Month: October 2024
Key Seaton Museum meeting tomorrow – all welcome
Tomorrow (Wednesday 30th) sees the AGM of the Axe Valley Heritage Association, which runs Seaton Museum. This is the first AGM since the death of the Museum’s founder and curator, Ted Gosling, and so is an important moment in putting the Museum on a secure footing. The meeting is at 2 pm in the United Reform Church Hall, Cross Street.
I will lead tributes to Ted. Our Acting Curator, Laura Hewitt, who the Trustees are proposing should be confirmed as the new Curator, will give a report on her plans for the Museum going forward, and prehistorian Mark Farry will give a short talk on the archaeology of the local area. There will be tea and biscuits.
All are welcome – this is your chance to find out what is going on in your local Museum and decide if you would like to become a member or get involved.
Book launch, Old Picture House, 20 November
This is a rather unusual post. While I was campaigning for Seaton Hospital late last year (a campaign which has still to bear fruit, but we are working on it), I was also writing a book on a protest movement – The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
When our protest last November included the brilliant idea of ringing all the church bells, I thought of all the imaginative and daring ways that antinuclear campaigners used to highlight their issues. And when one of the bellringers joked that we needed to be making Molotov cocktails, I thought, no – but a peaceful obstruction of the bulldozers might be in order. (Non-Violent Direct Action is the technical term.)
Anyway, I am holding a launch event in the Old Picture House, Harbour Road, Seaton, on Wednesday 20th November at 5pm. All welcome!
I’ll be in conversation with Paul Arnott – himself a distinguished author – who will quiz me on why I wrote the book, what its lessons are amidst the growing world gloom, and all questions politics and protest. There will be ample opportunity to ask your own questions, and of course a bar.
If you want to learn more about The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the publishers’ website has all the details and you can buy it with 30% off, using the code ‘EM30’ at checkout. It will also be available for £15 on the night (cash or cheque), but no obligation to buy of course.
I hope to see you on the 20th November – do spread the word!
Vaccination fiasco shows NHS doesn’t understand Seaton
I’ve just had to abandon a Covid/flu vaccination appointment at the Tesco car park after waiting an hour, since I’d have to wait another hour before being done. This is despite having an appointment. The core reason for the fiasco is that the NHS grossly underestimated the walk-in demand in the morning, so that people who had waited hours were ahead of the people with timed appointments (there was also a medical emergency which apparently slowed things a little).
All a striking contrast with the orderly vaccination process in Seaton hospital during the pandemic. The NHS obviously just doesn’t understand that 45 per cent of Seaton’s population are over 65 and therefore eligible. They’re trying to do vaccination on the cheap and they are not taking into account that people are rightly still very concerned about catching Covid.
Big step forward for Seaton Wetlands
Well done, Paul Arnott and EDDC, bringing a new area of marshes into the Wetlands.
www.midweekherald.co.uk/news/24625233.east-devon-acquires-land-seaton-wetlands-expansion/
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