News from the Old Fire Station...

Anthony O'Sullivan has been a real gent today, helping bring in chairs and keeping the peace! "I had a good weekend at my brother's house, he's alright, we had a walk up to Castle, it was nice, the new Tesco up there."

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Sue Taylor has a beautiful new necklace on this morning, pink white and cream: "my mum gave it to me, it's really nice, we went shopping in Northwich in the charity shops."

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Annie Hodkinson has mastered the door entry phone at Firdale and helped everyone with it again on Monday: "I did enjoy aquafit on Monday, I did all my exercises in the water, the music was nice - she played a bit of Abba, dancing queen, it was good. I'm looking forward to tai chi".

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Derek Powell is in the picture too, though he's not dashing off for tai chi. "I enjoyed the coffee morning last week at Dane Walk on Friday, we went across. They were selling coffee and bisuits and cakes and doing drawings and making flags for Dignity Day. They did different pictures and a big banner, some of it was green. I had a chat with Tim who fixes things, and Janet and some other staff there. I had cup of coffee and a biscuit , they were nice."

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Ian Billington has bought in his Bike Trader magazine today and we had a look at www.ghostbikes.com - Ian says: "The body armour was good, it helps." Ian was chatting to Chris this morning about what bike he's going to recommend for the newsletter this week: "I'm not sure yet." All will be revealed later! "I had race cars on telly, it was good, worth watching."

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Richard Foster says: "Last Thursday I went to Chester and had a good walk round and a healthy dinner in the market cafe. I had a jacket potato with tuna and salad and would recommend it!" Ricky is going be famous on Helen's dvd as she recorded us before she had to dash off too!

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Barry Williams has bought in his book again, The Pioneers of Heavy Haulage and his Revs News. "It's brand new that one is. Revs News International, I get one every month. it's the register of E.R.F vehicles society and its quite interesting really. There's lots of good things in it I'm a member." We had a look too at www.erfhistoricvehicles.co.uk - "there's some lorries, including a Jack Richard & Sons one. It was good, I want a look again next week too. I'm hoping to get a new truck soon, today tomorrow of Friday, a Foden's one . I ordered ot out of a catalgoue, it comes from Liverpool."

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Karen Morrey has just nipped in to join us, she's been busy knitting today. Karen says:" the blog is good for teaching people how to us the internet. It's good to watch Jackie typing and doing some work for a change! And even then Ricky does some of that for her!"

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Phillip Nield has just joined us too: "I've been upto the allotment today to get the key, we usually go to the gym but we've not been today. I'm going to go into town later after lunch, I'm looking forward to my butties."

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Rae Williams says: "I went to Warrington yesterday and had sausage egg and beans on toast for lunch. We walked round and I bought a newspaper and radio times. A famous film star Jane Russell died yesterday."

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