Spring Doo

The Spring Doo was held on Friday at the Bowling Club Macduff .Lots of my friends went and we danced all night to the Starlite Disco .There was a raffle and auction . I had chicken with chips basket supper and coke. I had lots of fun.

Blog by Claire and Alasdair

Coast Bus

COAST Festival was a huge success in Banff and Macduff and we would like to thank everyone involved for all the hard work over the last few months. Brenda Ward, the leader of the creative arts group at Banff Day Services, created beautifully decorated buses for the event. These were designed and decorated by the creative arts group which runs from Kingswell. One was themed on a reading room and the other was decorated with goodies from an afternoon tea. We will post more photos later today so do enjoy...

Wendy's Birthday

photography group - visit to Rainbow Maze

Todays group went on a visit to Donna Wilson's Rainbow Maze in the grounds of Banff Castle. The maze has been constructed as part of the COAST festival. We all enjoyed the bright colours of the woollen maze....

harry's news

In Harry's news reports BP have fixed the oil well and ended the oil spill coming from the oil well. They fixed it by using mud and corete to plug the oil well, Barack Obama has said that BP will pay full responsibility for the danger.

In India Maoist groups have bombed a train, killing 65 people and dozens injured. The reason why the groups bombed the train was because of the government contolling the areas they want.

In other news in Jamaica there have been gun fights with police and drug gangs. This is because the Jamaican government wants to extradite Chrisphter 'Gus' Dusas an drug leader to the USA and his followers are killing police officers so that he does not get arrested.

That is Harry's news for today!


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/10178967.stm

puppet making workshop at kingswells

In Kingwells creative arts group yesterday there were some special guests! Renowned puppet maker, Marc Parrett, joined the group to make some amazing puppets. It was great fun and we hope you had a good time! Marc is also running a puppet workshop for COAST festival at Kingswell on Saturday from 11am-3pm for children aged 7-12. At the time of writing this workshop was fully booked but call 01261 833819 in case of cancellation. Thank you Marc!

Blog by Rian

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Summer BBQ

Spring Doo up date

Good morning this is Lesley - i am here for todays BBQ - its a sunny day for it.
Don't forget its the Spring Doo on friday - todays Banffshire Journal have written a story about it called Fund-raiser aims to earn lots for group . The story is not on the Banffshire Journal web site yet.
The Banff Service Users Management Committee have got many items for auction including two eight-seater outdoor tables, a framed Manchester United shirt signed by wayne Rooney
a framed Barcelona shirt signed by Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta and Various other signed football shirts. plus there are other prizes.
Don`t forget you can still get tickets available from Maria Christie at Banff Day service on (01261)818281.

Photography Group

Alan mentioned last week that he wanted to work on a self-portrait so that is exactly what we did this week! We looked at a book by David Hockney which was full of his photo collages. You can see examples of his work by licking on this link;

http://www.hockneypictures.com/home.php

We plan to join together images of ourselves to make huge portraits - everyone worked so hard this week and we are all feeling confident with the new digital SLR camera. Well Done!

A big thank you to Harry who was back with us this week - he has started a weekly blog on world news aptly titled, "Harry's news." We look forward to catching up with his blog every Friday. Bye for now....Enjoy the weekend!

Harry's news

Hello, my name is Harry and I have just come to banff day services and I am here to talk to you about the news this week. In news it's about the oil spill near Louisana; scientists say the oil spill could hit a major current and go up to Florida, but scientists say they can burn the oil with chemicals that isn't harmful to the wild life and the sea. In other news the red shirt protesters in Thailand have stopped protesting after the army destroyed their camps; 83 people were killed and dozens were injured and that's the news, thank you.

I have news addresses to look up the websites for more details. I put cnn, sky and bbc news because they are my favorite ones.

cnn website address: http://edition.cnn.com/

sky news website address: http://news.sky.com/

bbc news website address: http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Car wash

In this weeks Banffshire Journal there was an article called "Horizon looks brighter for youth charity" dated Tuesday19th May about the raft race. However there was a mistake as it stated the car wash was this Saturday. The car wash has already taken place and we are pleased to announce that over £300 was raised for charity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn3zjgjeynA&feature=channel

Click above to see a video of the car wash ...

News from Boyndie

The woodworkers secured a commission to produce 2 freestanding boards where people can stick their heads though and have their photo taken. This photo shows Alasdair and Tracy trying out the new product which is to be used by Coast festival at the end of the month.

Boyndie blunderbirds were called into action on Tuseday when one of the fish tried to escape, The fish had broken though the keep net and was in danger of cooking with the sun, fortunately Paul, Gillian, Timmy and Fergus were on hand to avert any danger. The fish was returned and is now fine

blog by James

Monday afternoon

Very warm day here in Banff...We are delighted to see the sun after such a long winter! This morning Heather, Angela and myself walked down to Eastside to buy a scrapbook for the raft race project. We spent the afternoon arranging photos of the project so far....Thank you Shona! We all agree that the raft race project has been amazing and we are looking forward to hearing about the actual race in June!

Senor Bolster

I was born in the Claremont Nursing Home in Glasgow on 22nd March 1948

I lived in Dunfermline, Inverness, Dornie (Achiltibuie), Killearnan, Muir of Ord, Newmachar and today I live in the magnificent and stately Valeview Care Home in Banff
I have many hobbies and interests

Photography

Shopping

Music

Astronomy

I go out to take photos using my trusty little Vivitar electronic camera

I went last Friday to Buckie with the heritage group and to the ENABLE club dance in the evening - on Saturday I was stuck in my room all day until human timebomb Tricia arrived theen this Friday I go to Pluscarden Abbey

Heather

My Name is Heather Munro today i am in Computing.

Busy Monday

Good afternoon followers. We have had another busy day in the computing room. This morning I printed photos of the Raft Race to make into a scrapbook - there are hundreds so it is taking a long time! Marie typed up the story of the raft project onto the MAC laptop where we are compiling a hard back photo book.

We had Angela in with us today - she is a student nurse from Aberdeen and is here on placement for the rest of the week. She was a great help today so a big thank you to her.

We are all keeping our fingers crossed for Kathleen who is off on holiday to Spain tomorrow. The airport in Aberdeen was open the last time we checked on Twitter so we are hoping it stays that way! Lets hope the volcano has calmed down by tomorrow... Anyway keep following and enjoy Angela's diary below...

Today was my first day in banff day services, i was in the the computer room with emma. me and alasdair were uploading photos of one of the day trips they had been on . also alasdair was telling me a lot of things that he liked i.e. music, films and food. it was fun to get to know him better ! im looking forwrd till tomoro now to see what we will be up to !

angela :)

Claire

My name is Claire I go to Banff day services and enjoy computer classes instructed by Emma I enjoy taking photos and putting them on the computer for our class project which is going on the web in the near future for everyone to see our wonderful work.


I Claire have been coming with Lorna my carer to Banff day services for seven years
And we enjoy doing different things every Monday at our computer class along with my other friends .
We go to the gym and also swimming and going to indoor bowling at Macduff.

Busy Week...

It's 4.15 pm on a Friday and we have had a busy and amazing week! We had a session today in the computing group with the photography class and here are some of the results for you to enjoy...

It was the birthday of one of the group yesterday and we celebrated today with some delicious cake. The top photo which was taken by Senor Michael, as he likes to be called, reminds me of an early Martin Parr photograph. Take a look at his website and see if you agree with me as we will discuss it next week. Leave comments at the bottom of this page if you like...

http://www.martinparr.com/



Alan was working on a portrait with Andy - he wants a full body shot so we are working towards that. We are all still working out how to use the new digital SLR and how to master Photoshop. However as I keep reminding my group, do not be afraid to zoom in when taking pictures. This photo has room for improvement! Check back next week and see how the group are progressing.

We are off on a trip next week to a local castle so we will post photos once we have them.

Enjoy your weekend and don't forget the carwash tomorrow at B.E.A.T.


Emma

Jamie

My name is Jamie, l work at the Banff Day Services and i've been there for 10 years.
l work with the B.E.A.T. with Debbie is my boss and Stuart is my key-worker.
Our base is in MacDuff across the road from Sangs.
And Mark McDermott is my boss at the Banff Day Services.


I was born in Glasgow in Govan. i like football Rangers and Tottenham Hotspur is my favorites.
My fav kind of music is the 70's i just love Suzi Quatro and glam rock music and my fav band
of all time is Queen.

Boyndie installs planters

The planter were made for Portessie Primary and measure 2 meters square by 800mm deep they were installed and built by Boyndie woodworkers, the boxes are used by the pupils to grow fruit and veg as part of a green project.

Banff Day Services developed from Boyndie Day Centre as a community based service to meet the needs of adults with learning difficulties currently living in the community after leaving hospital or full time education. originally the service began in a public hall in Whitehills, but later moved to the old Primary School at Boyndie, three miles from Banff.

The facility at Boyndie has been retained as a vocational training and business development unit: we currently provide training in four areas, woodwork, horticulture, catering and screen printing. Individuals and other groups make use of the building.

By Alan, Margaret and Jenna