Happy birthday to me!  66 today.  What better way to celebrate than at a Fairtrade meeting, with a cake made by grandson Jack.  Ingredients for the excellent carrot cake can be made with not only Fairtrade ingredients but local Yorkshire rape seed oil, carrots and eggs too !  We all enjoyed a little taste !  then the serious business of planning for taking part in Fairtrade fortnight and Stockton playing its part in having the longest piece of handmade bunting in the world !  You need to turn up in Stockton High Street on Friday March 4th to find out just how great it is going to look !
A downturn in spirit as I had to go into Elm Tree as residents had found that daffodil bulbs newly planted out of our Councillors Ward budget had been ripped up by children.  The response was better, and between Care For Your Area, local residents and police we established that it was young children who may not hav known better, but replanting has been organised !