http://margaret.mywebconnect.info Just another Mywebconnect.info weblog Tue, 08 May 2007 09:26:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have just finished a very interesting short course at the BBC on the basics of journalism/reporting for community reporters, which was organised by MCIN (Manchester Community Information Network). I was part of a "guinea pig" group to test out the course, which is aimed at encouraging community reporting and showing ... http://margaret.mywebconnect.info/2007/05/08/the-bbc/ This Friday morning, 27th April 2007, a few minutes after I left the area for a hospital appointment, a young female Asian care worker arrived by taxi at Melling Street to collect an elderly lady who attends a local day care centre. I spoke with relatives of the elderly lady, ... http://margaret.mywebconnect.info/2007/04/27/stabbing/ Well, last week's weather was a bit of a shock and what a lot of damage it did in the area. There was a tree blown down in Crowcroft Park and another over by Bickerdyke. Two more came down on the open ground next to the railway bridge on Stanley Grove, ... http://margaret.mywebconnect.info/2007/01/23/storms/ Well, since my friend Seren Teledu has sneaked onto the computer to write to you all I thought I would do the same.  My name is Minnie Mouse and I am a very small terrier. I am half Yorkshire Terrier and half something else, possibly a hunt terrier or you might ... http://margaret.mywebconnect.info/2006/12/30/minnie-mouse/ Hi everyone  My name is Seren Teledu, which in english means Television Star, but you can call me Seren (Star). I have sneaked onto my human's computer while she is busy in the next room. I am a small marmalade cat and this is my story. I thought I would tell it ... http://margaret.mywebconnect.info/2006/12/30/a-cats-tale/ I was chatting with my friend Irene over the Christmas break and she was telling me about this area during the War. She was only seven when the war broke out and was thirteen when it ended so she remembers quite a bit about it.  Not long after the War started ... http://margaret.mywebconnect.info/2006/12/30/world-war-ii/ Yesterday, I noticed that some hooligan had set fire to the litter bin outside the laundrette. It was completely burned out and the pavement, which is tarmac just there, was badly damaged as well. A couple of people who saw the incident told me that it was a group of youths on ... http://margaret.mywebconnect.info/2006/11/20/litter-bins/ PLEASE NOTE, IF YOU WANT TO BE ON PRANK PATROL YOU NEED TO CONTACT THE BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/  Yesterday the laundrette was closed for business because it had been taken over by the BBC so they could shoot an episode of the kids programme Prank Patrol. This is a programme where they set ... http://margaret.mywebconnect.info/2006/11/17/prank-patrol/ Today is Remembrance Day when we remember all those who lost their lives during war so that we might be free. I buy a poppy every year in remembrance of my Uncle Lindum Morris who died during the Second World War aged just 16 years.   Uncle Lindum was desperate to join ... http://margaret.mywebconnect.info/2006/11/11/poppy-day/ A week or so back I was standing in the street chatting with a neighbour when all the feral pigeons suddenly took off. they zipped this way and that across the sky in a mad panic. When Iooked around to see what had upset them I was lucky enough to ... http://margaret.mywebconnect.info/2006/11/10/pigeons/