I had a very useful meeting earlier today with the Director of Housing, City Housing Manager and the Homeless Services Manager about the homeless in Dundee and the council's progress with the issue. This follows on from recent correspondence I have had with the Housing Department recently. Later, I attended a briefing for councillors on council rents issues.
Also today we held our latest West End Christmas Week meeting. The 10th Anniversary West End Christmas Week is taking great shape with great events being planned.
Residents will recall that at the 2009 Christmas Week, we held a balloon launch and the winning balloon went all the way to Sweden. Imagine our surprise when a lady called Ellen Grundt e-mailed us from Norway earlier this month as follows ...
"I'm writing to tell you that I found your balloon. In fact three of them. I live in Oslo, Norway but we have a cottage in Vestbygda, Eggedal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggedal) 140 km from Oslo. I was walking in the mountains while picking cloudberries and found the balloons under a tree close to a marsh. At first I didn't understand what it was but then I saw the notes you had attached."
See photo below! I've sent Ellen a package of Dundee branded items as a thank you for letting us know!
