Issue 33 getting there

I've finally managed to sit down and make a concerted effort to write the majority of Issue 33 of PALS.

I had been waiting for a while to get some more contributions to people's favourite books and movies, but haven't received any. I'm hoping this is because you're all too busy Christmas shopping, or simply don't have much to say about your favourite books/ movies (if you even have any), rather than because you're bored of reading PALS!

Anyway, it turns out I had a fair bit to say relating to plans for changes to the newsletter (certainly enough for two pages), and enough contributions to fill one page of the newsletter, so with a bit of editing and rearranging, the newsletter is now nearly complete! I have one last article to write, but 2 and a half weeks in which to write it (only 6 of those days when I'm at work - heh!), so it shouldn't be too much of a challenge. Watch out for the article when it is released in late Dec!

Newsletter updates

I've been making some progress on Issue 33 of PALS, writing up a piece on things that have changed in relation to PALS recently, and things that I'm considering changing in the future.

I'm hoping to incorporate some "quick polls" into this article, asking people for their opinions on certain things. After talking to Dan, this is possible using a web editing package like Dreamweaver, so setting it up will have to wait until I'm basically ready to upload the issue. But it can be done, so that's good news!

I had quite a lot I wanted to say, so it took a while to fit it all on the page, but I got there in the end. Now there are just another 4 articles to write - but I have until mid December so I should be OK! And I'm still waiting on people's favourite books or movies (I've had nothing, so anything would e good right now)!

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.