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friend who, being still a driver, had not applied for his pass.
to so many new horizons. With my card I could nip off to the seaside for nowt, visit remote parts of the countryside and towns I had hankered to see for years and even tour the Cotswolds, paying only a conce^ionary fare between Manchester and Birmingham on an express bus. I told my new travel experiences to a
never experienced since I gave up any thoughts of driving because I did not need the stress while recovering from a heart attack. My new-found status gave me access
' Then I finally decided to go to the council offices and pick up my bit of plas tic, complete with photograph, kindly taken by a pleasant young lady, which gives me the appearance of a retired Sicil
were occupied solely by the silver genera tion that I decided I might as well join the club.
FEW years ago I qualified for a
: free bus pass. For a time I did n't take up the offer, reasoning
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and he's off on a bus!” Now I'm sure that all this was not
what the Government intended when it introduced the scheme. I t was. I'm sure, designed to give elderly people on reduced incomes a bit of help in doing a bit of shopping, using medical facilities, popping to the Post Office and other rou tine jomneys.
What it didn't foresee was that mil
lions of pensioners would grab an ideal opportunity for free jaunts to all parts of England. The summer bus services between towns and the coast became reminiscent of the charabanc days. The scheme consequently was under
funded and the county councils protest ed, quite rightly too, that it was threat
how he was going on. The tart reply: ■
The next time I saw his wife, I asked ‘He's always out. Mention housework
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Please don’t axe my free ticket to ride!
ening the budgets of more deserving causes. There were also claims that some bus companies had operated the scheme to their oto adv^tages so that a lot of funding did not find its way back to the county council coffers.
the politiral arena. A General Election looms against an economic background which seems to ensure that huge cuts in Government spending will have to be made. An obvious step would be to scrap, or severely limit the free bus pass schema The problem there is that the fact that
after 9-30 a.m. the wanderlust can kick in has become part of the psyche of a huge proportion of the electorate. The message they will send to the politicians is: “Don't you dare”. I t would be a brave step by any politi
cal party to indicate that under a new administration the bus pass scheme was due to meet a permanent red light, or restricted so much that it failed to meet the leisure demands of millions. It's one of those issues which cuts across party lines and could be a massive vote loser for any party who even suggests it. Still, that's one of the fascination of
politics - when you need to swing the axe, how do you ensure that your head won't be on the block next?
Thought for the^^ek Help to aim high
.-.'V ID you make a new I ■ 8 year’s resolution? ■1—^ Apparently 61% of
. adults make new year’s reso lutions, only. 20% keep them past Valentine’s day and only
9% keep them for the whole year. Here we are in February,
how many of us make a deci sion a t . the beginning of the year that this one will be dif ferent, some resolution that we truly intend to keep, to go to the gjrm, to recycle, to lose weight etc?
It starts well, on the first
day of the year. New Year, new me, but before long, more often than not, we have stum bled and decide that we’ve blown it and would be best to forget it all. "We have failed. By February most people
have given up what they started, it was too difficult.
But it has been shown that
those people who set goals do better than those who don’t bother. Who are the 9% who .can set a goal.and keep it?
How great are these people who can live like this!
I aim to live by a set of val
ues. Some of our collective values have been written as testimonies and are published to help us all be clear on what we are about. Take for exam ple our testimony to simplici
ty, summarised in “Advices and Queries”: “Try to live simply. A sim
ple life freely chosen is a source of strength. Do not be persuaded into buying what
you do not need or cannot afford. “Do, you keep yourself
informed about the effects your style of living is having on the global economy and environment?”
Quaker books of faith and practice worldwide are fairly
standard in their testimonies on peace, equality, simplicity and truth.
We have these as a guide they are not rules but exam!
pies. They arise from a shared understanding, they are
active witness to a divinely inspired view of society. They are both mystical and practi cal about how we live our lives, or try to. I read a testi mony and am struck by how wonderfully good these people are who have written them. I try to live mindfully, to
make considered choices to be aware of my actions and their consequences. Much of the time I do OK, I am thinking, hut then one day I will ’do something thoughtless, that makes me feel like I have blown the whole thing Research shows us that it is
really difficult to change a habit.
Physiologically we have
neural pathways that mat-o oim habits of behaviour more, likely than a new behaviour we are trying to adopt, but need to think about. We are bound to maka mis
takes and to fall back on habit whatever the changes are that
we are trying to make. Usually we do it when we
are t ire d or stressed. The important thing is to forgive ourselves the mistake and start again. The new behaviours get
stronger and eventually get to be the habit. I don’t believe in the kind of
God who kept Moses out of the promised land for one mis take, b u t in the kind that, recognises our imperfections, in a Spirit th a t is nurturing and forgi-ving as we should be of ourselves and others. For me the testimonies are
there as an ideal, to have them, as with any g o o d reso lution, helps us to aim high in our behaviours and our lives. The failure we encounter is
human, it is in our nature, our very structure, it is part of the
weren’t designed th a t way but
with good intention we can aim for it, starting again and improving our record over and
over again.WENDY HAMPTON, Sawley Quakers
process. ' We are n o t perfect, we
Now the whole thing is about to enter Isabelle arrives on her all the odds by arriving on the Little Isabelle was due to
have been a February baby, bu t she arrived four weeks early, on January 7th, at the Royal Blackburn Hospital. Her chances of following in the family tradition were a stag gering 130,000 to one. “I t was just an amazing
need your help 0 you have any histori-
Park friends
I cal, or interesting stories about Brungerley Park?
If so, the newly-formed Friends
of Brungerley Park need your help.
The Friends of Brungerley
hold a second Public Meeting to share ideas and update the many supporters of the park. The date of this will be announced shortly. Anyone wanting to know more about the group and its aims, or to get involved, can contact its secretary, Dorothy Jackson, on 01200 424628.
Missing a zero!
eyspinning efforts of children at Clitheroe’s Edisford Primary School. They held a non-uniform day in aid of the Haiti Earth quake Appeal and raised an ’ impressive £280 - not, as we reported last week, £28. Sorry boys and girls.
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'T was only one little “0”, but we missed it out and that did n’t do.full credit to the mon
Park was set up last year to pro mote and encourage the conser vation and enhancement of the landmark Chtheroe park. Still in its early stages, the committee is currently setting up its constitu tion, creating links with appropri ate organisations and gathering lists of ideas that could be carried out. With this in mind, the Friends are looking to collate his torical facts about Brungerley which can be included on market ing matenals about the park. If you have any anecdotes or stories please ermail them to: prim- rosel32001@^hoo.
co.uk The committee is planning to
appearing on stage with her assistant Ian Brown, who has just been accepted into the Bradford Branch of the Magic circle. Although he now lives in
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Carleton, near Skipton, Mr Brown is known in the Rib- ble Valley where he previous ly lived and would like to help groups in the Clitheroe area raise funds by giving his time performing his magic with Sophie. Ian has only been actively
involved in magic for a few months and in his new ven ture he performs the whole spectrum, from card tricks
OPHIE the terrier dog has taken to her. new career like magic,
to illusions, together with Sophie. Her starring role is to push a little cart with a pack of cards in it across the stage and under a table, coming out with the appro priate card in her mouth. Sophie, is a rescue dog
who spent six months of her first year in the RSPCA home at Altham when her • original owner was imable to look after her because of ill health. Later someone adopted
her, but returned her to the home after a short while. Now just two years old she has been with Mr Brown since March last year. Sophie has been attending behav iour training classes at WAG
Dog Training Centre in Fence, and has gained both her Kennel Club Bronze and Silver Awards and is now attending a course for her Gold. Ian is keen to show off his
expertise and will give per formances to groups who would like to take advantage of his offer to raise funds for charity. He has,performed his act
Sophie.(s)
at residential homes and is currently giving performanc es to Cub and Scout packs in the Burnley area. He can be contacted on lanBrown-
Magic@aol.com or tel. 07764796328.. Pictured are Ian and
red letter day in the Hodges’ Clitheroe household. Lee and his tvife, Vina, were surprised to discover while dating that they shared the same birthday. But when baby Isabelle beat
birthday, or his wife’s - they’re both the same day as his own. January 7th is.certainly a
same date, they were astound ed.
mum and dad’s birthday! N
ew dad Lee Hodges has no excuse for for getting his daughter’s
coincidence,” said Lee, an
advanced technologist at the 3M site at Clitheroe. “■^en Vina and I were first
the same birthday as well, it’s certainly going to be a date that our families will find easy to remember.” Despite being a month pre
Vina Hodges with their baby daughter Isabelle, (s)
mature, Isabelle weighed a healthy 51bs lloz and was able to go home with her mother and father after a week’s obser vation in hospital. Our picture shows Lee and
Sophie’s ma^cal show
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