Councillors' Day

Saturday 13th February 2016

Busy councillors

It's the second Saturday of the month - which means that the local councillors hold their surgery in the library. They sit in the rooms at the bottom with the door open so people can see they are in there. If anyone has anything they want to discuss - they close the door for privacy if necessary.  Today we had Mr Eagles - a Borough Councillor and Mr Rout, a Parish Councillor. They didn't want a cuppa today - as they'd both just had one before they arrived.

One of my regular customers, Mr T came in to talk to them. He was in quite a while - I'm not sure what it was about! The councillors stay for about an hour - then they go over to the local community centre where there is a coffee morning held, to see if anyone over there needs help with anything. They are really good - shame we don't see any of the other councillors for the area.

The PCs were busy too!



Tracy's leaving present

The computers were busy too - Mr. C was picking out his horses - although he didn't hold out much hope of success today. Not many good horses running. Other customers were using the PCs for job hunting and also Ancestry.com. If you access it from a library - then you can use it for free! If you do it from home you have to pay. It is a very popular subscription service - and many of our customers use it regularly to print out marriage and birth records. There do seem to be quite a few families in the area doing their family trees. In fact Mrs S tells me that she is a distant cousin to Benedict Cumberbatch :-)


My Blast from the Past today is a photo of the leaving present that I bought for Tracy. It was a clock for her to put in her Mobile Library which says "Librarian- the original search engine." I hoped it would remind her of me and our fun times at Silverdale - I think she really liked it :-)