Category: Local (To Me !!!)

Waterlooville Classic Car Show – 2012


Every year a Classic Car Show is staged in the Waterlooville centre.

Despite the weather letting the exhibitors down there were quite a few folks up there and I include a few snaps for your edification.

Waterlooville Classic Car Show – General View South
Waterlooville Classic Car Show – General View North
Waterlooville Classic Car Show – A
Waterlooville Classic Car Show – Triumph Stag
Waterlooville Classic Car Show – Sunbeam Supreme
Waterlooville Classic Car Show – Model T Replica
Waterlooville Classic Car Show – Vauxhall Victor 101
Waterlooville Classic Car Show – Edsel
Waterlooville Classic Car Show – Ford Mustang Mach 1
Waterlooville Classic Car Show – Hummer
Waterlooville Classic Car Show – Pontiac Firebird
Waterlooville Classic Car Show – Chevrolet
Waterlooville Classic Car Show – Mercury Monterey

The pedestrianised precinct is ideal for this type of event. It is a shame that there wasn’t some music and perhaps a barbecue or hog roast to supplement the static car display. Now that the precinct has been refurbished the town has to make maximum use out of the facility. I arrived around  13:30 and all I could see aside from the cars was some kind of Face Painting and a caravan with someone bending balloons. I couldn’t see much to indicate if there was any kind of “Best in Show” competition.

The owners of the cars were not much in evidence although some had obviously taken refuge within their cars. I did wonder if the old lady, asleep in one of the cars, might have been an optional extra at the time of original purchase.

I can only wish them better luck with the weather next year.

Waterlooville Community Forum


Waterlooville Community Forum

The next meetings of the Forum will be held in the Lancaster Room at the Baptist Church Hall in London Road from 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. on

Thursday 26th July

Thursday 6th September

All local residents, community groups and businesses are welcome

Come along, make your views heard and help us to make this a better place to live and work in!

For more details please contact
Laura Bevis on 02392446123 or laura.bevis@havant.gov.uk
David Crichton on 02392262469 or davidscrichton@compuserve.com

Waterlooville supermarket staff go the extra mile


Well done to the staff of the Waterlooville branch of Waitrose who raised £1000 for the Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust and for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

STAFF at Waitrose swapped the deli counter and stacking shelves for rowing and running machines.

The group from the Waterlooville store set themselves the challenge of walking, jogging, running, rowing and cycling for a total of 2,012 minutes – 33 hours – over a period of three days.

Waterlooville supermarket staff go the extra mile – Local Business – Portsmouth News.

Banter Comedy Club – Waterlooville


Comedy Club - Waterlooville

Here is a date to add to your diaries.

17th August, 2012

Banter Comedy Club comes to Waterlooville

Starring Felix Dexter, supported by Tony Cowards and Wayne the Weird

 

Felix Dexter

has appeard in numerous TV shows including Have I Got News For You, Absolutely Fabulous, The Fast Show as well as writing for many more.

Tony Cowards

Cowards, known for his one liner and puns, is a regular on the comedy stages across the UK and regularly performs to a variety of service personnel, at sports clubs and awards dinners.  He writes for a variety of radio including Newsjack, the BBC Comedy Unit Watson’s Wind Up and Jack FM.

Wayne The Weird defies description so I have included this YouTube clip

Click the PDF link below to print up a poster for your workplace.

Banter A3 Poster Aug Waterlooville hr[1]

Classic Motor Show – Waterlooville


A bit late posting this.

A classic motor show event is being held in the Waterlooville shopping precinct on Saturday 7th July 10am – 3pm.

There will be free children’s entertainment including face painting and magic shows.

Bloated ?


Just over two weeks ago I set off to France on vacation.

Every time I go away I make several promises to myself. I’m not going to overeat, I’m going to eat lots of salads, I’m going to lay off the bread and I’m going to get some exercise.

Of course I jettison most of those within about two nano-seconds of arrival. Salads are easy and I’ll always eat plenty of salad stuff, box number one ticked. The exercise one is sort of easy too since we are going sight-seeing and maybe swimming so that’s tick number two in the boxes. So that leaves the overeating and the bread.

As it happens I find that I actually pick less, no meals between meals if you see what I mean and when I am sightseeing i.e. busy then I don’t get hungry. So the overeating box is lightly ticked as I will go for the full three courses at the main meal and of course I’ve probably had some kind of breakfast.

Which leads us neatly to box number four.

BREAD

How can one go to France and not eat bread ?

Every morning the ritual was to get up and head down to the nearest boulangerie, just three kilometers. The joy of walking into that shop with the fresh loaves displayed behind the counter and the smell, Wow !!

Getting the still warm loaf back to the gite, cup of tea or coffee and then slicing through that crust unleashing more fresh aromas. Slapping on the local charentaise butter and taste buds all jumping for joy.

I can taste it now.

Now, I failed this promise in a big way. Bread (toast) for breakfast, bread before and during meals. So many different styles of bread. Many times I started of the day full of bread. Full but never bloated.

So why is it that after just two slices of Hovis, I feel both full and bloated ?

I know the style of the bread is different and this Hovis stuff is effectively production line, factory bread. What do they put in it that has this bloating effect.

I am seriously thinking that I must take up bread making again even if I have to do it by hand. No Kenwood Chef and Dough Hook, No Kenwood Bread Maker.

I don’t like this bloated feeling.

Police want to contact girl about Waterlooville attack – Local – Portsmouth News


I’m plagiarising the whole article from the news in order to help spread the word. We don’t need this sort of activity in Waterlooville.

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POLICE have released an e-fit image of a teenage girl they want to speak to about an attack on a couple in Waterlooville.

An 18-year-old man was walking with woman through an alleyway from Stakes Hill Road to Purbrook Way when he was sprayed in the face by a teenage boy who was passing by with a teenage girl. Some of the spray also went in the woman’s face.

The girl is white, about 18 and has a boyish pixie haircut with dyed blonde hair. She was on a bicycle.

She also had arched and thin plucked eyebrows and at the time of the incident she had black eyeliner on both eyelids drawn to a point at the outside corners. The offender is white, of medium build with short, dark hair. Det Con Pete Budgen said: ‘This type of assault is thankfully rare. It was a mindless and unprovoked incident. The couple who sprayed the substance may have thought it was a joke, however the consequences could have been more serious.’

Anyone with information can call 101.

Police want to contact girl about Waterlooville attack – Local – Portsmouth News.

Back To Earth With A Bump


Yes indeed. Back to earth with a bump. Back to work, in the office. Its soggy wet outside. Raining hard and blowing a hooley.. Its only taken two days for the holiday shine to be tarnished.
Ce la vie !!!

Big Thanks To The Blood Suckers


I’m sure they have been called worse but truly a big thanks for the speedy service.

I arrived at the Phlebotomy Clinic, in Cosham, at around 09:00. They operate a numbered ticket process and the next one up was 26 but the number on the ticket I received was 43.  My heart sank as I calculated a rate of one person every five minutes. That was my guesstimate of a best case rate. I’m off on holiday today and with lots to do the last thing I wanted to do was sit in this waiting room for an hour or two. I was also concerned about my car which was parked in a free space with a one hour limit.

Luckily, for me, they had two nurses on duty and with a number of no shows I was in and out again 20 minutes later.

So thank you to the staff who were operating the conveyor belt today.