News from Brent, Furneux and Stocking Pelham http://www.thepelhams.net Mon, 12 May 2008 00:20:19 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.thepelhams.net/images/M_images/weblink.png http://www.thepelhams.net News from Brent, Furneux and Stocking Pelham http://www.thepelhams.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=381&Itemid=111 Have a break, have a… If you remember the advert, the obvious words to go in at the end of the heading to this letter are ‘Kit-Kat’. I wonder, in passing, how many of us actually ever did have Kit-Kats in our breaks? But whatever we have - maybe just a cuppa, or a little afternoon nap – we probably all recognise the need for a break during the day. Much as we’d sometimes like to, we just can’t keep going non-stop, can we? We can try – and sometimes we have to if we’re really busy. Maybe we’re baby sitting for our grandchildren, or travelling to meetings, or trying to juggle shopping with work and child-care. But if we try going non-stop for too many consecutive days, we get exhausted. Our bodies, and, I suggest, our minds, simply run out of steam. We may get headaches, feel sick or become irritable. Everything inside screams ‘Stop!’ Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:36:52 +0100 http://www.thepelhams.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=380&Itemid=111 Subscribers to the Pelhams Website can now receive articles posted on the website directly to their email. You can even receive a text notification to your mobile to notify you of new articles.This is an experiment so please do contact Denis (component/option,com_contact/task,view/contact_id,2/Itemid,159/) to give him feedback.This is how it works Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:21:03 +0100 http://www.thepelhams.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=374&Itemid=111 The Governors of Furneux Pelham School and The School Association would like to invite you to a Concert to celebrate Music in the School and The Pelhams to be held at St Mary's Church, Furneux Pelham.Following the Concert will be a Champagne Reception and Presentation of the New Building Plans in the School HallOn Friday 18th April 2008 at 7.00pm Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:48:21 +0100 http://www.thepelhams.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=371&Itemid=111 Cleaner required at Furneux Pelham School Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:04:42 +0100 http://www.thepelhams.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=367&Itemid=150 Dear Family and Friends,Headline news on the propaganda mill one day this week was that three trillion Zimbabwe dollars had been raised for President Mugabe's 84th birthday party. I thought about what you could do with that much money but before I could work it out I had to check in a dictionary just exactly how much a trillion was. Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:07:36 +0100 http://www.thepelhams.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=365&Itemid=111 Firemen were called to the scene of a fire at The Cock public house in Stocking Pelham yesterday afternoon (Tue 19 Feb 2008) at around 12.30pm. Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:14:18 +0100 http://www.thepelhams.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=366&Itemid=150 Dear Family and Friends,Now is not the time to give up! This is the rallying call in Zimbabwe and it's getting louder by the day as elections draw ever closer.This week I met a friend who had been transferred to a town nearly 400km away. We had not seen each other since August last year and those times, just six months ago, seem like they were from another era. It is hard to believe that back in August inflation had just topped one thousand percent and that now it's sixty six thousand percent. It's a percentage so high that none of us can comprehend what it really means. Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.thepelhams.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=362&Itemid=150 Dear Family and Friends,It's been a long and dramatic week in politics in Zimbabwe. Things are changing very fast and some of the news I relate here may well be out of date or have altered completely by the time you read this letter.The first major development took place last weekend when the two factions of the opposition MDC met to decide if they were going to reunite and stand as one party in the coming elections. Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100