House of Green

Here is my contribution to yesterday’s 5½ hour Full Council meeting at Maidenhead Town Hall. Cllr Walters described it as the longest meeting he’d ever attended as a Councillor. This was because July’s meeting was cancelled due to the heat and the air conditioning not being able to bring the temperature down, which meant this…

This evening I was invited to the opening of the newest boozer in town, Queen Charlotte on Church Lane (the cobbles) previously known as The Blarney Stone. Oak Taverns and Punch jointly invested £500,000 in the refurbishment of the Queen Charlotte and Janice Raycroft, Editor of Berkshire Life put her years of Fleet Street to…

Over the last couple of months Tesco Dedworth’s customers have given generously to our Books for Schools initiative. WE HAVE NOW STOPPED COLLECTING. THANK YOU. Hundreds, probably a couple of thousand books donated, potentially saving local schools thousands of pounds 😉 All local schools have been invited multiple times, many have been in and taken…

On Saturday 17th September 2022 Windsor Yards Shopping Centre are opening up their Community Showcase to local individuals, community groups & charitable organisations with great ideas to come and tell their stories. This year’s event is looking to give focus to those with ideas that help the environment… very relevant with the heat wave we…

Reflecting on how to get more young people engaged with the Windsor Directory to enable them to bring forward the community groups and ideas they wish to share with others, TikTok is a logical choice. On Youtube it took 10 years for us to get 100,000 views … on TikTok we’ve already had over 1,000…

The image shows what can happen if you spend too much time online and not enough engaging with people in real time 😉 I asked Gemini a few questions this evening… Is social media engagement replacing people meeting face to face? The question of whether social media engagement is replacing face-to-face interaction is a complex…