Hi everyone, I’m back. You might remember me saying it was party time again and we were going to Brenda and Keith’s party? Well it was a blast as they say! The happy couple were celebrating a 55 year wedding anniversary, 80th birthday and a 75th birthday. We couldn’t celebrate with them at the right time, which was last year. So no guesses why they didn’t happen when they should have!
Party time again
Family and friends were there, about 20 of us. As usual there was lots of fun and lots of laughter. The video was screened on the TV, showing when they were young, with their daughter, their wedding day, and lots more wonderful memories to keep forever.
We were in the back room where we usually go on a Friday, and a few members of the public were also there eating. A couple stopped at our table as they were going out and said how wonderful it was to see family all together and happy with each other. Little did she know, but hardly anyone was related to them! We’re just such good friends and lucky at that as not many people today share what we have, priceless!
Now we’re wondering what we can celebrate next… 🙂
Aye that Plastic Railing
Just a quick bit now about our dearly beloved fencing near to the clock shelter.
The one that had been knocked over, well over a year ago, and has since been fastened together, DIY fashion, with the help of cable ties and tape!
Anyway, as a community we’ve badgered and badgered to get them repaired. They are on a busy corner as you come round the roundabout, a ripe place for a crash or knocking someone down. We’ve been campaigning to get the powers that be to repair them before there’s an accident, coming at it from all angles.
Members of the public have written poems about it in their frustration. It’s been featured in the local paper. The local Councillor has chased it up endlessly. All we get is ‘we’re having a meeting this week about them’ and that was weeks ago. It’s only the way that Cleveleys has come to expect because we seem to be a lost town, which doesn’t seem to exist!
Not quite party time again!!
This week, a photo arrived of the barriers fallen right over, onto the road nearly – an accident waiting to happen! The way that it’s fallen over makes me ask, did it fall or was it pushed? Someone coming round there could have easily hit it or gone onto the pavement, injuring someone.
At this rate we’ll be celebrating the barriers second birthday soon.
But yet when the Care for Cleveleys team put two large plant pots on the wide side of the clock shelter, you wouldn’t believe the kerfuffle. You’d think we were putting them on the road. There was months of health and safety and being batted back and forth between LCC and Wyre. Really, the widest part of the block paving. But talk about double standards, two pots are a risk and hazard but a broken fence in the path of traffic and people is OK. What can you say.
Meanwhile in Blackpool
Anyway my good people, enough of me ranting and onto Blackpool.
Now there’s a town that’s spending like it’s going out of fashion! I just hope they have enough money for it all! Ten out of ten to them for seeing what others can’t see. That to get the public here, you have to make it worthwhile and attractive enough to visit.
Conference facilities with integrated hotels. Redoing a lot of the pavements to smarten the town up – and they do look better so well done. The new site at the back of Houndshill is under way with a new screen cinema and seating for 850 people. The I-Max will attract people from outlying places and across the county.
There go people who’ve got the sense to give people what they want. Buildings and hotels are sprouting up like mushrooms, with the old Wilko site being redeveloped at a rate of knots.
The future’s bright!
They can see that the town’s future in getting rid of the kiss me quick hats, and run down areas in favour of modern hotels, nice surroundings and entertainment. The town needs to get rid of the old Blackpool reputation and people will come to see how the town has changed.
That’s what Jane keeps trying to do with Cleveleys, to ensure it stays alive and kicking. Believe me, along with the new Cleveleys Together team, and in spite of opposition, they’ll get there, I have no doubt.
Good luck to Blackpool because what they’ve done over the last few years would impress me as a visitor. I think all the people who haven’t had a good word for the town will be very surprised at how it’s altering. After all, Rome wasn’t built in a day!
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- Breast Cancer Stories
- The arrival of September
- Making up for Lost Time
- Frog Farm
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