Two andrenaline filled hours of bungee jumping will take place at The White Horse Pub, Shophouse Road, on Saturday 21st June from 4pm to 6pm. Participants will plunge from the top of a crane in the carpark at a height of 200 feet.

Jumpers will be jumping to raise money for the Forever Friends charity, which provides funds for life-saving medical equipment. We might even get Big Ted Jumping!! People jumping for this charity can do it for free if they are raising £60 or more. For everyone else the cost of a bungee jump will be £50 and £15 for a repeat jump (on the same day). A hog roast will follow the event. Lets try to make this a good charity event and a good day out for all the family!

Sponsorship forms are available from The White Horse. The suppliers of this activity are called Bungee Extreme and you can see their website here.

Joe / Jase, 14/05/08

The Community Learning Service offers this free six week course for people with little or no experience of using a computer. Ideally you will have access to a computer that you will be able to use between the sessions to practise the things you have learned. The sessions are specifically intended for people who might feel nervous about using a computer.

The course will be held at FOTEC, 80 High Street, Twerton on Wednesdays starting 4th June, from 10am to 12pm or 1pm to 3pm. To book your place telephone Chris Gibson on 01225 396836. For moe information see the flyer here.

Joe, 12/05/08

Last Friday evening I visited the gym at the YMCA Roundhill Centre, partly to write a short news piece for this website and partly to see if the facilities would be suitable for knocking my own unfit body back into condition. The centre lies at the foot of Roundhill at Mount Road, Southdown, and although you might not think it from the exterior, the building becomes a lively arena of exercise when it opens as a gym three mornings and evenings a week. The YMCA offers a free six-week exercise course, after which the gym costs £2.50 per session.

I gave the Friday evening workout a go under the guidance of Julian Clark the centre manager. The first half hour consisted of cardio-vascular work on the exercise bikes, running machine, stepper and rowing machine to exercise your heart and lungs. Then we split into two groups with one team using the weights machines and dumbells and the other performing abdominal exercises, changing over halfway through. It was fun to work out alongside other people and some laughing and joking went on while the calories got burnt off.

The Roundhill Centre is open at the following times:

Mondays - 9am to 12 noon and 5pm to 10pm
Wednesdays - 10.30am to 2.30pm and 5pm to 10pm
Fridays - 9am to 12 noon and 7.30pm to 10.30pm

Joe, 10/05/08

Some Bath City fans that I know have had pretty long faces recently. This is because City failed to make the play-offs for promotion to the Blue Square Premier league, after a 1-1 draw against Bishop Stortfort.

However, City have just won the Somerset Premier Cup for the first time in 13 years, beating Paulton Rovers by three goals to nil to claim the trophy. The photo opposite shows the cup in the Bath City FC office at Twerton Park.

You can get all the latest on City's progress, their players, youth team and more at: www.bathcityfc.com.

Joe, 06/05/08

The first in a series of Makaton classes organised by the Community Learning Service began in Twerton Village Hall today. Makaton is a simple form of sign language devised in 1972 to enable communication with individuals who have learning difficulties. Most of the people in the class were there in connection with their line of work, although some had enrolled out of personal interest.

Makaton has a core vocabulary of 500 words / concepts. After learning some basics such as the hand gestures for "home" and "drink of water" etc, students were taught how to combine these movements to sign a sentence.

Quite a bit of the Makaton vocabulary seems to be devoted to food, and a range of signs to indicate "cheeseburger", "vegetable", "curry", "rice dinner", "strawberry" and so on were practiced in the hall. Subsequent lessons will be more advanced and everyone was given a Makaton manual to take away and brush up at home.

You can find out more about the work of the Community Learning Service here.

Joe, 02/05/08