As the years pass, I recognise more and more the abundance of talented people that we have in our locality. I am sometimes privileged to meet up with some of them, but I am sure that there are many others whose skills and expertise are unknown to me. On our centre pages this month, we feature two books by local writers which I am sure will be of interest to many of our readers. So I have a plea to you – if you are a writer, artist or publisher or if you know someone with a unique skill or a particularly interesting occupation, it would be lovely to feature them in these pages. 
   
And talking of skills, we do need one or two local people to learn the ropes of desktop publishing and at the same time give us a hand to produce The Chimes. We can promise you lots of help, a very happy and friendly environment and most of the time you can work from home on your own PC or laptop. No experience is necessary and we have some good teachers! So if you would like to give it a try as an Assistant Editor in the first instance, to help our hard-pressed editorial team, please give us a call on one of the telephone numbers on page 62 of this issue, or drop us an email. We would very much like to hear from you.

  Peter