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WORK & PLAY

Bill Keeth commissions a successful paint job that results in a relaxing holiday

It began as a disagreement – well, a misunderstanding, let‟s say. My lad had been in

hospital for a good twelve months or so during which time his flat had accumulated every

dead spider, fly and dust mote available to the residents of Rhodes Village. So his pad

was in need of a deep clean plus a gloss/matt emulsion repaint from top to bottom. Lucky

was I, then, that my good friend Tony Auton who is more widely-known as a gifted singer

and guitarist (check out YouTube for Tony‟s epic rendition of the Buddy Waters-penned

„Rich Man‟s Woman‟) was up for the job. Because Tony is also a good painter and deco-

rator like Chuck Berry before him Better still, Tony reck-

oned it would take him just 4-5 days.

So, all that remained to be done was for me to ar-

range for my lad to be somewhere else for those 4-5

days lest his interminable to-ing and fro-ing, smoking,

boozing and insouciant over-indulgence in a multitude

of other bodily and extraneous functions should inter-

fere unduly with the task at hand. A coach trip to Scot-

land with Travelstyle seemed to be the ideal solution

since the lad would be gone for the requisite four to five

days, with (MacHeaven on earth!) a free bar available

to him of an evening. (Travelstyle advertises holiday

deals in the local press, of which many are last minute

bargains like this.).

Hence the misunderstanding. Because methought I‟d

booked mi-laddoh in for 5 days with a free bar, whereas what I had actually coughed up

for was (get this!) 5 days with NO FREE BAR costing £60 more than Travelstyle would

have billed me for an identical holiday via the very same coach to the very same destina-

tion on the very same day.

You just bet I was when I found out – sick as one, and spitting Polly‟s feathers out, too!

Naturally, I pursued Travelstyle for a £60 refund, three letters of complaint being neces-

sary.

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But Travelstyle eventually came up with an offer of £60 discount on any future booking I

might care to make. So, acting on the premise that nobody other than the likes of Elton

John can afford to go to Court for a pocketful of spare change, I took Travelstyle up on its

offer. That is to say, I booked a 6-day trip to the Isle of Wight, discounted at £120 each.

It was a bargain, I can tell you! Particularly since we were already on the look-out for a

week away somewhere where the dodgy Euro wouldn‟t byte, and where I might get on

with reading, feet up, as many thrillers by George Pelecanos as six days would allow.

Check it out, if you will: the Seagrove Hotel, Sandown (Pelecanos, too, should you care

to do so) . . . Coach travel included thereto and from; half-board accommodation through-

out; room with sea view; free entertainment each night; three mid-week outings by coach.

Plus, I kid you not, the most consistent pint of lager (Kronenburg, as it happens) I have

enjoyed for many a long day – the £2.80 I was billed for it hardly being the rip-off price

that‟s closing so many pubs up north.

So what was the down side? Because there‟s got to be one, given the cost of the holi-

day. Well, to be perfectly frank, though our accommodation boasted all mod cons – teas-

maid, shower, TV etc. there was a sort of time-warped reality to it all, said mod cons be-

ing 1950‟s-styled at best. Also, the variously-patterned hall, stairs and dining-room car-

pets veered towards Axminster or worse, with a suggestion of “end of roll” and “fitted by

the night porter on his day off” about them. Worse still, there was no lift. So luggage was

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opted, as did I, to tip he night porter for taking your cases to and from your room.

(Another bargain, by the way: £2 each way.)

„You get what you pay for,‟ was the general consensus, a wise addendum to this being:

„Be more expensive if the rooms were better.‟ Because the main things to bear in mind

are that the hotel was clean, we were well fed and the staff was notably friendly.

True, some of the staff enjoyed an incredible streak of good luck playing bingo with us

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National Holidays, too.) Maybe have a bash, come my birthday in November. Hang

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Middleton Library News

Our Author of the Month for November is Kate Atkinson.

Kate Atkinson was born in 1951 in York. She studied English Lit-erature at the University of Dundee, gaining her Masters Degree in 1974 and subsequently studied for a doctorate in American Litera-ture. After leaving university, she took on a variety of jobs from home help to legal secretary and teacher. She lived in Whitby, North Yorkshire, for a time, but now lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year ahead of Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh and went on to be a Sunday Times bestseller. Since then, she has published another five novels, one play, and one collection of short stories. Her work is often celebrated for its wit, wisdom, subtle char-acterisation and its surprising plot twists and turns. Her most recent

work has featured the popular former detective Jackson Brodie, first introduced in criti-cally acclaimed novel, Case Histories, and making a welcome return in Started Early, Took my Dog, published in 2010. Kate was awarded an MBE this year for services to Literature. For more information about the author and her work, visit www.kateatkinson.co.uk.

At the October meeting of Middleton Reading Group, we discussed the novels of Ken Follet. Our next meeting will be on Monday 14th November, when we will be discussing „classics‟. As usual, the group will meet from 6 - 7 p.m. here at the library. New members are al-ways welcome to join us.

Our free monthly Family History Advice Surgery is now firmly established and well-attended. We are grateful to Les, a member of

the Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society, for the time he gives to provide expert advice to anyone requiring extra help with their family research, including guidance in using the Ancestry website, available free in libraries across the borough. The November surgery at Middleton will be held on Monday 21st from 2 - 4 p.m. There‟s no need to book - just drop in. Please ask for details of Family History Advice Surgeries held at other libraries in the Middleton area.

If you are an absolute novice when it comes to computers, or you want to build up your basic skills, come along to our free weekly Go On com-puter sessions every Monday evening 6-7pm. Places are limited so please call in to the library or ring the number below to reserve your place. With our free and easy computer courses, you can get to grips with computers and the internet at your own pace, and our friendly staff will be on hand to help along the way.

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We will also be holding a free one-off computer session entitled ‘Keeping in Touch via the Internet’ on 11th November, 3.30-4.30pm. The session will include a demon-stration on how to use Skype, the software application that allows users to make voice and video calls over the Internet. Again, drop in or call us on the number below to book your free place. Langley Writers in association with Rochdale Library Service and Just Poets present their final workshop for Rochdale Borough Writers’ Festival 2011 on Saturday 12th November at Rochdale Central Library. Just Poets and the library service‟s very own Ray Stearn will be inviting the audience to engage all their senses in writing and per-forming poetry and prose. If you are an aspiring writer or poet, then come along to this free event!

Our popular weekly storytimes take place at the usual time of 2 p.m. All young children and their parents or carers are welcome to join us for stories, rhymes and a simple craft activity. The sessions are very informal, usually lasting no more than 30 minutes. Other story-times in the Middleton area take place at Langley Li-brary on Thursdays at 11.00am, and Thursdays at Alkrington Library, 2.15pm.

If you are unemployed, looking for work or struggling to find a job, Langley Library Work Club can provide free professional help and advice. The support and resources you need to get you back into employment is available to you for free every Friday, 1.30-3.00pm. For more information contact Langley Library on 0161 654 8911, or just come along – there‟s no need to book. We are located in the Children‟s Centre on Windermere Road, next door to Bowlee Park Primary School.

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