Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

Its 200 years since the abolition of slavery - but about a month since I was sold into slavery myself. Not that it has had much of an impact on my lifestyle.
It was all Jayne’s idea. She decided it would be a good idea to have an auction at the Broadfield Community Centre fete […]

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Poor old Lloyds TSB are going through a bit of a rough time at the moment, and staff must be feeling a bit vulnerable, so that makes it all the more impressive that a crowd of Lloyds TSB staff in Crawley gave up a day this week to go along to the Broadfield Community Centre […]

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I have been clearing out the huge pile of old newspapers for recycling, and having a quick look through them before throwing them out. In an old copy of the Crawley News I found a story which annoyed me at the time (May 30th) but for some reason I never actually wrote anything about […]

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I had a very strange phone call the other day. It was a chap from a local paper asking me if I knew why Councillor Alan Quirk had resigned from the management committee of the Broadfield Youth & Community Centre.
On the face of it a reasonable question, but I have not been involved in […]

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Last night Jayne went to a dinner at the Gatwick Manor for a charity awards event. It was the culmination of a campaign run by one of the local papers (The Crawley Observer) and a local employer (Barclaycard).
Over the weeks they have been publishing stories about local charities and then inviting readers to vote […]

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We got a card from my sister the other day, via Oxfam, saying how she had bought a goat for someone in Uganda as a Christmas present for us.
Today I had an email from her saying that it is actually a pair of goats but she got an ‘out of stock’ report for the second […]

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