NHS Facebook Live session on Cancer Facts and Fictions will now take place on Wednesday 25 November, 6-7.30pm at
You’ll hear from trusted clinicians and cancer specialists who will advise on cancer prevention & symptoms
NHS Facebook Live session on Cancer Facts and Fictions will now take place on Wednesday 25 November, 6-7.30pm at
You’ll hear from trusted clinicians and cancer specialists who will advise on cancer prevention & symptoms
This is a UK-wide campaign delivered by Citizens Advice, Energy Saving Trust and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) that aims to help you cut your energy bills and access financial support you may be entitled to.
The impact of Covid-19 on energy usage over the coming months is expected to be greater than ever, and energy bills are a big worry for many this winter. Green Doctors are a team of expert energy advisers offering free support to vulnerable residents all year round to help them get on top of energy debt, switch provider, access grants and manage their energy use in the home.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-energy-saving-winter-tickets-127303204311?aff=erelexpmlt
From Leeds Live
With Christmas just around the corner a convincing scam email has been circulated that is targeting users, the Express reports.
It is asking people to pay just a £1.99 fee for an undelivered item of mail – but while the sum might seem small, what they actually want is bank account details.
Now Local Neighborhood Watch schemes have issued a warning urging customers to be extra careful about the new phishing scam.
It comes after a message that was recently received by a Royal Mail customer. The email claimed that Royal Mail had tried to deliver a letter unsuccessfully. And it simply asked the resident to pay a fee of £1.99 in order to redeliver the item.
To do this, they were encouraged to enter bank details online in order to complete the transaction. Both the low fee and the style of the email made the recipient think it could be legitimate.
Just to be on the safe side, however, they contacted fraud experts first – and were warned off.
The email was sent to a homeowner in the Buckinghamshire area – and now customers across the UK have been urged to be careful.
Ray Walsh, digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy, said: “Anybody who receives an email claiming to be from the Royal Mail must remember that they will not ever be asked to pay a redelivery fee.
“Never input your bank or card information after following a link on any email that claims it is from the Royal Mail, because it will result in your card details being stolen by criminals.
“If you have reason to believe that you may have been tricked, it is essential that you contact your bank and cancel your card at once. Additionally, check your statements for any signs of unauthorised transactions.”
The Royal Mail has also got advice for anyone who thinks they could be getting tricked.
A statement on its website said: “If you receive a suspicious email or discover a Royal Mail-branded website which you think is fraudulent, please let us know by contacting us.
“If you have been the victim of a payment scam, you can get a crime reference number by reporting it to your local police station.”
Please keep yourself safe and if you have anything you are unsure of just get in touch with family, friends, or even our ourselves to talk it through. We need to keep vigilant together.
https://personal.help.royalmail.com/…/answe…/detail/a_id/303
Dear all,
My memories of the old radios and recording equipment takes me to the programmes many of us grew up with. Who used to tune in to “Listen With Mother” presented by Daphne Oxenford at 1.45pm Monday to Friday? It was just a fifteen minute programme as I remember and I think it was followed by ‘Woman’s Hour’.
I don’t remember the names of other children’s radio programmes which I think went out after school. Except of course for Saturday morning which offered ‘Children’s Favourites with Uncle Mac. The same old tunes were played in week in and out, ‘Teddy Bear’s Picnic’, ‘The Runaway Train’, ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’, ‘Robin Hood’, ‘Sparky’s Magic Piano’, ‘There’s a hole in my bucket (dear ‘liza’) and ‘I know an old lady who swallowed a fly’ (perhaps she’ll die) – any more you can remember, please tell! It was on at 9am until 10, followed by ‘Saturday Club’ with Brian Matthew – it’s intro was “Hey it’s Saturday, yeah it’s Saturday’ – stirring stuff!
The ‘wireless’ was so important in people’s lives, particularly before television reached our homes. Daytime programmes I recall with fondness included ‘Music while you work’ and ‘Workers’ Playtime, the latter being recorded in workplace canteens offering music and interviews with employees.Then there was Wilfred Pickles and ‘Mabel at the table’. ‘Have a Go’ I believe it was called and Wilfred saying “Go on, give him the money Barney’, referring to Producer Barney Colehan, I can remember coming from school in the 50s to find my Mum cleaning the bitterly cold bedrooms and bathroom of our house; she’d be wearing her thick coat and headscarf and would be listening to the afternoon radio Play. ‘Housewives Choice’ was another too on the wonderful BBC Light Programme.
A lot of radio I found boring to my young ears, particularly ‘The Archers’ which was loved by many parents and if round at a friend’s house, then we’d have to be quiet from 6.45pm. After it’s signature tune faded though we would often mimic Walter Gabriel with “down in yon meadow” etc. My friend Kathleen’s parents always listened to Arthur Askey or ‘The Clitheroe Kid’ featuring the antics of Jimmy Clitheroe, his arguments with big sister Susan and being reprimanded by his Scottish Grandad. This popped up a year or two back on Radio 4 Extra, as did ‘The Navy Lark’ which was around the same era. I was transported straight back to the living room, where Kathleen’s parents had an early radiogram. We had a tall (or at least to me) radio in the corner of the dining room but the ‘Fox’s’ had a radiogram. The record deck accessed by a drop down door had a distinctive smell of almond! I think the turntable was covered with a thin layer of velvet but it could have been felt. Kathleen and I would occasionally listen to the old vinyl records, not to our taste but it was a novelty as was our favourite – sung by Art Driscoll – funny, the things we remember. I can still sing it now – “We toddled up the hill together” (we weathered any kind of weather…). Ah those bygone lyrics!
My Mum and Dad preferred to listen to the music of Max Jaffa and his Palm Court Orchestra; it wasn’t to my liking as violins made me cringe in those days. My Uncle Jack played violin in local Leeds orchestras and I hated having to listen. ‘Grand Hotel’ was another orchestral programme played on our radio each Sunday evening. “Sing Something Simple” was another favourite of theirs. I’m sure if I heard them now they would mean far more to me than they did then. Sunday dinner at my Grandma’s home though was always accompanied by ‘Family Favourites’ presented by Jean Metcalfe and Cliff Michelmore. All those requests to and from relatives with the funny address of ‘B.F.P.O.’. The one Singer synonymous with that programme to this day is Matt Munro, particularly his recording of “A Portrait Of My Love”.
We had little choice on ‘the wireless’ in those days but were contented. So many stations to choose from nowadays, particularly the digital ones and I listen to the radio more than I watch TV. Listening to some of the old radio plays on ‘4 Extra’ are a joy but it is always ‘background’ to jobs I am busy with. Gone are those days when we would be content to sit, relax – and just listen to the wireless, but then everything comes around again.
Thank you Maureen, until next time….
Picture from raidiofidelity
Dear all,
Caring Together invites you to the virtual ‘Everyday First Aid workshop’ with the British Red Cross.
Date: Friday 27th November 2020
Time: 10.30am
Venue: Online via zoom
Following government guidelines relating to Covid-19 British Red Cross decided, as an organisation, to temporarily stop all face to face First Aid and workshops.
In the meantime, to keep providing the valuable service they have been working on digitalising their learning platforms and would like to offer you an online workshop, all of which are delivered via Zoom where you will learn about every day first aid in the current climate.
If you would like to join us then please get in touch: lisa@caringtogether.org.uk or call me on 07436 530073.
“November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.
With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.
The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring.”
An online event from the M&S Archive on Thursday 19th November 12.45-1.25pm
A behind-the-scenes look at how we use our exhibition space to showcase the best of the M&S archive collection, from preservation issues to curatorial choices and co-creation.
This is a pre-recorded talk featuring original archive images introduced by our Archivist, who will be available to respond to questions during and following the talk.
Running time – 40 minutes.
Booking Details
Advance booking is essential, you’ll receive full details of how to join the event with your booking confirmation email.
Showcasing William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ available to watch at 7pm tonight (Monday 16th November) and then for one week
Starring Sir Patrick Stewart as Macbeth and Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth, Rupert Goold‘s immediate and visceral film is set in an undefined and threatening central European world.
Shot on location in the mysterious underground labyrinth of Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire, this is a contemporary presentation of Shakespeare’s intense, claustrophobic and bloody drama. Recently honoured with a highly prestigious Peabody Award, the film is based on the Chichester Festival Theatre production of the play that enjoyed sell-out runs in the West End and on Broadway. Patrick Stewart won Best Actor and Rupert Goold Best Director in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for the stage production and both Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood were nominated for Tony Awards for their performance. Director of the critically-acclaimed plays, ENRON and American Pyscho, Rupert Goold has been described as ‘the hottest, most exciting director around’, and Macbeth is his debut as a film director. When the film was screened by the BBC December in 2010, the critics were unanimous in their enthusiastic praise.
Good morning, this weeks Monday Mind work is to fill in the blank on the below wise sayings – all the best
Wise Sayings |
1. Many hands make light …………………. |
2. Look before you …………… |
3. Fools rush in where …………… fear to tread |
4. Don’t put all your ……….in one basket |
5. Up the ……..without a paddle |
6. ……….is always greener on the other side |
7. It never rains but it …….. |
8. The heart is willing but the ……..is weak |
9. Make…….while the sun shines |
10. A little of what you ……. Does you good |
11. Like two……..in a pod |
12. Once ……..twice shy |
13. A ……………in the hand is worth 2 in the bush |
14. Too many ……..spoil the broth |
15. He who laughs last laughs ……… |
16. Bright as a …….. |
17. ……..and time waits for no man |
18. Two …….. don’t make a right |
19. The world is your ……… |
20. If you can’t be good be ……… |