Demons, downloads and daffodils

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Kate Bentham

Hello, it’s me Kate Bentham again this week, starting with a shuffle of the feet and staring at the floor apology for the delay in getting this summary to you. My standards are slipping. I’ll try harder. Am I forgiven?

So, let’s cut to the chase and get on to those blogs, you’ve waited long enough for them after all. There were 12 perfectly formed blogs this week, which turns out to be one of the quietest weeks we’ve had for a while. If ever you are struggling for inspiration then just get in touch on the #weeklyblogclub tag, and someone will tweet you some ideas. If time is your issue, we can’t help there, but if you found a solution then do share.

A couple of blogs posed questions to us this week, one of which was an important one was around mental health. Susan Munro asks Are You Aware?, do we know enough about mental health issues and the impact on a person’s life. Susan questions if enough is done to raise awareness of mental health to the general public and also questions whose role it is to do this. It’s also important to consider what success might look like, how would we know that people are aware. A very interesting blog to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week.

Rough Cat aka Llana Rockette blogs this week about being Scottish and the all of the fabulous things associated with being Scottish. In Scots Abroad – Surely Not That Obvious? Rough Cat looks at Scottish stereotypes, such as accents, weather, communities, sun bathing, and lager.

Mark Wood is often asked Why hang around on mountains then? In his blog this week he not only explains why but also shows us why. As a talented photographer Mark patiently stands for hours on the snowy Welsh hills to capture stunning images of military jets.

Richard Overy regularly shares wonderful photos with us, which may have been lost but are now found again. This week Richard shares a group photo entitled Wilson & Mrs W. Hoskin which possibly shows generations of neighbouring families. There are lots of interesting faces to look at in this glimpse of the past.

Samuel-James Wilson also looks at the past this week, with a focus on our cultural and architectural heritage. In St.Andrews Church – Starbeck Church – Update Samuel-James updates us on his campaign to protect the integrity and heritage of this local church, sharing some of the recent correspondence he has received from the local council and company carrying out the work, which does not actually address the professional and informed questions he asks. We wish Samuel-James well with this important campaign.

We regularly get health related blogs and this week is no different. We have a real personal blog by Ros Gray called Daffodils in full bloom , which was posted on the Ayrshire Health Blog. In this blog, Ros looks beyond the technical care of patients and focuses on compassionate, person centred care, and ensuring patient safety. Lots of important questions are asked in this blog, but have your tissues at the ready; it might bring a tear to your eye.

Anyone who likes the sporting section of the weekly blog club summary will be pleased to read there are two sports related blogs this week (sort of). First up we haveThe Sporting Wag who argues that it’s Not All Bad For UAE Rugby But Much More Needs To Be Done, after a recent defeat against Japan. The sporting wag, aka Hannah Chia, suggests that the amateur status of the players of the UAE team will continue to struggle against professional players, unless some investment into a league is taken forward.

The other sporting (sort of) related blog is from Kenny McDonald who in Living life the Wigan way looks at the leadership and management style of Wigan Football club manager Roberto Martinez. Kenny greatly admires the professionalism of Roberto and how he worked to strive to implement his strategy to avoid relegation. We can all learn something about leadership style from this manager, I even learnt a bit about football.

We have a very helpful blog from Louise Brown called A quick look at targeting your Facebook page posts this is an particularly useful blog for anyone who manages a corporate Facebook page. Louise has produced a step by step guide for anyone who wants to know more about targeting posts. Graham Budd shares an interesting blog this week called Getting your name “in the paper”. The blog looks at why someone might object to their name appearing digitally but are very comfortable with other elements of their public profile – I’d be really interested to hear your thoughts on this? Why might digitally differ? if you have any ideas include them on Graham’s blog.

Fragmentation of TV Audiences and Illegal Downloads by Karl Green this week looks at how TV audiences are becoming more and more fragmented as a result of technological developments. Karl also looks at how pay to view channels are causing some audiences to illegally download programmes. A great read.

Finally My personal demons by Karen Hart looks at procrastination and perfectionism, two characteristics she is cursed with. Karen blogs on how they cripple her into inactivity and a feeling that nothing is never any good. I can certainly see myself in this blog, I often faff about until the deadline, and then sometimes that comes and goes and still I’m not finished. Thank goodness for the invention of Squidgy Deadlines. I’ve certainly needed one this week for this summary. Thankfully I’m not cursed by perfectionism – but you already knew that, you might have read this far to find that out.

If you have enjoyed the blogs this week, be sure to let the blogger know, a simple like, comment or share is really encouraging and motivating. If you have been motivated to write a blog for next week you can find out more about how to on our About page, it really is simple. Or if you have felt motivated to have a go at being a guest curator you can find out how to here, that’s really simple too – and very enjoyable.

I’m back again for the week 21 summary. So until then, take care, eat some cake and keep blogging.

Kate

Summary of Week 20 posts

Not All Bad For UAE Rugby But Much More Needs To Be Done

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Kate Bentham

This week The Sporting Wag aka Hannah Chia encourages us to look beyond the recent 93-3 Japan vs UAE rugby match score and focus on what can be done to develop a semi-professional UAE rugby league. Hannah asks what support can be offered to the dedicated amateurs to enable them to compete against the professional players.

Not All Bad For UAE Rugby But Much More Needs To Be Done. by The Sporting Wag

Living life the Wigan way

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Kate Bentham

This week Kenny McDonald talks football, and in particular the leadership of manager Roberto Martinez. Kenny admires the professional manner in which Roberto presents not only himself but all associated with Wigan Football Club, showing us that we can all take something positive from his style of leadership.

Living life the Wigan way by Kenny McDonald

Blue lights and learning, landscapes and inspiring

Posted on May 16, 2013 by weeklyblogclub

This post, the summary of Week 19 Year 2 posts, is the 1,194th on this blog. There have been 16,577 views of the blog. We have created 193 categories and 1,771 tags. 246 people follow this blog, and there have been 970 shares (using the buttons on the posts – so does not count all the sharing activity), mostly on Twitter and next most popular are LinkedIn, and Google + (someone does use it!). I have just binned 71 spam comments. There were 17 posts in Week 19.

Healthcare, tourism and leisure were key topics that emerged during the week, with a mini theme of stages of life, and a lot of learning threaded through many of the posts. If you lack inspiration for a post, do just tweet about it to @WeeklyBlogClub and someone will try to help – or you could look back on previous posts (be aware that some links will be broken due to Posterous shutting down last month).

Health-related posts during Week 19

Scot Health monthly is settling in and Becoming part of the landscape, pulling together health blog posts from throughout Scotland. The number of health bloggers in Scotland seems to have grown every month since I first read the Ayrshire Health blog last year, set up by Derek Barron. This week’s post on Ayrshire Health blog – Interprofessional learning…bridging the paradigm gap - was by a paramedic for the first time. John Burnham started his post with an example of learning from another emergency service’s ‘hot debrief’ held immediately after and by the site of the incident. The recent BlueLightCamp unconference (which included organisers and participants whose names are already familiar to Weekly Blog Club readers) focused on how digital technology and communications are and could be used by the emergency services.

Catherine Howe used the Dan Slee approach to unconference blogging and wrote 20 things from BlueLightCamp13 as her ‘general’ post on the event and issues raised. It is always interesting to listen in on such unconferences and to read the blogs about them since the issues raised are often relevant to other areas of the public sector (note to future historians, once upon a time, the UK had public fire, police, and ambulance services).

Joseph Conaghan suggested some radical solutions to the problems in staffing Accident and Emergency in hospitals in Accident and Emergency in Trouble….Quick, Paint Out The Signs. The Dumfries and Galloway Health blog contributed a post with the most authors for a single Weekly Blog Club post thus far with Maureen Stevenson, Laura Graham, Mhairi Hastings, and Natalie Oakes writing London 2013- International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare by The Patient Safety Team. They picked out some of the key points at an international forum, including learning from healthcare professionals in countries with far less resources, and Robert Francis QC talking about his report on the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust Inquiry.

Chris Bolton had been thinking more about jargon and specifically about National Health Service jargon and shared what he had found in Don’t spend any money on NHS Jargon Busters – it’s sorted! Download the Apps. Having worked on hierarchical word lists myself (including a rather substantial one), I was very interested in this post. The NHS must have several different ‘languages’ with the different types of professionals that work within it, and including both the medical and the non-medical staff. It would be a fabulous challenge to pull together an NHS hierarchical word list.

Stages of life

Phil Jewitt contributed a lovely guest post to the Shropshire Family Information Service blog on the challenge of being a parent of children as they become adults: Letting go. Jayne Holgate of Age UK Business Directory (Nottingham & Nottinghamshire) wrote a guest post on Weekly Blog Club about one of the challenges that face people at the other end of adulthood: Protecting Older People from Rogue Traders. Hannah Chia wrote about a very busy stage of her life as she settles into a new job at the same time as trying to arrange her wedding from several countries away in Excuses & Being A Good WAG.

Learning

Louise Brown asked What can I teach about content licensing in 15 minutes? in her post. She was preparing a short teaching session as part of her course about teaching adults. It is a complex topic and requires accurate information. Her question certainly made me think a lot, even though I have quite often had to give people some basic information about it in my work. Feedback by Sarah Ball at Participation Cymru covered learning from the learner angle. She had been on the same course as Dyfrig Williams (his post last week about it was Drilling down), and it was interesting to read what had resonated with her.

Tourism and leisure

Karl Green was looking into the future and trying to forecast whether and how television might change in TV Programmes: The Future? Will people in the future be sharing the Eurovision experience at the same time and still sharing comments about it with complete strangers online?

Richard Overy showed a more active leisure experience in his post this week of a vintage photograph of Swimming, taken at a busy lido or outdoor pool. I found myself wondering who took the photograph.

Photographer Mark Wood contributed his first blog to Weekly Blog Club - New blog & inspiration - and told us of his week which, although full of work rather than leisure, did include a trip to the major tourist centre of London.

I take photographs wherever I go (or, at least, I did till my DSLR stopped focusing on 1st January this year), and find the stunning Northumberland landscape one of the most difficult to photograph because the views are so wide and often so distant, so sometimes I paint them instead. I rediscovered a couple of my old watercolours of Hadrian’s Wall landscapes recently. It is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Northumberland. Ross Wigham wrote about his and his team’s work in promoting Northumberland as a tourist destination to local people as well as those more distant, and reveals some interesting statistics on the use of digital and more traditional offline methods of promotion in Travelling in your own back yard (and getting a social buzz for your event).

Karen Hart’s description of a narrowboat holiday experience in Out of town was so lyrical that I felt really tempted to try it myself. It is almost magic realist in feel and conjures up an England that you think you recognise as an idyllic past, perhaps over a century ago, although it probably could not have existed then. If you only have one post to read out of this week’s collection, perhaps this is the one, especially if you need to be transported to a more peaceful place.

If I have left out anyone’s post, please tell us – it can be difficult to sift through the hashtags at times. As always, thank you very much to all who contributed by writing, reading, liking, following or retweeting the Week 19 posts. If you are inspired to join the contributors, more about how to can be found on our About page. I did not set the [entirely optional] theme for Week 20 since it was already through by the time I wrote this but if you need help or inspiration, tweet us and someone usually helps quite quickly.

Many thanks also to lovely Kate Bentham for taking over for the next week. If you would like to help look after Weekly Blog Club, all you need to know is here.

Janet

Janet E Davis.

Summary of Week 19 posts

Swimming by Richard Overy.

Hadrian’s Wall landscapes by Janet E Davis.

TV Programmes: The Future? by Karl S Green.

Letting go by Phil on the Shropshire Family Information Service blog.

Travelling in your own back yard (and getting a social buzz for your event) by Ross Wigham.

Becoming part of the landscape by Scot Health monthly.

Interprofessional learning…bridging the paradigm gap by John Burnham on the Ayrshire Health blog.

Excuses & Being A Good WAG by Hannah Chia (aka @SportingWag)

New blog & inspiration by Mark Wood aka @f8_media .

What can I teach about content licensing in 15 minutes? by Louise Brown.

Out of town by Karen JK Hart.

20 things from BlueLightCamp13 by Catherine Howe on the BlueLightCamp blog.

Don’t spend any money on NHS Jargon Busters – it’s sorted! Download the Apps by Chris Bolton.

Accident and Emergency in Trouble….Quick, Paint Out The Signs by Joseph Conaghan.

Protecting Older People from Rogue Traders by Jayne Holgate - Age UK Business Directory (Nottingham & Nottinghamshire)

London 2013- International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare by The Patient Safety Team by Maureen Stevenson, Laura Graham, Mhairi Hastings, and Natalie Oakes on the Dumfries and Galloway Health blog.

Feedback by Sarah Ball at Participation Cymru.

Swimming

Posted on May 12, 2013 by weeklyblogclub

Richard Overy shares another vintage photograph that he has found. This one of swimmers seems to be taken at a lido (I wonder if anyone recognises the place?) and is quite possibly a family snap.

Swimming by Richard Overy.

Your PR is only as good as your product

Posted on May 2, 2013 by weeklyblogclub

Kenny McDonald considers two examples of rather tricky PR situations: one in internationally famous stables, and the other in a restaurant aspiring to be recognised for the highest cuisine.

Your PR is only as good as your product by Kenny McDonald.

Blogging, walking, leading and bins

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Kate Bentham

Hello, yes it’s me Kate Bentham back for another week as guest curator of Weekly Blog Club. We’re into week 15 of year two and had some wonderful blogs submitted this week, the quality and content of which have been amazing. The 17 blogs submitted this week have the usual eclectic mix of subject matter but what has been interesting is the medium through which some bloggers have presented. We’ve had videos, photos, audio and text, proof that a blog really can be presented in any format. If you’re used to presenting in text, why not have a go at something a bit different next week?

Anyway, let’s have a look at the blogs for this week.

We have a couple of blogs about blogging. First is Parent bloggers and The Lullaby Trust by Louise Brown who talks about online communities, and how it is possible to engage with them by tapping into something which the community may have experienced or have strong opinions about. The Lullaby Trust tapped into one online community to raise awareness of changes within the organisations, with some very positive results. Next up is Ross Wigham who has been celebrating one year since he started his blog. In Happy blog day Ross remind us of some of the excellent blogs he’s written over the last 12 months, and some surprises in the post viewed blogs – ones which were more personal than work related, which I find really interesting in the whole personal and professional discussion – should we try to separate the two, if actually readers like to see a bit of the personal there too?

There were two bloggers who took up the entirely optional theme this week, based on Janet Davis’s Urban Walk posts. Kate Bentham took us on A Rural Walk April 2013 across fields and lanes and even through a church yard, sharing photos of some of the interesting things she saw on the way. Look out for the unusual Gravestone and the old carving in the wall. Chris Bolton also took us on a walk from the changing rooms of a Rugby Club to the actual pitch, complete with make shift dug out. In Vardre RFC, Venice of the Swansea Valley? Re-visiting old rugby grounds we get to see some of the canals and bridges Chris had to cross to be able to watch his son play #properrugby.

And on the subject of Rugby The Sporting Wag AKA Hannah Chia has chosen the team is will be supporting in the Super XV based mainly on looks rather than quality of play. Hannah relieves which team gets her backing this season in And My Super XV Team is…

We have two posts this week looking specifically at leaders and leadership. Derek Barron suggests leaders need to involve a team in the Why, How and What, to ensure that teams are clear of the vision and will follow. In Leaders – where ‘why’ meets understanding Derek also looks at the importance of giving feedback to candidates after interviews and Covey’s work on the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Janet Davis touches on another leader this week in Leaving for the future suggesting that the legacy of Thatcher might only truly be understood by future historians, just as architectural heritage and excavation is often best left, with the advancements in technology, for future generations.

News, media, comms, and PR are often subjects of blog posts, and this week is no different. Andrew Eccleston on the Dumfries and Galloway Blog looks at the subject of media from a different angle. In Front Page News Andrew shares his experience of being in a job for a few weeks, when he was called upon to do an interview about staff shortages at the Paediatric department. Completely out of his comfort zone Andrew shares how he prepared for the interview which was vital considering the issue and possible angle the paper could take. For anyone wanting to find out more about the media post-Leveson and the use of social media in news reporting Ross Wigham invites you to join him at the CIPR conference in June called Power to the people, which looks like a good event with some very interesting speakers.

We had a few employment related posts this week, the first is by Chris Bolton who looks at Clump Recruitment, whereby we can engage or enlist Generation Y people by targeting where they hang out, all for the benefit of the business. In Clump Recruiting, Old Wine in New Bottles? What about the Pals Battalions and Richard Arkwright? Chris explains that this technique of clumping isn’t new, and looks a little bit like ‘Old wine in new bottles’. Another great blog from Chris.

Pride, Passion, Professionalism by Hazel Borland on the Dumfries and Galloway Blog looks back and celebrate 30 years in a nursing role, reflecting on some influential colleagues she worked with and who shaped her nursing practice. Graham Budd has also been helping colleagues understand and use social media and the web as a way of communicating and engaging with customers. In Vexing myself into redundancy Graham looks at how with the support he has given, colleagues are confidently and competently making the best use of online tools.

Participation Cymru have used video in their blog which includes an interview with a member of their Advisory Panel, to understand more about the work Participation Cymru undertakes and how the panel are key to steering that work. The interview in Wayne Jepson reflects on our work and being a member of our Advisory Panel is used as part of a wider evaluation framework.

Although Carolyne Mitchell may have been on holiday to France, she shows that as with many a Local Gov’er she is never of duty. Having recently implemented changes to the way her council communicate information on bin collections, she watched with interest how the process was managed in France, from data collection to measuring content Who’s up for a binman’s holiday? is an interesting read.

Karen Hart used video, audio and photos in her blog Five Senses at Stepney City Farm, and we’re mightily glad she did. The blog shares some of the exciting developments taking place at Stepney Farm (Café/cake) and also introduces some of the newest residents – baby animals! Videos of baby animals! Photos of baby animals! Audio of baby animals!

The Songs of Me Challenge was taken up by Graham Budd this week, who shares some top tunes which evoke memories for Graham. Why not have a listen to the songs, and watch the videos Graham has also included in his blog. If you haven’t taken up the challenge yourself yet, why not have a go this week?

Our last blog is by Darren Caveney who is a regular blogger for comms2point0, a site he cofounded to share creative comms resources. It is fair to say I was keen to get a Weekly Blog Club post from Darren as I greatly admire the work he does and the way he writes. In Work, babbies, campervans and life. Part 1 Darren looks at balancing work and family and shares his hopes and wishes for the ‘spare’ time he has. A useful reminder on what’s important in life.

So, that’s your lot, and your lot from me for a few weeks. I hand you over to the lovely Louise Brown who will be looking after Weekly Blog Club for week 16. The entirely optional theme this week is Hobbies and Interests – how do you spend your ‘spare’ time?

Until next time…

Kate

Kate Bentham

Vardre RFC, Venice of the Swansea Valley? Re-visiting old rugby grounds

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Kate Bentham

Chris Bolton has taken up the entirely optional theme this week and is taking us on an Urban Walk – through the Venice of the Swansea Valley. Chris shares some lovely photos of bridges, canals, bus shelters and rugby players.

Vardre RFC, Venice of the Swansea Valley? Re-visiting old rugby grounds by Chris Bolton

And My Super XV Team is…

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Kate Bentham

Picking a team to support and follow can be a difficult decision, there’s lots to take into account. There’s the clubs history, the quality of the players, the location of the team. All of these are important but Hannah Chia also considers the looks of the players and who sponsors the the team before deciding upon…

And My Super XV Team is… by The Sporting Wag AKA Hannah Chia

Rockets, Areoplanes and Nuka

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Kate Bentham

Hello, yes it’s me Kate Bentham again, just helping out at the Weekly Blog Club controls for week 14 of year 2. Time really is zooming by but it’s great to see so many out of this world blogs being submitted and that Weekly Blog Club has taken off, the force, it would seem, is strong.

Have you guessed it yet? Yes, this is the Space Edition. To infinity and beyond. May the blogs be with you, and this week you were kind enough to share 20 blogs with us, and we all know that a Jedi uses the force for knowledge. Ok, I’ll stop now, having never seen Star Wars I don’t think I can keep this going for the whole of the summary anyway.

So, let’s get down to serious blogging business.

One blogger who is downright fed up with the space of her natural environment being treated with complete disregard is Jane McIntyre. In Dear Flytipper. An open letter–just for you. Jane shares photos of rubbish being dumped in the beautiful (and it really is beautiful, you should come for a visit) Shropshire countryside. Thankfully Jane is on hand to offer alternatives to flytipping in the hope that people take responsibility for their rubbish.

Hannah Chia aka @SportingWag had some space to herself this week, as her partner was called up for an international rugby tour. In Rugby WAG, Rugby Widow, Hannah lists exactly what a Sporting WAG got up to. Also sharing a blog on what he does in his spare time is Peter Olding. In Peter’s Blog: Spotting (Part 1) Peter explains how he started spotting as a hobby. Peter spots aircraft, trains, buses and trams.

In Urban walk March 2013 by Janet Davis, we join Janet as she enjoys the open space. With an artist’s eye, Janet shares some of the images she saw along the way, gently encouraging us all to look at everyday objects and items differently. Why not take some photos of anything interesting you see on your next walk and create your own Walk blog? Another blogger who regularly proves that a blog can be a photo with a few sentences around it is Richard Overy. In Horndean 1935 Part II Richard updates us on a group of men who set off on a cycling adventure and who can now be seen enjoying the outside space.

We had quite a few health related blog posts this week. First up is a blog on the very serious subject of Bowel Cancer. As statistics this week revealed a 30% increase of bowel cancer amongst men in the last 35 years, we are grateful to Kenny McDonald for sharing his story of how bowel cancer has impacted upon his family and himself personally. Bowel cancer: the great escape is an important blog to read.

Derek Barron wrote about Strengthening the Commitments – LD nursing in Scotland Derek shares with us a very important conference on Modernising Learning Disabilities Nursing which was held recently. The conference challenged the word ‘co-production’ and encouraged ‘ownership’. Linked to Ownership we also heard from Eddie Docherty via the Ayrshire Health blog about Nuka – the Alaskan Healthcare System. This system is based on 4 principles which puts the customer, not patient, at the heart of everything. An insightful read into the results this way of working has had. Eddie share Lesson from Nuka – the Alaskan healthcare system A very interesting blog from Joseph Conaghan looking at the implications of patient care following the Francis report into care failings at Mid Staffordshire Trust. Joseph asks Can You Teach Care? or is it a quality a person is born with. He also considers how to measure patient care post Francis.

We’re delighted that the Scot Health Monthly is taking off and they are Settling in, month three. They curate the best of the Scottish healthcare related posts into a useful summary each month. How helpful of them.

This week saw the start of World Autism Awareness Month, and to celebrate Shropshire Family Information Service shared a wonderful poem written by a mum on what it is like to be a parent to an Autistic child and just how very special Autistic children are. Our Little Rocket is a fabulous read, which left me in tears when I first read it, so tissues at the ready.

Stuart Macintosh also blogs about being a parent and how it is difficult to outwit a 6 year old. In “Was it not just an aeroplane?” Stuart reminds us that children will ask the questions you’ve been avoiding answering so best be prepared, and that children will basically tell it as it is, whether you want them too or not. Bless ‘em. A very funny blog.

Who wants to go to a party? In Where is your Social Media party? Andy Johnson compares various social media platforms to the goings on in the various spaces of a good house party. Which space do you occupy, and what might you get from that space? Based on Andy’s theory, we think Phil Jewitt might be in the living room with his post Why blog? Phil looks back over the last year since he started blogging, sharing why he started blogging and what he has achieved in that time.

Two top posts this week by the mighty Dan Slee. The first SHARE: User generated content? Ask nicely… encourages journalists, and others, to be respectful of hyperlocal bloggers and the importance of building good relationships and remembering manners when sharing content. Dan’s second post looks at how communities in Telford are using digital technology to stay connected and to communicate. Some great examples in LIFE: How a town is using digital to connect Another post which also shares examples of others work is E-participation and storytelling by Participation Cymru. They look at Digital Storytelling and share a video blog explaining more about this subject.

A wonderful story this week in Ted Robbins, Textiles and 78rpms. My week of social media. by Chris Bolton. Chris explains how a chance find and the use of social media resulted in him being on a local radio programme talking about Lancashire’s cultural heritage. This might not have happened had Chris not used to space of social media.

Making use of theatre space was PALACE a performance which Clare White went to watch recently. Clare shares her review of the performances and visual effects, which seems to have captured the energy and dignity of the city, representing it’s people well. The trailer of the performance is also well worth a watch in Review: PALACE at Bethesda Theatre.

Our last post this week is Gin and cigarettes by Karen Hart. Karen uses her blog space to remember a very important lady who passed away recently. I am sorry to hear of your loss Karen, Eileen sounds a wonderful lady to have known.

So, that’s your lot. And what a wonderful lot it is too. If you have enjoyed the blogs this week, be sure to let the blogger know, a simple like, comment or share is really encouraging and motivating. If you have been motivated to write a blog for next week you can find out more about how to on our About page, it really is simple. Or if you have felt motivated to have a go at being a guest curator you can find out how to here, it really is simple – and very enjoyable.

This week’s entirely optional theme is based on Janet’s Urban Walk post. I encourage you to get outside, go for a walk, and take some photos of the interesting things you might see on your way, looking at objects differently, and share your photos in a blog post.

It’s me again next week, yeah, sorry about that. Until then, remember, I am not your Father, or something similar.

Kate Bentham

Summary of Week 14 posts

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