Hello,
May you all have a peaceful Christmas, and the New Year that you wish for.
Contributions of the Word type as articles and letters for CHAIN MAIL are
always
welcome, and I’ll do my very best to print them, (see my contact details
at the bottom). It is great that in this town of ours, CHAIN MAIL has a varied
and growing number of Advertisers that enable your ‘’truly local’’ quarterly
issues to come to you, with no costs to CHAIN. All of the CHAIN people involved
in it’s distribution are volunteers, and if you would like to help please
get in touch with me. It can involve as little as 15 minutes four times a year,
but it means so much to us.
My thanks go to Streetcare for responding to my various e-mails about ‘’Pigeon
poo’’, road markings or rather the lack of them especially SLOW on
the bridge, and other road type items. I must say that other WBC departments
could take a leaf out of Streetcare’s response time and get round to doing
something about the other matters. The Railway Bridge pigeon netting has now
been completed in wire, rather than plastic, so it should last!
Contributions of the ‘’money’’ kind are also welcomed
by CHAIN. We are a Charity and our income is severely limited, especially since
West Berks Council no longer issue ‘’tokens to all over 60’s’’.
The unused ones were often donated to us to enable us to help run some of our
services.. Please see ‘’Have you made a Will ‘’ article
on page 28
I mentioned last time that I do get out to see our advertisers at times, and
one unexpected place that was not on my list to visit ( I am the nervous type)
was my dentists Williams Dental Practise. I suffered a tooth abscess (pain was
relieved) and then the subsequent root canal work (that finished just before
we set off for 12 days in New England in the Fall) was perfect. Thank you all.
I do intend to ‘’pop’’ in to Caviste though ! (see page
19).
Do you remember the photo on page 24 of the last CHAIN MAIL? Well no-one knew
what they were! Small Articles for the answers.
Thanks & Regards David Piper.
Tel: 01488-683152 davidhpiper111@btinternet.com
Letters, Articles and adverts should be sent to me by the 7th of the month
proceeding publication, i.e.7th February for the March issue on March 1st.
If you send something to me I will always acknowledge within 3 days. No
reply from me then I have not got it, so please re-send.