Making a noise

Does anyone have any information about the incessant throbbing noise coming from Felixstowe docks all this weekend? Please comment if so.

A positive Image

As Images of Shotley was two weeks ago now, you have hopefully forgotten the gossip you all unknowingly potentially shared with the whole community. But so have I!

I must say the event seemed to be a great success. By my reckoning a large proportion of the community, plus quite a few ex-pats, looked around at all the pictures and crafts, and most of all chatted.

The highlights for me were:

• the always popular children's art competition. Hundreds of kids had attempted to depict Shotley or the peninsula to tourists - creating what in affect was a piece of art in itself.
  
• the sheer variety of (mostly) more grown up art showing the local area - I particularly liked the panoramic photographs by a local student


• cream teas!
  

However, the best attraction, and the most in demand, was David Armes' computer running a slideshow of historic pictures of the village, collected recently from various people and scanned.

The collection started growing as a result of an ad in Noticeboard, and no doubt the huge interest during the Images weekend will generate many more. These will apparently be made available soon on or via MyShotley.com.

As for the other aspects of the weekend, the dawn nature walk with Ian Peters is for real men (and women), so instead I tried my hand at the quiz on Saturday evening (our team came second but ShotBlast takes no credit).

And to end on an even more positive note, I'm sure everyone agrees the food that evening was genuinely delicious and excellent quality.

The whole thing demonstrates again what the community can do working together as a team.