Alienation: From The Neurosurgeon to The Woman With Children Working: What’s the Story?

The complexity of life and death. Henry Marsh, neurosurgeon, has kept a suicide kit he’s had for years. To consider it for a whole year and attempt to write about it as a black comedy is a real challenge that local author, business woman and mum Lisa Greener, writing under the pen name Lisa J […]

Career trek: Clifton to Iceland not to pick up sausages but via Neighbourhood Management and Happiness in Dubai….

Stop Press: See Housing News article about our very fine Housing Fellow Mark Hillary ! Because Shelter know their housing onions: because happiness is as much a part of what we strive for as work….. Above Shelter’s 2008 assessment of what UK Housing needs and because Mark Hillary was a Neighbourhood Manager for Nottingham City Council at […]

21st May: Happy Birthday Pop Print: 1 year old! Letterpress: Process, People, Passion for good goods….

You can feel it when you come to the shop: Hannah Waterfield’s print and algorhythms to screen print are exciting in the same way that Jon Burgerman’s work became part of the local retail landscape for a few years. Each one is a particular colour scheme. Examples of her work below that Steve and Ming of […]

The Place is Always Here: Why this exhibition will create economic regeneration in Nottingham: a big heart, a shared heart

Featured image: David Stickman Higgins The Place is Here Guided walkaround How and why Work is made, what is work, what is art, how we share and support each other, how we become excellent and understand how art becomes one of many exchanges we see in life were all part of the most excellent The Place […]

Carers Roadshow: Trevor Clower’s way of helping you connect with what caring is: 0115 8248824

When you think about the way you live your life, the way you go out of your way to help people: it’s because you care, because you want things to be better for others. What happens to you throughout your life can be random: acts of cruelty or kindness and the way you respond makes […]

Labour: West Bridgford: put the problems of living, working and ageing at the heart of the economic revival

What do we need in West Bridgford? Is anyone brave enough to really say? Anyone who lives here knows it’s great but too much of a good thing isn’t good for anyone. Remember, in West Bridgford that there are lots of diverse people with fantastic potential. How do we bring this out in everyone, this […]

News as Bulletins from somewhere: who writes our stories: Nottingham, city of life everywhere (1)

Above: image of detail from one of the Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur Like Rimsky Korsakov’s interpretation of Sheherezade a wonderful story about a story teller, we’re all writing our life stories, all of the time. Life stories are about hope, promise and understanding. Before my daughter went to Glasgow School of Art to study architecture […]

Politics as a vocation: political service for everyone? Andy, ex (British Gypsum)’s thoughts on civic responsibility

Andy (that is his real name), works for Nottingham’s premier eco friendly taxi company, Cloud Cars. he used to work for British Gypsum, (now Saint Gobain). I’ve been doing some training and don’t drive so Andy and his colleagues have been explaining how they think the world might get better as I go to and […]

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, […]