It's been a torrid time for the council with three different chairs this year and the resignation of two clerks. What the council needs now is a period of stability.
The new chair Bridget Williamson spoke about volunteering at Monday's meeting and the huge number of unpaid hours that are put in and she had an interesting twist on what I had already written for my coming e magazine.
It's simply that volunteers not only put in hundreds of hours without pay and often without any thanks, but they also have to listen to continual criticism and moans. And how true this is. I'm now penning another article along these lines.
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" Good morning. How are you?" I asked one man in the sauna.
"Well I got through another night and woke up this morning."
Sometimes it does feel like that, just simply surviving. Then we got onto more interesting topics like the impending dropping of Autumn leaves.
I wouldn't put it as strong as saying "that's something I dread." But it is something I don't like thinking about. Being knee deep in wet leaves and filling bag after bag is not my idea of fun. We have tried leaving (pun intended) them on the surface but there are just so many of them - thousands upon thousands.
It means that Winter is on its way. Last year in November we ended up in Perth, Western Australia where it was Spring. All this northern and southern hemisphere is slightly confusing.
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We had a lovely morning at our forget me not cafe yesterday. We had a full to bursting room to start with and had to put out extra tables.
Then we had some lovely music from my friend David Wyatt and Carole Lea. They played lots of material from the sixties and afterwards I had a good old chat about music and dared them on their next visit to the group to do an acoustic version of Black Sabbath's Paranoid. Now I've written it down so they will have to keep their word.
I finish off today with a couple of contrasts which I discovered when I downloaded photos from my mobile phone. We have shots of David and Carole live at Hethersett Methodist Church Hall and then just a few of Huddersfield Town Hall where we saw Barclay James Harvest with a symphony orchestra a few weeks ago.