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Firstly I cannot believe that its been four months since my last blog post. That said, It has been a bit of a crazy time and in truth I haven't felt that much like blogging at all.
Today though I have felt a little more positive. I must confess to have been in something of a writing hole of late. I have completely stopped my involvement with the
6towns Radio Station. Completely Stopped writing for
PitsnPots, Stopped posting to Posterous and as you can see written nothing here for months.
Part of the reason is that I have just been busy having a little bit of me time. Me time is something that everyone needs but rarely gives themselves. In the past couple of years I have filled every waking moment with activity, trying to keep busy and have a full life to take my mind off things. Since my dad passed away I needed to take a bit of time off from Radio Stations and Political writing. I just seemed to have lost all passion for it. Happily though, I have still been carrying my camera round with me , snapping everything that caught my eye.
Work is changing for me right now. I can't really say too much except to say that whilst still employed by the council , the cuts have affected me greatly. The City Learning Centres across the country have suffered from changes to their funding. Stokes' CLCS have been dropped and out of, some 20 staff only three of us remain. Today, I packed up my office into boxes and dropped it off at the council buildings. It was all very depressing because I'm going from having a shared office to being open plan with many other people. That said, I'm going to try and be positive about it. It's a chance to meet new colleagues and that may open some doors and lead to new friendships.
Other positives are that whilst I have packed up doing a lot of writing for the time being, I launched the
Where in Tideswell Facebook Page. This started off with me posting a few pics I took on my mobile to my Facebook profile with the title, Where in Tideswell? My Twitter associate
Shane Rankin had started it off with his
where in Stoke Page and I thought it might be a cool thing to do in Tidza. Well Loads of people played so I moved the idea to it's own dedicated page. Now, I'm told people are talking about it at work and in the supermarket. People are driving round in their cars looking for the mystery locations. The really great thing though is that it's started a little community up. Other Tidza residents can post pics too, so more and more folk are getting involved. It's hardly a massive group, about 60 or so people but it's nice to be at the heart of something that gives people real pleasure.
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| Me n our Kid |
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| Someone being funny with my drawing |
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| Tideswell's Scariest Wakes Scarecrow |
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| Good to see a big healthy Frog |
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| Found these in my draw at work. |
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| Cool |
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| Hello Moocow! How do u do cow? |
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| Big old Storm brewing above Crich in Derbyshire |
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| Homegrown |
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| Ploughmans Lunch at Hungersheath Farm, Staffs. Nom nom! |
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| Cool old Barn, Hungers Heath Farm. |
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| Jacket Spuds and Salad...Great after a hard day. |
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| Tideswell Dale |
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| Tideswell Dale |
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| Visiting my old School-Lady Manners |
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| Marthas Shop |
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| Found this in the Garden |
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| A royal spread in a school I was training in. |
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| UFO thing near Kniveton, derbyshire |
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| In one of the Subways in Newcastle-Under-Lyme |
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| Newcastle-Under-Lyme |
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| Packing up my office :( |
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| The Training room full of the new tenants stuff. |
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| My office all cleared out after 9 years. |
Ok that's enough rambling from me. I'll try to post more regular updates from now on. I think this blog is in need of a makeover too. Here's some pics.
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