The watercooler

This is the place for miscellaneous issues/observations/chit-chat. Use 'New subject' for topics that merit their own thread.

Swanage loos

Swanage Station toilets will be closed in January. Most of the other toilets are closed from 16:30 to 09:00. Should Swanage follow Wimborne's example and have one toilet open 24/7 and the others open from 07:00 to 18:00.

Posted by Robin from Swanage to swanageview at 31/12/12 10:46 AM

Ugliest Building? Monstrosity?

Betty Hewett writes in this weeks (27/12/12) Advertiser postbag:

"I have.seen many people stop and look in disbelief at the new block of flats in Rempstone Road replacing the Westbury Care Home. Why did the planning committee pass such a dreadful plan? Were they thinking that it could be entered in an 'ugliest building in Swanage competition'? It would certainly win. It doesn't fit in with surrounding buildings. A friend of mine said it was a monsttrosity, and she was right.

IMHO Betty must have blinked as she walked along Rempstone Road consequently missing the most ugly building right next door to Horizons to which she refers, called Mowlem Court, which is particularly dire when seen from the sea.

Why did the planners pass this? It doesn't fit in, she reasons.

Did Betty moan/not notice when the planners passed the two other recent structures behind the Rec? Deco, with very little Art Deco in the area, let alone other blancmange moulds in Rempstone Road; and Island View, the brick building with the plastic mock Tudor beams in the gables -I guess to reflect all the other Swanage Tudor architecture.

Sandbanks ferry back

Sandbanks ferry now back in service...  www.facebook.com/SandbanksFerry

Landslip near Grand Hotel

More on the landslips at http://swanagecoastguard.blogspot.co.uk/

and thanks to Brian Dorey for the last picture...

Making posts

Have been more or less forced into getting people to use identities to make comments. This is an attempt to stop mean-minded, bigoted morons making mindless comments, despite being asked to tone things down. I guess if this doesn't work I'll just close the site. So, if you value having somewhere to have these kinds of discussions, please at least try to behave in a civilised manner. My apologies to those decent people (the majority) who may find it a hassle to register a name.

The Swanage School

Time for a new thread, perhaps..

LANGTON ARTHOUSE CINEMA 6 DEC

LANGTON ARTHOUSE CINEMA

Film: The Kid with a Bike (Le gamin au velo) (French with English subtitles)
Date: Thursday 6 December at 7.30pm
Venue: Langton Matravers Village Hall BH19 3HA
Tickets: £5 on the door

Inspired by the Purbeck Film Festival a group of film fans have got together to create a “pop up” cinema at Langton Matravers Village Hall, dedicated to showing films not usually screened at mainstream venues, with a showing every other month. 

For full details go to their website: www.LangtonArthouseCinema.co.uk


Buying Tickets
Tickets are £5 on the door.  Bring your own drink, glasses will be supplied.

Swanage Pier

Notice is hereby given that the Swanage Pier Company intends to apply to the Secretary of State for Transport for confirmation of theSwanage Pier Byelaws made on the ninth day of November 2012.

...more info in comment below.

Free child care Sat 8th December

If the children are taken to the Sports Centre on the morning of Saturday 8 December, the team will keep them entertained while the adults get on with the Christmas shopping.
More details on Comment below...

Free gym in December

Start that New Year resolution now!  It won’t cost a penny

Visitors to Purbeck Sports Centre in Wareham can enjoy 12 free gym sessions during December.

Michelle Goodman, Sports Centre Operations Manager, said:  “There’s no need to wait until the New Year to start that resolution to get fit!”

Throughout December the Sports Centre is offering 12 free gym sessions to be taken during that month (use of cardio equipment only).  If participants then join the Gold
Card membership scheme* they will also receive a free induction.

Michelle concluded:  “Why wait?  Take advantage now and you’ll really feel the benefit and save money.”

Call 01929 500 000 for more details

Fin whale

A rare fin whale, second in size only to the blue whale, one of the largest animals in the world has been washed up on the beach near Kimmeridge. This is a young male, 44ft long (13.6 metres). Photograph courtesy of Ilay Cooper, author of Purbeck Revealed (available in all good bookshops, and some good pubs, at least at the Square and Compass).

Durlston Craft Fair (Saturday 10th Nov - 23rd Dec)

This Saturday there will be an afternoon preview at Durlston Castle of their Christmas Craft Show 'Inspire' - curated by Walford Mill Crafts. The show features the work of more than 150 artists and makers and includes perfect stocking fillers and Christmas presents and unique collectors pieces. The preview runs between 2 and 4pm and all are welcome!

If you can't make it on Saturday, come along any day between 11am and 4pm until the 23rd December!

Regards,

Ali Tuckey
Countryside Ranger
Durlston Country Park

Music in Studland 18 November

Tickets are now on sale for our next event, on Sunday 18th November at 7.30.

TICKETS (£8) CAN BE RESERVED BY PHONE OR PURCHASED IN PERSON FROM STUDLAND STORES 01929 450204

Three Cane Whale - A multi-instrumental acoustic trio, with influences from folk, minimalism, classical and film music. At times as intricate as a team of watchmakers and at others as spare as a mountain stream, the music encompasses both a cinematic sweep and an intimate delicacy, evoking a diversity of landscapes. Featuring mandolin, psaltery, zither, trumpet, harmonium, lyre and guitar, Three Cane Whale presents wonderfully atmospheric and evocative evening of live sounds.
"Perfect. A glorious adventure into new folk" Cerys Matthews     "Elegant and atmospheric. Four stars" The Guardian
More at http://www.idyllicrecords.co.uk/three-cane-whale.php

FOR ANYONE WHO NORMALLY USES THE SANDBANKS-STUDLAND FERRY TO GET HERE PLEASE NOTE THAT IT IS NOT OPERATING DURING NOVEMBER

The Artsreach Programme for the whole of Dorset can be seen athttp://www.artsreach.co.uk/programme/programme.php
and you can join the Artsreach mailing list (for all events in Dorset) athttp://www.artsreach.co.uk/mailing_list.php

Stephen Yeoman
on behalf of Studland Village Hall

Regular comedy comes to Swanage!

Regular comedy comes to Swanage!

The Rock-A-Hula Club, organisers of the Swanage Comedy Festival shows are pleased to announce that they will be bringing regular comedy to Swanage in partnership with the Royal British Legion.
Building on the successful format of the Sun, Sea & Stand-Up shows, the first event will be on Saturday 24th November and will feature MC Danny Ward, the posh, witty and exquisitely funny Andrew Watts, imaginative storyteller James Dowdeswell and headline act and star of BBC R4, Mitch Benn. Tickets priced £13 are now available from The Legion, Replayed Records and Swanage T.I.C.
David Elm, head steward of the Legion stated “Following the success of the events we have already staged with the Rock-A-Hula Club, we see the comedy club as another opportunity to provide great entertainment for the town and our members”.
Organiser Dave Taylor says “I’m really happy that we will be continuing to bring quality acts to The Legion. We first put comedy on there in 2010 and all of the acts who have played there loved the venue. Combined with great bar prices a good night is guaranteed!”
Further details of events at the Legion by Rock-a-Hula Club can be found at www.rockahulaclub.co.uk & www.swanagecomedy.com



Posted by Dave T to swanageview at 5/11/12 4:24 PM