Christmas Day wouldn't be Christmas Day without a word from me, what? - Bonkers Friday I was sad see to those Pakistani fellows jailed for bowling no balls. If such strictures had been applied in the 1970s, then our own Bob Willis would be breaking rocks on Portland Bill to this day. I was myself attached to the Special Investigations Branch of the MCC for a number of years, and it was heartbreaking work. More than one county scorer cut his throat on a dark winter's afternoon, as the pilot flame in his Ascot water heater guttered, over discrepancies in ...
Brother: I'm depressed. My Lindt bear is already gone. :( Me: I'm... no, I'm not depressed. I'm having Bailey's and a mince pie. I'm good. Brother: Mmm, Bailey's and coke. Me: WHAT. Brother: Bailey's and coke. That's how you're SUPPOSED to drink it. Me: WHAT. Brother: Yeah! Me: I think you mean rum and coke. Brother: *thinks hard for a few moments* yeah, that. PS, Happy 25th December! [IMG: comment count unavailable] comments
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Kew Lib Dem Team!
Whilst we are a secular nation I, understand that some will want to celebrate Christmas. Christians will want to attend a church service. Others will just settle for a more midwinter feast (with presents no doubt). I am happy to enjoy the peace and sentiment of others. My contribution will be small presents with a substantial donation to charities. I do not follow the Christian gospel so it would seem silly for me to pander to all things Christmas. Yet I will wear a fancy dress santa suit on christmas eve at work - just to cheer people up. I ...
The story so far: the Council has promulgated a profile for performance review with set percentages for each category, any departure from this profile to be approved at senior level. It has also created a "Best Person of the Year" award and ceremony: both of these are presented as responses to a staff survey finding that people want more recognition for good performance. FROM: Hamish Carpenter, Transformational Excellence Manager TO: Neil Balderson, Senior Transformational Excellence Manager Neil: I'm applying for the performance profile to be varied for my team. It really would hit me in the guts for any of ...
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Planning Applications Decided (Delegated) 16/11/2011 to 15/12/2011 (Bidston & St. James ward)
Application No.: APP/11/01263 Application Type: Delegated Decision Level: Full Planning Permission Ward: Bidston and St James Decision Date: 07/12/2011 Decision: Approve Case Officer: Miss S McIlroy Applicant: Mr Andrew Haselgrove Location: 4 LILLIE CLOSE, BIDSTON, CH43 7YS Proposal: Retention of galvanised steel window guard railing to first-floor rear elevation to restrict opening arch and facilitate closing of french windows ...
I am reading Bill Bryson's 'At Home'. I have read most of his books and really enjoyed them so I am sure that I will enjoy this one too. In this book he is looking at the history of household life and is mostly taking into consideration the last 160 years, otherwise he would have too much to write about. The first chapter tells me about The Great Exhimbition of 1851 "the dream of a civil servant, Henry Cole" and it also tell me that Mr Cole's other claim to fame is the invention of the Christmas card. Bill reliably ...
I hope everyone is having a great Christmas. A councillor is for life (well his or her term of office!) not just for Christmas, so do please let me know how I can help - preferably in a day or so. I hope everyone has a great time, I've got a feeling 2012 is going to be a great year!
It's Christmas Day so somewhat predictably (although for the first time in a while) I am at the organ console this morning. For once, I was allowed to choose the hymns myself. But considering the congregation, I chose mostly hymns ... Continue reading →
I looked for a Blodwyn Pig track to share with you and found a whole edition of Top of the Pops. It comes from 29 January 1970 (when your humble blogger was nine years old) and was orginally broadcast in colour even thought all the videos below are in black in white. And a very good edition it is too - complete with Jimmy Savile, as it happens. The sixties were over, but there were some really interesting bands in the singles chart and Glamrock had not yet been conceived. Incidentally, as Digital Spy explains, few editons of TOTP this ...
I'd like to wish all my readers a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! (And, for the benefit of the fictional PC brigade: happy Winterval as well).
Happy Christmas to all this blog's readers. Apart from very sporadic updates, this blog will resume in the New Year (2012) as I'm in need of a holiday! Leonora will deal with matters in my absence. I hope everyone enjoys the festive season. Last week I played carols with people from St. James at two ...
And after this week, what else could I possibly put up here? He sang it on Tuesday night. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I hope that you have health, peace and contentment all the way through 2012.
[IMG: Christmas tree] (If you've not yet seen the Liberal Democrat Cabinet Ministers Christmas Card, brought to you by our own Mark Pack, enjoy it here.)
This year I've been doing an advent calendar of treats throughout the month of December. As this is the last day Christmas Day itself, I though I'd post it earlier just in case your children have rudely awoken you. But also something rather uplifting.
Seasons Greetings from the King's Hedges Liberal Democrat team.We hope you have a great day!
Quite often I see or hear people say "it's not that bad, imagine if". They make reference to an alternate scenario which could be worse. There's certainly a lot that can be said in favour of it. Anyone reading this is undoubtedly fortunate compared to other people and the fact that we are living is
Spotted this no.12 bus with a destination of Happy Christmas. Happy Christmas everyone. Hope you get a break from the hurly burly that life especially at the moment is throwing at everyone. Any problem over the holiday period please email me james.barber@southwark.gov.uk
Saturday: From Star Wars Lego Advent Calendar ...and a Jedi New Year
