I had a blast today. I headed out to Whitby which is always a good trip. The purpose was to facilitate a multi media reporting blog for Whitby Community College and their feeder schools. http://www.whitbyschoolstransfer.co.uk Groovy URL huh? – the kids chose it.
For reasons that I’ll not go into now I found myself with a People Carrier on hire. I therefore sent messages out on my networks asking if anyone wanted a trip to Whitby. I got three takers, Trevor who is a Poet and on work experience to my projects. Susan, part of my Wednesday Community Media Club at Destinations in Saltburn. Susan spends a lot of time looking after her 100 yr old mother and has recently got into digital photography in a big way. Finally John a local historian from Loftus.
None of these guys knew each other so we had a round of introductions in the “Whitby Shuttle”. Trevor will be documenting this trip as well as evaluating the various mechanisms available for “Digital Visits”. I’ll let you know when he blogs the story warts and all.
With two local history buffs in the car it was sure to get interesting in a watching paint dry way. It transpired that the guy who wrote the Biggles books is from Marske where we had a recent digital visit. Now, apparently this guy who wrote about an ace pilot was actually a crap pilot himself. For some reason this group dubbed me “Biggles” which may refer to my driving skills.
I dropped them in Whitby centre and then went off to do my gig whilst they did theirs.
On the way back we called at Loftus Library home of the fabulous East Cleveland Image Archive and discussed some stuff including an open evening at the library for June 24th, all welcome.
