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Brenda

Hi Wangi - There was indeed a notice of BOXING DAY DIP FOR CHARITY under WHAT'S ON on the back page of the Winter Issue of The Portobello Reporter. See the online version.

Brenda

For the information of those seeking to discredit Portobello Community Council and its Chairman regarding the issue of the PPAG website, and for the record :- The letter from PFANS, Portobello High School Parent Council and Towerbank School Council suggested that PCC might censure PPAG for statement...

Brenda

Hi Grunk
You could go to Arcari's factory, 14 The Wisp (near the tyre man, if that's still there) and buy your wife a whole tub of icecream!

Brenda

This is great! The Portobello Reporter was the first paper to run the story (see the online version Winter 2005 - front page, of course!) It was then picked up by the others. I wrote to a man at Cadbury at the time, but he wasn't convinced - said he would add our interesting theory to all the others...

Brenda

The Portobello Reporter was asked to include a notice of a lost cockatiel in the Spring 2010 issue. It is a long time ago now and probably not the same one, but details are on p3 of that issue under News in Brief.

Brenda

Well done Bob for getting the first few pages onto the archive! The paper has become a historical record of most of the important happenings in Portobello since 1980, and it couldn't have happened without the vision and energy of the founding group - see the front page of Issue No. 1.
(BM - Ed.)

Brenda

On another thread - Portobello Reporter Summer 2008 (why start another one?) - on 6th September, Michael Traill complained about copies of the Reporter being left on his stairs. I replied that the distribution company definitely don't condone this and asked him to send his home address to the Report...

Brenda

Michael Traill says he had a number of 'Reporters' dumped at the bottom of the steps. The 'Reporter' pays the company Distribution Unlimited to deliver the paper and they are not supposed to do this. If he sends us his address, to portyreporter@btinternet.com (as on page 2 of the paper) we will spea...

Brenda

If Portyman would kindly send the photo of the team to the 'Reporter', we will use it, with his permission and accreditation, in the September issue.

Brenda

Can I suggest that, if Porty wants to know the names of the PCATS committee, he should ask Stephen Hawkins. I believe he lives opposite him! Then either he or SH could post the info. on this thread.
Sorry if that sounds too logical!

Brenda

Best wishes Graham, once again, from me and from 'The Portobello Reporter'. We've featured your successes over the years with the deli and your film making, and now hope to see you mentioned favourably in the bigger (though not, of course, better!) papers.

Brenda

I don't understand all the curiosity about Moi's identity - It's Miss Piggy - although how she got onto this forum is anyones' guess!

Brenda

If Lorna would like to contact 'The Portobello Reporter' when she returns from Egypt, we would be delighted to report on her experiences. We may be able to include only short articles in the paper, due to space available, but unlike some others, we always aim for accuracy! Meanwhile - Best wishes, L...

Brenda

In reply to Wangi, Stephen McIntyre and bbbrown re my info. on the size of any proposed new golf course, my very reliable council source said in an email: "The land where the golf course will be built is over 70 acres - double the acreage of the present golf course". AND In the list of questions and...

Brenda

Stephen Mcintyre wrote: Brenda Moloney mentioned at the CC meeting that the St J school board was split or at least undecided whether they were pro or anti. Are there issues? Just for the record: What I actually said, and what I have reported in the current issue of the Portobello Reporter (delivery...

Brenda

Well done Bob and the team! A great launch and we didn't need Gail Porter!
The variety of films on the site is fantastic - yet another indication of the number of talented people living here.
Now that we have our own newspaper, website, radio and TV, what's next?

Brenda

The following 'indications' by a reliable 'council source' may help answer some of the questions on this thread. It will appear in the article on this topic in the Portobello Reporter, due out next week. "THE Council has announced that it proposes building a new Portobello High School and St John's ...

Brenda

[quote="Dadaist"]*stop press*

Portobello and the 99 were on Wogan (BBC Radio 2) this morning!!!
Has this been posted elsewhere? Or have I got the scoop? (geddit)

Sorry, Dadaist - The Portobello Reporter scooped everyone else, including the Evening News, with our story on this in the last issue.

Brenda

Thanks for contacting the BBC Bob - You've saved me the bother. It was interesting that Cadbury's preferred explanation - named after the 99 bodyguard of the King of Italy - was discounted. I sent Cadbury's a copy of the paper and they said they would include our 'interesting theory' in their archiv...

Brenda

Congratulations from the Portobello Reporter group to all who work so effectively on the Porty website - We are pleased to be a part of it. Congratulations also - though no surprise - to the Portobello community itself. The Community Life section of the CC's submission won a special mention in 1999,...

Brenda

Hi ecm
Try www.aquarterof.co.uk It has lots of old favorites and sells by the quarter kilo- So should be enough to ruin anyone's teeth! Happy chewing!

Brenda

Oh Yes! and when did the Herald reporter last come to the beach?
Co-incidentally,

I heard a programme recently when it was said that, if global warming produces really hot summers, Britain's seaside places could be in for a revival.

Brenda

Correction to my previous post - neighbours, of course, have until July 25 to object.

Brenda

Message on behalf of Portobello Amenity Soc : The general public will have three weeks from the date of its appearing in the planning application lists to object to this proposal - it is not there yet. Lists also appear in the E News on Fridays. Only the immediate neighbours who received neighbour n...

Brenda

At a Portobello Amenity Society meeting last evening (April 27), John Stewart reported that, as part of the High Street 'improvements', the Council propose to fell all the trees outside the Bank of Scotland and all the flowering cherries outside the deli. They want to replace them with 'uniform plan...

Brenda

I can't make it to the sale on Saturday, so I'm bidding Ã‚Â£12.

Brenda

We were travelling back by car from a holiday in Wales and listened to it all the way - It was brilliant and certainly made the journey pass quickly. The 'kids' still remember it too.

Brenda

Another one to add - (Prof.) David Begg.

And there surely MUST be more!

Brenda

One or two folk mentioned on the Tie Factory topic that they don't get the Reporter. Sometimes the problem is due to an entryphone system and the distributors will not leave copies at the foot of stairs or at outer doors - because there have been complaints in the past! Let us know on portobellorepo...

Brenda

Porty wrote - 'Brenda, I can't believe that with the censorship related threads currently on POL you picked one on strange name coincidences to make the above post! Not a criticism I hasten to add.' Why not? That was what happened to my post! I actually found it very amusing - Sorry you didn't reali...

Brenda

I didn't believe it either - the censorship I mean! In my list of birds (the Birdwatching thread) I tried to list a bird that is very like the cormorant - It starts with an S then an H + A + G. Imagine my confusion when I checked the message to see, after Cormorant, "take you to lunch" - a strange e...

Brenda

When we came to live here in 1976 (!) we were amazed at the number of different species of seabird we saw during a year. We got out the binoculars and the bird book and made a list: Gannet, terns,cormorants. Great crested grebe, goldeneye, guillemot, eider, mallard, merganser, tufted duck, shelduck,...

Brenda

Count me in Bob - a small size please.

Brenda

Sorry to disappoint, but according to my daughter, who was at Portobello High School with Gail, she was very popular with the boys (no surprise there then), vice-captain of the hockey team, while the daugher was captain (they still played sports after school in those days) and very, very nice! I thi...

Brenda

:?: What is that art installation at Joppa? I hear you all cry! If you've received your copy of the Portobello Reporter you'll see an explanation on the front page- straight from the artist's mouth. I agree, though, that some explanation would have helped a lot more people appreciate what the artist...

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