During the course of a year I chair numerous village groups and meetings and often come away feeling rather deflated with the thought that I could have done better. That certainly wasn't the case last night at the latest meeting of Hethersett and the Meltons' Sports Association.
The meeting lasted two hours and was very positive and the time absolutely flew by. I came away with the feeling that there is plenty we can do to promote sport, fitness, well being and the local environment. The sports association can never be a talking shop. Every time we have a meeting (four a year) we need to come away with some positive actions. Last night for instance we decided to set up a new social athletics, jogging, running club with the help of the excellent Paul Evans from Active Norfolk.
Paul will coach a group for an initial six weeks from April. After that time there will be a decision as to whether the group continues. Then we agreed to support Hethersett Netball Club's attempts to find a home in the village to practise and train. We are also going to put together 1,000 fitness folders to be given out at events in the villages throughout the year. These will include leaflets on coming events, fitness ideas, well being hints and tips and details of the association and plenty of other things as well.
There are just so many things going on in the village over the next few months that it would take me a day to go into them all. If anybody is interested they are listed on my village web site at www.hethersett.org.uk
Every Monday I try to listen to as much new music as I can through my Napster account. This week I heard new albums by Shearwater, Fanfarlo and Meat Loaf. - three very interesting new releases. Shearwater's "Animal Joy" is well worth a few more listens. The band is an offshoot of Okkervil River who I saw in Norwich a few years ago - and very good they were too. Fanfarlo's Room Filled with Light also had its moments. There were shades of Sparks very evident. Sadly Hell in a Handbasket by Meat Loaf was a huge disappointment if a little predictable. Meat continues to thump out songs as if his life depended on it. The only problem is that most people moved away from this kind of rock about 20 years ago. There isn't an ounce of subtlety here and the attacking vocals end up as a massive turn off. His version of Californian Dreamin' is quite hideous - the result of an artist well past his sell by date. The other main problem is none of the songs were written by Jim Steinman.
Tomorrow I have to face a difficult decision - do I sell my vinyl record collection? I will talk more about this and new music technology in tomorrow's blog.
The meeting lasted two hours and was very positive and the time absolutely flew by. I came away with the feeling that there is plenty we can do to promote sport, fitness, well being and the local environment. The sports association can never be a talking shop. Every time we have a meeting (four a year) we need to come away with some positive actions. Last night for instance we decided to set up a new social athletics, jogging, running club with the help of the excellent Paul Evans from Active Norfolk.
Paul will coach a group for an initial six weeks from April. After that time there will be a decision as to whether the group continues. Then we agreed to support Hethersett Netball Club's attempts to find a home in the village to practise and train. We are also going to put together 1,000 fitness folders to be given out at events in the villages throughout the year. These will include leaflets on coming events, fitness ideas, well being hints and tips and details of the association and plenty of other things as well.
There are just so many things going on in the village over the next few months that it would take me a day to go into them all. If anybody is interested they are listed on my village web site at www.hethersett.org.uk
Every Monday I try to listen to as much new music as I can through my Napster account. This week I heard new albums by Shearwater, Fanfarlo and Meat Loaf. - three very interesting new releases. Shearwater's "Animal Joy" is well worth a few more listens. The band is an offshoot of Okkervil River who I saw in Norwich a few years ago - and very good they were too. Fanfarlo's Room Filled with Light also had its moments. There were shades of Sparks very evident. Sadly Hell in a Handbasket by Meat Loaf was a huge disappointment if a little predictable. Meat continues to thump out songs as if his life depended on it. The only problem is that most people moved away from this kind of rock about 20 years ago. There isn't an ounce of subtlety here and the attacking vocals end up as a massive turn off. His version of Californian Dreamin' is quite hideous - the result of an artist well past his sell by date. The other main problem is none of the songs were written by Jim Steinman.
Tomorrow I have to face a difficult decision - do I sell my vinyl record collection? I will talk more about this and new music technology in tomorrow's blog.
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