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Photo Cathryn Bell 2 One month on from Bill’s sad passing and the old boy had a fitting send off at The Commercial in Thackley. To honour him the Trumpit Community Fund will be renamed the Bill Craven Memorial Fund and we are very grateful for the generous donation of £500 from Lonsdale Estate Agents. The fund now stands at £885 and is yours to use if you have a good cause in mind. In this issue we have news of a Trumpit treat for the residents of the Stonebridge complex in Idle; thank you to the Idle Coffee Lounge for their help. In July, we are also treating the residents of Joseph Wright Court in Thackley too, this time with the help of our friends at McCallans. In the news this month, courtesy of its PR machine, the Bradford Telegraph & Argus, news of our cash-strapped Council splashing the cash. In a piece dated 4th June, plans to create several “sports villages” were announced, since rubber stamped. For those with short memories, expensive plans to create a similar facility on the King George V playing fields on Canal Road came to nothing recently despite the push of executive council members Hapless Hinchcliffe and Comical Alex. That is, unless you were a beneficiary of the almost ninety grand the Council spent on consultants deciding to do…nothing. For those interested in how money is distributed in our city - see the article in this issue - no surprise that BD3 is in line for another monsoon of public money. Given huge expenditure in recent years in this area, you have to wonder why? The report was commissioned by the Council’s Dept of Place aka Dept of Chaos. It is the Bradford Playing Pitches Strategy 2019 and is riddled with so many inaccuracies you might just wonder whether the consultants have actually been to Bradford. Equally, it begs the question just what are our local councillors doing for this area? When I first raised this issue cross party, the leader of the Conservative opposition had absolutely no idea until alerted by the press article. It took ten days to get a reply from Cllr Hinchcliffe which told me what I already knew whilst blatantly avoiding the serious questions. Cllr Sunderland remains silent at the time of going to print which is not very helpful from a local point of view. Finally, we are always on the lookout for new contributors to broaden the appeal of The Trumpit. Maybe you feel there is a topic that we should be giving space to, perhaps something with a local appeal? Or you might just fancy yourself as a writer, a poet, artist or photographer; where better to showcase your talents? Don’t be shy. Steve Wilson: Editor ADVERTISING RATES Email [email protected] Full Page £100 Half Page £60 Mick Craven: Graphics Quarter Page £30 Email [email protected] Eighth Page £20 3 Idle Library Wright Watson Centre, Thorp Garth, Idle BD10 9LD Open Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 9-7pm Readers Group Mondays 5.30pm onwards. Storytime / Rhyme time (term time) every Monday 2-3pm & alternate Mondays 10am Young Readers Club Wednesday 3.30pm onwards (booking required) Coffee Morning The last Wednesday in the month (Inc. quiz and raffle, free coffee and cakes) The library also has a great selection of books and computers for public use (small charge for printing) For further information on any of the above please call 01274 952057 or find us on Facebook Idle Library at Wright Watson Centre Men’s Forum Meetings each Wednesday, 10.30am, Thackley Methodist Church Hall. Coffee 10am for 10.30 start £3 charge for overheads July 3rd Miss Jeanette Wallace (Bingley) “A vast area of nothingness” July 10th Dr David Pendleton (Wrose) “Bradford Albert Memorial” July 17th Mr David Alred (Burley in Wharfedale) “Yorkshire Choice” July 24th Mr Philip Tordoff (Cleckheaton) Music “Old Favourites” July 31st Members Own Choice August 7th Mrs Jacqueline Depelle (Pudsey) Twix Leeds & Bradford Past and Present Speaker Sec. Mr John Vickerman - 01274 618312 Email: [email protected] Facebook Idle Gossip Community page, motorsport, local news and events. Idle and Thackley Community Group Local views and news. Idle Memories Past and Present History, photos and articles. Idle Folk Up to the minute news, local events, reviews and what’s on. 4 GET MOVING! GET ACTIVE! 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For when we lose a A Tribute to William Craven loved one...be it human or animal...there Today, June 14th, is a very sad one...for is a tailormade cut-out shape forever in me as for so many others. the mind's eye of those left behind. One For we have said our goodbyes to one of that no other soul can fill. the finest truly Yorkshire gentlemen I have Farewell, friend! Wherever you are ever met...Bill Craven, editor of the please raise a glass to us of good honest Trumpit for so many years. Yorkshire ale, as we do the same for you. I called him Rev.Ed because he was my Pennina Dale Revered Editor. Toronto A very lovable man, Bill. Always courteous and well spoken. We had some good conversations; he had an Ed—a lovely tribute and one echoed by extensive vocabulary and was well so many who wrote into us at The Trumpit informed on many subjects. on hearing of Bills’s sad passing. May more of you have offered your heartfelt Always a pleasure to talk to, and never sympathies face to face. The family have lost for words. been touched by the affection. Thank you. Airedale Lodge 387 Freemasonry making good men beer. Interested in Freemasonry? Website hps://airedale-lodge.co.uk Contact [email protected] Cathryn Bell Photography Tel 07866374019 Portraits Weddings Corporate Pets 6 Joe King I laughed so much I nearly passed the sweets round A Short Love Story. A man and a woman who himself as he ran home and Started to tell his had never met before, but were both married to mother. 'Mummy, I was at the playground and I other people, found themselves assigned to the saw Daddy's car go into the woods with Aunt Jane. same sleeping room on a London to Edinburgh I went back to look and he was Giving Aunt Jane a overnight express train. Though initially big kiss, and then he helped her take off her shirt. embarrassed and uneasy over sharing a room, Then Aunt Jane helped Daddy take his pants off, they were both very tired and fell asleep quickly.... then Aunt Jane. At this point Mummy cut him off He in the upper bunk and she in the lower. At 1:00 and said, 'Johnny, this is such an interesting story, AM, the man leaned down and mgently woke the lets save the rest of it for supper time. I want to see woman saying, "I'm sorry to bother you, but would the look on Daddy's Face when you tell it tonight.' you be willing to reach into the closet to get me a At the dinner table that evening, Mummy asked second blanket? I'm awfully cold." "I have a better little Johnny to tell his story Johnny started his idea," she replied. "Just for tonight, let's pretend story, 'I was at the playground and I saw Daddy's that we're married." "Wow! That's a great idea!" car go into the woods with Aunt Jane. I went back he exclaimed. "Good," she replied. "Get your own to look and he was giving Aunt Jane a big kiss, f******** blanket." After a moment of silence, he then he helped her take off her shirt Then Aunt farted. Jane helped Daddy take his pants off, then Aunt Fred and Fiona were making passionate love in Jane and Daddy started doing the same thing that Fred's Transit van when suddenly Fiona ( being a Mummy and Uncle Bill used to do when Daddy was bit on the kinky side) yells out: "OH, fat boy, whip away on the oil rigs...' Mummy fainted! Moral: me, whip me!" Fred, not wanting to pass up this Sometimes you need to just shut up and listen to unique opportunity, obviously did not have any the whole story before you interrupt! whips to hand, but in a flash of inspiration, opened A couple were Birthday shopping the window, snaps the antenna off his van and The shopping Arcade was packed and as the wife proceeds to whip Fiona until they both collapse in walked around she was surprised To discover that sado-masochistic ecstasy. About a week later, her husband was nowhere to be seen.She was Fiona notices that the marks left by the whipping quite upset because they had quite a lot to do, and session are not healing and starting to fester a bit hence, she became so worried that she called him so she goes to the doctor.