Failure is the Key to Success

• Car has a puncture this morning. I can't shift the wheel nuts, so am now waiting for the AA. Not the best start to the week. #
• LulzSec disavows alleged Census hack http://t.co/LBj5kk6 via @regvulture #
• Google bypasses admin controls with latest Chrome IE http://t.co/Tz8lF8q via @regvulture #
• Not cold calling – just going door to door checking that we have had our utility grant. Go away! Raining at the moment, so they looked wet. #
• NHS Organ Donor Register Hits Record 18 Million http://bit.ly/iGSfmo National Transplant Week 4th-10th July. What are you waiting for? #
• Just settling down with a bottle of Wychwood Wychcraft blonde beer http://www.wychwood.co.uk #
• Back from a couple of hours playing and promoting Dunstable Music Centre at St Mary's Summer fete. Blustery day, the music stands blew over #
• Just took my puncture into National Tyres in Dunstable to get it fixed. No puncture in the tyre itself, so resolved without replacing it. #
• I heard he was good, but WOW! Rafael Mendez – Flight of the Bumble Bee & Mexican Hat Dance http://t.co/wJh7sKE via @youtube #

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• It must be summer, the swifts are back. Just noticed them swooping and screeching around the gardens. #rspb #
• Just entered the swifts I saw into the #RSPB swift sightings inventory http://bit.ly/kwy305 I hadn't realised they were declining #swifts #
• Replacement printhead for my Dell P713W arrived today. Fitted and its working again. Yippee! I wonder if I should order a spare? #
• FB RT: BBC1 Traffic Cops was filmed in Bedfordshire last summer and the run of six episodes starts on Thursday 23 June at 9pm on BBC1. #
• JK Rowling's new website Pottermore http://bit.ly/jv72mW The clock is running until the author makes an announcement on 23rd June at 12:00 #
• Just back home after visiting Ashton Middle School Summer Fair. It was great to see so many past and present pupils taking part in the band. #
• Here comes the rain again, getting windy too. #
• New music service hits right notes – Local – Dunstable Today: http://bit.ly/mBaQnC #musicservice #dunstablemusiccentre #
• Creative thinking to maintain creative services http://bit.ly/ilYffr Central Bedfordshire Council's launch of the new music service. #
• Music service fees going down from September http://bit.ly/j7Lbs2 Great News! @fbym #musicservice #dunstablemusiccentre #
• Just settling down with a bottle of Wychwood Scarecrow golden pale ale http://bit.ly/5M9kbL #

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I’ve missed the boat here! I missed Central Bedfordshire Council’s announcement regarding the re-launch of the music service, Creative thinking to maintain creative services, which was released on 6th June.

On 2nd June, Jo and I attended another stakeholder meeting, held by Central Bedfordshire Council at their offices in Chicksands. The tone of the meeting was very honest and encouraging. It was accepted that the fee rise had proved very negative and hadn’t actually raised any additional revenue. However, a proper business plan was now in place and being reviewed weekly. It is planned that as the numbers of people using the service increases the cost savings can be passed onto the users.

Greater emphasis needed to be put on advertising what is available and increasing the number of people using the service. Different groups had started working together to enable activities to be delivered; an example of that was this summer’s courses that had originally been cancelled. I think everyone at the meeting accepted that what had happened was in the past and that we all needed to work together to make a successful music service for the future.

The future of Dunstable Music Centre is secure for the short term, but increased numbers and an individual business plan will be needed going forward.

I planned to write this post after the council released their statement and then missed the announcement. It is encouraging to be able to write a more positive post than the previous ones in the last few months, let’s hope I wasn’t right earlier.

Tags:Central Bedfordshire Council,Dunstable Music Centre,music service

• Mal's Funeral Shirt http://t.co/LDElyON along with many other props and costumes from #Serenity Shiney. @NathanFillion #cantstopthesignal #
• Happy #WorldIPv6Day http://bit.ly/hxi4pf #IPv6 Trials today by Google, Facebook, YouTube, Cisco and many others. #
• Car alarm kept going off. Just let a moth out of the car. Wasn't expecting that. #
• Print head on my Dell P713W printer has failed 2 months outside of warranty. 14 months for a printer is the shortest I've ever had. #fail #
• Needed to print out music for my recorder group this afternoon. Thanks Dell! #

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• Had a very positive meeting tonight at Central Bedfordshire Council about the future of the music service. Talking about the way ahead. #
• Back from an excellent meal at Graziano's Italian restaurant in Dunstable. Highly recommended. #
• Big push to get people to abandon older browser versions. http://bbc.in/jUqd8A Been using Firefox 4 for a while now and happy with it. #
• Ukuleles back in fashion http://bit.ly/lBTn6e Sales are booming. Go and see @TheUkes and you'll see why. #
• Now have got to wait until the Autumn to see the rest of the Dr Who series. Why do we have to split a series in half like the US? #

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