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Chislehurst Issue 12 - August 2010
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• New Eltham Welcome to our August issue. After all the hot weather
• Petts Wood here, I’m sure many of you will be jetting off for more hot
• Sidcup weather abroad for your summer holidays. I’m not a huge
fan of the sun myself, I have a fair complexion that goes
The local stuff is hand delivered from pale to burnt and back to pale again. I console myself
to over 6,700 homes in
Chislehurst and BR7.
that at least my skin is healthy, but truth is that I’d love to
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On 8 August 1963, the Great Train Robbers found themselves richer, and the Royal Mail poorer by £2.6m.
The Glorious 12th is the beginning of the grouse hunting season in Britain.
St Bartholomew’s day is celebrated with a Bun Run, on the 24th August. Many children run around St
Bart’s Church, after which they are given a bun, and the parents are given a specially baked biscuit.
The World’s first international daily air service begins between London and Paris on 25 August 1919.
On the last Monday in August, the annual bog snorkelling championships are held in Waen Rhydd peat
bog, near Llanwrtyd Wells in mid Wales.
On 31 August 1900, Coca Cola was sold in Britain for the first time. Probably to help on Britain’s first long
distance bus service between London and Leeds, which began on 27 August 1900, with a journey time of
2 days.
August saw the birth of Alexander Fleming in 1881 and Enid Blyton in 1897. Sadly, August also saw the
death of Elvis Presley in 1977 and Princess Diana in 1997.
What’s on in August...
2 – 14 Aug, 10am – 4pm
Bullfrog Musical Theatre Summer Workshop
Fame: The Musical (ideal for 6yrs – 20yrs)
3 Aug, 10.30am
Parent/Carer & Baby Cinema Club
5 Aug, 8pm
Outside The Box Comedy Club
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H
ave you ever had a deep urgent need horror nursery rhyme. I was worried that I
to sing your heart out? I have always wouldn’t be in tune, or that I’d get it wrong
wanted to sing in a choir – I can sing – or that, heaven FORBID, someone might
in the bath, I can sing in the front room into HEAR ME! I could feel my legs beginning to
a hairbrush, and I can sing extremely loudly tremble as I dared to join in, and the urge
in the car (until the children start to weep) – to run was almost overpowering, like some
but I have always been terrified of singing in mad bronze age FIGHT OR FLIGHT moment
public. It’s one of those horrible things – you – and then suddenly, I could feel myself
know you want to, but you just can’t! So, the smiling…. singing and smiling…. and
Noble Editor of this magazine and I decided then jigging about a bit …. and
to try out ROCK CHOIR. then clicking, and clapping, and
singing for all I was worth! “No
ROCK CHOIR is a national initiative that wind, no rain” I sang out, waving
brings together people who want to have my arms, dreaming of sequinned
a big old singalong in most towns. Bromley dresses and beehives. By the
has a Rock Choir, so does Orpington. I end of the two hours, I was full of
hear there may soon be one in West joy – and this is what singing DOES
Wickham! They meet once a week for you! It energises you, it fills you
– and have a concert at the end of with joy and you forget all your horrible
each term – and they’re a very friendly deadlines and ironing piles!
bunch.
Ok, don’t be sick now. I can see you
We went along, very nervously, all shaking your heads – hmm this doesn’t
and paradoxically ended up in sound like School Run Mum, things do not
the front row – what on earth did usually go this well! And you would be quite
we do that for? Was it because right to say that. Which is why I will tell you
we subconsciously wanted to be a secret. On my way home from work, I
ridiculed? OR was it my faint bought myself a pair of Size 16 Rock Chick
worry that I wouldn’t be able knickers to wear under my linen trousers for
to read anything if I was further Dutch Courage! Half way through Ain’t No
back? Anyway – Jim, the Choirmaster Mountain High Enough, I spun round to clap
bounced in with his microphone and his like some sort of frenzied Jackson brother,
keyboard, and pretty soon we were warming and the elastic went! (Should have bought
up like no tomorrow. I tried to make The the 18!) I can only imagine that the rest of
Ed pretend that he was an Alto, when he is the ROCK CHOIR must remember me as the
really a Bass, just so that I could cling to him poor girl who needs a hip replacement “ooh
for support, but in the end, he had to go and she’s young for that isn’t she? Did you see
stand on the other side of the choir because the way she walked?”
I was cutting off his blood supply!
Tra la laaaaaaaaa! Term starts in September!
I had this awful sick feeling that I was going I’ll see you there!
to open my mouth and frogs and snakes Love
were going to come out – like some twisted
School Run Mum xx
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