Local Elections (2) West Bridgford West Conservative councillor Gordon Wheeler, West Bridgford North councillor Mike Watkinson, West Bridgford South Jonathan Gordon Wheeler

Featured image: the West Bridgford Conversation Club, Rectory Road West Bridgford West Gordon Wheeler : (is Gordon related to Jonathan Wheeler?) Above Left West Bridgford south candidate Jonathan Gordon Alexander Wheeler and Councillor for West Bridgford West Gordon Wheeler Gordon wants to keep residents updated on local issues such as last year’s Compton Acres Fire, […]

Local Elections May 4th: What are The Issues? That depends…..The Liberal viewpoint in West Bridgford North, South and West (1)

Featured image: the new one pound coin Above: David Pearce Walsall Grammar School 15 year old who designed the coin with a rose, leek, thistle and shamrock Heads or Tails? Yes or No? In or Out? It’s a bit complicated. Here are the liberal candidates for West Bridgford: Lib Democrats: 3 Candidates Vicky Price (North), Ian Munro, […]

Why Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence is relevant now and Museumand: Nottingham’s museum without walls about Caribbean people and Culture

Featured Image: Orhan Pamuk’s Museum Of Innocence in Çukurcuma, Istanbul Museums are like cultural tardises, with and without walls, they are the solids, liquids and oxygen that helps us to breathe…. Above photos of the area where Pamuk set and created the novel and museum 1969 2013…it became part of a renaissance and regeneration of the area, […]

Why parliament is so important: just a thought before the local elections, vote to protect everything parliament is

Above and Featured Image: Future Learn Course (Parliamentary Copyright) I always vote labour but that’s my privilege. I live in Rushcliffe, where the very popular Kenneth Clarke QC MP is about to semi retire. Above Ken Clarke’s Autobiography: ‘Kind of Blue’ available from good local bookshops like Five Leaves Who will replace him? Do you […]

Nu Urban Gardeners at Newstead Abbey: Fetes: April 15th-16th & 22nd-23rd April 2017 Live Art event May 6th-7th 2017

Nottingham Contemporary has taken a long view on history with the exhibition The Place is Here but like Philippa Perry in her (probably award winning BBC4 programme about Surrealism), where she creates her own pop up bureau of surrealist research, asking people to recall the last dream they had, possibly, the place we’re all seeking, […]

Thanks Sarah for bringing much more than dance and barre skill to West Bridgford from Calgary: Sarah in Nottingham (1)

Featured Image: Mother’s Day roses from Sarah Moran to her Monday’s Barre Class at The Fitness Space, Bridgford Road West Bridgford 27th March 2017 Sarah runs the kind of classes that inspire you to try to live in a more balanced and thoughtful way. I’m really glad that The Fitness Space’s Geoff Djann has brought her […]

Bringing it all home: Susi Henson and Independent Fashion Cat Walk across Nottingham Sat 25th March 12.45 starting at OneBC

Featured image: Bianca Mwaura’s painting of a woman walking with a lion If anyone can focus a Saturday lunch time attention on the importance of independent manufacture and retail it’s Nottingham business woman Susi Henson who is locally grown, stunningly talented and a real force for regeneration here. Susi designs lingerie and wedding garments….and much, […]

Keep Independent Retailers Alive: buy the one thing you love: Hockley, Sneinton and Derby Road

Featured Image Verna Poppy Designs at Sneinton Market 4th March The have lots and have notts applies to retailing, particularly how we support the ethos and diversity of independence in making and selling in Nottingham. As long ago as April 2015 Sophie Thomas, writing an article for Notts TV picked up on the beautiful surface of […]

24 Green Street: what if every house could nestle in grass like this…

Originally posted on Design As Distributed Agency:
This is a wonder! The grass on your doorstep is the dream of Mohammed Mahdi one of the MArch students in the Design as Distributed Agency blog, the work in progress of Studio 4 March Sheffield Hallam Architecture students. The students have picked up on a great local newspaper, the South Leeds Life that has the courage […]

Class with class: 2 hours £150: free if you’re out of work: Michael Ruocco, your junction to a career in App Design if you want it

Featured Image Wire Frame App Flow thanks Michael Ruocco You know how Charlie in the Chocolate Factory is given a golden ticket? Roald Dahl grew up in Wales and after private school was offered a golden ticket to Oxford but refused it, saying: “No thank you. I want to go straight from school to work for a […]