Editorial
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The Editor's say...
Community Centre
At long last we can see movement on the Community Centre building. The Parish Council has recently authorized £4000 which has enabled the Community Centre sub committee to get essential building repairs and essential safety checks carried which has ensured that all the relevant safety certificates are available and we can now all rest assured that the building is completely safe.
Other improvements and changes will take place over the next few weeks and months - many of them will rely on the members of the sub-committee accessing grants and funds from all sources. Some projects that could be in the pipe line are a projected boxing club / fitness centre in the upstairs room once used by the Thrift Shop and a new SureStart facility in the Green Room. In both cases, funds will be made available for all improvements and start up facilities.
Now that we can see the Parish Council members can be seen to be initiating these changes and spending a fair amount of money on your behalf, it is up to you to stand up and volunteer to run groups and activities in Brookenby. Let's agree that the Parish Council facilitates, it does not organize - that's the responsibility of individual residents. And if nothing happens in Brookenby - whose fault is that?
Food for thought
Am I the only one who has noticed the poor grammar and syntax offered by our radio announcers and guests? More and more I hear the passive voice being used instead of the active ("I was sat listening to the radio" = passive and incorrect instead of: "I was sitting listening to the radio" = active and correct), the accusative case instead of the nominative ("Me and my wife went away..." instead of "My wife and I went away...".) Would they say "Me went away", so why this use of 'Me' in place of 'I'? And another common mistake frequently heard is the misuse of 'them' instead of 'those', as in (heard by a Primary School teacher who should have known better!) "Move them things" instead of "Move those things". And there are far more that I could add. But why are all these basic mistakes being made? As a former GCSE English examiner, I am aware that secondary school pupils make exactly the same mistakes in their GCSE answers (and do not get me going on their spelling mistakes!) I am often amazed at the high standard of spoken English by citizens of our former colonies, so why are we so bad at our own language? Especially as we can look back on superb writers such as Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, Dickens and, of course, the King James Bible, probably the most beautiful example of extant written English.
I remain mystified
The Editor