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HAVE Touched by Hard-hitting Just wickedness, malice and our cuppa would welcome
Local groups
Enjoyable
deceit.
poem
read with
There are some good people
kindness
about! So please don’t tar
new members
YOUR On Saturday 7th August Harvey’s poem ‘The brush. I have found there Thank you for the August The main hardship many
everyone with the same
I read with interest M.S.
of a Good
to be many, many Ilkeston
Wicked Wild Web’ in the
of us have faced because of
Samaritan
people who are givers, not
August edition of Ilkeston
Covid is loneliness, the ina-
issue, which has arrived
takers.
Life. What an outpouring of
bility to socialise and meet
safely, by post, early this
But thanks for your hard-
SAY at the Waterside Retail The internet is full of scum- hitting and thought-pro- morning and thank you for people we used to spend
despair! It begins:
time with.
including my piece.
voking poems, Mr Harvey.
Park on Station Road in
Yet for many people this
bags,
My wife and I have spent a
I always read them with
is their norm. Their only
Criminals, scammers and
Ilkeston, I met a Good
most enjoyable time reading
interest.
thieves,
companionship is the digital
Samaritan.
I was paying for my shop-
It never ceases to amaze
down,
of a cat.
ping at the till in M & S People just out to do others Patricia Spencer through this latest issue. voice of a radio or the purr
us how you find all of the
And many, many more to
with cash, and when the re- deceive. Seeking old most interesting stories and Thankfully, with the relax-
ceipt appeared I didn’t have And it goes on in the same articles, for each monthly ing of isolation rules most of
enough to pay with. I left vein. workmates publication. us are now able to mix more
a couple of items at the till, I am sorry someone has ob- With the past, present and freely with others.
paid the reduced amount, viously upset you, to write I would like to get in touch future very interesting Throughout Ilkeston there
and made my way back to what you did, Mr Harvey. with anyone who worked at reads, throughout, the paper are many groups who would
my car. I am sure many who have Mapperley (Simon) Pit dur- certainly does make that cup welcome new members.
Little did I know that the also been scammed on the ing the 50s and early 60s. of tea or coffee much more Run on a shoe string, their
Good Samaritan was behind Internet will agree with your Some names I remember enjoyable. only form of advertising is
me. As I unloaded my poetic condemnation of are the Peacocks, Spencer, Well done to all the team, a faded post card in a corner
goods into the boot, she those who take advantage of Rileys, Tiptons and Cliftons for the continuing pleasure shop window.
appeared holding the items I unsuspecting people. Thank to name a few. they give, every month. I was lucky to find the Il-
had left at the till. goodness there are people to My name is Albert Hall and Long may you continue. keston Folk and Blues Club
“I’ve bought these for you,” help when you are tricked. I worked there in the time Best regards, run every
she said. I was stunned at Personally, when buying an- frame mentioned. Trevor Langley Wednesday night at the
Festival Inn Trowell, where
Get in touch with such unexpected kindness. ything, I prefer it to be face I realise that most of the the performers appreciate a
I know that her surname is
to face with a real person -
lads I worked with will
your views Fisher, and if she reads this not on the Internet. have passed on but maybe good audience.
By email preferably: I want to say a profound Your last verse I find very this could jog some of their As we come out of lock-
down it is up to you to seek
letters@ilkestonlife.com “Thank You” yet again. sad: relatives who are living to Would the writer of the out a group that suits you
Good old Il’son and the
So trust no one on the Inter-
By post: good-hearted people at its net, let me know if some are still anonymous letter about and escape from the televi-
around.
the Stanton Road Cem-
The Editor, Ilkeston Life, core. And do not trust anyone you Yours in anticipation, etery get in touch again sion and the armchair.
1 Bath Street, Ilkeston, (Name withheld at sender’s meet, Albert Hall please. Ed. Sandy Warren
Derbyshire DE7 8AH request) There is no-one with character william.hall5@bigpond.com
pure,
Hello Ilkeston Life! I’m Contestants Your Gas Response to Ian Fink’s letter:
the Casting Producer on
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Come Dine With Me and wanted for CH4 stats is a complex matter
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Know anybody who’d be It’s Gas Safety Week this I am writing in response example on the effects of
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please do pass this news on September and there will August issue concerning benefits of hydroxychloro-
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Before you can start com- week free of charge for to be a GP, not particularly yer, not a doctor, physician
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gibility requirements, terms long time. Amongst other things, he scientist – and was highly
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appliances in a dangerous
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in the United Kingdom, the a live-in partner or immediate professional chef or relevant will definitely pick one out of equally well qualified the CDC. Understanding
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living in the United Kingdom, of an employee of ours or the conditions and entry form go to John Allen that the CDC recommends
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You are not: and have not been a profession- er maverick views, for