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Title: Terry Pratchett - "Bristol Looks Like A Lego City" Post by: Lee on March 14, 2008, 17:18:04 Best-selling fantasy author Terry Pratchett has compared Bristol's Harbourside redevelopment to a city of Lego (link below.)
http://thisisbristol.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=144913&command=displayContent&sourceNode=231190&home=yes&more_nodeId1=144922&contentPK=20148399 Returning to the city where he once worked as a journalist with the Evening Post's sister paper the Western Daily Press, the 59-year-old said that he struggled to recognise Bristol. He said: Quote from: Terry Pratchett "The difficulty of coming to Bristol is that I never recognise it. Some bloke has dropped some Lego down near the harbour. "They move it around an awful lot but haven't put any Lego people there yet. "I miss the old days. But everyone misses the old days. Anyone who has been in Bristol for five years misses the old days." Mr Pratchett was visiting Bristol to address the Alzheimer's Research Trust annual conference at the Watershed - and pledged to donate about ^500,000 towards its work. Mr Pratchett has a rare form of the disease called posterior cortical atrophy, in which areas at the back of the brain begin to shrink and shrivel. Title: Re: Terry Pratchett - "Bristol Looks Like A Lego City" Post by: zebedee on March 20, 2008, 15:22:42 No surprise when you realise that the SWRDA are involved....
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett - "Bristol Looks Like A Lego City" Post by: Lee on March 20, 2008, 17:36:55 A Greater Bristol primary school is appealing for help to raise ^10,000 to take its place in the world championship final of the First (no, not them ;D click on http://www.usfirst.org/who/default.aspx?id=34) Lego league (link below.)
http://thisisbristol.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=145365&command=displayContent&sourceNode=145191&contentPK=20194099&folderPk=83726&pNodeId=144922 A team of pupils from St Michael's Church of England School in Winterbourne took part in the challenge and won the regional final and then the national final in Birmingham. They have now been offered the opportunity to compete against 64 schools from around the world in the final in US city Minneapolis on May 1. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |