The Comet’s front page report last week on the declining fortunes of North Herts District Council once again highlights the deficiencies in funding local government – not just in our area but nationally.
In my excitement at the fact that musicians were coming from Tennessee and Mississippi to play in Hitchin, I completely forgot to give you the date! It’s an age thing!
Happy to report a wonderful Sunday evening at the town hall – the Stax Academy students from Memphis, Tennessee, gave a stellar performance, as well as busking on Market Place the previous day.
What would Shakespeare have thought about Brexit? After all, we’d just had a bit of miff and biff with the Spanish Armada and our entente with the French wasn’t always so cordiale – and we had strong and stable leadership provided for the country by a woman, Elizabeth I.
Hitchin man Steve MacSweeney has taken the germ of an idea formed while he was out walking the dog and is busy turning it into reality!
The town was really buzzing last Saturday after the initial downpour.
I’m indebted to Hitchin-born stalwart Richard Whitmore for his excellent account of the opening of The Dell back in 1950/51 in his very entertaining autobiography ‘Didn’t you used to be…Richard Whitmore?’.
I’m reminded by the latest Hitchin Forum newsletter of the difficulties facing so many community organisations in planning succession.
Twenty years – I don’t know where the time went. I know it’s a cliché but oh so true, at least that’s what my aching joints tell me.
