A warm welcome to Tarimo and Anne who have just joined us! I am
privileged to know both of them personally and they are a great
asset to our growing CHEAL community.

A warm, if belated, welcome also to Mardigras, Ali, Tony, Rose Quartz
Pixie who joined us in the latter part of 2007. 2007 was a busy year
for me with much transformation of my home and work life so I was not
able to spend as much time with CHEAL as I would have liked to. 2008
should be much easier, although at present I am to-ing and fro-ing to
Wales quite a bit because my mother who lives there, had a major
stroke in December.

Currently she is in hospital (the second of 2) and I must say that I
have been pretty shocked at the level of care and facilities for the
elderly disabled in some of our NHS hospitals.

CHEAL Calendar
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Can I take this opportunity to remind everyone of the facilities (and
growing use) of the CHEAL Calendar? It is a great place to see what
events & workshops/courses are available, also to plan your own event
(to avoid clashes) and promote it.
Most events on the calendar are located in Cambridge and
Cambridgeshire but we do accept any events in the UK or abroad of
they are on our CHEAL topics of healing or holistic lifestyle.

You have to join CHEAL (free!) before you can add events to the
calendar. Please DO NOT tick the box to send reminders - because this
leads to our members receiving excessive emails, which we are always
keen to avoid.

HAVE YOU POSTED YOUR PERSONAL INTRODUCTION?
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If you have joined our CHEAL community, but not yet told us a bit
about yourself, please be encouraged to do so, we would love to hear
a bit about you, especially about your interest in our topics of
health, healing and holistic lifestyle activities.

If you are one of our "lurkers" i.e. visiting CHEAL without becoming
a member, you are very welcome here, but please consider coming "out
of the closet" when you are good and ready.

A THANK-YOU TO KAYCE
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A big thank-you to Kayce, my co-moderator, for founding CHEAL back in
2004 and for her quiet, thoughtful, good-humoured and persistent
support ever since!


Best wishes to everyone for health, happiness & success in 2008!

Mike