Crossroads North Wales Trustees

I had the pleasure of being part of the panel that interviewed three applicants to our Board of Trustees this morning. It quickly became obvious that all three were perfectly suited to the role and we readily agreed to recommend all of them to our fellow Trustees, assured that they will all add skills and vibrancy to the Board.

I value my position at Crossroads incredibly highly. We are approaching only our second birthday as the North Wales scheme, made up from six previous county schemes. I feel honoured to play a part in delivering a much needed service to the Carers of North Wales and as a new scheme, today added to my belief that we are building for the future. I feel incredibly proud that we can attract the calibre of applicant we saw today and I look forward to working with them in the future.


nick

Farrah Fawcett, the face of the 70s

A dumped ex-girlfriend smeared my Farrah Fawcett poster with toothpaste. I didn’t have the famous swimsuit version, I had this blue sweater one. After seeing her performance in Murder in Texas, I realised she was actually a brilliant actress as well as a pretty face and I’d recommend viewing the movie.

Sadly poor Farrah has died at exactly the same age, 62, as her sister who succumbed to lung cancer.


nick

Costs prohibit our youngsters activities

Why do we allow things to be so completely wrong for our young people? I was at a meeting of an organisation for young people last night and we were looking at some future activities. A new local 10 pin bowling alley was mentioned and it was revealed that one teenager had been and it was ‘good value’ at £16 for two games!

One of the hotels Julie and I stayed in Las Vegas had a 55 lane bowling alley in the basement. They charged youngsters 99 cents for two games. Guess what? The place was packed out with young people, giving them an affordable alternative to haunting a street corner.

Even outside this present economic nightmare, £16 is way out of the reach for many youngsters. To top it off, a colleague then declared that to enter a football side into a local league wasn't achievable for under £1,000 these days.

Total bloody madness!


nick

....it's the poor wot gets the blame

I'm thinking that the adage "One rule for us etc" couldn't be more true today than when I read government whip Mark Tami's reaction to the possibility of having over claimed on Council Tax. I'm trying to fit "I am going to look into whether I have over-claimed and if I have then clearly I will pay back any over-claim" into the scheme of things with a former constituent of mine who was summoned into an office, cautioned and then interviewed for failing to notify the appropriate authority of his newly acquired employment status, some two days after his right to JSA ceased!

I certainly don't remember him being allowed to casually consider the option of paying back any over-claim and I can vividly recall him being reduced to tears in our discussion by the ridiculous threats he'd received of a jail term as punishment for his neglect.

In the mother of all democracies, I guess there's still a giant chasm between an MP and a labourer in a brick works!


nick