Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Yesterday I was invited by The Lads and Girls Brigade of Scunthorpe to visit their camp which this year they chose to locate at Kingsdown Camp Site .
What a wonderful experience after all the troubles of the past week to see a group of young people enjoying the simple pleasures of life .
I was invited to inspect their tents where each morning they have to fold their clothes and make everywhere tidy .
I then joined them for a communion service which was very moving .I enjoyed singing old hymns which I recall from my Sunday School days
The young people gave a demonstration of how people deal with disibilities Showing how a blind person can throw a ball into a bucket ,play football and undo a rope knot Each youngster was guided by an adult giving carefully worded instructions
I ended my visit by sitting down to a roast dinner All the young people were well behaved and very polite .
I admire the adults who give their time to work with young people and teach them true values .
If more parents encouraged their children to enjoy the simple things in life and to give more time to them then perhaps we would not see the terrible scenes of the past week ..
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Nice post Sue. Always good to hear positive news about our more youthful members of society.Yes indeed if we had more activities like this there would be less of the horror stories of last week. I suspect though sadly that the youth of the inner London boroughs have little chance to participate in positive activity. In fact on several BBC interviews I could see that even today.. despite all the destruction, youngsters still thought the rioting was a great lark.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Dear Paul,
What level of understanding did you expect from these (or any other) youngsters?
You and I, I suspect, on arriving home after a hard day at school would sit and watch Crackerjack. Oh, the antics of those various tall guys and that one little chubby fellow and how the audience of children cheered, and was encouraged to cheer, the mayhem on stage. With those cabbages rolling around all over the place and to cry out in unison..."Crackerjack Pencil!!"
Consider for a moment the brain chemistry.
Can it be other than the same cause and effect, action and reaction, stimulus and response?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Yes Tom I suppose I was fortunate as a child .On arrival home from school my Mum would always have a cup of tea waiting and a slice of bread and jam.Usually home made blackcurrant
I treated my children the same I would wait eagerly for them to arrive home and we would sit and chat about our day .When homework was the order of the day they would start on their homework then eat a meal and help clear the table .
My daughter used to make us a bedtime drink .They managed to get homework
done and I most of the time was at home
Our first morgage was a struggle and when we moved to River I would have liked a house on Lewisham Road but not enough money coming in .I stayed at home and the choice was a motgage on my husbands salary
I was there for the children cooking ,sewing etc .Time to listen .
My daughter only said the other day " You were always there for us Mum "Now my children are there for me .Buying me hats etc .
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
To those rioters with no sense of right or wrong and certainly no morals I suppose what they were doing would seem exciting. Maybe that is what is wrong with these youngsters, little or no excitement in their lives.
When I was young there was so much more freedom for the young out of doors, so many of the things I did seemed exciting, even if it was just playing on Tooting Bec Common with my friend. Now the young are playing computer games and sensible parents do not let their youngsters out to play without some form of supervision. No daily freedom means very little excitement.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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To move off from the street for a moment...
Computer Games.
Do we, as a nation, not seek to live off and thrive from the automatic profit incentive in accommodating the perceived trend you identify Jan?
There is little to profit from, for those who see little worth in doing anything other than make a fast-buck, in playing happily outside. Except, perhaps, the licensing of river angling.
Adventure playgrounds are seen as a drain on tight resources. Not long ago it was mooted that Public Parks charge users for the amenity.
This, to my mind, is the fundamental error in our 'public thinking'. Politicians see themselves best placed to be nothing but intermediaries between the glorious wealth-syphoners and we, totally bothersome, citizenry.
We, as a nation, seem now to seek to make nothing but money. This is the sole string to the Political Bow these days;Blue or Red.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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at least we know now where the hats come from.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
hats off to sue lol
if you still have one lol
those horrible loony left labourites got that garden party cancelled
and sue couldnt show off her 100's of hats lol
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
- Posts: 7,819
Here is one from the archives of Sue having a nice day out
..but heavens!! she isnt wearing one of her hats.
But at least has a rose in her hair.
NOTE: that's Mareks daughter in the foreground there...lovely little thing, but its a few years ago now. Someone sent me the picture , its not one of mine. Nice.
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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Lovely story there Sue, and nice to see the about picture
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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I was hoping our Sue would see this picture and tell us when and where it was. Are you there Sue..come in number 47!
Mareks daughter's name is Natascha, forgot to sdd that above.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Aw thanks for your photo and kind comments Paul..underneath that brusk guinness pimms swilling Irish beard you're a softy at heart.
Here's a photo taken last week at the Durrell Zoo family day out. Yes I know I need to stand up straight and have a shave...
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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I think the Photo was taken at Connaught Park at the 150th Anniversary at the Park,I remember it because my Georgie (THE DOG) won a rosette at the Dog Show.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
125 th Anniversary of Connaught Park July 20th 2008
I look a bit younger there.
email: dover7@msn.com
Marek
