Easter

The New Breightmet Health Centre & Library

What a great start to Easter, snow and gales, when will it ever stop. In Perth WA they have declared a National Disaster after hailstones the size of bricks rained down on the city for about 5minutes damaging building and caused chaos on the freeway, most cars written off beyond repair. And my friends in New Zealand had a Cyclone that damaged buildings and flooded the town. So I recon` we have had it mild compared to them. Weekend before Easter I drove up to Harrogate to visit Stu and Co, it was a sunny day cold and windy but a nice bright day. I always enjoy the drive over Lothersdale and down into Skipton. We had an excellent lunch at The Union, Stue`s favourite local Pub, then we did a bit of shopping. I spent some time with them all, it was a good visit.
http://www.kfcc.co.uk/theunion
It was my brother`s birthday on the 28th Palm Sunday. I hope he liked his Birthday card, I wrote him a poem ! Hope you had a wonderful Birthday Bill.
In 2009 we had a huge new Health Centre built just five minutes walk away from where I live. The idea is to decentralise most of the services that are based at the General Hospital miles out of town. Also housed in the building is our local Library. Most libraries contain a public Computer Suite and each week hold sessions for PC beginners but there are never enough advisers. So as I have a few hours a week to spare and miss teaching, I have applied to be a volunteer adviser. I was asked to complete a comprehensive form and obtain two referees, if accepted I will have to wait for police clearance. Fingers crossed X
Oh how I hate these long weekends, its pointless going anywhere because traffic is bad,the roads are still full of pot holes and you can`t find a parking space or a decent cup of tea anywhere. I don’t feel up to a picnic in this weather. I have actually read six books in the past week. Its ages since I have read anything apart from what I download on the Computer. For years I visited local libraries looking for new exciting reading but gave up as they never had what I was looking for or I had read them all. The public libraries in Perth WA are brilliant,they carry so many more books than in the UK. We have a book table at the WI but our ladies do not read my kind of books,thrillers mainly, or they get snapped up the minute they are out on display. Charity Shops are a good source for books and I have friends who pass them on to me, so I always have one to hand. I have just enjoyed reading "To Kill a Mocking Bird" by Harper Lee.The book had been sitting on my bookshelf for years and I never fancied reading it ,but I am glad now that I did. I do on occasions buy books and every one barr my poetry books get circulated otherwise my shelves would be overflowing. I was amazed to learn that poetry and some literature had been removed from some libraries in Bolton, as not required reading. No poetry books, how sad. I was asked to do a Poetry Review on the Australian Poet Banjo Patterson for Write Out Loud`s monthly online Ezine “Features“. Its called Binalong Time. I love Banjo`s poetry it is full of humour and just brilliant, check him out .
http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/features.php?year=2010&month=4&tag

Getting ready now for my trip to London, we have been promised a heat wave this weekend, oh boy what should I wear!