Thursday 24th December Xmas Eve

Merry Christmas to All...xxx

Monday 21st December

Can the week get any worse?...Snow every where and I have to go to Birmingham to see my Mum....one and a half hours to get as far as Ross Roundabout! three Hours to get to Birmingham! Steves fetching the staff to work, as quick as clients are cancelling others are booking in and guess what the Boiler still is not working and nor is Stephs car....good news only 3 more working days....till Christmas...

Lots of lovely Christmas cards and messages from Rotary Colleagues, but this year once again we are making a donation to Foundation instead of sending Rotary friends cards..but a Merry Christmas to you all...xxxx

Sunday 20th December

Well after the day we had yesterday, off Steve went to try and repair the boiler at the Abertillery salon! No Luck it was dead!!!! So we went AWOL and went to Cardiff instead to try and do our Christmas shopping! perhaps that was a mistake too! So many people....but on a positive it was great to see Peter Brill from the RC Merthyr Tydfil who was with the local Band and they were playing festive music and collecting donations for the Cancer Research Wales, they were aiming to make £6000.00 this year...good luck boys...and the playing was great too.

Saturday 19th December - Rotary District 1150 Christmas Service

After a busy day at work...[with lots of mishaps and calamities!] it was of to the District Christmas Service - at St Woolos Cathedral Newport. A lovely service with lovely singing by the Boroque Singers as well as Congregration participation.a good start to the lead up to the Christmas festivities...

A few Phone calls to make today....

A day at Court today, last one of the year...and in between cases I hope to get time to make some Rotary calls....

One really good call I received last Night was from my Friend Gwenda who is the Interact CoOrdinator for Rotary in Southern Wales....I asked her to allow me to nominate her some time ago for a RIBI role and she promptly completed the forms and awaited the selection process.....and when she got home yesterday from her brothers....a letter was there and she is now going to be on the RIBI Youth Opportunity Committee looking after Interact....they have definately got this appointment right and I am so very pleased she has got this offer...

Well Done Gwenda!!!!!! Interact will be well looked after with you on their team...

a week that has gone so quickly

Well it was not so much a busy Rotary week, but my god its gone Quick....work has been hectic, there was Interview with Jamie Owen on BBC radio Wales on Tuesday morning, discussing Steves attire at the International costume night in San Diego....no its not a shell suit!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p4z2q/Jamie_Owen_and_Louise_Elliott_08_12_2009/

David Morgan Rotary Director has offered his national costume so that saves a worry....except David is smaller than Steve!!! so we might still have a problem!!! lets wait and see....The RC of Brynmawr were pleased with the outcome of Normans quest in search of Steves attire...searching archives galore to see what ever it is that is the Welsh male national dress....a good few weeks discussions so Thank you Norman...

we will add teh photos on our return in February...someone should have a laugh or two...

RC BRYNMAWR

Hello fellow members its me!

seems so long since I was at Club council with the club...but a really good evening nice buffet and lots of work done...good year ahead I think from what we are planning...

Next week is our Christmas Lunch and then I won;t be at club for 6 weeks! but I am excused absence...they might even keep in touch by my Blog!

M4 M5 and Plymouth in the rain Conference planning visit

A 7am start with Christine knocking the door ready to pick up Alan in Abertillery and Howard in Newport...and its bucketing down!

Still raining this time Cats and dogs on the M4, by the time we get to the M5 its Lions and Tigers!!!!!!

But we arrived at Plymouth safe and sound for two very good meetings with the Copthorne Hotel and the Pavillions centre...we all came away feeling really bouyed and happy about the plans in place.

It was raining again by the time we hit the M5 but never mind we had a splashing day anyway!

The Picture shows the team and their partners after a leaflet filling exercise for prebooking the Copthorne Hotel Rooms, this was done in October when we were at DG Bobs conference in Torquay....if you haven't had your form to prebook your room then please go to the District 1150 website and get one and send it of with your deposit...rooms are being booked now...so if you want one you need to book now....we really would like you to be part of the 2010-11 conference at Plymouth...

RC Brynmawr Christmas service and Lunch and a surprise too!

Sunday started Christmas off...a lovely advent service in the Uniting Church Brynmawr, with Christmas carols and readings...a really lovely service, Thansk to everyone who attended and took part..

Then we went for Lunch at the Dragon Hotel in Crickhowell, Lovely food...and company

Then I surprised the club with an Rotary International Health and Hunger award for all their work with Lifestraws...They really were surprised as only President Christine knew about it...a lovely weekend to start the Christmas celebrations of...Merry Christmas all...

AN AFTERNOON ON THE PHONE

Well a morning in work and then onto the Rotary delegated phone...No-one tells you that building a team can be so much fun and also so much like hard work....three important posts to fill...2 AG's and a chairman...so any one from the District who has an interest at district level  give me a call.....

but the glass it has to be said is 7/8th full so can't complain too much....I am enjoying this preparation and planning....really......

Off to add some stuff onto ebay now...got to get Christmas paid for somehow..hahha!

Youth Opportunity meeting

Well its official I handed over to David Curtis tonight....a bit like dejavu and the team are I am sure going to be doing great things...Good Luck David, I know you will love this role, its busy and enjoyable and not like anything you will have done before...but so rewarding...thanks to the team the last 3.5 years has been so enjoyable and it seems strange now being on the other side of the fence...but you won't get rid of me that quickly...I promise I'll be popping to all the Youth Finals...