Support the Church of England !

Ok, I never actually thought that I would ever write this, however I have to put this link up to highlight the CofE's guidance to churches about not allowing the BNP a platform at the General Elections.

http://www.cofe.anglican.org/info/socialpublic/urbanaffairs/crp

I was going to talk about about recent campaigning efforts as this seems much more important. Well now I am here feet getting sorer as the evenings get longer. Although it is sooooo cold at the moment. If you see a red bennied mummy knocking on your door in Park then it is probably me coming to talk to you.

Had an interesting conversation with a chap, who wondered what had changed in the area in the last 10 years. Well apart from:

1. New Buildings at Alfred Sutton Junior School
2. Brand Spanking new hospital at the Royal Berks
3. New 6th form centre at Maiden Erleigh school
4. New school at Addington School
5. Growth of Reading University - Lots of growth there
6. Improvements to Palmer Park Stadium
7. Improvements to Palmer Park itself
8. All the buses in Reading Buses
9. One way system in Newtown
10. Leasing the Paddock at the Mockbeggar site to a community garden, some real progress being made there now.
11. Protection of the Alfred Sutton playing fields
12. Council support for CommuniCare at Wycliffe Baptist Church
13. The Police becoming community based and the setting up of a Police Office in the Arch

These are the ones that I can think of as I write, sure there are more but these are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Plant a Tree Save the World

Spent Saturday morning planting trees with other East Reading residents and Anneleise Dodds Labour PPC at Palmer Park Stadium. It was part of an effort to plant 1,000 trees in an hour with the BBC Tree O'Clock Campaign

It was great to see that people could work together to improve the environment. Strange though didn't see any politicians from other parties planting trees, shame really. The picture shows the volunteers just before we started digging.

The adults were planting Yew Trees in a hedge on the banking at the stadium and the children and young people were planting Beech Trees in front of the stadium.

Not sure how many trees were planted but after an hour or so the row of trees that we were planting looked pretty impressive.

This picture shows the the trees that I planted.

I had to retire hurt at the end of the session. On the same subject I have to go back in to hospital on Tuesday for somemore work on my kidney, nothing major but another day under General Anaesthetic. As I know I have a particular readership in France, in the Stassburg area I understand I attach a link to a youtube clip to give an indication of what happened last week and what will happen next week.

Click here for the link