Clouds

Clouds over Ringmer:

Cashmobs

Saturday's cashmob - Ringmer's first - was very successful, with more than a dozen people turning out to support Lew's butchers.

The mob gathers

pounces

queues

and keeps Lew busy

Superhero Quiffboy was there in support

The purpose of the cashmob is explained in more detail a couple of posts back, but basically the idea is to have some fun and to support local shops. This first one was an experiment to see if it worked and if there was enthusiasm for repeating the idea. There clearly was, so we will be meeting again in the shopping precinct in about a month's time - more details will follow. It was also notable from my extremely unscientific survey that people were keen to spread the benefits of the cashmob to local outlets other than those in the shopping precinct, which is good news for all of our local retailers. For more information, email us at lowcarbonringmer at gmail dot com.

Neaves Lane

Clouds

Over Ringmer

Taking the sun

In Norlington Lane

Cashmobs

Perhaps an idea whose time has come. A recent invention, which the LCR house mob think would be good to try in Ringmer.  The idea of a cashmob is to do some good for local shops and have some fun at the same time. For more information email lowcarbonringmer at gmail dot com.

More details will follow, but for now, here are some links to more information:

Cashmobbers

What is a cashmob? How did they start?  Pdf downloadable from cashmobbers.net.

Cashmobs

Cash Mobbing Lifts Local Business

Can Cash Mobs Save Our ShopKeepers? New Volunteer Movement Aims To Fight For Your High Street

‘Cash mob’ descends on bookshop (probably needs Financial Times log in; you can get a free one that allows you six articles a month.)

Drought? What drought?

As it's bucketing down today, it occurred to me to check the water levels in our various local reservoirs.

South Eastern two reservoirs at Arlington and Ardingley are nearly full.

Southern Water is not having such a good time, with Powdermill at 100% but the others considerably below par.

But don't forget that it's not just how quickly they fill that counts, it's also the speed at which we empty them. Southern and Southeastern both have information about how to be economical with water, lessons that we will have to live with round here for a long time to come.