Elsie Alice: Alan Woolford’s 27-foot Shetland motor cruiser, Elsie Alice, is one of a thousand boats picked to take part in the Queen’s Diamond Jubliee River Pageant
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Uncle Dave Cameron, our esteemed PM, has been talking about the ‘Big Society’ ever since he moved into the seat of power and about how we need to get together to help each other by volunteering in various capacities.
We should have been asked!
“What’s going on down by the river at Weybridge,” asked my regular contact Doug the Ancient Angler, “and just why have they chopped all the beautiful trees down?”

