Chance to improve your acting skills

Message from Margaret at LADS.

Hello all
 
We have the chance of an improvisation workshop presented by the Theatre of Fun.  They have several dates available over the autumn - Saturday or Sunday.  We had one of these workshops a couple of years ago and it was really good - great fun and we learned a lot. 
 
 The cost would be £20 each.  It will be a full day with a breaks for coffee and lunch (bring your own packed lunch).
 
We need at least 12 people to participate so that it's worth putting it on.  Please let me know if you are interested and if we have enough people I will go ahead and fix a date.
 
Many thanks
 
Marg
 

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Beth`s achievements in Senegal

Message from Beth forwarded by her mum, Claire Vuckovic.

Beth has achieved so much for herself and those she is teaching during her gap year in Senegal, her parents must be so proud of her.

ASJOM and a Thank You

by bethvuckovic

Thank you. Before my parents came out to visit back in April, they started a little appeal for pens and pencils for the small group of girls in the area that we teach. With the help of so many people back home, as well as radio Shropshire, it turned into a huge campaign! I expected a small a bag of left-over pencils and pens, but instead was presented with 2 suitcases full of amazing stationary and teaching equipment, and I can't tell you how grateful we've been! 

So, FASJOM. This is the name of the group that was set up just over 2 years ago by two of the previous Project Trust Joal volunteers with help from a wonderful lady serving with the American Peace Corps, Connie, whom we also had the pleasure of meeting whilst we were here. In Senegal, by law, all girls have the right to go to school and to have equal educational opportunities to the boys. In reality however, many still aren't attending. The reasons for this vary from early marriage, (some girls are married as young as 14 and most drop out of school at this point) lack of funds (as culture dictates that it is the men's job to solely provide for his family, poorer families, if having to make a decision about who to send to school, will tend to favour the boys)  an attitude of religious education over French-system schooling and a need for mothers to have someone to help around the house and learn how to cook and clean (a lot of women will spend their adult life doing this.) As a consequence, many of the girls in our neighbourhood do not attend school so, on  Monday and Friday, we teach them basic French and Maths. Whilst boisterous and unpredictable at times, these girls love to learn and put an amazing amount of effort into their work. Despite knowing we have FASJOM twice a week, they still run up to us in the street saying 'nungui jang tai? Est-ce que dinanu jang tai?' - 'are we going to learn today?' 

Running FASJOM is the most difficult part of our project, but by far the most rewarding. Both work-load wise and money-wise this project comes from us. This is where you came in. Trying to balance buying good stationary and not blowing all of our money was proving tricky and we weren't able to provide everything for these active and visual learners. Your donations were overwhelming, I can't believe how many people, suppliers and businesses gave  so generously. It was so touching and has been so useful! We were able to give the girls new (sticky back plastic-ed) books which survive more than 2 lessons, new pens which they take great pleasure in owning, teaching them maths using the counters and number squares and French verbs using the whiteboards so that they can rub out their mistakes and distracted scribbles. They have responded amazingly to the new learning styles, and wil be able to benefit from the donations for we hope, many years as we are passing it all on to next years volunteers. 

All that's left to say is thank you. Thank you from Charlotte and I, and an even bigger thank you from the girls at FASJOM, Mame Diarra, Mame Kane, Ami, Mame Diarra, Soda, Sira, Khady, Jenaba, Anna and Ndeye and I'm sure, the girls who wish to join in the new school year. FASJOM is not as ideal as school would be, but it gives these girls the opportunity to learn where there wasn't one before. We really can't thank you enough. 

I'd like to say a special thank you to the Ruyton XI cafe, who took in the majority of the donations! 
(Our internet isn't strong enough to upload photos, so photos to follow) 

bethvuckovic | August 3, 2015 at 8:32 am | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p4Mcfy-1e

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The Talbot Inn

Message forwarded by Colin Case.

Just got this from Joules MD Steve Nuttal via facebook.
It has some plans showing elements of the refurbishment, but they can be seen on the Planning Application.

Most of you will be aware that The Talbot has now closed. We wish Jess and Tony well for the future.

We have taken the decision to invest in the Dog in a material way. It was always our intention to encourage our landlords to run a simple, attractively priced food offer, sourcing locally. Producing simple and tasty classic pub food in an environment that is warm and convivial representing the village. The pub, whilst not being in poor shape, could do with some polish and warmth. Our view is that we must first address this before were appoint a landlord who can deliver the vision. For this reason we will over the coming months be refurbishing the interior, we will be using traditional materials, real leather, quarry tiles, stone, a new oak bar top to replace the laminate as well as a few quality touches. I will be at an auction this weekend in the hope of acquiring a couple of original oil paintings which will be perfect. I also have a Georgian grandfather clock earmarked to add a reassuring tick tock in the corner.

Eddie and Chris are our site foremen and will be on site shortly, please do feel free to pop in if you are passing and take a look at progress, my team are very proud of what they do and always happy to talk about the project.

Please also feel free to call Me. I will be running the project, my number is 07730 979276. We are wholeheartedly committed to bringing the best out of this wonderful village pub, whilst the plan has not quite gone to plan since we bought the pub last year, then it has only made us all more determined to deliver a wonderful village pub for the Ruyton XI towns.

Finally we will also be converting the stables to provide a flexible space for small gatherings, the odd beer festival, and crucially of Sunday lunch which will be a centre piece of the new pub. Plans are included here. We also hope that the space may be useful to the community as a whole for various purposes, clubs to after school groups, to fundraisers. Our aspiration is that the stables will all contribute to bringing the Dog to the heart of the village.

I will pre empt the question on time, my approach is to do the best we can and that takes as long as it takes., at this stage then the timing is open, I would think around 3 months, but it may be 4. My intention is to post a weekly update on Facebook to keep everyone informed on progress.

Look forward to hearing from you Folks,

Steve

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Colin Case
www.ruytonxitowns.org.uk
Tel: +44 1939 260628
Mobile: +44 7860 904006
VOIP: +44 1939 328243

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B & Garden, Ruyton XI Towns nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  Tel:  01939 261 121  brownhill@eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.co.uk www.eleventowns.org uk  www.eleventowns.com  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club - www.ShACC-uk.org  MAILING LIST  for Ruyton XI Towns area  Yo`s blog:  http://Yo-emails.blogspot.co.uk

Finding Ruyton XI Towns on the web

PLEASE NOTE:
The Ruyton XI Towns website, www.ruytonXITowns.org.uk, is completely out of date but, if you want to know what is going on (assuming I can`t tell you) please go to

https://shropshire.gov.uk/committee-services/mgParishCouncilDetails.aspx?ID=591&LS=3

This is the Parish Council website so presumably someone keeps it up to date.

Yoland

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Runnaway dog

Message from Joanne at Ruyton Post Office.

Someone has been into shop to say there is a Dalmatian dog running around by Birch Grove. It has no collar on and the can not catch it.     Joanne 

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B & Garden, Ruyton XI Towns nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  Tel:  01939 261 121  brownhill@eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.co.uk www.eleventowns.org uk  www.eleventowns.com  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club - www.ShACC-uk.org  MAILING LIST  for Ruyton XI Towns area  Yo`s blog:  http://Yo-emails.blogspot.co.uk

It`s Panto (auditions) time again

Message from Ann Johnson, RATS.

It's that time again…. Oh Yes It Is!!

 RATS are shortly to make a start on this year's Pantomime, to be staged in the Village Hall at the beginning of December.

The initial read-through/auditions will take place in the Victoria Rooms, Ruyton-X1-Towns, on Friday August 21^st at 7.00pm. Anyone who fancies having a go at treading the boards in even just a small way is welcome to come along and see what it's all about. If you wish to know any more about this, or RATS in general, please contact either Ann Johnson (01691 661498) or Chrissie Davies (01939 260998) – or just turn up!

 

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B & Garden, Ruyton XI Towns nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  Tel:  01939 261 121  brownhill@eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.co.uk www.eleventowns.org uk  www.eleventowns.com  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club - www.ShACC-uk.org  MAILING LIST  for Ruyton XI Towns area  Yo`s blog:  http://Yo-emails.blogspot.co.uk

Beth`s Year in Senegal

Message from Beth in Senegal.

If you have teenage children who will be looking at what they will do in their gap year
PLEASE make sure you and they read this report from Beth`s Mum.

Beth's year in Senegal

A throwback with only 10 days left! by bethvuckovic Hi! I can't believe I'm saying this,  but we now only have 10 days to go until we leave Senegal.. I don't really want to think about it, so here's a throw back to April! You've heard about some of my experiences here, but it gets more and more difficult for me to write, as the things we do are no longer novel but simply part of everyday life, so here is our parents' visit from my mum's perspective! Enjoy! My Holiday - by Claire Bushovic Passports shown, visa paid for, passport shown, finger prints given, passport stamped, passport shown, proof of hotel reservations shown, details of return flight shared, details of occupation shared, teacher, teacher of what, to whom, where, that sounds good, do you like it? ( is that an entry question or are we chatting now?) passport checked, queue joined, passport checked.  My first piece of advice to parents arriving to visit their child in Senegal is don't rush to put your passport away! My second is don't even attempt to leave the airport without your child's supervision. Nothing about living here prepares you for living there. Remember that sweet innocent you packed off 7 months ago? Do as they say.  I blame myself for our daughter signing up to Project Trust but after that I take no responsibility. I suggested she had a look in the gap year room before we left the 6th form progress evening. She never looked back. She chose Project Trust straight away and she researched and organised it all. Looking back, the selection course should have prepared us for what we were going to find at Dakar airport. The journey to Coll was meticulously planned with times, connections routes between Glasgow stations discussed and rehearsed with Google street plan. The return journey plans were abandoned and decisions made on the hoof. She was already not the dependent we sent to Scotland. Just before Christmas I had run out of people who wanted to listen to my stories of having a daughter in Senegal. Fortunately Charlotte's mum and I had exchanged numbers at Gatwick and kept in touch by text, phoning each other when really desperate for reassurance. We agreed to meet at Birmingham Christmas market so we could chat unhindered about our girls. Within an hour we were in Thomas Cooks' looking at flights.  Two weeks later we met again with husbands, siblings and iPads, flights were booked and the Bushovic's were born! We had wondered about the wisdom of allowing 2 teenagers who haven't seen a hot shower for 7 months choose and book our hotels, but although they are truly excited by taps and toilets that flush they have clearly also learnt the value of money and they chose well. I'm not going to try to describe everything we saw and did, this is a recollection of visiting our daughter, not a travel guide to Senegal, although it is a wonderful place, it really is. Somebody asked my son whether he noticed a difference in his sister, his reply, "she's more aggressive"! I prefer assertive. Everything from haggling - for everything - to fending off marriage proposals. Charlotte's Mum and I listened fascinated to Beth chatting away with a guy in Wolof. As he walked away cheerfully Beth turned round beaming and announced she had just got Charlotte a Senegalese husband!  Seven white people all together do attract a certain amount of attention. One of the joys was seeing the huge pleasure on people's faces when the girls surprised them by speaking to them in Wolof, exchanging their Senegalese names ( Charlotte is known as Coumba, Beth as Aita). After a particularly vigorous round of haggling one lady told us, with some national pride "these Senegalese girls now!" Stories about the commitment to vehicle maintenance are untrue. The Senegalese spend a lot of time maintaining their cars and taxis. Often mid journey, often with duck tape. It's just the way it is. It works.  Our itinerary included a couple of days in the town where the girls are living. We were so warmly welcomed by the family into their home and very well and generously fed. They had had families visiting before but never both volunteer's families together - it was Amadou who named us the Bushovics! I guess it might not work for everyone but for us seeing the very close relationship the girls had formed was as hilarious as it was reassuring.  I have to admit that I was a bit nervous about eating with the family, it is a very different culture. Well it couldn't have been easier, everyone just told us what to do! After dinner the Bushovic men were presented with handmade shirts as gifts and Karen and I were given beautiful colourful lengths of fabric. The tailor arrived... measured us up... and returned the next day with our very own boubous! I love mine, and yes, I have worn it at home. Beth asked me to say what I thought of Senegal, whether it was what I was expecting. In a feat of double thinking I had thought that Beth wouldn't be actually living in what I imagined Africa to be like. But she is, it is sandy, it is colourful, it is busy and a bit chaotic. The people we met were friendly and welcoming and very generous.   Beth and Charlotte live here. This is their home. They are not visitors, they are part of the community, they greet friends, friends greet them, they have a tailor, a coffee vendor and a friendly taxi driver. They are Aita and Coumba Wone. bethvuckovic | August 2, 2015 at 12:59 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p4Mcfy-1f Comment    See all comments

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