Well for the past three days of my annual leave I have been working my way through further sessions and checking back on ones I have already done. I should be away travelling but my sister's motorhome is being repaired and they keep sending the wrong parts from Sydney. Yesterday and most of today I have been very ill with a nasty virus so I suppose it is just as well I couldn't pass it on to my sister and brother-in-law!
Anyway, I digress........I have been checking out the answerboards and felt I preferred the appearance of Yahoo answers. I looked at a few questions and found the answers quite interesting and some plain silly. The Librarians answerboard was a good one which I feel BCCLS could be incorporating into our website.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Saturday, October 4, 2008
YouTube - Scottish Country Dancing Burns Night 2
YouTube - Scottish Country Dancing Burns Night 2
I would like to share this video with you, as this is what I do for fun and exercise. Scottish Country dancing can be done without partners as everyone joins into the formations (or sets) and ladies frequently dance on the male side. The club I belong to is at The Gap and they are the loveliest bunch of people you could ever meet. We dance from 8 -10pm on Wednesdays and then we share a cuppa and a lively chat before we go home.
If anyone is interested in joining us, contact me for details. Beginners classes are run at Spring Hill from about March to August.
I would like to share this video with you, as this is what I do for fun and exercise. Scottish Country dancing can be done without partners as everyone joins into the formations (or sets) and ladies frequently dance on the male side. The club I belong to is at The Gap and they are the loveliest bunch of people you could ever meet. We dance from 8 -10pm on Wednesdays and then we share a cuppa and a lively chat before we go home.
If anyone is interested in joining us, contact me for details. Beginners classes are run at Spring Hill from about March to August.
Llansamlet Library -my very first library
library.wales.org: Llansamlet Library
This is a link to the library I joined at the age of five. I isn't actually the same building......when I studied the map, I can see it was moved (obviously to larger new premises) around to the next road just along from the primary school I attended. This was called Peniel Green Junior Primary School but it was decommissioned in the 60's. The library was on my route home, so if I was late home from school, my mother always knew I'd be at the library looking for the 'Little Women' series or 'Biggles'! (Mothers didn't have to worry so much about their kids in those days)
I notice that the spelling of 'Peniel' on the address of the library is now spelt 'Penial', which is probably the Welsh spelling. There was a revival of the Welsh language in the 60's so now all street signs are in dual languages as they are in Scotland and Ireland.
This is a link to the library I joined at the age of five. I isn't actually the same building......when I studied the map, I can see it was moved (obviously to larger new premises) around to the next road just along from the primary school I attended. This was called Peniel Green Junior Primary School but it was decommissioned in the 60's. The library was on my route home, so if I was late home from school, my mother always knew I'd be at the library looking for the 'Little Women' series or 'Biggles'! (Mothers didn't have to worry so much about their kids in those days)
I notice that the spelling of 'Peniel' on the address of the library is now spelt 'Penial', which is probably the Welsh spelling. There was a revival of the Welsh language in the 60's so now all street signs are in dual languages as they are in Scotland and Ireland.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Mind your 24 Things
Well I've worked my way through half the steps in 24 Things but have all sorts of excuses for not adding my thoughts to the blog each session and now I'm going on hols for 4 weeks!
I have been fascinated by the links in Flickr and all the info videos, looked at a few other staff blogs to see what they are doing, added some RSS feeds to my gmail ( I have not added any to this blog yet, but will do so when I get chance), registered on the library wiki and added threads and comments, etc, and I have watched the Youtube demo video.
I find I'm very excited by the simplicity and range of the Web 2.0 technology and the how we will be able to apply it to future communications in BCCLS. The implications are quite mind-boggling!
I have been fascinated by the links in Flickr and all the info videos, looked at a few other staff blogs to see what they are doing, added some RSS feeds to my gmail ( I have not added any to this blog yet, but will do so when I get chance), registered on the library wiki and added threads and comments, etc, and I have watched the Youtube demo video.
I find I'm very excited by the simplicity and range of the Web 2.0 technology and the how we will be able to apply it to future communications in BCCLS. The implications are quite mind-boggling!
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