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Finnieston Berry Partnership Limited

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Finnieston Berry Partnership Limited offers general accountancy, auditing and tax services to business and personal clients. They have built a reputation since they were established in 1998 for providing excellent advice and first class service. They can also provide advice on how to improve and develop your business. On hearing about my venture from Mr…

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The Flower Centre, Northfield, Birmingham

The Flower Centre

  Su Whale, of The Flower Centre in Northfield, Birmingham agreed to provide flowers for our Scones & Shanties fundraising event. They were presented to Catherine Benson, who had done a phenomenal amount of work arranging shanties for the choir and then accompanying each piece on the keyboard while conducting the choir. Talk about multi-tasking! Oh, and…

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Get your Tickets for Scones & Shanties

Scones & Shanties flyer

A treat for all of Anita’s followers who live somewhere in the West Midlands. Your chance to meet Anita and hear about her epic adventure. Anita will talk about why she wants to raise funds for nice adult services. Come and listen to a group of Volunteers from the City of Birmingham Choir singing Sea…

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Anyone for fishcakes?

Making fishcakes

The way the cooking duty fell on our recent Level 3 course had me preparing the main meal on three occasions, on top of which I had volunteered the first night. The cleaning up generally fell to my partner, Kevin. He also helped with serving when he came on watch. The menu was planned and…

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The “waterproof” watch

Clothes, and Eric, drying out over lunch

I tried to get through my first Level 1 course without a watch. When I’d sailed before, this hadn’t been a problem. There were clocks and we were woken up when it was time to come on duty at the start of a watch. (Why can the word “watch” have so many different meanings, at…

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