With a week to go until Christmas Day I have already eaten three turkey lunches and some of the users of the Cambridge Road Centre will be having one today in the Nags Head Public House on Rake Lane.Other centre users had a lunch there on Monday both days are when the most users attend the centre.
The pub is close to the centre and some users go there to play bingo.The centre recently held an evening bingo session that was attended by pub users and local people numbering around a hundred in all I was told on my final visit to the centre for this year last Friday.
The day before that visit I was at a businessman’s Lunch with Leah (THE PPC) at the excellent Queens Royal on the sea front There were many people who I didn’t know but plenty that I recognised from local businesses.

Pre lunch drink with Leah Fraser and two good people from the top of the hill,or tobe exact St Georges Mount.
The food was fine as was the wine all to the background of music and a singer in the setting of a dining room I always enjoy.
On Saturday I accompanied Leah to New Brighton Primary School for their Christmas Fair . During our visit the school began to fill up with people coming to see the various stalls selling a variety of festive and non-festive wares.
I talked to a couple of parents who I knew from their attendance at the New Brighton Sure Start Centre.The highlight of the visit was winning a can of beer,yes just one, that the stall attendant wouldn’t take back and I had wander around the school in a most un-councillor manner hoping that everyone could see the raffle ticket on the top of the can.
Like all schools the walls display a host of information and what surprised me,this being a primary school, was a project harking back to the last world war.
Old posters were reproduced like, Dig For Victory, Dont Panic,You Never Know Who,s Listening ect and some old newspapers were there. I think the pupils had to design their own posters and some were very imaginative, with the odd spelling mistake like “Be healthy Milk, Eggs, Meet”. An interesting project.
My blogger at the bar told me that the builder on the Hotel Vic site was in trouble.
Lets hope that it’s not terminal trouble because it would seem that all the hard work has been completed bricks are already on site and most of the footings seem ready for bricklaying to commence.
There was also a full council meeting during this period the most memorable part being pupils from Pensby Primary School singing carols before the meeting in different languages.My favorite was one in Cantonese,it just sounded so right !



























