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I Love West Leeds Festival is back and it is bigger than ever! For more info visit www.ilovewestleeds.co.uk and download a festival brochure.
Director Jane Earnshaw will be regularly contributing over at www.thearmleytouristboard.com so head over there for more news and gossip.
If you came here to purchase tickets for the Moroccan evening at He-Re your best bet is to call the festival hotline on 0113 2638556

Jam Siren is back!

Woo Hoo- stone the crows, after months of tussling with the hormonal Lady M, Jam Siren has been freed from being a caged bird, confined by the corporate guidelines that the po faced Armley Tourist Board had inflicted upon her. Like a phoenix she has arisen from that dreadfully dull existence and is at liberty to breathe life and frolics back into the unofficial tourist board blog!

One of the reasons the Lady M has been so dull, has been a desire to be taken seriously by other tourist boards! Hmmph talk about getting ideas above her station! Seems that offers to go and talk to other real tourist boards has turned her head somewhat. So with your help dear visitor, let us turn back the clocks on all that dullness and start campaigning for fun and frivolity once more!
Another reason is that she is with child! Yes a baby mayor(ess) has taken root, and sucked all the energy from her recently, I am glad to report that I took this opportunity whilst she was at her most tired to suggest that I continue her previous good community works on this blog!

So my promise to you, is that all the PR spin will be found on the grown up official brown and orange site www.thearmleytouristboard.com and all the fun, truth, and lies will be found here!

Yours
Glad to be back
Jam Siren

If you are wondering where it is all at, it's over at www.thearmleytouristboard.com
Put the 6th November in your diary for the launch of the Charming Armley Cake Calendar 2008 at the Tiled Hall Cafe in Leeds Art Gallery. 6pm- 8pm
You will also be able to see Casey Orr's table top exhibition and book "The Kitchen Story"

All funds from the calendar will go to Armley Helping Hands a registered charity supporting older people in Leeds 12. The charity consist of volunteers and staff offering a friendly, supportive environment to assist older people in maintaining their independence, improving quality of life and reducing social isolation.

A little round up...
Check out The Marvellous Tea Dance Company at St Barts Social Club in Armley this Saturday night
Mik Artisik to play at the Idler Party in London tonight and supporting Jonny Vegas in Manchester on the 25th October

Want to add to our news and views, got events to shout about or attract people to? Contact us via the form on our swanky new website if you would like to share - either as a frequent or infrequent contributor.

Charlie's Angels in great cake challenge

By Aisha Iqbal in Yorkshire Evening Post 10th September 2007

Meet Charlie's Angels!

Okay, so there are no flared trousers, gun holsters or flicked-back hairdos in sight. These Angels, who all hail from Armley, Leeds, are on a mission – they have just launched their Charming Armley Cake Competition.

They are urging budding bakers and cake-lovers to get out the bowls and wooden spoons and start mixing.

The aim is to find the best amateur cake bakers in Leeds and, at the same time, raise money for older people's charity Armley Helping Hands.

Cakes can be "funny, naughty, spongy, creamy, jammy and fruity"– and, of course, very cake-y.

The girls were inspired by local landmark Charlie Cake Park and the man whose name it bears. Judging will take place at a fun day in the park next month, with well-known local people and celebrities on the panel.

The best 12 cakes will be professionally photographed for a charity calendar and the overall winner will spend a session with a professional chef to develop their recipe so that it can be exclusively sold at Boutique's Tiled Hall Café at the City Art Gallery in Leeds and the Gatehouse Café at Kirkstall Abbey.

Many other prizes are also on offer, and West Leeds firm Farnell is offering 100 basic ingredients packs free to anyone wanting to take part.

Emma Bearman, one of the six "cake angels" said: "It's a celebration of our community, the wonderful Charlie Cake Park and the older people of Leeds.

Charlie's Cake Angels are a group of volunteers from the LS12 area who say they all have a passion for the unique character of their suburb and a desire to bring the community together.

The competition will be judged on Saturday, October 6, and entrants are asked to bring along their cakes and their recipes from midday for registration.

Cakes will be judged in six age categories with the best two in each category being professionally photographed for the calendar.

The cake-a-thon will be followed by a family fun day - and entry is free for anyone entering a cake into the competition.

* For more information visit www.thearmleytouristboard.com or to pick up one of the free basic ingredients packs call Armley Helping Hands on 0113 279 9292 from September 24.

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Charlie39s-Angels-in-great-cake.3186995.jp

This will be the last post from this www.tatb.blogspot.com As of tomorrow all posts will come from www.thearmleytouristboard.com YES IT IS FINISHED! You will be able to create your own news and posts from there 2 soon!

Toodle pip

Share your memories of the event by uploading your photos to flickr. Click here to find the group!

Artist Liz and the collaborative knitted shed will enjoy the attentions of Fern and Phillip (This Morning don't you know) on Wednesday 29th August. If you happen to be at home then tune in and raise your tea and pinky in tribute!

Yum Yum lick lick

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Get making your cake!

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Morning after

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Not that the Lady Mayoress got her hands dirty.

Bunting's up - now where are the people?

Bunting's up - now where are the people?
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"Lady Mayoress dragged kicking and screaming from Microphone" Shocker

Jam Siren here, sneakily filling in for the LadyM whilst she nurses her burst ear drums and tries to avoid piecing together the fateful moments that led her to believe the residents of Armley would like to hear her West Country rendition of Cliff Richards ' Devil Woman'

When she comes to, and out again, she may feel a slight chill in the air towards her, in fact Mr Mayor declared her to be a 'total tw*t' with an 'a' not an 'i'. Partly because she had broken his favorite chair as she lent over him to hear the gossip about 2 potential love matches in the making. Watch this space for news on that!

This years Jam Up the Back Passage: Close Encounters of the Third Kind welcomed baby Beatrix born of lovers Marcus and Zoe who met last year and as you can tell wasted no time what so ever. That's what we like!
What will next year bring? Will there be a next year? Will the LadyM ever show her face again?

We have pillaged a couple of pictures from Flickr which gives an indication of how the night was spent

* Excepts of LadyM's intended speech now follow:
"Thanks to: The weather for not being too mean, the tarpaulin crew who showed the weather who was gonna win in a competition, Ange for her eye for beauty bunting and fairy lights, everyone who came along and danced, brought food and drink and energy. To all the wonderful musicians (Jim, Mervin, The Street Shadows, Danny, Ju, Wayne, the guys from Carnival Messiah, Mik Artistik, the DJ's - this is where it get's hazy... Boe? Dan? ... To Jonny and Julie, Sam & Caroline, James and Jo, Baz for her stickering. The gals for comforting LadyM in her bed as she sobbed hysterically....And anyone else that may have been forgotten due to too much drink and a soft head...Oh and thanks to all the lovely musicians that would have played should the DJ's not settled in for the night.... Thanks St Ives, Armley, Leeds, the community support officers and anyone else who could not sleep till dawn. "

This is small fragment of the speech LadyM prepared but was too vodka'd up to the eyeballs to successfully deliver, thank the lord. Instead she enlisted little Jordan from up the road in dancing a makarena(?) and screeching as to wake the real police woman who lived 4 streets away.

If you come by here because of a certain little card you received then click here for more information......

THE CHARMING ARMLEY CAKE COMPETITION
As for information about the cake competition please send your email addresses to jamsiren{at}thearmleytouristboard.com to be informed all about it. We aim to have the official Armley Tourist Board website up and running with information about this year's wonderful Charming Armley Cake Competition. Look out for posters as they will be in the shops at about the same time too. In short a competition with fabulous prizes in Charlie Cake Park on the 6th October is what you need to know for now....... more will follow!

Free tickets for the Leeds Festival anyone? Read more from the Mean Fiddler team......

"As you know, we have the Tent Recycling project going on at Leeds Festival and we would like to ensure we collect as many available tents and other re-usable items as possible.

To this end, we have decided to expand our collection days to include Tuesday 28th, Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th. However we want to appeal to your sons and daughters and their friends, if they are after a free ticket to the 2008 Leeds Festival!!!

Could you please spread the word and let those fit young things know that there are Leeds Festival 2008 tickets for the taking, if they give us 8 hours a day on Tuesday 28^th, Wednesday 29^th and Thursday 30^th August, collecting tents and other items here at the festival site. (This is the same number of hours all festival stewards do in return for their ticket, except mostly their hours are during the festival, so they end up missing out on bands!)

The collected items won’t be for taking back to scouts however, we will send them onto our charity Global Hand. We will also be collecting unopened food and pots and pans and arranging for these to go to charities locally.

Please have the interested people email Emily Kay on: ekay@meanfiddler.co.uk with the subject line as "Recycling Project - Leeds 2008 Tickets"

HELP HELP

As alluded to in recent posts we will be launching a new competition for this year's calendar. Now that we have virtually all our ducks in the row we need to find a creative genius who wishes to help us design a very simple logo and turn copy into printer ready posters etc. (Illustrator, Photoshop)

Not wishing to undersell this wonderful opportunity, there is a tiny amount of cash available to compensate said endeavors..

Furthermore we have about 10 seconds turn around time if we want said logo to adorn a billboard on Mistress Lane.

In return your logo will be seen on every printed calendar, you will be credited on the calendar and on the website we are currently designing... in fact your logo will be very prominent on said website.

You can also have the opportunity to eat lots and lots of cake!

So for further details about what this entails etc please contact jamsiren@thearmleytouristboard.com ASAP

(As recently pointed out this 'cake' is certainly minging! It was created for purely promotional purposes and we suspect that it would not be difficult for you to create better efforts!)

Coming soon to a triangular shaped park near you.....

a finger licking cheeky Charlie competition to make you drool!

Cake and fete
Will this year's calendar make
That's right, be mad, be vulgar, be bold
and create a sight, sore, to behold
Let the cakes in your mind's eye
be turned from 'pie in the sky'
Into fantastical dreamy cake castles
adorn them with ribbons and tassels
Or aim straight and true
Use the recipe your mum's mum's mum grew
and passed down through the years
honour the memories of our ole dears

Okay enough wierdo poetry (the lady mayoress has been on some self improvement lark recently!) all you need know is there is going to be a hugely ambitious cake baking eggstravaganza that you might want to sign up to receive notification of! There will be prizes, gaiety and giddiness come October, you mark our words! Dust off those old recipe books, start thinking of your favourite sweety stuff and watch this space


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Neighbours silence Dolly Parton fan

Last Updated: 1:47am BST 09/08/2007

in the Daily Telegraph

A Dolly Parton fan is facing an Asbo after her love for the country singer sounded a sour note with her neighbours.

Diane Duffin, from Armley, Leeds, is said to have blasted out Miss Parton's 9 to 5 and D.I.V.O.R.C.E up to 20 times a day and night. One neighbour said her life had been made a "living hell".

The 36-year-old mother of four has been issued with a noise abatement notice after neighbours complained. She had all her sound-making possessions confiscated, including five stereos.

They also plan to evict her to save her neighbours from further torment.

Miss Duffin said: "We do play Dolly Parton a lot but not all day and night. We don't disturb anyone."

Invite to a discussion on the proposed conservation area of Armley next Tuesday night.

The Lady M is back in Armley after a week of gentle twitching in Portugal. In an event packed week the highlight was, undoubtedly, watching an angry swallow attack a cheeky little owl who dared to come too close to the swallow's nest. Not once, twice, but five times did said swallow show the little owl it's ire! Unless this was a bizarre mating ritual and the owl was a little twit to woo!

So now back to more urban joys. You are invited to signal your intent to find out more about the conservation plans for our own patch of wild life here in Armley (I am thinking Town Street and beyond) The plans are not about the green patches but more about the buildings etc!

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Toodle Pippin folks

A relaxed LadyM

BTW Well done to Jane Earnshaw on putting on a fabulous two weeks of creative craziness. We salute you and hereby grant you the freedom of Armley Jane!

Lovely gorgeous Armley girls on rollerskates in hot pants and boob toobs. Get along tonight and catch an eyeful!

Tonight / Friday / Saturday get ready for some heavy necking in the car park at Dawsons Corner, Pudsey and enjoy a taste of proper American Drive In styleee entertainment.

"As darkness falls across the land......" You will have every excuse to grab the gear stick in terror and, if you wish, the person next to you, as Janet Leigh get's it in the shower. (Friday night Thriller!) More on upcoming.org below

Sunday night (after dark) the wonderfully iconic Armley Gyratory Gas Tower better be at full mast as the work of hundreds of talented photographers will be on show. Some of the Charming Armley Calendar pictures will be showcased too! (For all those of you not coming, put the central heating on full blast and run copious baths to do your bit!)

For those who wish to see some of the wonderful pics from Sunday's park day at the lovely

(Picture nabbed from WGGOMM's photostream on Flickr.com AGAIN!)

Pudsey park MOUSE PAT the doggie (if you had done this Sunday you may have found yourself being pished upon)

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