Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Copied from the Home Page :- 'The young people of Leading Link have been working extremely hard together with professional artists to provide some permanent amazing art installations in Plessey Woods and we are nearly there! In partnership with NCC and with funding from the Sita Trust and the Foyer Federation, the young people have created pieces of eye-catching art such as a Quarry Henge, willow wonderland and an imaginative environment for Hobbits and Fairies around a mile long adventure!' What is there to do? There are many things to do in the woods other than looking at the installations. Around the trail you will find QR Codes that you can scan to see how each installation was made! Upcoming events: Grand Opening of the trail (April 2nd 1-5pm) Lantern Trail (April 2nd 7pm-8:30pm Making lanterns from 1pm-5pm) Lantern Making (April 5th 6pm-7pm) Lantern Trail (April 5th 7pm-8:15pm) Lantern Trail (April 5th 7:45pm-9pm) Lantern Making (April 7th 6pm-7pm) Lantern Trail (April 7th 7pm-8:15pm) Lantern Trail (April 7th 7:45pm-9pm) Lanterns cost £2 to make unless you are a Children's University passport holder. http://plesseywoodstrail.weebly.com/

Anybody any objections to me gathering up the end of term class photos, with & without names, that have been posted on various Bedlington sites (many by Foxy ) and storing them all together in the Gallery along with the other albums in the 'Historic Bedlington' category?

Maggie, are you related to Eddison and this has been passed down by generations of your family? or was that for an electric poss-tub? or was that for you first holiday abroad in 1956? Even me dad, a typical Scotsman, didn't have one like that in his 1940's box of old plugs - two strand wire - etc. that he was sure would come in useful one day! Think he eventually used the wire to tie up staked garden plants and veg.

Photo, 96KB, loaded into Gallery, without a problem. I'm singing, and dancing in the rain - doo bee doo do, doo be doo be doo do..................

John - are you saying .....been like that since website changes = since the site went over to the new format on 12/01/2016 or have there been additional changes, since the site went to the new format? I have uploaded photos since the new format was introduced, in both the Gallery and Discussion Topics but everything I have tried to upload over the last two days has failed with :- "There was a problem processing the Uploaded file. 7". I assume threegee is working on it so I will bide my time. If not then I will ask Maggie to sort the administrators out!

All attempts to upload photos from my Desktop PC - Windows Vista, into any Topic, or the Gallery, fail with :- "There was a problem processing the Uploaded file. 7" Tried different file types eg. .png - .jpg, and different sizes, all under 1MB all fail with the same.

I made many attempts to load a couple of photos - png & jpg - from the Punch Drunk site but ALL failed - "There was a problem processing the Uploaded file. 7"

Link to the Punch Drunk web site is :- http://punchdrunkcomedy.co.uk/ Extract from the web site :- PUNCH-DRUNK 4 TO HAVE REPEAT NIGHT! BEDLINGTON – We’re coming for you! We can confirm that due to popular demand for the SOLD-OUT Punch-Drunk 4 at Blyth on the 20th of this month, we will be adding an additional night in Bedlington the very following evening at Netherton Club (Tuesday 21-April-15). The venue is the same size as Blyth’s Side-Club base, and promises to be a packed house to rival that of Blyth’s. The launch event will feature a replay of Punch-Drunk 4 featuring all of the same acts, so if you missed out on Blyth tickets because of how fast they sold out, you can get the exact same experience on the Tuesday an inexpensive taxi ride away. If you’ve never been to a Punch-Drunk event before, you’re in for a treat. Our events are remapping the social calendar…in the midst of an ailing social scene where bars and clubs are dying off, we are calling on communities to united behind a permanent date in the monthly calendar where we vow, friends and family alike, to reconvene at the same place and time every month, to reconnect against a back-drop of laughter. (The Blyth events have been sensational so far and have received national acclaim winning “BEST LARGE COMEDY-VENUE IN THE NORTH” at the recent Chortle awards!) The laughter will be provided by the very best comics the international stage has to offer! Punch-Drunk 4 will feature the star-studded line-up of acts as follows: Host / Compere: Kai Humphries Mark Nelson Philberto Andrew Stanley Scroll down for full previews of all of those acts! Tickets are available for reservation with immediate effect through all the following channels: Simply Text or Call 07738663379 with your full name and ticket requirements Inbox the Punch-Drunk Facebook Page Online: - See more at: http://punchdrunkcomedy.co.uk/event/punch-drunk-4-bedlington-launch/#sthash.sxarO5Go.dpuf

Bayardm - I am not involved with the Bedlingtonshire Local History Society but I do remember Maggie posting a 2015-16 program - see photo at the end of my message. There is a contact number & email address for the Secretary, Barry Mead, on the ANLHS web page :- Association of Northumberland Local History Societies (ANLHS) Member Societies/Groups & Organisations Bedlingtonshire LHS The society was founded in 1968. Meetings are held from September to November and from January to April on the last Monday of the month at 7.30pm in Bedlington Evangelical Church. There is no membership fee but £1 is charged for each meeting. For further information tel. : 01670 861180 Or contact Barry Mead, Secretary by emailing bas.mead@google.mail.com. However in a posting 'History Society' Maggie posted :- ".................For details of Where and What is involved phone - 01670 820088" And within that same posting was an entry with the 2015-16 program dates with Monday 28/03/2016 scheduled as 'Blythe and Tyne Railway System - John Riley' :-

Now I understand, but I will still secretly giggle to myself as I imagine a little old lady, on her tiptoes, with the wrapper off her Werther's Original in her out stretched hand and cursing the council and a sweet and polite way old ladies are supposed to!.

So they havn’t won a game this month, though they had some shots at Leicester This Sunday their luck will change, and Mackems will gan yem te fester.

Wot - no Recycle Bin! Bring back PCs. with Vista!

Malcolm. I can see from the other sites where you post this message that there are many who want this matter sorted and I do appreciate there concern. However I would love to see the instructions that were given to the the team that were employed to carry out this task. Just so we can see how difficult it is for people of sound body and mind to install an item and stand back and probably say - '.......fitted perfectly to the required specification I we can see that it will fit the needs of all, including those vertically challenged'.

I agree with all the comments on the shop assistant but I believe if I was wanting wallpaper I would persevere with the shop Maggie. How many comments have you read on this site, and many others, about wanting to have a front street full of commercial shops rather than charity shops. I would even have to go as far as say I totally agree with my wife - never buying household furnishings on-line. View the items in the shop; in a dark corner and then in the light. Take a sample home and match that sample against all the other soft furnishing items, (that only she has gathered over many years), and make sure it works. Don't forget to ask everyone that comes into the house if they think the sample - goes with other items - brings out the colours c) is a good contrast d) doesn't clash etc. etc. etc. and regardless of what they say make your own mind up, unless you want to take the advice of someone else so you can blame them if the completed redecoration turns out not to your liking. The above comments are genuine. However I must add that my outlook on decorating the family home do differ from probably about 95% of the world's population, including my lovely wife. I have always wanted, and you could say achieved, a house that is clean and tidy and provides facilities to feed; entertain and keep my family safe and warm. BUT there are always, other than what is required, additional items to add to the whole experience of a comfortable night in the house. I can never understand why anyone would want to spend time staring at a wall, covered in wallpaper! I have purchased many items for the house that the whole family can share and enjoy - Tv - computer - Board Games - Lego - artistic materials etc. etc. I have never thought I will buy that wallpaper so I can stare at it, and enjoy it, is I have nothing else to do. Back in the early 80's I covered many walls with Knotty pine and lovingly sanded; sealed; sanded; varnished; sanded; varnished; sanded; varnished; sanded and a final coat of varnish. My theory - I will never have to do this again for years and years and years and I didn't, we moved and left it. The feature fire place, with gas fire, was built with stone. The more stone that was used the less of the walls would need wallpaper. Marble topped corner units so the TV could be in full view of every seat in the house. The other corner, with matching marble top, was where the wife could stand as many pointless objects as she wanted. So me and the kids played games, watched Tv etc. and the wife dusted her many knick-knacks, blissful harmony. I had to concede to the chimney breast covered with many strips of embossed wallpaper so you could hang a large mirror on the wall that covered half the paper (that paper had taken weeks to find!) and resulted in one sex of the family standing in front of it to apply many items to the face and thus blocking out the heat and quite often the TV from the other sex! Once all the kids had left we moved, leaving all the 80’s features, to a bungalow. Every wall in every room, freshly skimmed, not a strip of wallpaper to be seen. It has remained wallpaper free for the nine years – YES. Naturally I have had to concede to the hanging of a few items, including local works of art, that have I never stare at but the wife still takes a duster to them. Go out Maggie and get many samples of various items. Shopping for curtains is even more rewarding! Oh the hours and hours of endless enjoyment and fulfillment watching them hang seductively over the painted wall gives me immense pleasure. The country needs less of me and more people that will keep manufacturing moving. So get back to that shop Maggie and support the High street shops. ps. however I am content, no wallpaper and no pets.