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!

Click on the images to make them bigger.

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)

Upcoming Events

More of theladymayoressofarmley's events

Your invite to the most exclusive exhibition in Armley this week! as ever click on it to make it swell big in front of your eyes!

The Lady Mayoress asks you to help her radio show help, you lovely lovers out there!

CALL IN BETWEEN 8pm and 10pm on 0113 2631468 with your thoughts about why your are proud to live in Armley and more below!

The Lady Mayoress asks you to put her on the spot! Click on this link to get the live internet directions to listen in.

Tonight's line up includes Mik Artistik, Zodiak Mind Warp and more cheesyness than a fat fondue!

3 ways to achieve a jammy, cheesy, lovefest of a show

• Let the good lady know if you would like to dedicate a special record to a loved one in your life and why....(let us know before 5pm on Monday so that we can add them to our play list)
• What do you love/hate about Armley? Compile your list and email us before or ring the number broadcast at the beginning of the show....)
• If you were granted freedom of Armley for 24 hours what would you do (you have 3 get out of jail free cards and a pots of dosh!)

email jamsiren {at} thearmleytouristboard.com

And finally....

If you come from a place that you think is as good as Armley, (which we doubt) then please also write/call in with your challenge!

More Festival Madness
Lady M to be on the airwaves Monday!

Casey Orr's exhibition along the canal by Armley Industrial Mills was a not to be missed experience, her work is internationally acclaimed and we lucky Armley and Leeds folk get to enjoy it all summer! The rain made drowned rats tails of Lady M's posh cocktail hair do, but it was worth it to see the photographs and mingle with the creme de la creme of Leeds society!

The Lady Mayoress will be live on Air (yes she get's by with oxygen just like you mortals)
As part of the utterly fab festival radio for the I love West Leeds Festival she will be broadcasting out, with love in her heart to all you loyal subjects.

When? When? We hear you cry with gladness of spirit and eager anticipation. Let's huddle around the transister radio with cups of cocoa to hear the good Lady M playing her favourite melodies, swaying gently to her blasts from the past, classics from the atic, raves from the grave! So tune into:

http://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/interplay.mp3.m3u or and 87.7fm at
8pm on Monday.

You can even phone whilst she is live on air, she will of course be announcing some jolly jape of a competition, and welcomes all of your views about what makes Armley worth shouting about!
Please RING UP and stop her droning on about her buddies Alan and Barbara!

And finally dear pop pickers, get yourselves all excited about the knitted shed by reading this
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=39&articleid=3005109

2 Dates this week (amongst others!)

Thursday night promises to be a sparkling affair down at Armley Mills from 6pm
Click on the image for more!


Saturday enjoy the lashings of yummy cakes etc at Interplay with the marvellous potty tea ladies

Picture by WSOGMM

Free tickets to London this weekend anyone? (Benefits: The Tour de France, Wimbledon, Art and Culture, Stress, Hassle, people who wont look you in the eye on tube trains?)

Hello are you there and awake? WANT TO claim train TICKETS TO GO TO LONDON? better be quick then asweI wont be able to get them to you for Friday if you aren't.

How would you like to win some return tickets to visit the big city of London this weekend? Only those of you with no interest in the forthcoming festival:

Click on logo for complete listings

need apply as this Saturday heralds the start of lots of madness indeed in and around Armley and beyond! The Lady Mayoress's travel office made a monumental mistake in booking her appointment with Gordon Brown this coming weekend to discuss a top secret 'community friendliness assigment' and already we have had to disappoint him. Still hopefully 'The Only Tory in Armley?' is working on his plan to get us paid consultancy with Mr Cameron instead!

Anyway for those with a burning desire to subject themselves to the big smoke YOU can have the opportunity of FREE return tickets by clicking here and following the instructions. Make sure you let me know by email that you came via the kind offer by stopping here first!

Departing Leeds Friday at 9.30 getting into London at 12.03
Returning London Sunday at 12.10 getting into Leeds at 14.36

email jamsiren{at}thearmleytouristboard.com or skype me as on the right hand side of the page

Speaking of BIG SMOKE we wish to applaud the talent of two Armley residents who went on a selfless journey into Leeds at the weekend to document the last weekend of smoking in pubs. See their fantastic and poignant reportage by clicking on the photo below

Picture by WSGOMM

If indeed you do win these tickets worth £55.00 we ask that you compile a report of your visit to London and what it was like, for all of those readers who don't wish to leave the smashing comforts of Armley.

Who are you?
State your name and intentions!
Maybe we could couple?

It would not be too slanderous to say that our Lady Mayoress has a very sticky beak indeed and has employed the chaps at Google to help her work out what tickles you and why.

Interestingly the top search item is 'Armley Blog' and and look what you end up reading! (Even if you only stop for 1.34 seconds before hopping off to read all about the Only Tory in Armley) Realising that her power is very limited she knows that she cannot grant you the freedom of Armley in return for sharing a little about yourself, (Yes I am speaking to you dear reader from Orebro where ever that is) but please indulge the nosy parker with a small comment as to what pleasure you derive from stopping by our humble Tourist Board.

Actually Jam Siren has to reveal that the The Lady Mayoress is beside herself to know what would tickle you more and wonders if perhaps we should consider twinning (or coupling) Armley with your town? Let us know what initiatives you would like to see happen. We are all arse here!

So visits so far this month already exceed 3000 and our inches of membership proudly extend into many columns these days. We are keener than ever to keep nurturing your loyalty!

Some of the top locations of visitors are:

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Picture by Alison Covey more on Flickr. Click on the picture for the link

Rain did not stop play last Saturday and Charlie Cake Park played host to an array of picnics, cakes and sugar frenzied tots!

Well done to the Friends of Armley Common (I am not sure of all their names so wont mention them personally) They do a fantastic job of keeping our lovely green spaces welcoming. If ever you want to join them and enjoy the sensation of an aching back, sweat gently dampening your pits, dirty finger nails, and a thirst that only pints of cider will quench why not join them on weekends? For less vagueness, the Lady M has never been seen to lift a finger so most likely wont have the faintest what really constitutes working up a thirst, you had better email: ArmleyCRT@googlemail.com

For those of you who missed it, and get your kicks from looking at pictures of cakes then I suggest you take a look at the pictures on Flickr.com

Coffee and Cake round up!

Hmmm, the Lady Mayoress has mixed emotions about the fact that a wonderful social enterprise in Armley called Just Coffee People have been asked to make the Lord Mayor of Leed's coffee blend! She ofcourse turned down the honour herself a month or so ago, feeling that it would not be fair to grab the limelight for herself at a time when the new Lord Mayor was coming into office. So Cllr Brian Cleasby benefits this time around, and gets to offer all his guests a rather delicious smelling single blend of Arabica Excelso beans from the COSURCA co-operative in Colombia to produce a premium fresh coffee that is full roasted to give a rich dark but smooth flavour with low acidity and great body. (It has been said that the Lady Mayoress shares very similar characteristics!)

The Lord Mayor of Leeds Single Origin Coffee can be purchased from Beano Wholefoods, Out of this World, the Beehive Shop, the Civic Hall shop and the Tourist Information Centre. Alternatively contact just coffee people on 0113 279 2936 or visit wwww.justcoffeepeople.co.uk.

During I Love West Leeds Festival He-Re are hosting a wonderful evening of food and have been inundated with requests for tickets. There are now only 4 tickets left so don't delay if you wish to get along! Naturally The Lady Mayoress of Armley will be there too, so what are you waiting for? Click He-re to see more

Soggy Bottoms No! URBAN PICNIC POSTPONED

Well who would have thought it, we have rain in June! And lots of it unfortunately.

A decision has been made therefore to move the URBAN PICNIC from tomorrow *Saturday 16th to the following week the 23rd~!

So if you have already baked cakes etc then you will have to scoff them in the dry with your mates.

BOOOH HISSS to the rain

Fancy meeting a real live amazing, dancing, psychic goat boy called Gary?

Well get thee along to this event (click on Gary above) to find out more about an essential Saturday night you can't afford to miss!

The Only Tory in Armley?

Has a website.....take a butchers at this!

Although he lives on the periphery ~(Wortley) he was born here so do cut him a bit of slack!

Says he his mate Dave Cameron might fancy meeting The Lady Mayoress and her hanger ons to chit chat about "friendliness in the community".....watch this space!

West Leeds Festival

Are doing loads of really fab things that you may wish to put in your diary NOW we tell you!

We are going to put links on upcoming.org so that you can sign up, but a small flavour follows over on Creative Armley...................

The Lady Mayoress has been floating recently!

Yes that is why she has been pretty quiet, Jam Siren has found a way to shut her up and it involves putting her in a rather large tank of salty water and leaving her there for hours at a time. The result of this is that the good lady has lost a bit of the zip that makes her get off her big fat behind! These little watery cocoons are brilliant and we are going to shamelessly plug them! Get along to JUST FLOAT on North Street in Leeds if you want to destress, detoxify or detonate quietly without collateral damage. Click here if you can bear to lift a finger

Still dear reader never fear, she is cooking up a wonderiferous treat to launch at next weekend's urban picnic! You will be pleasantly surprised we feel! (we might mention Dame Barbara Taylor Bradford has been in touch!!!)

At said next weekends picnic the Armley Tourist Board will have a BOOK SWAP stand, so feel free to bring books along with you and a carrier bag, we will off load a whole lot of recentish books in the name of clearing out St Ives Town Hall

On the same note, bring along your blankets, your instruments and the cakes to the urban picnic at Charlie Cake! Even better come along early if you want to help the lovely organisers get it looking super.

The flier below has all the info you need..........

If you would like to help clear the park up before hand, or even show your interest you can register on Upcoming by clicking here!

So how very lovely this is! Look forward to seeing y'all there.

Jam Rag Round UP

Wow, word has spread like cheap strawberry jam that this is the place to let people know what's what! So here is a bit about some events coming up and a teaser to 2 new blog authors who wish to share their views on living in Armley.......

Events

A Night at the Museum - This weekend at the lovely cinema in Armley Mills - Click here for more

A stitch up, knit and bitch, also this weekend at Armley Mills - Click here for more
A night at Gott's Park Golf Club, put on your plus fours and pringle sweaters and click here for more

An Urban Tea Party in June... in Charlie Cake Park, again click here for more....

Teaser

5 Minute quickie with 'Am I the only gay gal in Armley?' our new and rather foxy blog contributor. Stay tuned for her quickie which is coming soon!

In a similar vein we may be welcoming to our diverse community 'The only Tory in Armley?'

Let us know if you have something coming up that you want to shout about dear reader

Lots of Love
The office of Corporate affairs communications

Buddhist Centre Open Day

Fancy coming along to find out more about the people who look younger and smile more than the average person?

Jamyang has a wonderful centre right here in Armley, yes you heard right! A Buddhist Centre of note right here!

They are hosting an open day, anyone can drop in to learn more about Meditation and Buddhism and what the centre offers. A time for you to ask any questions and get a feel for the centre.

So what are you waiting for.........? Enlightenment? Well if so then this is the place to start!

Come along on Sunday 20th May 11am to 4pm to Sunshine House - yes really, Whingate Business Park, Leeds Ls12 3Rp

More about them and the wonderful Geshe Tashi Tsering on the web....click here - gently, patiently, and with awareness!

Jam Siren would like to make it clear that she is full of admiration and just being flippant about the gently/patient bit! and the bit about smiling, younger looking etc!

The XLADY M wishes to alert you to a superb job vacancy which has arisen in Leeds, the salary is potentially immense if you are the right person. If this aint for you but you know of someone, who likes to share their opinions, or paint castles in the sky then let them know too.

Do as we say and click here now!

Don't be shy!!!

5 Minute Quickie's presents......

MIK ARTISTIK!

The Lady Mayoress was honoured to receive the local comedy genius Mik Artistik today at St Ives Town Hall.

Mik is extremely busy these days with tours across the UK coming up, including Glastonbury and Buxton, but you can still catch him in Leeds and Yorkshire. In fact he is playing tonight at the Fox and Newt on the Burley Road in Leeds- (opp Park Lane College- FREE, at 9pm!)

We were honoured to have a sneak acoustic version of his new soon to be hit record; 'Jimmy Savile's got my album (Jim's gonna fix it for Mik Artistik)'
Come tonight to hear it for yourselves for the very first outing!

For those of you not already aware of Mik's idiosyncratic view of the world please visit his website www.mikartistik.com

So Mr Artistik let us know what you would do if you were the Lady Mayoress of Armley for a day....

What would you like to celebrate?
If i was the Lady Mayoress I would like to celebrate Tony Blair's demise with champagne, and thorntons continental followed by a trip to the pictures to see Hot Fuzz

If you could Jam up your back passage with 3 special friends who would they be?
Philip Neary, Geoff Nemec, and Effin Stef (they know who they are!)

What fact do you know about Armley that would surprise people?
That it has a prison

What have you always wondered about Armley but couldn't be arsed to find the answers to?

Why do they call it Charlie Cake Park? and Why is that Horse always on Armley Common with a bucket? Why are there so many bloody artists living here?

Who are your heros Mik?

Count Arthur Strong, John Shuttleworth, Robert Crumb and Norman Hunter

What questions would you like our next quickie to answer?
What is your favorite colour?
If you were on a desert island would you be happy?

Once again the Lady Mayoress gets down on her knees to salute Mik!