Make me smile....

Did you know that All Things Local has a regular humour spot?

Issue 7 had a great page of Cooperisms - worthy of the great Tommy Cooper himself... here's just a taster of what you're missing out on, on page 26 of issue 7 of All Things Local.

Click here to visit Page 26 now (presented in pdf format).

From Make Me Smile:

"This lorry full of tortoises collided with a van full of terrapins. It was a turtle disaster"

"This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."

"I phoned the local gym and i asked if they could teach me how to do the splits. He said, "How flexible are you?" I said, "I can't make Tuesdays or Thursdays."

Kilburn Community Association - Welcomes New Members

The committee of Kilburn Community Association (KCA) is made up of representatives of various groups using Kilburn Village Hall.

These include the Wine Circle, Church, Whist Club, Self Defence classes, dance classes, elderly luncheon club, childminders, stay 'n' play, yoga, keep fit and several independent members that are interested in the hall and community.

There is also representation from the parish council as well as a caretaker and the editor of Kilburn News (which is paid for by KCA).

Many members have been attending for several years and after 17 years of doing an excellent job, Jean Frost has decided to retire as treasurer.

The KCA are now looking for a replacement for Jean.... read more by clicking here to visit page 76 of issue 7 of All Things Local - Community Magazine.

Issue 7 online updates completed

Hi readers!

We just wanted to let you know that the rest of our regular online features have now been updated with issue 7's stories.

Including:

Sams Column - Sam is a pupil at John Flamsteed School

Competitions - Our Issue 7 Competition winners and your chance to win a personalised photo jigsaw (courtesy of Fabulous Photo Gifts) in our great online competition every month!

Recipe - Award winning Head Chef Gary Malcolm from the Fox & Hounds, Coxbench, shows us Grilled Sea Bass Fillets with a Crab and Potato Salad served with a Dill Butter Sauce and Mussels.

Issue 7 updates start to appear

A little later than normal, we've started to make available online the updated features and columns from our special 1st anniversary edition of All Things Local.

In addition to adding earlier the entire issue 7 to view in pdf format, over the weekend we also updated the following:

Upbeat - our regular column from our Community Policeman.

Word on Wine - our regular wine review - this time - Champagne!

A Day in the Life - Pauline Latham, OBE - Mayor of Derby

And we've added some new regular columns....

Life with V - the quirky side of life

It's a Dogs Life - our smallest correspondent - Scambles the Cairn Terrier

Friendship Blooms - nominate someone special to receive a bouquet

We'll also be re-homing our popular RSS feed over to Feedburner so that our regular subscribers can keep up with all the updates in one simple service.

If you'd like to subscribe to our RSS feed and keep up to date, then please click on the link at the top of this page and subscribe now.

We'll be back with more news, updates and our blog will continue to grow as we add more features and options to the RH info panel.