March Charity
Just up the road from where I live is The Courtyard Theatre and Centre for The Arts. It's only 400 yards from me and yet I rarely make use of it. It's an example of what we all experience in our own neighbourhoods. Because something is nearby you keep telling yourself "I can go there ANYTIME..." and so you never go there!There's always something on, although it's not always to my taste, but over the passing years I must have missed loads of good plays, concerts, recitals....and films. In fact, every February/March for the last ten years, the Courtyard Theatre has been running the Borderlines Film Festival - and for nine of those years I've missed it. But this year I made sure that I went to see some films - four films, actually: The Artist, My Week with Marilyn, The Descendants and Carnage.
The Courtyard is a great place. It's not in a particularly good place, being smack-bang opposite Hereford United football ground halfway up Edgar Street, half a mile out of the city centre.
But people beat a path to its door and when I discovered that it is a Registered Charity I thought that I would make it my charity for March.
Well done and thank you, Courtyard. I'll be back!
My printer
I do so much printing of pages for the manuals I give my clients that I got fed up with renewing cartridges for my terribly slow ink-jet printer. So in October 2010 I went to one of those bright yellow cartridge shops and asked for advice. My bright yellow shop is run by a very helpful young couple and they advised me to go for a laser printer. And I did - and I've been using it ever since. It takes four massive "toner cartridges" and they have lasted 15 months!I have just replaced two of them (£35 each) and I can see that the other two will need replacing in the next week or so, but what a bargain! I dread to think how many fiddly little ink-jet cartridges I would have needed over the course of 15 months. And the laser printer is so much faster.
I have kept the old "all-in-one" printer and use it purely for its scanning function. My super-duper laser printer can't do that!
Colin
