Category: Caring Together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAAaq7M0aXs You’re invited to the Jellicle Ball today (Friday 15th May) from 7pm – For 24 hours in the UK Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS, the most famous musical of all time, first exploded onto the West End stage in 1981. ‘Memory’, one of its many classic songs, became an instant worldwide hit. Since then CATS… Continue reading Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats – The Show’s Must Go On

Dear all, Please find attached the West Yorkshire Trading Standards Newsletter Scam Alert. This weekly alert will outline trending fraud patterns during the current COVID-19 pandemic and what we can do to stay protected. There have been further reports of scams, doorstep Crime and business complaints all relating to the COVID-19 pandemic here in West… Continue reading Covid19 Scam Alert Issue 7 15.05.2020

Each week I will be sharing some images captured by local residents and members of Caring Together, and a few from myself. If you wish to add any then please just send me some, open to all. The ‘Thank you’ board was made by Caring Together members in Woodhouse at Craven Road and Delph View.… Continue reading ‘Snapshot in time’: keeping busy!

  IVY BENSON CONTINUED….. I enjoyed reading the story about Ivy Benson (article in South Leeds life shard by Lynne). A pity she wasn’t a Woodhouse girl, we could have added her as one of the local heroes of Woodhouse and Little London in a recent project some of us at Caring Together took part in.  I… Continue reading Shared Moments: IVY BENSON CONTINUED….. by Pat Tempest

National Theatre at Home – Barber Shop Chronicles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxfr9tSsSc Barber Shop Chronicles, a co-production with Fuel and Leeds Playhouse is streaming for free from 7pm UK time on Thursday 14 May. Available until 7pm UK time on Thursday 21 May 2020. Barber Shop Chronicles is Inua Ellams’ smash-hit play about the places where banter can be barbed, and the… Continue reading National Theatre at Home – Barbershop Chronicles

Please find below some observations during the lockdown from one of our members Maureen Kershaw. Day 5 – Walked to town from Hyde Park, very early, so I could fall in with the doors at M & S to purchase a few items from the Food Hall. I headed down Lands Lane turning onto Swan Street, towards… Continue reading ‘Observations during Lockdown’ by Maureen Kershaw

Excerpt from ‘To Bless the Space Between Us’ by John O’Donoghue (2008) While it was written as a blessing you can turn to if you wish to remedy many different forms of strife. It encourages the reader to pause, take a moment for self-reflection, and remember that good things will come again. This is the time… Continue reading Poetry Corner: ‘A moment for self-reflection’ – 13th May 2020

As the government looks to start easing lockdown very slightly,  all the new guidance that applies from today can be seen at Coronavirus Guidance and Support – gov.uk A few links to specific pieces of advice that might be useful are below: What can I do now that I couldn’t do before Advice for over… Continue reading Government Guidance

QUIZ answers Each category has 4 questions: CATEGORY 1: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1] Who was Prime Minister when Britain joined the European Union? Ted Heath 2] The annual “Boat Race” takes place between crews from which 2 universities? Oxford and Cambridge 3] Who invented jeans?  Levi Strauss 4] How many hearts does an octopus have? One…three..or five? Three… Continue reading Monday Mind Workout – 11th May 2020 answers

SPOILER ALERT.  Lynne and I finished our lockdown reading of Hamlet, in which, as I’ve explained earlier, we declaimed every line of the play loudly in the garden, putting some of our neighbours to flight. It’s a play neither of us knew fully before we started the reading, although everybody knows a lot of because it’s… Continue reading ‘Lynne and I finished our lockdown reading of Hamlet’ by Oliver Cross