health,waste,environment,life

Climate focused film festival I booked up Scotland’s first climate focused film festival at Montrose as soon as I heard about it, the announcements of what films were going to be on etc. took a long time to become available to book, so; I was a bit disorganized as the weekend approached, in the end I booked a £25 all day Saturday and Sunday ticket this turned out to be a fantastic bargain, Montrose is situated on the main East Coast Line to Aberdeen - it’s well served by trains I got the train at midday and arrived with plenty time on the Friday afternoon before any of the films started, I had opted not to buy a ticket for the opening night film not because I didn’t like the sound of the film – (it was called the Golden thread) it was a launch night reception with canapes stuff that I can’t really be bothered (I’m not a posh type) with, this wasn’t cheap which is fine if you like canapes, I went for a run when I arrived, running out towards the old fire training g...

Delivering leaflets for community council I had volunteered to deliver leaflets around my local communities houses, raising awareness of the meeting we have planned to save our local community centre, I have had many happy experiences in and around this community centre, I couldn’t believe it was going to be closed if we did not take it over, this is done with what is called a community asset transfer initiative, I pledged to do all I could, to help make sure we did not lose this excellent community asset to some - private investor who; could basically flatten it and turn it into private housing for sale or let. The Community Council printed off 2000 leaflets for posting through local doors, I made this a personal mission to do as many as I could! I also hoped I would get an opportunity to explain to some of the people I was delivering the leaflets to, just exactly what was happening and how we could come together as a community and help this asset grow not be destroyed. ...