
Saturday, 4th October
Approx 6.00pm (6.30pm at the top of Otterbourne Hill)
ending approximately 7.15pm
Getting excited (and nervous!)
Full details on the Festival of Light page – https://judygoodlet.com/otterbourne-festival-of-light/
Saturday, 4th October
Approx 6.00pm (6.30pm at the top of Otterbourne Hill)
ending approximately 7.15pm
Getting excited (and nervous!)
Full details on the Festival of Light page – https://judygoodlet.com/otterbourne-festival-of-light/
As I head towards my 70th, and our Golden Wedding Anniversary, I really want to enter my 80th (!) decade as mentally and physically fit as possible…
Been wondering what my goals should be. Just one…to be fierce!
Up til know just been a woss!
What out world!
Oops! Watch out world!!
Feel very privileged to be giving a keynote speech on how IT has changed our lives over the pandemic, and how it’s now woven into our lives, and it’s affect on us personally.
Weaving so many thoughts into the speech, but you know what, I’d love to hear from YOU about how technology is impacting your life, for better or worse, now.
Please get in touch…Judy.goodlet@btinternet.com or the contact me link above.
Giving a presentation! Tonight! On Zoom! From the Living Room…..
In case you need to know a bit about me…..! Just click the link!
Well to be honest there’s quite a few!
One of the wonderful things about working at BBC Radio Solent was being able to pop out and chat to people about their dreams, and plans to fulfill them.
Going to chat to some of the team involved in creating a new home for Dr Steve Etches, MBE’s fossil.collection was always a great moment.
Steve is world famous for the fossils he’s collected, over many years, from the shale at Kimmeridge. His collection is extraordinary and people come from all over the world to study it.
The new home was to be in the tiny hamlet of Kimmeridge. It had to blend in with the beautiful pale stone cottages and serve as a community centre for locals. The plan was to create a small, beautifully formed building that could show off some of the fossils (part of the joy of visiting is it’s not overwhelming) and provide a workshop for Steve.
One of the features that everyone was particularly excited about was a specially created film showing pre-historic marine animals swimming, to be shown on the ceiling of the exhibition room.
The Etches Collection, Kimmeridge, opened in 2017 to great delight and acclaim, winning several important accolades. I visited not long after and marvelled at the quality and beauty of the build and it’s location, was fascinated by the fossils and thought the video, shown on the ceiling was interesting……but last weekend (5th March, 2022), we took 5 year old Grandson….he was transfixed by the monsters swimming above his head, ran with delight to point them out on the boards depicting the different types of creatures. Fascinated by the fossils, loving the chance to colour in dinosaur sheets; put his hands into a covered box to feel fossilised teeth, an ammonite and vertebra!
Thinking of all the careful design choices and sometimes tortuous journey to completion, it was joyous to see their impact on a little boy (we had to pop back in as we came back from rockpooling in Kimmeridge Bay)!
Kimmeridge is off the beaten track and the Collection is rarely overly busy (you don’t need to be very mobile to pop in, or to go over to the lovely Clavell’s restaurant across the road, but the Bay is tricky if you’re a bit wobbly on your feet, although you could have a picnic in the car park…oh and there’s a small charge to go down to the beach). Clavell’s Restaurant shares its name with the tower (viewers of BBC South Today will recognise it!).
https://www.clavellsrestaurant.co.uk
It makes for a rather magical day….as long as you like fossils or are just curious about beautiful places! We planned our trip to arrive at the Collection just after 10, have brunch in the restaurant over the road and arrive in the bay to make the most of the two hours around low tide (which was 1.30pm).
@TEC-dorset; @KimmeridgeBay; @judy_goodlet
I’m grateful to anyone who volunteers for a chat about their pandemic experiences – but particularly to younger folk, who we don’t often hear from.
I had a couple of “oh” moments listening to this…..you might, too!
My thanks to Eve for her time and patience!
I’m concerned that amongst all the chatter over the last 18 months or so, there are so may people we haven’t heard from, and how everyday life has been affected by illness, loss, curbs, lockdowns, tiers, working from home, being an essential worker and keeping going….and I’ve never felt we were really all is it together because our ages and circumstances have made an enormous difference to our lives.
Far more interesting voices than mine are lined up ….but I thought I should start with me, so here I am, having a witter! It’s taken me a while to find the courage to post it because I never feel I’m that interesting!
If you live in the Winchester/Otterbourne area of Hampshire and would like to contribute your story, please get in touch (this is not about how the pandemic has been dealt with by politicians….and a ranting platform…but the impact it has had on your life).