Press Released 13 November 2009

YOUR FAVOURITE BOOKS AND MOVIES

Do you have a favourite book? Or a movie that you really love? If you do, how would you like to write a paragraph about it (if you have a favourite book or movie, feel free to write two paragraphs, one about each) for the next issue of PALS? There will be two articles in Issue 33 of PALS – one on Best Books and one on Best Movies (better, alliterated titles for this article are also welcome)!

If you’d like to contribute, please e-mail me with your sentences/ paragraphs. I’ll make sure they make it into the next issue of PALS!

Thanks in advance
Anna

Carnival photos

After a little bit of swearing (thankfully not too much), I've now uploaded some of the photos from our trip to North Petherton Carnival in Somerset last weekend. The carnival has a number of the floats Bridgwater Carnival has. Trust me, there are plenty of floats; it took over 2 hours for the carnival to go past. You can find them in the Bristol section of our photos website.

Issue 33 begun

Not much to say really, other than now that I've created a content list, I've managaed to make a start on the next issue of PALS.

I've just been doing simple things like choosing a colour scheme and typing up the Creature Feature article - always easy as somebody else has done the hard work for me by writing the article! I had planned to change the format of PALS slightly for the new year (full details will be in Issue 33- that's an article that is going to take a little longer to write), but have discovered I actually have one more Creature Feature than I thought - so the changes might have to wait a few months.

PALS updates now on Facebook

For those of you on Facebook, this might be of some use... with a little help from some friends, I've managed to (finally!) figure out how to import notes from this blog onto Facebook. That means that when a new issue of PALS is uploaded, and I add an blog post about having done it here, that post will also appear on my friends Facebook feeds.

In order not to spam friends who aren't into penpalling and don't read PALS, I'll be deleting any posts (like this one) off of Facebook - only ones advertising new issues will appear. Hopefully it will also mean that some people who do enjoy penpalling, but aren't on my e-mail lists, will get to see the posts. If you know of anybody who you think might enjoy reading PALS and you can figure out a way to get them to see my notes if they are on Facebook, feel free to pass them on!

No news

I have to admit, I don't have a lot to say... I've done nothing with PALS, and I even failed to put up a Halloween avatar. I blame it on work making me work a 5-day week - I'm not used to that!

Luckily, there wasn't a lot that needed to be done PALS-wise. Last week I wasn't planning on uploading Issue 32, but it turns out I made the right decision in doing so, as I wouldn't have had time to do it this week. Although writing this has reminded me that I was going to look into how to add a note on Facebook saying it had been uploaded... that may be a job for Dan to help me with when he gets home later! I also need to start making plans for the next issue of PALS - what articles to include, when to write them, who to beg for help etc...

Right, it seems I have things to be getting on with then!