Chesterfield-under-Water

Very quickly have to share these Flickr shots with you. This amazes me about the power of new media, people are out there… capturing events as they unfold; in photos and in words on blogs… you just can’t help loving Web 2.
O.K. This won’t mean a lot to you, unless you are in the [...]

The Trammps ….

Monday - got an email from Louise at the hub about her new blog and was already to review it when in a bizarre way I felt compelled to look out of our office window to see this.
WOW - it was spectacular if a little sad and scary at times!
Full story and more pictures - [...]

Crate Expectations

Sorry for the poor title of this blog post today … at least my sense of humour hasn’t been removed (yet) !
We’re moving offices ! As I sit here and type this our filing area / library is being (noisily!) dismantled, recycling bags are bulging with memos from 1997 and the photocopier is making its [...]

Just sign here please

Oh the cynic in me says the Threshers 40% off vouchers wern’t actually a “mistake”, they claimed to be worried about profit margins, but how many more customers did they get as a result - put “marketing plan” and “leading up to holiday season” into a sentence and see what you get.
Sadly off-licence [...]

12 December 2006

Today was a “Metro 10 page day” - thats how much of the Metro I can digest in my 15 minute train journey from Chesterfield into Sheffield, pretty average really. (As of today there is water in that cascade they have taken ages to build, and they have finally found a way to strip the [...]

I’m Game…if you ALL are

Still thinking about those Yaks (as are a quite a few other bloggers), but what about those of us who have a life and just want a bit of harmless entertainment, but with a bit of a purpose? Well I’ve gathered together the following links to on-line games with a message behind each…. the beauty [...]

Neighbours - surely miles from the national hubs? No!

Yes, some would say we are … what is a national hub doing at a local Voluntary Sector Forum Conference and AGM ? What is the relevance to us? Perhaps some people still don’t “get” ChangeUp ?
We, like the other hubs are a national partnership of charities that have come together to deliver a [...]