NEWSLETTER October 2017

Your Committee have Come along on: Invited the Borough Council The Friendship Group on and Age UK to join with us Wed 27th Sept at 10.30 in celebrating International Balloon release 1st October Older Peoples Day with a at 1.00pm Town ballon release. Hall The 2017 United Nations The Library Theatre International Day of Older celebration Forum Meeting Persons (UNIDOP) will at 1.00 on 2nd October; try to enable conditions measures that influence the “We hope to see as many readiness of Older Persons people as possible at our to participate including Balloon Release on the 1st securing Health care, regular October at 1.00pm” income, legal protection and access to financial services.

Brain Todd (Chairman) Older Peoples Forum Boulevard Centre, 45 Railway Road, Blackburn BB1 1EZ Tel: 01254 503046 www.olderpeoplesforum.org.uk email: [email protected] Supported by Blackburn with Darwen Council and Blackburn with Darwen NHS THE PRINCIPAL COMMUNITY DIAL-A-RIDE TRANSPORT PROVIDER 01254 200333 in East . DOOR TO DOOR SERVICE D.A.R RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CANCEL/CHANGE TRIP AT ANY TIME Excursions in October 7th BLACKPOOL/CLEVELEYS £10 14th SKIPTON £12 18th BLACKPOOL ILLUMINATIONS - ONLY £10 per seat - We will stop for you to buy the famous Fish & Chips!!!!!!! 21st BURY £10 28th ASHTON £12 Excursions in November 4th DEWSBURY £12 11th OLDHAM £10 18th WIGAN £10 25th BURY £10 Excursions in December 2nd SOUTHPORT £10 9th STOCKPORT £12 16th BURY £10 Please remember we offer a £5 Return Fare anywhere in Blackburn & Darwen* GROUP BOOKINGS NOW BEING TAKEN FOR BLACKPOOL LIGHTS / CHRISTMAS MEALS !!!!! ALL VEHICLES WHEEL CHAIR ACCESSIBLE

2 Cllr. Shaukat Hussain like type 2 diabetes, heart Bastwell Ward disease, dementia and some 07846 459709 cancers.

But the main thing is to be out and about, walking to the shops or in local open spaces. I know that I’ll be trying to walk a little more and take the car a little less. I heard on the radio today that four out of ten people If you’re really keen you can aged between 40 and 60 do download the Active 10 app less than 30 minutes brisk for iPhone or Android and walking each month. it will help you to see how much you’re doing. I’m not particularly physically active but I’m sure I do at I know it’s not that easy for least that. some of us but there’s lots of support out there from The recommendation from health trainers and walking Public Health England is support groups; you can get that we should aim for 10 some help from the minutes a day brisk walking. Wellbeing Service on 10 minutes a day will have 01254 682037. health benefits for you including increased fitness, improved mood, a healthier Try and make 10 minutes body weight and can also walking part of your day. prevent or delay the onset of disability and reduce the risk of serious health conditions,

3 Sustainability and up a plan in the next two Transformation Plan months for the community (YOU)to accept or to amend, for Pennine this will influence the next Lancashire 20 or 30 years of service and if older people do not try to You should have heard of attend your views will never this as it is important to your be heard!!! future Health and Social Care. For information ring CCG on 01282644728. The local CCG has held three or four public meetings It is now reported that about it but very few the “Accountable Care patients (that includes you Organisation” (ACO) which and all your family) have is part of this plan may not shown much interest. be possible without major legislation changes!!!! They have promised to hold more meetings and draw Brian Todd

4 Stiletto Shoes and standing for eight hours at Liquid Paraffin a time, wish I could do that, now, chance would be a fine Does anyone else, ladies, wish thing! for the days when they could Our stock room was still wear proper shoes? I across the road in Church refer of course to those far off Street above the “other Boots’ days of yore when we could “as we referred to it. still wear high heels. I have a wardrobe full of them, keep We were unique in being the meaning to throw them out, only Boots’ Chemist in the it’s not as if I could Market Hall. ever walk in them again, replacement The stock room was two knees have seen to flights of stairs above the that -but I can still shop and our stock was daydream. stored on shelving units, four or five shelves high. As a teenager I loved to wear my stiletto shoes even We had no ladders so though my granddad told climbing up onto the Shelves me that I would suffer from was the only way to reach a bad back and bad feet as I our stock. We were very got older; my grandma had lucky not to break problems caused by shoes something, and I too. don’t just mean the But we never took notice of bottles of liquid grownups, did we? paraffin in which Thought we knew better!! we did a roaring When I worked at trade. Boots’ in the Market Hall I wore high heels every day

5 My friend Sylvia from Boots’ Hopefully “it will be a really and I went dancing on enjoyable evening for Saturdays so it was - run for everyone (should be, it is the bus at 6.00 p.m., quick costing a small fortune) only tea, get changed, make up joking, It will be worth It!” and bus back to town for I’m sure! 8.00 p.m. SANDRA GROGAN

The things you can do when you are young, pity we Visit by the new can’t have those days back sometimes. Director of Adult Care I was very glad that I didn’t Mr Sayyed Osman have to wear clogs to work, as my mother did, when The new Director spoke to she worked in the mill. She members present on 4th always told me how good Sept and described how he they were for your feet— but hoped to provide help to I passed on that one!! older people in the Borough with less income. He seemed very supportive of working with the Forum and indeed is joining us in Next year is our Golden our 1st October Day ballon wedding and although I release for Older People at would love to wear “proper” the Town Hall and hopes to shoes for our special “do” I will make it an annual event. be sensible and wear “nice” shoes with a small heel.

6 Maybe you Favourite tune “Lead me remember ITMA? laddie straight to the bar”

Tommy Handley Ali Oop ( Horace Percival) The face that launched a Persistent purveyor of peppy thousand quips. A pain in the postcards. Sold Tommy a neck for Miss Hotchkins an pup and has dogged his ache in the ribs to audiences! footsteps ever since “excuse please mister. No Likee? Oh Miss Hotchkins (Diana Crikee!” Morrison) Tom’s tormentor or the Mrs Mopp (Dorothy female Frankenstein. What Summers) she tells Tommy goes at both “Can I do yer now, Sir” ears and comes out of skin as Winner of the All England a cold sweat. scrub-woman’s contest held at Much Fluff-under-Sofa. Colonel Chinstrap (Jack Train) Favourite tune “Dream “I don’t mind if I do sir” One scrubber put your arms of the old soaks at home. around me”

7 Mobility Scooters made about Category 3 Update Mobility Scooters and the Bus Station. I do hope you saw the Blackburn Telegraph on Immediately after this we Friday 18th August. contacted all Councillors to ask that the full council agree We, as a Forum, have been to our request for permission asking the Council to allow to park Category 3 Mobility Category 3 Mobility Scooters Scooters in the New Bus to park in the new Bus Station Station. with no success. There will be a Council Forum However in a response on the 5th October in the to a Freedom of Town Hall at 6.00 for those Information request the who wish to attend. Council confirmed that no decision, neither Officer nor Brian Todd Councillor, had ever been

8 Council Computer 706021 to book a place on a Courses planned - course running 12/10/17 - 14/12/17 Drop in course no booking Silver Surfer course, required especially for us, an 8 week course starting on 03/10/17 OCTOBER telephone 661221 09/10/17 16/10/17; 23/10/17 30/10/17 Livesey Library 2.00 - 4.00

06/10/17 13/11/17 30/10/17 Mill Hill Library 2.00 - 4.00

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 20/11/17 27/11/17 04/12/17 KNOW YOUR HEALTH Roman Rd. Lib. 2.00 - 4.00 TALK The next Health talk on Blackburn library telephone Irritable bowel syndrome 661221 to book a place for will be held at the courses running Boulevard Centre on 11/10/17 - 20/12/17 Thursday 9th of NOVEMBER telephone at 1.00pm

9 Madhubala Pandya 4. Bewilder or perplex. One of our members receiving a Fusion Award in 5. Famous Rochdale 2017 Well done!!! born star. 6. Rory McIlroy’s sport.

7. Extreme scarcity of food.

8. John Constables County.

9. A bitter quarrel or dispute.

10. National flower of Wales.

11. Number of lines in a October Quiz limerick. answers contain the letter “F” 12. 3rd President of the 1. Famous Russian USA. Goldsmith/Jeweller. 13. informal name for an 2. What is a Camberwell arsonist. Beauty? 14. Lower rank or status. 3. A County of Ireland. 15. A fleet of small ships.

10 Wife An alternative? Twinkle, twinkle little star You should know what you Fight between husband and are wife, both are students of And once you know what English Literature, instead you are of resorting to shouting, Mental Hospital is not far abusing or physical force - They write poems to each Husband other Wife The rain makes all things beautiful the grass and I write your name on sand - flowers too It got washed away If rain makes all things I write your name in air - it beautiful why doesn’t it rain was blown away on you? Then I wrote your name on Wife my heart and I had a heart attack Roses are red, Violets are blue Husband Monkeys like you should be kept in a Zoo God saw me hungry. - He created Pizza Husband

He saw me thirsty. - Don’t feel so angry you will He created Pepsi find me there too Not in a cage but laughing at He saw me in the dark - you! He created light He saw me without problems Madhubala Pandya - He created You!

11 Teenage Years but not least Kenzeta, there was one in Accrington called

Part 2 Joe Mortimer’s but this was ...cont from July edition ends January….. hard to get into if you came from Blackburn. Most of the dance halls did not serve alcoholic drinks you could get pass outs but if you returned full you were refused entry, there were very few bouncers on the doors, any limber was sorted by the owners. There was an unwritten dress code for those venues NO Then of course was the jeans, all the blokes wore pictures (Cinema) The ties white shirts, creases in Palladium on Mill Hill, Ritz or their pants and polished scrap on Bank Top, Empire shoes and a jacket, and or Barn at Ewood, Savoy in the hair was stuck up with Bolton Road and the Roxy Brylcream to get your Tony on King Street, plus all the Curtis and DA just right, the Picture Houses in town, in lasses had back combed hair fact the Barn was more like dos and posh frocks and yes a youth club on a Sunday the girls danced round their night, and yes there were handbags and Nylons were double seats at the back, the order of the day, there was always a ladies’ excuse Then you graduated to Dance me this could cause a lot of Halls, Lyon’s , Tony’s Mirabelle, trouble but it was good to Mecca, Park Gates, this was watch! for proper dancers, and last Ernie Denton

12 Warning to all our members Do not be as lazy as I was! I am not very happy about sharing this as I totally ignored my normal beliefs that Care Network should be used by all older people to protect themselves but when a young man knocked on my door and offered to clean up my disastrous front garden I talked to him and he wanted £40.00. I refused to pay £40 for a quite small front garden and he reduced his spoken quote to £35.00 at which I agreed and left him to it. After about two hours he had finished but demanded £50.00 as “it was a bigger job than I thought”. I refused to pay £50.00, as this would be £25 an hour, and suggested that I would compromise and pay the original quote of £40.00 which he took and promised to return with his trailer for the garden waste. I have never seen him since and the telephone number which he gave me is not his according to the subscriber who answered. He claimed his name was ROY PRESTON trading as “365 Maintenance” and gave me a telephone number which the subscriber denies that it is anything to do with any Roy Preston of the Livesey Branch Road Area.

BE WARNED! Brian (not so bright)Todd

I RECOMMEND CARE NETWORK TO ALL MEMBERS GET A QUOTE AND DO NOT BE AS CARELESS AS ME

13 Management Committee 2017/18

Brian Todd (Chair) Edgar Abbott (Vice Chair) Val Drinkwater, Mark Dixon, Janet Eardley, Diwali Anne Gleave, Erika Holmes, Festival of Lights Salim Karolia, Thursday 19th Ramanlal Mistry, October 2017 Madhubala Pandya, Doreen Stockdale Older Peoples Champion The blessing of peace and Vicky Shepherd The beauty of hope (AgeUKBwD) The spirit of Love The comfort of faith No one applied for the Management Committee so The joy of friends and there will be no elections this family year. May these be your gifts Should anyone wish to join this Diwali the Committee they can be “God Bless” co-opted at the AGM.

Madhubala Pandya

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15 Programme of meetings Oct - Dec 2017 All are most welcome to attend any of our events

1st Oct International Day for Older People 1:00 Blackburn Town Hall Balloon Release 2nd Oct Celebration Darwen Library Theatre 1.00 (Refreshments and Entertainment) 2nd Oct Dominoes Mill Hill Comm. Centre 1.00 5th Oct Council Forum, Blackburn Town Hall 6.00 If you attend you can ask questions 16th Oct Dominoes Mill Hill Comm. Centre 1.00 25th Oct Friendship Circle The Postal Order 10.30 2nd Nov Management Committee CVS 10.30 4th Nov Forum AGM CVS NOTE NEW TIME 1.00 8th Nov BwD CCG Central Library 1.00 8th Nov BwD HealthWatch Kingscourt 2.00 29th Nov Friendship Circle The Postal Order 10.30 30th Nov Management Committee CVS 10.30 4th Dec Forum Christmas Party Darwen 1.00 12 Dec H & WB Board Town Hall 5.30 12th Dec Blackburn Health and Wellbeing Board 5.30 13th Dec HealthWatch Board Kingscourt 3.00 13th Dec East Lancs Hospital Trust RBH 2.00

20th Dec Friendship Circle The Postal Order 10.30

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