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Editor's Piece.
Hello and welcome to the Summer Newsletter.
The summer storms really came with a vengeance on Sunday 19th June. Thundering and lightening could be seen and heard all evening, with Bridlington getting a good soaking. I was out in the town, and the sound of the thunder was deafening, I have never heard it so loud, and it's the closest I have ever been to a lightening strike, when scaffolding was struck less than a hundred yards (metres) away. Watching the news on TV, we appear to have got away with it quite lightly; there was the drama in Newcastle, when an elderly couple were rescued from their car by passers by, moments before it was submerged, and the people around the Helmsley area, whose homes have been devastated by the flash floods.
The weather for the Duck Race was much better this year, and there was a good turn out. Alan Stephenson and Richard Hewison did a sterling job organising the event, along with the team of helpers, keeping the ducks in check, and providing the refreshments in the Village Hall. We all had a good afternoons entertainment.
Being the Summer edition, it's quite a thick Newsletter this month. There are six pages dedicated to the Caythorpe Gas Storage Project. This information has come from the proposers, Warwick Energy. There is also an interesting article, with photographs, about the Roman tessellated pavements, written by Mike Wilson. Mike is also the speaker at the W.I. Meeting at the Village Hall, July 5th, when the subject will be Humorous Poems.
Will contributors please note: as this is the Summer Newsletter, like myself, you can have a month off. The next Newsletter will be the September one, so may I have all articles in by 7 pm on Monday 22nd August, thank you.
Don't the footpaths and verges look better, after the first-rate work carried out by the council? I did not realise how wide our footpath was.
Have a nice summer!
Martin Frankish, Editor.
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