I had this video sent to me by the fantastic Titanic Brewery from Burslem Stoke-on-Trent. It gives some interesting figures around the brewing industry. It’s not about the big brewing corporations but the small independent artisan brewers around the UK. Stirring stuff it almost brings a tear to your eye.
We need to make sure that we support our local breweries.
Stop sniggering! Eric Pickles has said the Big Lunch is at the heart of reuniting communities.
I’ve been waiting for a delivery from Apple, it was due on Friday and never arrived, the delivery was changed to yesterday and it never arrived. I called Apple to chase it and they were going to make sure that it got delivered today. Looking at the tracking, I’m not overly hopeful that it will turn up today.
so I have E-mailed my new pen friend at Apple.
Hello Roy,
I’m concerned.
Global warming, food and fuel security are quite high on my list of things to worry about, I don’t have sleepless nights but they are always there on the peripheries of my mind. Unfortunately another big concern for me right now is the delivery of my Apple product. I’m concerned that this delivery is not going to arrive today, after being told it was going to be delivered on Friday and Monday.
Having dug a little deeper in to the dispatch and delivery system it appears that the order was in Stoke-on-Trent on Friday and was indeed in Stoke-on-Trent yesterday when I spoke to you.
According to the tracking history
Friday morning the package is scanned twice in Stoke-on-Trent
It had a brief excursion back to Hinckley on Friday night.
I bet you have never been to Hinckley have you Roy? It’s not the best place to go to on a Friday night it has to be said, so if you do come and visit dear old England don’t go out of your way.
Yesterday the package was back in Stoke-on-Trent and again received 2 scans.
Today the package still appears to be in Stoke-on-Trent but only has one scan on it at midnight.
This is my third day of ‘working from home’ to facilitate the delivery of your fine aluminium Apple product with all its shiny goodness and I fear I am going to feel deflated, disappointed and let down by the end of the day with yet another lack of delivery.
I’m not sure how many more ‘working from home’ days I can realistically pull off.
To be honest ‘working from home’ is a bit of a misnomer. When I am ‘working from home’ I like to relax, I like to wander around the house in my dressing gown and pretend that I am Noël Coward, sometimes I like to rummage around in my wife’s underwear draw, I’m not saying that I do anything other than look at the silky garments my wife keeps in there either. My wife is a curvy size 16 (US size 14) and I’m over 6′ and 200lbs so I’m sure I’d never fit in to anything she keeps in that draw, but if I were to try and your delivery driver turned up at the same time it could be terribly embarrassing couldn’t it?
I’m not sure your driver would ever recover from seeing me answering the door half in one of my wife’s basques looking like a particularly ugly Frank n Furter.
So I promise not to go rummaging in my wife’s underwear draw just yet, if you can sort out what is happening to my delivery.
On Saturday I went along to the Netroots event in Manchester to speak about working With The Local Media, I was on a panel with Lawrence Shaw from the NUJ, who tweets as @lawrenceshaw the panel was chaired by Matt Finnegan ex of the Manchester Evening News who tweets as @mattfinished
Unfortunately Tina Taylor, a care cuts activist, the third person who was to sit on the panel wasn’t able to make it on the day.
We had quite an interesting debate covering local printed media, their websites and hyperlocal websites as well as talking about more general social media.
Here are my presentation slides.
On the whole I think the event had a good mix of people from a number of different organisations and trades unions along with a good mix of speakers [myself excepted!].
I did tweet out a few critical remarks about the Getting your Voice Heard Online session
I have to admit when I first saw the different panels I was a bit upset that it wasn’t this one I was involved in as it seemed to be ideal for me and the work I do with Talk About Local.
I chose this session because I expected it to be a very grass roots session explaining to people how to get on-line and thought that with my experience I would be able to add something to the session maybe.
Sadly it turned out to be quite far from grassroots and more of a master class in social marketing and self promotion. I think the session was badly named rather than it being the fault of the panelists who were very knowledgable about their subjects.
My final tweet on on the days events summed up the one failing of what otherwise was an excellent event
The event was videoed and once they videos appear online I strongly recommend that you watch the closing speech from Ally Fogg @allyfogg who made an impassioned speech about ‘there is no justice just us‘ & ‘ye are many – they are few‘.
Anyone who can put Ruthless Rap Assassins and the poet Shelley together in a speech has got to be saluted.
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I found this article about Stoke City in the FA Cup against Blackburn Rovers, Saturday 27 January 1962 reported in The Leader – Post from Regina Saskatchewan Canada on Tuesday 30 January.
It seems that Stoke City were knocked out of the FA cup due to what Mr Cyril Cliff thought was a disputed penalty against them and the disallowing of a legitimate goal for Stoke City.
Cyril Cliff a Stoke City fan of 38 years said
I have instructed my lawyers to issue writs against the referee and the Football Association alleging the match was not properly refereed
We never hear of anyone complaining about the quality of referees or decisions made during matches anymore do we?
Webb, now I’ve heard that name somewhere before…..
Today 82 years ago, my Granddad was admitted in to 2628 Company of the ‘Church Lads Brigade’ at the rank of Private.
I’ve not found anything on 2628 company, I think they would have been in the Bradford & Beswick area of Manchester.
Posted from Manchester, England, United Kingdom.
