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The Deep

6 March 2010
By John A Smith
The Deep

On February 25th Jayne Amelia re-tweeted an article from The New York Times about a crack appearing in a tunnel type aquarium, much like The Deep in Hull. (See video at the foot of this post). I had booked a places for Leeds Plus Group with the Lincs Quest Group to visit The Deep...
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The Interview – rehearsal

4 March 2010
By John A Smith
The Interview – rehearsal

On Thursday evening I went to Dewsbury Town Hall for the latest rehearsal of The Interview. It was a happier occasion than last week and most of the cast performed without their script. Posters were distributed, I took three which I put up on Friday. Afterwards...
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Comedy Night

1 March 2010
By John A Smith
Comedy Night

This evening Dave and I had decided to have a change from out usual pool night, I had seen the Adelphi Comedy Night on meetup.com but been unable to attend because of my pool night, then I was too late to get a ticket...
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The Interview – rehearsal

25 February 2010
By John A Smith
The Interview – rehearsal

Tonight I went to Dewsbury Town Hall to see a rehearsal session of The Interview by Jayson Bartlett. before Christmas I had been unable to attend any rehearsals due to the snow, this time there was no problem though the weather was wet and...
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Vice-President – Me ? ? ?

23 February 2010
By John A Smith
Vice-President – Me ? ? ?

This weekend I went to Walsall for the Plus Annual National Conference at the County Hotel. As usual I went by train setting off in the afternoon, the trains were remarkably busy, I had to stand up between Huddersfield and Leeds and between Leeds and...
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Sand Painting – Xenia Simonoff, Ukraine’s Got Talent

1 February 2010
By John A Smith
Sand Painting – Xenia Simonoff, Ukraine’s Got Talent

Jayne-Amelia recommended a favorite video on YouTube, the phrase Sand Animation caught my eye so I had a look, the video was so delightful and moving I decided to find the artists web-site if possible, I found some more of her amazing work on...
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Stephen Fry was there!

30 January 2010
By John A Smith
Stephen Fry was there!

Today I had a look at Stephen Fry’s web-site, actually I only opened it to create a new tab in my browser to go to some other web-site, but while there I noticed that he had been at the launch of the new Apple...
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Driving The Saudis

21 January 2010
By John A Smith
Driving The Saudis

Giovanna recommended a video on facebook; “Anybody in Memphis? Go check out Jayne Amelia Larson in her one woman show – a must see!!!!!”. I had a look at the video on youtube, see below, and decided that if I’d been in Memphis I would...
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Cues n Views on facebook

15 January 2010
By John A Smith
Cues n Views on facebook

Today I added a Cues n Views fan page to facebook as David has received a few e-mails requesting him to be their facebook friend. (including one today). Of course this meant putting David himself on facebook, which I did inputting as little information as...
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Simon Templar is The Saint

14 January 2010
By John A Smith
Simon Templar is The Saint

I completed the set up of my Simon Templar is The Saint web-site dedicated to all things relating to the famous character created by Leslie Charteris today. It was the same day that I received my copy of The Saint Steps In . ....
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National Chairman’s BLOG

13 January 2010
By John A Smith
National Chairman’s BLOG

While I was National Chairman of Plus (www.plusgroups.org.uk) I posted a BLOG on www.wordpress.com along the lines of a more tradititional journal, it’s not complete, but gives an idea of what I was doing during those four years. Today I updated the theme, I’m still...
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Television Treasures

9 January 2010
By John A Smith
Television Treasures

Last night David and I had a discussion about our next web-site project and came up with the idea of Television Treasures, it’s a web-site dedicated to those favourite television programmes of years gone by that we remember with real fondness. I’ve made a start...
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Cute With Chris

3 January 2010
By John A Smith
Cute With Chris

Showed David this hilarious video made by a BLOGger who receives incessant e-mails that annoy him. I suppose anyone who runs a web-site gets questions that are answered on the web-site, rude comments on your personal opinion, irrelevant questions and points and these can be...
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