Steph's visit... and Re-Skilling day

[thriftwizard]

Well, what a lovely lady! And what an inspired idea and a Grand
Adventure. Steph's walking around most of the Transition Towns, cities
& villages of England over the next 6 months, entirely on foot,
collecting up our stories as she goes. I met her on Canford Bridge,
brought her back here for a lunch of nettle & leftover veg soup & HM
bread, accompanied by my daughter's very refreshing home-made ginger
beer, a rest in my comfortable post-op chair & footstool (rescued from
the Tip for a fiver) & a good natter; the budgies couldn't get a word
in edgeways. Then we strolled through Wimborne, noting the course of
the rivers & millstreams that used to power the town, & marking all
the genuinely local shops we have left like Burtons the Butchers and
Minster Greens. We'd just inspected the Jubilee herb Garden behind the
Town Hall when we met up with Tom from Gaunt's House, who had kindly
offered to host her for the night.
I may have been feeling a bit down in the dumps before her visit, that
we hadn't really managed to achieve anything much here yet, But she's
left me feeling inspired & energised, and that Nicky's 100% right with
the idea that we just keep on popping up, nibbling away at people's
consciousness, until we break through. Steph's advice is that whilst
it may look as if nothing's happening, momentum is quietly building in
the background. So, onwards & upwards!

I'm going to be trying to arrange the Re-Skilling day this week. With
any luck we'll be able to go for the week before the Folk Festival, ie
the first weekend of June, which is also the first weekend of
halfterm, which doesn't leave long to organise things. As I'm also
organsing the Dorset WSD Guild's stand for the County Show, as well as
attending various Craft Fairs in my own right over the summer, I'd be
glad of some help on the organisational front, if anyone could spare
the odd half-hour? TIA,

Angie.

[Nicky_Coates]

Hi Angie
I'm happy to help organise the re-skilling day but won't be able to attend
the day itself if it's the first Saturday in June as I'm off on a course for
the whole of that day.
I've found some interesting articles on micro hydro-power generation that
I'll bring along next week.
You're right - I think we have to just keep on keeping on until everyone
gives in!
Nicky

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[thriftwizard]

Thanks for the offer, Nicky, but it looks like we won't be able to run
it that soon anyway, although I'm waiting to hear whether the Priest's
House can fit anything in this summer; the Minster Green is booked
solid & they are booking for next summer already. But the good news is
that we do have a stall for the Minster Fair at Folk Festival time,
which should be a good consciousness-raiser. I'm happy to sit & do
Morsbags but will be asking for more volunteers at May's meeting,
either to "bag" or just to talk to people, and possibly run some kind
of fundraising contest/tombola.
I'm holding back on the Charity Market; I don't know how much stalls
are at that but I bet they're more than £10 (which is what the Minster
Fair is) and also suspect we don't want to spread ourselves too thin.

[thriftwizard]

PS - (why can't we edit?!) - see
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/steph-bradley/2010-04/mediaeval-market-town-gothic-house-day-16-april-13th