As understatements go, “The last few weeks have been eventful” is in the top 10! September 2nd brought news of a good friend’s death and you can read Steve’s tribute to Bill Ford on pages 62 and 63. Business-wise we had made all our new plans for moving the business from our home into one […]
Editor's Letter
One Fine Summer
Every cloud has a silver lining, for sure, but you do need clouds for that, and this summer we didn’t have many of those, did we? It started, for Mary and I, on May 28th with a trip to Broadway in Worcestershire for a ride on the newly extended Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Heritage Railway from […]
Crossing the Rubicon
Towards the end of last year, as the Mountsorrel Memorial Centre was about to open its doors, an estate agent’s sign was displayed on the protective barriers on the car park boundary. The sign announced that 3 new retail units were to become available in 2018. I (Steve) enquired as to price and was immediately put […]
Plastic’s Not Fantastic
Campaign Group, 38 Degrees Loughborough, are asking local businesses to reduce their plastic waste. The campaign idea came after watching David Attenborough’s ‘Blue Planet’ series, which demonstrated the appalling impact that discarded plastics have on our oceans. Food and drink outlets are being asked to sign up to a ‘Plastics Pledge’, and commit to offering […]
Never Mind (the Width – Feel the Quality)
Welcome to our biggest magazine yet – 80 pages and still counting… In order to begin the process of building our next magazine we start off with 64 pages. Our regular advertisers are already booked in, together with space for our regular features, articles, crossword, quiz and so on. We then add newcomers and in […]
Driving Mr Ford – In a Toyota!
Over the last year I (Steve) have been helping a friend write his memoirs. Most Fridays I’d spend two or three hours with him whilst he talked about his life and work. Each weekend I’d write my notes up into chapters until, some 12 months later, we were ready to publish. (See page 28) We […]
In Tune…
I, Steve, took a series of courses beginning in 2002 to learn more about what makes us behave and live in the way we do. The whole experience changed my thinking and set me on a different path for the rest of my life. You may know it as Life Coaching, Work/Life balance, self help […]
Have you Heard?
Fosse 107 is the local radio station for Loughborough and Charnwood broadcasting on 107FM to more than 170,000 people. Back in the summer of 2016 Loughborough lost its commercial radio station – but within months it was back on air thanks to a group of locals who made it their mission to keep local broadcasting […]
Think Lucky and You’ll be Lucky…
In the early days of British network television, in the late 1950s and early 60s, there was a regular 5 minute astrology slot after the early evening news on ATV. This was written and presented by Evadne Price and her signing off phrase was the title of this month’s welcome letter.
