Breaking news from the garden

This recent disappearance has led to questions being asked in the garden. However, we were told that there were no gardeners currently available to comment on this issue.

BBC Local Radio

You can access all the BBC local radio stations on the web. One way of accessing these stations is from the BBC's website at:

www.bbc.co.uk/england/radindex.shtml

1. Select the station from the drop-down list box - remember that you can use the first letter of the station to quickly find it.
2. Press the Go button.
3. The BBC Radio Player appears in a new window, and if you're really lucky...
   

Zoomers nominated for Oscar award

Well, not quite, but we have been listed on the ICT Hub website as an ‘example of great Community and Voluntary Organisation blogs’

The ICT Hub is a national group of voluntary sector organisations who offer advice and support for voluntary and community organisations.

To have a look at the webpage, click on the link below and scroll to the bottom of the page.

http://www.icthubknowledgebase.org.uk/goingtotheblogs

P.S. The Oscar nominations are next week but some film will probably win, as usual.

Visit to Gallery Oldham 11.01.07

We went to see the Alan Rankle exhibition and on arrival were welcomed with a hot drink, much needed after battling our way through wind and rain to reach the gallery.

Alan Price, the gallaery Natural History curator had prepared a hands on array of lots of items taking us through the evolution of Oldhan from ice age to present. A fascinating talk and lots of fun digging our fingers into sand, clay, moss and then examining ferns, twigs and feathers.

Stephen Whittle gave us a history of Alan Rankle, whose landscapes were on display. He is a local Oldham boy and his paintings were an indication of the ecological changes to our area by the development and decay of evolution and the industrial development of our region.

Anne Hornsby was on hand and give a very lively and detailed description of the paintings on disply. A most enjoyable tour of the exhibition.

Unfortunately, the extra seata did not arrive until almost the end of the visit and some of us who cannot stand for very long had had to resort to sitting on the benches in the middle of the gallery, thus missing some of the descriptions.

Many thanks to Gallery Oldham for yet again looking after us so well and ensuring that we gained as much as possible from the visit.

Strange things

Strange things It has taken me a very long time to get to this point, I have been getting unusual messages coming up on screen. Plus last night it ended up with 15 emails in the in box! I do believe that there is a blockage under ground! Because if think of it email is short for earth mail which of course is snail mail!! I was going to end up with a remark about some of the group having shed a few pounds at Christmas
(but i won't) Bye