Issue 57: June/July 2009

Fourways 2, 6 Dilston Terrace, Amble, Northumberland, NE65 0DT editor@theambler.co.uk

Injured Amble Soldier
Amble soldier wounded during Afghan tour

Day Centre reform
Controversy and unease at reform plans

David counts on a bright future
Local lad becomes Fulbright Scholar

Bronze Age burials
Why archaeologists are worried about Low Hauxley's coast

A piece of history
The day the roof fell in

Amble meets Ab Fab
Fashionistas come to town

Help for jobseekers
Jobs board, CV service etc

Amble's community forum
How to join in the fun

Selfridges has Empathy with Amble
Luxury products from the Friendliest Port

Zecca opens doors
New restaurant could put Amble on food map

Beach safety
RNLI concerned about holidaymakers

Links First School
Graduation and recycling

Strawberries and Bubbly
All in aid of a good cause

Your letters and email
Amble Day Centre - Politicians and Council argue it out . Plus what did the Vikings call Amble?

Cycling for charity
Gillian and Tony take a three day challenge

Brambles Celebrations
What these top tots are up to!

Enterprise and Initiative
Year three youngsters show us how it's done

Funday at the Welfare
Healthy fun in the sun at the Welfare

Coronation street party
Do you recognise anyone in the picture?

Attendance allowance
Are you getting what you're entitled to?

Help for volunteers
Country-wide project will help local people

Capt'n Coquet's corner
Lord of the (Coquet) rings!

Comment
How Amble is strutting its stuff

Artograffi
Including why we wake up early only in the holidays

David's Diary
News from Amble Development Trust

Town council report
News and updates from the Town Council

County Councillors reports
Reports from Robert and Jeff

Bringing in the cha-ching
Staff at Kathleen's hold a coffee morning

Amble Churches Together
Keeping things safe

Penny says..
Pity the teachers

Armed Forces Day
Images from the Town Square

Swine 'flu: the facts
Information at your fingertips

Talk to your doctor, guys
Delicate subject delicately discussed

What's On
Local events and activities

Dance Divas and St Cuthberts
Youngsters with a lot going on

Ray King blog
Including a tribute to Bobby Robson

Castles and Islands challenge
Why a hi tec firm supported a local yacht race

Amble Churches Together
Fusion
It’s all the rage now, isn’t it? Fusion in music, in food, businesses include it in their name and religious institutions calling themselves fusion. What does it really mean?

The dictionary says:
1 The act or procedure of liquefying or melting by the application of heat, and the melted state induced by heat, and thus the merging of different elements, eg the fusion of copper and zinc to form brass.
2. In physics, a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with a concomitant release of energy.
3. Music that blends different styles.
4. A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different cultures or countries.

By now it probably means joining anything to anything else. There’s probably fashion fusion, home design fusion (it might look like a house, but behind the facade it’s a tent), finance fusion (you thought you had some savings, but they turned out to be somebody else’s loan – oh!, that happens all the time), language fusion (how would that go? Ciamar bist vous? Merci, buen).

In a way, it’s something we all do all the time. When we’re annoyed with someone, we try to combine forgiveness with our annoyance; when someone has hurt us, we try to combine compassion with our hurt; all the time we try to combine love with those parts of ourselves that we know are unkind and unloving. It’s often a struggle, but we struggle onwards towards our personal fusion.

Revd Wendy Aird
St John the Divine, Chevington

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