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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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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 Birmingham all the seats were occupied meaning I had to...
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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 not totally satisfied with it as the Twitter module doesn’t...
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This weekend we attended the National Plus NEC meeting and Activities Workshop planning meeting. On Sunday the Activities Workshop planning meeting was a lively meeting which culminated with me filming a promo video for the event, see below.
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On Sunday evening the main entertainment of the evening was Tight Fit, they were quite a good turn and went down well with most Plussers, but the real highlight was that they turned up at Kings Lynn Plus Groups chalet party afterwards. Everyone thought it was really cool, but the real fun part was in...
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The day started with a train journey to Leeds and then on to Todmorden. Our first stop was the Tourist Information Centre where we received good advice on our route and suggestions for future alternatives. After our packed lunch we set off along the canal tow path to the bridge carrying the road to Mankinholes. The road...
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I went to Leeds as usual today and at about 6:30 met up at The Light with Peter to go to the cinema. The plan was to see the film and then eat, but the next showing was 8:00 so we ate first at Nando’s. I tried the steak for a change, it was OK...
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Despite the wind and the rain . . . hold on! that was last year’s SADY, this year the weather was brilliant. Sunday evening’s entertainment was 2008 Britains Got Talent semi-finalist Craig Harper who along with D.J. Gary Jay and all the Plussers made the last night a great Plus party night to remember! On...
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As arranged I caught the early train to Sheffield to meet up with Matthew and head for the Plus NEC meeting. There was a delay at Birmingham so we were about half an hour late, but we hadn’t missed much of the meeting as Adrian had started later. It was strange going in to the meeting...
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Got up early today as it was the Leeds Plus trip to Salford. We had to catch the free shoppers bus to travel part of the way and then the tram to complete the journey. First we went to the Lowry Shopping Centre, a fairly ordinary shopping centre where we had an over priced lunch of...
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