LOOSE ENDS.....

This year of civic duty is coming to an end and there are a few loose ends I have to tie up between now and May 20. First, just over a thousand pounds more is needed for the Overgate Hospice to reach my fund-raising target of £4000 so I'll be doing my best at the Civic Dinner on Saturday to do that . Thanks to the friends who are turning up, including a gang from London, to boost the coffers with a three-course meal, traditional Irish music band and disco Then there's the Mayor's Report to write for the Town Meeting on May 13 before handover on May 20. And that's it.
By the time I've finished I will have done about 80 engagements and I'd like to thank all the schools, groups and individuals who have invited me to events or supported the fund-raisers I organised. It's really now time for a new chapter to begin. But, given the dearth of journalistic work in the north, it's going to be anything but easy.