Post by Claire Thompson, Freelance PR Consultant, Waves PR
Chateau Pesquie,acknowledged as the top Cote du Ventoux (Southern Rhone) wine estate
A slightly unusual post for this blog, but this one’s just for fun. On November 1, friends at the Café Bar @ Cornerstone are hosting a wine masterclass evening. Third generation owner and winemaker Frederic Chaudiere of Chateau Pesquie, rapidly now being acknowledged as the top Cote du Ventoux (Southern Rhone) wine estate, is coming to Didcot, of all places, to share his knowledge and expertise.
Anyone who knows me will know that I’m somewhat partial to champagne and cava, slightly on the dry side. My grandfather was a wine judge, so I’ve always had a range of wines around, but I can’t pretend to be an expert. To have a fine wine grower over from France in as small a place as Didcot is somewhat surprising, but then, the Cornerstone Arts Centre has always been surprising.
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Claire Thompson, Freelance PR Consultant, Waves PR
John Popham is on a mission. To help the digitally disconnected, travelling around the UK offering advice. It’ll be one to watch – to see what Popham can achieve with £1k. And compare it with, say, Government initiatives.
I have been really lucky this year to be working alongside the awesome Tweetcamp team.
Like all journeys, all events including volunteers, behind the scenes, of course there have been lots of ups and downs. Anyone who’s worked on a Twestival will know exactly what I mean by that! It’s all been done by busy volunteers with a commitment to make it happen, and I tilt my hat at them!
But it’s come together beautifully,with an incredible cast of sponsors meaning that the whole thing is entirely free, even the food and coffee – and there are schwag bags!
Global Integration, an international management training consultancy, who I work with half time, have, somewhat unexpectedly, became a sponsor for the event, largely due to the vision of CEO Kevan Hall, who sees it as a real opportunity to learn. It’s absolutely not their audience, but he absolutely sees it as a way to engage and catch the vibe.
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Perhaps a bit of a lazy b;og today, but heartfelt none the less. There are always loads of events to choose from – and London’s buzzing right now. I do try hard to get a decent spread whilst still ensuring that I have time to do some work!
First up there’s this Friday’s thupr event, and the great host of people who know what they’re doing are coming on down, and we’ve just added another app developer, Sprash, to the host that will be strutting their stuff. We have so many changes afoot and I can’t wait to share the excitement and bring people in! Why you should go: great, practical learning space, meeting space, thinking place; a bar; outside the normal ‘echo chamber’; fun; get out of the office early on a Friday.
And then there’s anticipation of Tweetcamp: if you haven’t seen the campsite, you should! The event’s on Saturday October 8, and promising to be awesome. Why you should go: not the usual ‘echo chamber’; great learning space, meeting space, thinking place; fun.
I’d also love to be at Reading Geek this week – Jim Anning has managed to create a really relaxed format that’s always stuffed full of really smart folk. (Jury’s out on a babysitter though – other parents will identify with that one!) and no, that’s not because I consider myself a geek, but because I learn – lots – every time manage to get along. Why you should go: great learning space, meeting space; fun crowd; outside of London.
And then Waves, which is run from a boat, will feature as part of a programme later in this year, and we’ll be filming for that. Which is great! But I can’t invite you – we can only take ten at most!
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October 23, 2011 4:47 pm | 
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