This weekend, ALDC's Kickstart event is taking place online. Hundreds of LIb Dems have been taking part in panel discussions and training sessions. There are separate streams for councillors and campaigners, future campaign leaders and leaflet designers. I have never actually been to a UK wide Kickstart event so it's fantastic to be able to take part virtually in this one. Our brilliant #NextGen15 team! Lots learnt so far, and lots more to come! #KickstartOnline pic.twitter.com/ShHZFMM5l4 — ALDC (@ALDC) November 28, 2020 What was particularly impressive is that this event was provided free to Lib Dem members. In a year ...
A problem which I first became aware of a couple of years back has resurfaced or perhaps it never went away? My previous blog posting from 2018 refers – see link below:- Whilst I cycle a lot around Sefton's East Parishes and out into West Lancs I don't use this junction to cross the busy A59 very often but having been contacted again about the sensors under the road surface not picking up the presence of cyclists on the dairy side of this junction I've resurrected the matter with Sefton Council Highways and raised it at a Lydiate Parish ...
Thanks to lockdown I'm not getting the chance to meet Liberal Democrat members and supporters at events in the way I'd usually do.
I am not quite sure when Insomnia became an issue for me. I was born in 1960 and it may have been in the early 2000s (20 years ago at the time of writing), but I know it was an issue for a long time. I had tended to get into the habit of normally going to sleep drunk, waking up in the middle of the night and then hoping to get some reasonable sleep between perhaps 6am and 7am so that I was
Return of the Jedi won the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1984. The other finalists were, in order of finishing, The Right Stuff, WarGames, Brainstorm and Something Wicked This Way Comes. All were cinematic productions. I haven't seen any of the others (NB that The Right Stuff has no speculative fiction content, even though it is about astronauts and spacehips.) All the old gang are back, so I'm not going to run through the usuals, except to note that this is the fourth consecutive Hugo-winning film to star Harrison Ford (after The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost ...
Sat 28th
13:35
On the death of Simon Lissauer - A Ludlow homeless man who was lost in life but had many friends
Simon Lissauer was a homeless man who had slept in a garage in Ludlow for at least ten years. He died Wednesday night in a hotel provided by Shropshire Council to give him shelter during the second lockdown and because he had complained of being unwell. The death of Simon has affected many people. His friends here in Ludlow and beyond. The team of council officers who had been working so hard to help him. There is a sense of failure amongst us. Simon could be difficult to deal with at times. But we were getting closer to get him ...
Who on earth would deport people in the middle of a global pandemic? From the Independent: The Home Office has scheduled a deportation flight to Jamaica on the day England's month-long coronavirus lockdown lifts, sparking outrage and accusations of institutionalised racism. Speaking with The Independent, Zita Holbourne, the national co-chair of Black Activists Rising Against Cuts UK and the organiser of a long-running petition calling on the Home Office to end "mass deportations" to Jamaica, said it was a dangerous step to deport people during a pandemic. She said she was disturbed to learn the government had planned the deportation ...
Of all the Commonwealth islands in the West Indies, Jamaica is the most varied and vibrant. The scenery ranges from the misty Blue Mountains to the beaches of Montego Bay and the waterfall at Ocho Rios. Small wonder that several British writers found sanctuary there, notably Noël Coward and Ian Fleming. But for me what [...]
Fri, 12:56: The Missing Melodrama of "Lovecraft Country" https://t.co/8RbPvbE1j7 I quite enjoyed the show, but I think this is fair. Fri, 15:10: Tears of the Giraffe, by Alexander McCall Smith Actually this is *very* light reading. The actual mystery is not very mysterious, and is resolved by our heroine by feminine intuition. #nwbooks https://t.co/IEFjyjdfwR https://t.co/fAPya2S6yf https://t.co/458zpDT3E6 Fri, 15:37: As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner Intense stream-of-consciousness tale of a poor Mississippi family, fulfilling their mother's dying wish to be buried in her distant home town. The family dynamics are weird. #nwbooks https://t.co/5tspYu6qAT https://t.co/VKHZ2ffT0L https://t.co/4y6LceuYmS Fri, 16:05: Monkey Planet/Planet of ...
Is a rebranding imminent?
Sat 28th
09:31Ludlow Tesco complains people are using its car park without shopping and wants stricter parking con...
There is a lack of car parking for the town's supermarkets of Station Drive. That's almost impossible to solve. Some people park in Tesco to shop there. Others shop in Aldi or the town centre without visiting Tesco. The car park is free, as is the Aldi car park. Charges apply in the council owned Galdeford car park. Its lowest deck, nearest to Tesco, is often full of vehicles owned by town centre workers and train travellers by first thing in the morning. Tesco is concerned that its car park is being used by people who spend no money at ...
i) births and deaths 28 November 1987: birth of Karen Gillan, who played Amy Pond in the Eleventh Doctor era (2010-12) and also one of the Soothsayers in The Fires of Pompeii (Tenth Doctor, 2008). ii) broadcast anniversary 28 November 1964: broadcast of "The Daleks", second episode of the story we now call The Dalek Invasion of Earth. On the flying saucer, the Doctor passes the Daleks' intelligence test and is made ready for robotisation. 28 November 2015: broadcast of Heaven Sent. The Doctor is trapped in a mysterious castle. Over and over. For billions of years. (Two exceptionally good ...
Sat 28th
08:25
Man and teen who tried to blow up Shepshed cash machine found cowering in a tree trunk
They'll be dancing on their desks at the Leicester Mercury tonight. They've only gone and won our Headline of the Day Award.
Great update from the friends of Botanic Garden, University of Dundee : "As some of you will be aware, the Friends' Anthology has now been published. The fundamental purpose of the book is to raise awareness of the Garden within the city and further afield. From stories and poetry to sketches and paintings, contributors colourfully express their emotional response to the Garden in all its seasons, exploring and emphasising the importance of the space. The book retails for £19.99 and can be purchased at Garden reception on any day of the week, and also in the Macro-Micro building within the ...
