Winter Walk and Meal – Saturday 4 Feb 2012

By -

This year's winter walk will be in and around Bewdley, a former inland port on the River Severn with a rich history and some attractive waterfronts.
See http://www.bewdley.org.uk for further details.

As usual there will be an afternoon walk (5 miles) and an early evening pub meal, but this year I am asking those coming to the pub meal to give me a firm booking for this, independently of the walk, in case it has to be cancelled due to poor weather. Payment can be made on the day. The meal will be at 5.30pm at the Running Horse Inn on the A456 near Bewdley – see

http://www.chefandbrewer.com/pub-food/running-horse-inn-bewdley/pid-P1474

for details of the menu and location. I’ve made a provisional booking for 15 people – last booking date for the meal will be Tuesday 31 January.

For the walk, meet at the Blackstone Picnic Site off the A456 Bewdley by-pass, from 1.15pm onwards for a 1.30pm start. It is well signposted. SatNav users note – postcode DY12 1PU will take you close to it but probably not all the way there, so best to do the last mile from the roadsigns. Coming from Kidderminster, once you have passed the West Midlands safari park to the left of the A456, take the first exit at the next roundabout (signposted A456 Leominster), go straight through the traffic lights after about a mile, and the picnic site is then immediately on the right.

Everyone is welcome but as a reminder, please note that participants should consider themselves to be on a private excursion - neither the organiser nor the WMG can accept any liability for accidents or injuries sustained by those involved.

Organiser: Mike Hanson

Email: mike@mikehansontranslations.co.uk / mike.hanson@zen.co.uk

Mobile: 07941-389990

Popular posts from this blog

Aston University / WMG workshop on cloud-based CAT tools (15 Nov 2013)

By -
As part of the ongoing efforts to boost collaboration between ITI WMG and Aston University’s Translation Studies Department, the university kindly agreed to run a free afternoon workshop on the basics of CAT (Computer-Assisted Translation) tools, including Cloud-based programs (which operate remotely over a network rather than directly on the user’s hard disk). This way of working (also known as “Software as a Service” or SaaS), whereby the user pays an annual fee for the software rather than an up-front purchase price) is becoming increasingly common, and offers both benefits and drawbacks. On the positive side, where projects are managed remotely by the client, the translator is relieved of the responsibility of creating, managing and selecting his/her own term bases and translation memories for individual projects. However, this also means that the client remains in control of these databases, and that in some cases, the translator no longer has access to them once the project is fi
Read more

Happy 10th anniversary, WMG!

By -
Image
There were eleven of us at the WMG committee meeting in Birmingham yesterday. Appropriately, we met in the Edwardian Tea Room of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, which is where, ten years ago, four translators met for coffee and decided to revive the West Midlands Group of ITI. It was wonderful yesterday to see that there are still so many people - from founding members to newcomers - happy to take an active part in running the group! I'll be posting some memories of the past ten years on the new WMG history page over the next few days and weeks. Feel free to comment and add your own to this post. Bärbel McCloskey, Jakub Sacharczuk, Liz Smith, Rekha Narula, Mike Hanson, Charlie Gobbett, Ros Mendy, Juliet Hammond-Smith, Ulrike Nichols, Shelagh Rothero and Jean Darvill Happy 10th anniversary, everyone!
Read more

Home

By -
Image
Welcome to the West Midlands Group (WMG) of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting. We currently have around 45 members but are always happy to welcome new members, whether they are established translators and interpreters moving to our region or new professionals joining the industry. Our annual subscription is £10 for ITI members and £5 for current students. Membership also includes access to our groups.io e-group, where we chat, support one another and share news. If you would like to join us, please contact our Membership Secretary    Bryan Thomas . Connect with fellow translators and interpreters, enjoy the encouragement and support of our friendly group and attend affordable professional events in the West Midlands. We organise several professional and social events each year and have an e-group where members can ask for advice and post job offers and other relevant information.  We offer CPD bursaries allowing WMG members to participate in any CPD event, online or face-to
Read more