2008 visit - French Newspaper Coverage

For those that missed the local French newspaper coverage of the 2008 visit, a link to the appropriate web page has been added to the list of links on the right. The visit was unusual in that this time no less than seven Seaton twinners travelled independently, and all turned up at the Thury Town Hall in time to welcome the main party. Those with a wry sense of humour will note that the paper Ouest-France chose to lead with a picture of Seaton's Association chairman Jeff Day being warmly welcomed by .... argh hum..., his own vice-chairman.

Committee Meeting 13 August and Agenda Items

There is a committee meeting on 13th August at 7.30pm at the Crossroads Centre. If anyone would like to put an item on the agenda please let the Secretary know as soon as possible. This applies to anyone, not necessarily just committee members. The committee is always keen to hear the views or ideas of all our members (or indeed non-members) so get your thoughts on fund raising, events, publicity together please

Photo Gallery

The blog has been changed to allow better access to the photo galleries by adding links to individual collections held on the web. These links are permanently displayed in the right hand margin. The previous small slide shows have been deleted because of technical problems of compatibility with the web storage

More photo albums have been added including archive and event photos and records from our 2004 visit. All these are accessible through the links. Some of the 2004 photos tie in quite nicely with the last posting about the Liberation Memorial

Liberation Memorial and Interpretation Board

Because many of our french hosts live in isolated hamlets outside Thury-Harcourt, there is limited opportunity to explore the town. Those who went in 2004 may remember visiting the planned site of memorial to the liberation of the town sited where the British 59th (Staffordshire) infantry division first came in sight of their objection, but may have missed visiting it later after its completion. Hence this photo. The interpretation board gives a account of the battle, and shows photos of the aftermath with much of town centre destroyed.

More details of the board with close-up photos can be found on the very worthwhile site

www.normandie44lamemoire.com/versionanglaise/fichesvillesus/thuryharcous2.html

The site also covers many of the sites visited during our visits in 1994 and 2004 which coincided with the the 50th and 60th anniversaries of the D-day landings

Social Events

First a reminder that the next social event is boules at the town's boules pitch at Cliff Field Gardens at 9:45 on Tuesday 15 July, weather permitting. There will be the usual supply of bucks fizz to refresh oneself.

Secondly, a few ideas for social events based on french food have been put forward, and the committee is keen to hear from everybody, so if anybody has suggestions or wants to arrange a snail tasting or anything else, please leave a comment

Kings Arms (2) Blog photos query

The blog came up a few times in discussions. One query was about the slide shows within the blog such as that of Thury which shows very small pictures . The question was "how to access the slide show photographs and see them full screen?" In answer to this I can only say that I am sure there must be a very elegant way of doing it, but I am still feeling my way at the moment, and the only way I can think of is the link to http://picasaweb.google.com/Seatontwinning which will give access to all the photographs on the public folders. Crude but it seems to work. Try it!

Social evening at the King's Arms 2 July or think of a title for this picture

17 people turned up at the social evening at the Kings Arms, including a new prospective member, and the usual suspects. It was good good to see some of a newer members and representatives from far flung corners. Our title is after all Seaton and District, and we are accordingly proud that we have many supportive members from outside the metropolis of Seaton town.
Peter Motson exhibited the attached photo, which is just asking for a caption. Any ideas?