the effects of mustard gas.

Maybe others have local stories of War and the consequences

You seem like a daily mail reader to me Keith.

I expect you to have the last word but I really do not see your logic and never will.

Best wishes

'Amen' thank 'GOD' Keith you have seen the reason for protest with unforeseen consequences.

To jump in front of a bus because they have changed the route is crazy. (My opinion)

If you think that equates with Emily's actions,and those are your sincerely held views that is fine.

We live in a democracy where you are free to say and think what you like.

Emily was fighting for that right.

Yet another business idea.

It could win us Britain in Bloom.

Coloured lawns

Should I mention hot air.

New source of power!

Malcolm you need to be in parliament.

Malcolm Robinson MP

Very interesting.

My feeling is some of the pesticides we use are harmful.

A return to these old ways would not be allowed but it could prove to be recycling at its natural best. The leek growers knew the importance of human waste for the biggest and best leeks.

Suggest you read about the 'cat and mouse policy'

Force feeding and punishment was extreme.

We could mention the unfairness of the miners

strike, or loads of other incidents where people were forced to take a stand.

Jumping in front of an Arriva bus is a crazy example by anyone's standards.

We need to remember the other details.

The suffragettes were persecuted for simply wanting a vote for a democratic government to represent them.

Without people like Emily who made a stand for others where would we all be!

Okay maybe it was just votes for women but it was unfair, I do not believe she wanted to die or traumatise the jockey. She wanted justice. Surely that is not to hard to understand.

We would all fight for a cause we believed in.

We would all fight against injustice.

Social responsibility means standing up and being counted.

Surely that is not to difficult to understand even if you disagree.

Sincerely held views are understood by all.

We like a singer called Ron Sexsmith and were shocked by spam mail.

Crazy

Following a link scientific because of the Mars craft landing. I got something very dodgy.

A son wrote a poem when my mother died,in it he said :-

The secret of life lies with each other .

Death makes you assess relationships and what you value in life.

It is not about money and possessions.

However that said I am a hoarder.

Exhibition at the Baltic Art Galleries this year in Newcastle (one is in New Bridge Street) American artist Jim Shaw bought odd cheap paintings in charity shops . His point was you do not own your possessions your possessions own you.

With my old lot you had to be careful you did not say you liked something because it would go home with you.

What an example to live up to.

Love the way we all get side tracked.

The price of bread can end with the meaning of life and all under the topic of The Lion Garage.

Maybe we need to have a topic how to disappear.

And never be found.

The Kingston Trio had a track about disappearing in the Everglades.

Desperate times sadly.

No wonder we all look back on our Halcyon Days of yore.

A mix of terrier and dandy dinmot not sure of the spelling.

Who can resist telling someone you are from Bedlington if you see one!

Not me

Just for a swift half and the company.

In my Dads day it was the Sun Inn and the darts team.

Still have the idea that women are barred from the bar.

Club rules apply!

Rest days are Tuesday and Thursday.

The company is important.

Thanks tonyg I thought it was Don Lynn's but was not sure.

Thought it could have been Lewins

Sadly we are at that age where 'it's not dark yet but it's getting there' Vic

Sounds dodgy but once you accept that fact nothing matters.

I have a Geordie friend in the South with a famous step son who was given weeks and months to live nearly two years ago.

When people ask me how she is, I say she was given a new lease of life proving the doctors wrong!

That I feel is a mind set, that is easily understood in Bedlington and the North.

The other Geordie trait I admire is the ability to give and not expect something, anything in return.

In other places people can be suspicious when you are kind and wonder what your after.

In coal mining you gave freely because if you had spare veg or anything else you enjoyed being kind.

Why let things go to waste. Your life depended on your Marra.

There is a song chorus is:-

It's the company makes the feast'

Guess what I am saying is the people make our area the best of places.

The weather, dialect and shared history of hardship makes life special and we all need to be grateful for our lot.

Joke required

"Wor Geordie has a pigeon a pigeon a pigeon

It flew in the morning it flew in the night and when it came home it was covered in---------

Back to the beginning

Sorry to anyone who does not know the tune or song