Sid the Snake and his many mates

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Sadly, some stones went “walkabout”– so many in fact, that we began to wonder what we could do about it. What next for Sid the snake?

It was suggested that Sid could become a permanent feature in the park. So we collected up the remaining stones and asked people to paint up and hand in any final stones. The deadline for these is the end of the October half-term – so there is still time to get painting! We’ve had a great response so far. Find sources: "Sid's Snake"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( July 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

'80s Actual - Remembering...

Musically, the 1980s saw the beginnings of House Music , the exciting and still evolving world of synths taking centre stage, the evolvement of Rap music into the fully-fledged Hip Hop scene, Band Aid and Live Aid, great Indie, startling Acid House, and Raves...

If on-line encyclopedia articles which state that pop culture of 1983 is really 1977, or similar, have you wishing for reality, then '80s Actual is for you. The '80s Actual blog examines the decade's news stories - from the emergence of Lady Diana Spencer into the public eye in 1980, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But fitness proved crucial as Owen looked a spent force by the last of the three one-and-a-half minute rounds.

There is a huge drive in the media and on-line to negate the 1980s, to attribute that decade's innovations and fond memories to other decades, and basically to present it as a completely vapid ten years, not worthy of examination.