Shouldn't moan but........
I shouldn't moan but............
Why can't I stipulate of Google that I only want pages in the UK. I used to be able to and yet here I am this morning trying to find free use Internet sites for advertising the community event in Fishersgate 11th September and being offered sites all over the world. It is most time consuming. Update........... OK so they have made it far more complicated and long winded to use by giving a great long list of options, then sub options, then sub sub options. I have always used this search engine by default - now I wonder what the others are like.
Another moan....
Why can't I get good reception of BBC TV South East. Their local news contains reports of places I want to hear about - such as Brighton - and the weather map starts at Portsmouth and covers the counties over to Kent.
Published Date:
21/07/2010
Modified Date:
29/07/2010
Full of Fun Day
Have just come from the latest meeting planning the Fishersgate Fun Day 2010. The event will be held as usual in September - the 11th from 11 am to 5 pm on Fishersgate Recreation Ground.
I don't know where to start on the list of attractions that will be there on the day.
Kids you can come along to the Penalty Shootout, the Surfboard Ride machine, the Rowing machine, the Face Painting, cookery with Momma Cherri and the Disco and Baloon Man, not to forget Karate.
Grown ups you can come along to the stalls and watch Dance displays - you might even like to join in. There will be adult cooking with Momma Cherri on food preparation with taster sessions. The beer tent will be open all day and there will be other refreshments all day. In the afternoon there will a 'Lyons Corner House' type tent where you will be shown to your table by a waiter to enjoy a good old cream tea.
Everyone you can come along and see The Army with equipment on show. Health Trainers will be there, as will many stalls of all kinds. Live music, a Doctor who will take your blood pressure. Animals.
What have we missed. I don't know but we will be adding more as time goes on. In short watch this space and keep the 11th of September free to visit the Fishersgate Fun Day.
Published Date:
16/07/2010
Modified Date:
16/07/2010
Random Thoughts (5)
Big Brother...... Will someone please tell the housemates that they are playing a game to win a cash prize. I cannot stand Davina, the older she gets the more obscene she becomes.
Football... The manager is only as good as his players. On the other hand the man who cannot be bothered to learn to speak English - not even for six million a year - will never be able to motivate the players via a translater.
Cuts...... What is there to say about the cuts that hasn't been said - and ignored - already. Fewer bobbies on the beat, less criminals in prison even for offences that should carry a custodial sentence, the promise of suffering for the poor, the disabled, the chldren......this coalition is taking it out on all of us even though we did not cause the mess the country's finances is in. Now the prospect of families being forced to move around the country, away from their support network, with no promise any job they move to might last. This is the upper class at it's nastiest. They wont make it happen of course but that wont stop them from having a jolly good time trying.
Published Date:
30/06/2010
Modified Date:
30/06/2010
The Opening Was Under Control
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The High Sherrif cut the ribbon outside the Meet In Place, Fishersgate today - Friday June 25th - to mark its opening as a satellite office of Sussex Police. Sandra Heaton - Eastbrook PCSO - will be based in the Meet In Place as well as doing the rounds on foot. The Meet In Place will also be used by a variety of Community groups.
The photos show the Herald photographer in commanding mode for the line up for the official photographs and the High Sherrif cutting the ribbon.Sorry I have returned to the site to find that one of the photos has gone off into the ether. I cannot even paste it back on.If you would like to see a photo of the High Sherrif you will have to pop to the local paper website.
Published Date:
25/06/2010
Modified Date:
30/06/2010
Fishersgate Dome
Chair of Fishersgate Community Association (FCA) Peter Averillo tells me that the plan to reopen part of the Community Centre - mostly known as Fishersgate Dome - is getting underway. The builders are expected to start work on the Club House Wing of the building that has been closed since a series of arson attacts in 2005. The building that was never completed was started in the late 1990s intended to be a Millenium project. The court case between FCA and the project manager/constructor was resolved in 2008. There is further court action ongoing with FCA against Adur District Council (ADC). There is another hearing expected today - Wednesday June 23rd - in Brighton County Court as FCA seeks the insurance money paid out by Zurich Mutual for the arson. The money was paid to ADC who have so far retained the cash.
Peter Averillo tells me that is proving difficult to obtain permission from ADC and West Sussex County Council to allow some of the remedial work to be carried out in Fishersgate Recreation Ground and on the path beside the A259 Coast Road. Until all this work in completed the centre cannot even partialy reopen. Lets hope all the issues that local government have with FCA can be resolved soon and the Community of Fishersgate can at last get use of at least some of the facility that they have waited for since ADC demolished the old Fishersgate Hall in 2002.
Published Date:
23/06/2010
Modified Date:
23/06/2010
Random Thoughts (4)
Budget....... Just the Conservatives doing what we expected they would do.
Lib Dems..... Clegg and Co have led a once proud party into the gutter of political look after number one. I cannot see that smirking face without the desire to do something very nasty to the little oik. I feel sorry for the grass roots members and indeed many of the MPs who are left with the choice of staying in a devalued party or doing what their conscience will be telling them to do. The country doesnt deserve to be treated like this and even less the members - many of whom will have given much time and money to the party over years.
VAT..... is a smack in the face for the poor and disadvantaged. It beggers belief that old people will be left wondering if they dare to heat their homes come winter. If the government is taking the kill 'em off and save on pensions stance then they should be thrown out.
Football...... I usualy say that it is only a game and there is always next time but if England lose today I shall cry. There is nothing much else in this country.
Except..... The new series of Top Gear starts this week. Maybe I wont cry after all!
Published Date:
23/06/2010
Modified Date:
23/06/2010
Meet In Place
The community facility the Meet In Place in Laylands Road is to be re-opened on Friday June 25th at 12.15 pm by the High Sheriff of Sussex.
The facility was for many years a launderet and then became the workshop of a furniture restorer. It was revamped into a new use in 2008 when it became the home of the Children & Families' Centre whilst they were waiting for the former St Peter's Church to be ready after exstensive building work. The Children & Famillies' Centre moved in in February 2010 and the Meet In Place has been given a spruce up. It will now be used by members of the Fishersgate community of all ages.
Published Date:
19/06/2010
Modified Date:
19/06/2010
Random Thoughts (3)
Adur Toilets...... So here we are, the nasty cuts continue. The public toilets throughout the Adur district are used by many many people every day and are not a luxury item. Imagine the distress this savage axe would cause if the council is allowed to get away with closing them. The buildings have not been maintained to a good standard for years - you only have to look inside them to see that. These are not old buildings - for example Southwick was built at the same time as Southwick Square barely 40 years ago.
Come Home England.....I have an idea. Why not send home the England players and send out a youth side who could do a better job. And while they are at it a five year old to do the manager's job.
Published Date:
19/06/2010
Modified Date:
19/06/2010