We hosted our "Memories tea" this afternoon the first event specifically arranged to celebrate our 140th anniversary.
Not my project, but I helped with setting up and acted as a scribe on one of the six tables, just talking with the visitors and switching on their memories of life in bygone St Denys.
Excellent display boards set up, and loads of people brought in books, photos, wedding albums etc. Over fifty guests, loads of big homemade cakes and a tour round the Building. A complete success and big smiles from everyone involved. It attracted a couple of other younger people to via the website, who came along 'out of interest' with a shared love and thirst for local history. Seems there is quite a lot we can do with similar group in the area and I can see a much bigger project emerging from the crumbs of the sponge cake and meat paste sandwiches...
Also just happened to be Biscuit's 19th birthday, but she didn't come round until five having tried to sleep off a hangover for most of the day.
Good - student lifestyle seems to be filtering through at last! Kids delighted to see her and all too silly.
We bought her a smoothie maker, and arranged lunch on Tuesday.
Big ramble about the situation in my office and she works with someone exactly the same at the camera shop. Some insightful comments and with this and more chat from church people I am seeing the way forward with more clarity now. But to get there requires more strength and determination than I can muster at the moment to push a rather large boulder out of the way.
Speaking of nostalgia, I found another F*xx interview online today - a full transcript of the 2003 interview for Sky Text in which he reminisces about life up north at the early part of his career in the context of his relationship with LG.
Interviews seem to be all over the place, but there are lots of stones to turn.
Lou*s Gordon - Bl*nd Anorex*c
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