	Week 5 - Monday 17th November 2008
Group started looking at the cameras and how they operate. We took some footage and uploaded onto the edit suite to let people see how film will be put together. Seems much more complicated than it is and I think through time it will become second nature – hopefully.

Week 5 – Tuesday 18th November

Today the group were far more relaxed. Jason has managed to record some members discussing interesting facts about Edinburgh and the local area. We have also begun to introduce the idea of scrapbooking with a view to group or individual project work as some people would prefer not to play bingo of an afternoon. Hopefully the more activities we can offer the better.

Today a little boy called Declan appeared at lunchtime who was trying to skive school but decided to go home. He would very much like to see a youth club opened up here of an evening.

	Week 5 – Wednessday 19th November

	Week 5 – Thursday 20th November
Group members have started to scan in images for uploading onto the website. Audio files are being edited in the studio to accompany the photos online.

Week 4 - Monday 10th November 2008

This week we put together story boards to segment the scenarios. We have several groups but only one scene is funny as yet. One scene, however requires an ending in order to lighten it up.

Group 1 are quite lively with a few actors among them and lots of talking involved.

Group 2 shall be slightly more difficult which should be over come by cutting out dialogue.

Group 3 can be fundamentally silent, however we still have to come up with and ending.

Group 4 is pretty much an active piece with all sorts of calamities and happenings.

	Week 4 – Tuesday 11th November
Participants prepared some questions based around ‘Christmas Past’ and we moved into the recording studio to start recording question and answer sessions for the newsletter.

	Week 4 – Wednessday 12th November
Gathering momentum! Another Radio station onboard, this time form the land of Jute and Jam. What could next week bring?

	Week 4 – Thursday 13th November
Several more recording this week of people discussing their old photographs. Overall has been very interesting, many people have disclosed elements of their lives that their friends were not aware of and this has lead to in depth discussions of past interests, relationships and environments.

	Week 3 – Monday 3rd November
Last week we looked at what our characters did in a week. We also looked at possible scenarios that could happen within our play. We need to look at more storylines. The majority of scenarios included the effects isolation has on an elderly person who has fallen. What would happen? How badly would they be hurt? Who would find them? What would be the repercussions of the said fall?

	Week 3 – Tuesday 4th November
The group have scanned the local paper for pertinent news items and summarised what they would like to report. They have also looked at books about their areas for other interesting information.

	Week 3 – Wednessday 5th November
Great news this week, Leith FM has expressed an interest in broadcasting our show on the premise that it is any good. This is just the incentive we need to stay awake.

Week 3 – Thursday 6th November

Today we have recorded Flo for around 3 minutes telling stories from her youth. Helen has requested an enlarged copy of the Fire and Ice document in order for her to read a section. I would like to take 3 members of the group in to the recording studio next week and question them on their Christmases of old (accompanying sheet attached). Jenny Fox has written a tale of her Christmas bicycle which has be retyped in order to be read with confidence.

I have noticed that some respond better to reading, others writing and the rest chatting. It is time consuming having to redirect the conversation in order to regain focus but a lot of useful information is being derived from the seeming madness. E.g. Helen may talk a lot as she has the confidence to, thought perhaps others feel slightly more comfortable chiming in on the odd occasion (3 recorded at once).

Week 2 – Monday 27th October

This week the group came up with a list of characters for the play. These characters are:

Character 1 - Margaret Anne Jones, Age 85

Margaret lives in Gracemount with her daughter and son in law. She has a son who lives in the borders and a daughter who died of cancer in 1985 (the youngest) at the age of 33. Margaret also has 4 grandchildren and a great grand daughter who is 3 years old.

Margaret left school at the age of 14 and went to work in a grocery shop. Ten years later she married Bill after having returned from war. After having her children, Margaret worked in a biscuit factory and then moved on to work as a domestic in the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.

Margaret is now a diabetic, which unfortunately reduced the ability of her eyes. However she still gets out of the house during the week to participate in the bingo and arts and crafts days within her local community centre.

Character 2 - Couple: Mary and John Brown

Mary is aged 55 years and John is 66. They have 4 children, 2 boys, John and Peter, 2 girls, Rita and Fay.

The family have all left home now and the couple find that they have time on their hands to do all the things that they have wanted to do. After working his entire life as a self employed window cleaner, John has decided it is now time for him to retire and enjoy the rest of his life with his wife. Seeking their first opportunity, John and Mary booked themselves on a flight to spend a week in New York and then a further week in Las Vegas where they shall renew their wedding vows in the white chapel.

Character 3 - Elizabeth Scott aged 76

This woman is a strong believer in the old remedies and how life used to be before the war. She grew up on a farm cottage with brick floors and drew water from the well. As a young woman she aided those in the local area with remedies such as campforated oil and syrup vics.

She never married and is now suffering from dementia. She lives in a care home and spends most of her time wandering around looking for her parents.

Character 4 - Davey Smith aged 83

Ex manager for Dunlop tyres and Curries Electricals. Professional snooker player (100 break man) and remained a professional until he was 74. Misses playing. As a young man, frequently played at pool halls, playing for money from the age of 14. Married to Maureen and has 2 kids aged 44 and 51. His son Graham lives in Leeds and his daughter Maureen lives in Edinburgh. He is usually a happy chap but doesn’t really have any interest in the day centre other than the fact that his family think it is good for him. He played rugby for Borughmuir and enjoys golf. His interests mainly involve very male dominated environments and the group being predominantly comprised of women puts him off the community centre. Davey is very much a mans’ man and quite a substantial drinker of rum. We also decided on actors for the parts and started thinking about what each character did during the week.

	Week 2 – Tuesday 28th October
Recorded several versions of Christmas’s past to be edited. Rab, Tommy, Mary and John all spoke.

Week 2 – Wednessday 29th October

Today we discussed the possible names of the radio station (again!), what kind of features it should contain, who we should interview and so on and so forth.

We have decided that some jingles should be written and stories should be told.

Our first instalment shall be a Christmas edition. We will have a group member talk about the history of Christmas and how it originated within Scotland. We shall have some Christmas music and short anecdotes of Christmases past.

We aim to put together a quick 10 minute slot ASAP in order to get the ball rolling, after we have recorded some short stories, next week.

Week 2 – Thursday 30th October

We have given 7 members of this afternoon’s group some disposable cameras and asked them to take photographs over the next week. We hope to have them developed within the following week in order to put together a montage for the centre and website. We have asked them to bring in a collection of personal photographs and we shall record stories about those alongside the newly developed ones and attempt an online gallery with audio commentary. It is also possible to put together a scrapbook of all the images we have collated.

	Week 1 – Monday 20th October
The Monday group at Libertus have decided to make a movie! They have decided that the movie should be about people attending a new day centre for the first time and the resulting emotions and trepidation involved. The film will also examine people’s lives out-with the day care environment as well as flashbacks to the early lives.

Week 1 – Tuesday 21st October

Group have spoken at length about what they want to do and they have decided on an audio local newsletter for people who live within South Edinburgh but cant read the local papers. They feel that it is important that people still feel part of the distinct communities in which they live and if they are socially isolated and unable to read the local news they can become detached from their communities. They have agreed on a theme of Christmas’s past to go with the news in the first issue.

	Week 1 – Wednessday 22nd October
Wednesday’s group have decided to create a bi monthly radio broadcast. This will be available on our website and to order on CD. They have had numerous discussions about a name for their radio station, some of them terrible and some of them even worse. Think it might take a few weeks to agree. Anyway they have decided on a Christmas theme for the 1st broadcast – must be the time of year.

	Week 1 – Thursday 23rd October
The Thursday Group has decided on a photography project. They will be getting disposable cameras to take home and record a week in their lives through the medium of photography. They will also be bringing in old photos to post on the website and record themselves in the studio describing the pictures and what they mean to them.