The programme for the Walking Group has not yet been finalised but hopefully Louis will send it along in due course.
The big walk for this year will be Helvellin in the Lake District as soon as I get details I will publish them here.
The Church Transept is coming on apace and I can't wait for the dedication service when I can take a look at it from the inside.
For those of you who don't know much about me click on the Buffalo's head on the left, and find out why I ended up in an Arabian Prison. OK ........Ok! I know some of you are wishing I was still there .....

Archery Links are no longer available they have all been removed.

A Heart-warming story.     Some kids are great.         I was collecting for the Poppy Appeal on Wednesday 31 October in Super-Valu Comber when a young boy came in dressed in his Halloween outfit.     He lifted his pumpkin and said "Trick or Treat" I put my hands into my pockets and found two coins one was small and the other large.     I clenched them in my hands and told him to pick a hand. He chose the hand with the low value coin which I showed him saying to the lad, "Hard luck".     I dropped the coin into his pumpkin and then showed him the other coin which I also dropped into his pumpkin. The child was delighted and off he went collecting from other customers..     A few minutes later he returned and tipped the entire contents of the pumpkin onto the table and said "Can I have a Poppy please." I could hardly believe that this young boy was so willing to give up his collection to buy a poppy.. This young man is a shining example to other young people and it made me feel happy that there is one such as him in Comber. Adrian

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
The official Language of Sixgolds was Ulster Scot but in view of this new legislation I will be forced to make certain changes taking account of this EEC ruling.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as 'Euro-English'.

In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly , this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of 'k'. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced with 'f'. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining ' ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.