Category Archives: Caring Together

Bedford Fields Community Gardening Day: Saturday 1st May 2021

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Bedford Fields Community Forest Garden

Their regular monthly community gardening days are back! You can drop in for a couple of hours and help. There are lots of different jobs to do for all ages and abilities…to keep you all safe they will work in small socially distanced groups in several different areas of the garden.
Due to COVID they sadly CANNOT supply their usual FOOD AND DRINK for volunteers… please bring your own
If you have your own gloves please bring them too. (If not we have some clean gloves we can lend you).
No need to book but please drop us a message if you are thinking of coming along. Hope to see you there.

Leeds Refills zero waste shop on Hyde Park Corner

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“A Leeds dad on a mission to help people cut their plastic waste has opened his own zero waste weigh-and-pay shop on Hyde Park Corner. It is opposite the Woodhouse Moor on Woodhouse Lane, and next door to the tattoo shop.

Customers can either bring in their own containers or use paper bags from the shop and fill them up items such as dry food goods, toiletries, household cleaners, kitchen and homeware”

Continue reading below:
https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/…/leeds-refills-zero…May be an image of indoor

image sourced from Yorkshire evening post article – see link above

‘Hybrid Bingo this week’: online and in person’

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With an upturned bin, two camping chairs, and some sticky back plastic…. more of us could join together this month for our regular monthly Bingo. Thanks to this make shift space it meant another 5 were able to join us (6 including myself), which made a heartwarming baker’s dozen.

I will be hosting some more in the coming months so if you would like to join us then please do get in touch. Email: lisa@caringtogether.org.uk or call 07436 530073.

Together Moments: ‘Thursday’s Online Elevenses to your door….’

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Dear all,

Our online Elevenses group continues to meet every Thursday at 11am. Last week I took the online session to Brenda’s door. Thanks to the kind donation of the winter warmer pack from Seagulls Brenda also got to model her well coordinated winter wellbeing hat, scarf and shawl too.

If you would like to join us online for the weekly get together do get in touch: Email: lisa@caringtogether.org.uk or call  07436 530073 and I can help you get set up.

Shared Moments: ‘Meanwood Valley Urban Farm Stroll’

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We were able to make the most of yet more beautiful sunny days this week with two walks to Meanwood Valley Urban Farm (https://www.mvuf.org.uk/). They opened last week. The cakes and breakfast sandwiches are definitely worth a try, if you have not tried already.

I will be going again in the coming weeks so if you would like to join us then please do get in touch. It is about a mile from our new offices. It is a lovely quiet and peaceful walk. Email: lisa@caringtogether.org.uk or call 07436 530073. We can walk together or you can meet us there.

Poetry Corner: “The Lion and Albert” by Marriott Edgar (read by Tom O’Bedlam)

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Dear all,
Today’s poem is read by Tom O’Bedlam.
Click on the link below and listen
ps. If it asks you to sign into Youtube, just click on ‘no thanks’ and then click on ‘I agree’, you may also have to watch the start of an advert first, you can skip ad once it shows bottom right
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picture sourced: holyjoe

‘Monday Mind Workout Revisited’ Answers for Monday 19th April 2021

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How did you do?

See the answers below:

1 Pink

2 Spain

3 A beard tax – is it still a tax?

4 Interrobang

5 Laughs

6 Constipation

7 Charlie Chaplin

8 France

9 Frog

10 The Day Watch

11 False

12 England

13 Scoobert Doo

14 San Francisco

15 Zeedonk

Take care from all at Caring Together

‘Monday Mind Workout’ revisited a year on

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Dear all,

Our ‘Monday Monday Mind Workouts’ have been going for one year now. Below is the first one I posted mid April 2020. I never thought for one minute I would still be posting them a year later. I welcome the day we can resume them face to face.

Please find below some questions to ponder whilst having a cuppa. I will post the answers tomorrow.

I will be hosting a weekly ONLINE ‘Monday Mind Workout’ from Monday 20th April@11am. If you wish to be added to the list then please email me: lisa@caringtogether.org.uk and I can go through this with you.

‘Monday Mind Workout’

1 What is the most common colour of toilet paper in France?

2 If you dug a hole through the centre of the earth starting from Wellington in New Zealand, which European country would you end up in?

3 Henry VIII introduced which tax in England in 1535?

4 What is the correct term for a question mark immediately followed by an exclamation mark?

5 The average person does what thirteen times a day?

6 Coprastastaphobia is the fear of what?

7 Who entered a contest to find his own look-alike and came 3rd?

8 In which country are there six villages called Silly, 12 called Billy, and two called Pratt?

9 Native to the Caribbean, what sort of animal is the mountain chicken?

10 What nickname was given to Rembrandt’s The Night Watch after being over-restored in the 1940s?

11 True or false: You can sneeze in your sleep

12 Which country has the most tornadoes by area?

13 What is Scooby Doo’s full name?

14 Where was the fortune cookie invented?

15 What is the cross between a donkey and a zebra known as?

Thanks to Edinburgh Evening News

Leeds Lunchtime Music – livestream with Leeds Town Hall

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Free audio streamed lunchtime organ concerts from Leeds Town Hall

Graham Barber – organist  Monday 19th April at 1.05pm

https://www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk/whats-on/all-shows/graham-barber-live-audio-stream/7501

Dr David Hill – Rutland Organist Monday 26th April at 1.05pm 

https://www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk/whats-on/all-shows/dr-david-hill-live-audio-stream/7502

Clicking on these links will give you all the information and a link to hear the livestream at the designated time