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The pursuit of happiness

20 Mar 2010
I am a worker in the great hive of modern consumption- the supermarket. I worked on the checkouts all day today and one observation that I have to make is how miserable many of the shoppers are in the day to day task of shopping.
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Good coverage in the media for Staffordshire this weekend.

07 Mar 2010
It’s been a good weekend for Staffordshire in terms of positive media coverage. I had heard some weeks ago that the Guardian were doing a feature on Leek in the section called Lets move to… the journalist who wrote the piece was very much impressed by the town citing the countryside as being great for walking. The strapline for the article was Britains answer to the Alps.
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A tale of two towns- Stoke and Leek

21 Feb 2010
This is a story of two towns. One I left at the age of 10 and the other that has been my home for the last 16 years. I have a memory of being about 6 and looking across the road at Campbell Pace at thinking how modern and busy Campbell Place in the centre of Stoke seemed to be. I stood at the same spot last Thursday. It was an appalling vista. Woolworth’s was closed, as was Ethel Austin. A shoe shop was empty, as was a Subway sandwich bar.
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Dangerous Dogs- a growing threat.

18 Feb 2010
The Sentinel carried an article today on the damage done in a Forsbrook Children’s play area by someone who used part of the equipment to exercise his bull terrier after bite marks were found on a rubber seat. A few weeks ago the local newspaper in Macclesfield also reported damage done to trees in a local park by bull terriers biting on to branches.
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Happy Birthday Job Centre

07 Feb 2010
The Job Centre is a 100 years old this month. The Observer had a feature on this auspicous anniversary last week. The piece mentioned the role that Winston Churchil the then Liberal President of the Board of Trade had in founding the Labour Exchange as it was then called although the history of the Job Centre/ Labour Exchange goes back further than that.
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Why can't we be more like the French

03 Feb 2010
Why cannot we be more like the French? The reason I say this is because of an incident that occured this evening on Hanley Bus Station when I was waiting for the 18 bus back to Leek. The 6 o'clock service was cancelled and a group of around 20 waited for the next bus that was supposed to turn up at 6.20. Of course it did not and the next bus was due at 7.10.
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Starting a business- the North Staffs experience

05 Jan 2010
I’m starting a business in the New Year. Actually that is not accurate as I’m starting three. One is the ghost tour that I do in Leek “Shriek in Leek”, the other is a life story/ biography service “ Lives that made a difference” commemorating milestones in people’s lives, and the third is a historical research service for North Staffs. I have been helping an American research the life of a early 20th century artist who had a connection with the area.
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Drinking in the last chance saloon- the death of the pub

02 Jan 2010
DRINKING IN THE LAST CHANCE SALON
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Leek’s rich archival heritage captured in new exhibition


29 Aug 2009
Posted by PitsPots
By Pits'n'Pots Reporter. A new exhibition which draws on Leek’s rich archival heritage and explores a wide range of themes of the town’s history is set to go on display next month. `Discovering the Past – Celebrating Leek and its people’ at the Nicholson Institute in Leek opens on Saturday September 5 and has been by the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service. A wide range of themes are featured in the exhibition, including: the silk industry, 19th century children’s employmen
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