Hierarchies

Today we have had a kerfuffle between the dogs. We have the bitch who has been boss since she came and we have the young upstart puppy who pushes the envelope. There are house rules, puppy is not allowed in the kitchen which is the bitches' domain. 

The dogs have to be kept separate after being fed. 

So this evening we have one dog nursing superficial wounds to ears and cheeks. The puppy (young dog)  handed the damage out. When we first had the puppy he limped around for a month after he got taught a lesson by the bitch. So things even themselves out... .......

Dogs are domesticated wolves, their instincts persist, I am top dog after that it gets a bit hazy..............

Link Hierarchy

The Long Weekly Walk

Last Sunday saw us on top of  Pen Llan y Gwr. It's the mountain behind Hope Mountain. On top is a concrete block with the above object on. A three hour walk which returned my injured foot which I thought was better...............

Lovely views over the Dee, Mersey, Wirral estuary, Hope mountain, Black mountain, Nercwys and Erryrys.

On our way around we bumped into a friendly local who has two sheep dogs one of which is called scumbag. Always welcome to pass the time of day. He lives on one side of the road on Bryn Common his brother on the other side. They are like chalk and cheese. One friendly, one hostile.

Links 

http://penyffordd-district.blogspot.com/2009/11/days-walk-to-pen-llan-y-gwr.html

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833579.kml&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=websearch

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?

q=http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833579.kml&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=websearch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmark_(surveying)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey

http://www.freeimageslive.co.uk/free_stock_image/triangulationmarker0565jpg

Penyffordd Bonfire 2010

This was taken from the bedroom window. I sat Trolly the bull terrier on the window sill and he watched the lot. Other dogs we have had  hated the bangs. The night was a success, loads there, the organisers did a good job.

Later some friends called in and suggested a visit down the local hostelry. So in we went, most of the tables set up for food so we ended up on a bench next to the pool table and parrot. Not very impressed. Prices of ale are eye watering ( the same everywhere) , no wonder we do not go out very often. Perhaps we should have gone to the Red.

Lisa's Kitchen Leftovers

 

The recipe - leftovers because it was what the Penyffordd Wine Circle didn't get to.

Pastitsio

Hedge laying competition takes place in Penyffordd

here in The Daily Post

Penyffordd based group raise money

NORTH Wales Charity Ramblers has donated £12,000 to Wales Air Ambulance after a year of fundraising for the lifesaving organisation.

The Penyffordd-based group raised the cash through a variety of sponsored events over the past 12 months.

Story here Flintshire Chronicle

Lisa's Kitchen - Spaghetti Bolognese

Inspector Martin Best

has  five loaves and two fishes to play with in The Leader. Perhaps its time for North Wales Police to return to core community policing and such nonsenses as diversity officers etc kicked into to touch.

Penyffordd is joint policed with Higher Kinnerton  by CBM Howie Williams.
Penyffordd has about 3000 residents, HK will have similar or less.

What nobody asks is what does a CBM actually do in his working week?

The Slog does Australia

here

The Persistence of Penyffordd Community Council

Yes you are reading correctly. Penymynydd Rd, Penymynydd has an access only section at the top. This is because it is a major route to St John's junior school at the top.
It has no pavements as it is too narrow, it is unsuitable for traffic.
How many years have PCC pressed NWP to enforce the access only ?

1 year
5 years
10 years

Still CBM Howie Williams refuses to book people who take short cuts from Wellhouse. In the Council Minutes for September Howie still comes up with excuses on why he will not do his job.

One suggestion. Get Mervyn to deliver a letter to the Wellhouse ,Tate and Green Park estates saying as from a certain date ALL non access only traffic will be booked. It will cost a few bob but its fair.

How to keep local papers

At a time when local readership continues to shrink here is how one proprietor keeps going.

Link The Independent

Giving money to BT for free

You would think BT has enough money barring the pension fund hole but that's another matter. Recently we have signed a new contract with BT over broadband. We have got a good reduced rate in exchange for a capping of 12 gigabite per month. We get fined for over use the current month being £8.

Why are we going over our limit? I now have our wireless network box encrypted so any laptops in the area apart from ours cannot hitch a free ride on the net. I have found a free little program called Networx which logs net use by all computers to help evaluate our bandwidth situation.

So I am thinking we might be signed up as a slave for some robot army, programs are closed down all except one machine with Mozilla and Outlook Express open. Outlook turns out to be the broadband hog.

We leave one computer on 24/7 for various reasons to do with databases. I had emails set up to look for new emails once a minute, then I altered it to once an hour. If no one is using the net our machine with OE open consumes about 7 meg per hour.  24 hours x 7 meg is 168meg per day.

On a 30 day month this is 5 gigabytes per month which is nearly half our monthly allowance.

So no more gifts to BT..................

Salmon with Cous Cous

I feel like Michael ( in Ryan's Daughter)

and have done for about a week now. I have torn (I think) a muscle in my foot behind my toes. Apparently there are 4 layers of muscles there. It's hard to see from this picture but this is the excellent actor Sir John Mills hobbling around as the village idiot. The doctor (Lisa) thinks it was done by being dehydrated whilst playing golf at Maesdu, perhaps she is right. The treatment for most stuff like this seems to be rest.

It is very frustrating not to be able to do what I normally do. Rooney is having the same issues...

Thank you to Cllr Linda Vidamour

I read in the Penyffordd Council minutes for September that Linda (Chairman) had pressed CBM Howie Williams to do traffic policing in Chester Rd. A councillor with some grit. We need more of those.

It would be fair to say I could not have written the letter that appeared in The Flintshire Chronicle if I had known the above. That's where Penyffordd Community Council are constantly stupid. If residents such as me are given information we cannot complain.

You get fed up of looking in the draw at the Penyffordd Post Office for the minutes. If they were online that would be good but we can't have residents having information at hand, it's made as difficult as possible.

‘Mewsings’ Of A Member

read here

The murky workings of Flintshire County Council.

Quote
"Codes of Conduct hang over the backbenchers like the sword of Damocles and one Executive member has really left a bad impression by being described as treating a particular cllr as “shite on the shoe”.  Not good!"

One wonders which executive member? It gives you a flavour of how county council's are run. Mobiles handed out like sweeties but you can't get hold of anyone, service provided but not for the benefit of those who need it. My FOIE's ring similar to what is said above.
Avoidance and prevarication at many points. The complete opposite of the private sector.

Penymynydd schoolchildren hold fundraising car wash

by Francesca Elliott here

North Wales Police

Since the above will not traffic police Chester Rd, Penyffordd I feel they are fair game to take a pot shot at in the local media. It's quite easy to do. Just read the local papers and wait for the opportunity to criticise. The down side being I can expect no help from our CBM should I require police help.

It should also be pointed out that Penyffordd Cllrs back the non action by the police over school children's, pensioners lives and our village centre environment. The easiest solution would have been back in 2007 for NWP to pile on police presence and media coverage to kill (euphemistically) the 2000 odd speeders dead.

NWP being standard for a public organisation at the moment will not do what those who pay their wages want. Whether it be patrolling the streets, ignoring speeders and illegal exhausts or whatever.

I may get a letter in the local papers in the next day or so criticising their Spanish practices.

Roll on the Police Commissioner appointment. Lets have some accountability.

Shock surprise Cllr Alison Halford has a male lodger sharing her bed

Alison appears to have been on operational silence this past month, now two blogs in two days.
Link Alison Halford

False hopes for Alison

I wish Alison would keep her Flintshire county council stuff in one place. It used to be in Council Capers, its been elsewhere and now its in "Musings". Discipline Alison we need discipline.

Alison has the only view of county council apart from Council Leader Arnold Woolley on the net.

This entry below discusses the news brought by the Tory leader that Arnold was going to stand down. Champagne is called for then its found out not to be true. Who's winding up the Tory Leader?

Link Musings

Postscript: The Leader reports today that Alison has been reported to the Welsh Ombudsman for bullying Council Leader Arnold Woolley.

Penyffordd Bonfire 2010

 

at the Penyffordd Institute on Saturday 6th November 2010.

Gates open at 6.00 pm.

Pick of the day

Everything you wished to know about endocrine disruptors

but were afraid to ask. As I write I have one on the table next to me.

Link http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/EDs-PWG-16jun01.htm

My sort of guy

In the Daily Mail

Carl Sargeant AM calls for action on speeding drivers in Higher Kinnerton

here in The Flintshire Leader
and here in Penyffordd there is no interest in the safety of school children or OAP's or village environment. CBM Howie Williams is on strike supported by Chief Superintendent Ruth Purdie, Inspector Martin Best and  Penyffordd Cllrs.

Would a councillor wish to comment on why they will not press NWP to do their job? We are currently spending £300 a month on a traffic warden. It's a little known fact that speeding cars kill more people than stationary ones.

Or perhaps a statement to say that they are happy with 1800 speeders a day which was the last count by Flintshire County Council.

Dobshill speed limits

I understand there is movement over this long standing issue. Moves have been started by Flintshire Highways to reduce the open speed limit currently in place. I believe we have a new broom in charge of Highways

Here's a clever chap

If you want to understand why the country is in it's current mess.
You could try this http://gregpytel.blogspot.com/

Economists talking rubbish again

Quote in The Guardian " "The second successive fall in retail sales in September is surprising and particularly worrying given the importance of consumer spending to the economy," said Howard Archer at IHS Global Insight.


There is bad news everywhere and these plonkers expect us to carry on as normal filling up the credit cards.
Full rubbish story in The Guardian


A lot of us started to buckle down quite some time ago. These people live in cloud cuckoo land.

Jobs

Today it will be announced that jobs are to go, this is very, very sad. I think it should be made illegal to make jobs for political ends as Gordon Brown has done for the last dozen years. Same goes for immigration for votes.

Link The Telegraph

Hydroponics

I have about 140 strawberry plants enough one supposes to feed half of Penyffordd. Suffice to say this has not happened. Hydroponics has the potential to increase crops many fold with a vast increase in taste quality.

 Although aware of hydroponics I have left it alone due to my uneasyness with what seems a chemical process. There is also the issue of growing in plastics. PVC and other plastics are used a lot in hydroponics. Plastics whilst appearing to be magic have the properties in them known as endocrine disrupters. Fish in polluted lakes in the USA are ending up with multiple sex organs. It would be fair to say I have had enough trouble with one..............So plastics in growing vegetables and storing foods need to changed. Baby items such as milk bottles offer a steady stream of endocrine disrupters, this is not a good thing.

So I am looking for a low energy 12 v hydroponic system that uses as many non plastics as possible and definitely no PVC. So we are talking porcelain and glass vessels, clay pipes, bamboo with a 12 volt led growlight system. This might be enough to get the bobby chopper hovering over my new polytunnel wondering what I am growing in the green and red light...............The market for growing mind altering substances with hydroponics seems to be a multi billion £ business, my equipment will be for veg Howie!

Current Political Lineup Flintshire County Council

The composition of the 70-member ‘hung’ council now is: Labour 22, Independent Non-Aligned 18, Liberal Democrats 10, Conservatives 9, New Independents nine, Plaid Cymru one, as well as Saltney councillor Klaus Armstrong-Braun.


Info:  Flintshire Leader

Flintshire Council leader’s future

THE leader of Flintshire Council Cllr Arnold Woolley is expected to announce whether he will stand down today.

"But Cllr Heesom, a former member of Cllr Woolley’s executive committee, insisted that the demands have not come from his rival group.
He said: “We believe this request actually came from within his own group.”

Full story Daily Post

You are what you eat - food for thought

A South African I admire's view on food and organs of the body. (well someone who passed it on to him)

Link Synaptoman

High above the skies of Penyffordd

Seen Saturday morning two buzzards. Maybe 3000 feet up.

A village view on speeding

St Catherine's village Speed Watch

Nutter's Corner

Since I spend a fair bit of my existence outside the weather is of interest. This is David Icke's  take on the weather forecast. I'm hoping he is wrong.

Link David Icke

Alison Halford is NOT blogging

It seems the authorities take a very dim view of transparency and the public's right for open debate. This is all wrong.

Here is Alison not blogging.

Link Alison Halford

Hope Sport Centre - Cllr Tim Newhouse

 His Speech to a Flintshire County Council committee


Yesterday and today Richard Penney, Jon Merrick, Dave Kay and I spent 10 and a half backbreaking hours starting the creation of new turf cricket pitches at Hawarden High School.

We are doing this voluntarily over the next six months because the shameful legacy that this Council has left is that no inter school cricket was played in Flintshire last year.

This is the type of project that councils in Australia do – because they know the many and varied benefits that sport brings to people's lives.

In 2007, I started the only female cricket team in North Wales. It involved coaching at schools, setting up an inter school competition, forming a squad and then running the team, which still plays today in the Cheshire League.

This is the type of project that councils in Australia do – because it is the right thing to do.

This Council gets off very lightly financially when it comes to sport and leisure because of the huge contribution of mugs like me.

Council's investment in this vital area is pathetic.

It's record at Hope Sports Centre is an embarrassment.


At the end of my four-year term, I will be able to point to millions of pounds worth of new community assets that I have brought to Hope at no cost to Flintshire Council.

I will also be able to point to hundreds of thousands of pounds of extra income that I have helped Hope generate for the Council.

The least that the people of Hope should expect in return is for its Sports Centre to have increased investment in it. The formula is simple, if you invest in a Sports Centre, more people will use it. If you don't invest, fewer people will use it and then some narrow-minded bean-counter will call for its closure.


Give me unfettered access in County Hall and I'll identify £609,364 in waste inside a week.

Attack sport and you attack me. Attack Hope and you attack me. This is a war that should not have been started.


If we are to be driven entirely by profit – then I fail to see why we have a Head of Leisure Services or an Executive Member for Leisure, because I don't see either of those positions turning a profit. All I see is a diminishing service.

Mr Chairman, let us not waste any more time on this insult to our intelligence. Let us take the vote now to consign this wafer-thin, bean-counting document to the recycling depot where it can be transformed into toilet paper.

Cllr Tim Newhouse

Member of the Lifelong Learning Overview & Scrutiny Committee
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Link The Daily Post

It is hoped that Penyffordd Councillors will back Cllr Tim Newhouse whatever their political persuasion. Sport is a vital pathway to channel youth energy in a positive manner for Flintshire society. As you can see Tim is on a war path. Flintshire could do with more cllrs like Tim.

The Global Warming Hoax

from a physicist's point of view. here

Whilst here in N Wales

"Meic Davies, North Wales flood risk manager for Environment Agency Wales, said: “Climate change is happening, which means sea levels will rise and coastal communities will be placed at greater risk of flooding from the sea."


Link James Delingpole (over 3000 comments and counting)

New FCC Independent Group members named

Leader Patrick Heesom
Deputy Leader Former Lib Dem Carolyn Cattermoul
Former Lib Dem Tim Newhouse for Hope
Cllr Ray Hughes
Cllr Carolyn Thomas
Cllr Dave MeFarlane
Cllr Rita Johnson
Cllr Peter Pemberton
Cllr Emlyn Cooke

Sacking your councillor (not really)

also in The Druid

The Great Councillini opines on FOIE

and so says Penyffordd District who has struggled in this area greatly.

The Great Councillini said...

Mine wasn't a FoIA request, but a criticism of the methodology used.

I wouldn't shy away from FoIA requests if I were you; it is your statutory right, given by Parliament, and unless you are acting unreasonably or vexatiously, the public body must respond. Remember, it is not a public body's right to know why you want the information, nor what purpose to which you will put it.

Think of it this way: by making requests and insisting compliance with statute law, you are improving matters for everyone, including the bodies themselves, who often need considerable improvements in how they handle FoIA requests.

The Druid nails North Wales Police Authority

Druid quote  " So there you are: you can choose between 


(a) a number of unelected appointees/quangocrats who clearly do not feel they have to respond to reasonable questions from members of the general public; or 


(b) an elected commissioner who will be held directly accountable to residents for police priorities and performance.


I'm with The Druid ie B


Time for NWPA to be wound up.


Link The Druid 

As it appears that Cllr Woolley's Leadership of Flintshire hangs in the balance

This is what Arnold has to say about how Flintshire will be affected in future. I am of the opinion of what he says will come to pass with or without him being in charge. Click link below.

Link Arnold Woolley website

Power struggle at Flintshire County Council

in The Leader

Little Known Practices on Farms No. 342

Elwyn of Green Lodge tells us he has been clipping the nether regions of his sheep over the weekend ready for mating. This makes it easier for the ram apparently. Below is one of his ugly sheep, its called a Belgian Texel or a Beltex in this country. This type will stand their ground against a bull terrier (on lead)

 

1. Links Beltex Sheep Society

Penyffordd lady can taste colours

Julia Hobbs inherited synaethesia from her mother Gwen which is a condition which mixes emotions.  Full story in the Leader. Emotions are not the same as senses but lets not split hairs over unique gifts.

Links  
The Leader
The Daily Post

Wikipedia Synesthesia

Penymynydd International Call Up

TWINS from Penymynydd have battled their way into the Junior Great Britain water polo team.
Charlie and Tilly, 15, read the rest in the Flintshire Chronicle.

Penyffordd Rat

 

Not sure if its a good career move living in the garden. There's next door with the poison and Trolley the ratter our bull terrier will dispatch the poor fellow in about 5 seconds. This part of the garden is separate from the dogs. Anyway I wish it the best of luck.

Penyffordd District Place Stone

 

It would appear my memory fails, this has been seen before.

A Police Inspector blogs

This is very depressing but true.  Inspector Gadget

Some of the photos are graphic with blood. It is not in North Wales.

A Community and Council that care about their children

No not Penyffordd silly, I mean Brynford.

Link  The Leader

Seen whilst out today

Houses for sale Penyffordd district

Property for sale
The list below shows what is currently on the market for sale near you. To search for more property on the market click here.

Address	Type	Beds	Price	Listed On
Chester Road	Semi-D	2	£169,950	21-06-2010
Hawarden Road	Detached	4	£300,000	18-01-2010
Abbotts Lane	Semi-D	3	£160,000	10-08-2009
West View	Detached	3	£180,000	08-05-2008
Lower Mountain Road		3	£420,000	26-04-2010

Thought for the Day

This from Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813):
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.

From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship...

The average of the world’s greatest civilisations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:-
From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependence back to bondage."

Victims of anti-social behaviour can name and shame police who don't help them, says Theresa May in crackdown on louts

I seem to remember ex Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom saying speeding was anti social behaviour. Wednesday it's Penyffordd Community Council meeting where speeding on Chester Rd will continue to be ignored.

Link Daily Mail

Houses sold in Penyffordd district recently

5 Ferndale Close £145,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0NH 6th August 2010

5 St Johns Close £245,000
Penymynydd, CH4 0YT 16th July 2010

27 Green Park £185,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0LY 16th July 2010

5 Wats Road £90,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0HD 23rd July 2010

23 Abbottsford Drive £192,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0JG 30th June 2010

You can search all these sales totally free of charge by going to OurProperty.co.uk.

NWP expecting 25% cut

It will not make much difference to Chester Rd anyway. With Penyffordd Cllrs agreement our CBM doesn't have to do traffic policing.
Money for nothing chicks for free as far as Chester Rd police precept payers are concerned.

Links  

Daily Post 

Daily Post 2

In Penyffordd its raining

and miserable. In Ireland they have worked out that banker's greediness is going to cost every citizen of Ireland £10,000. (up to now)

Link Irish anger

Meanwhile UK, Greece, Portugal, Italy, Germany, France and USA are all in big trouble.

The Druid explains how much of a hole we are in here

Brighter weather possibly this afternoon.

Glad I didn't pay £430 to go to the Ryder Cup..............................

Clwyd and Border Golf Alliance Website

Alliance Aim

To foster the fraternal and fellowship elements of golf

http://www.candbgolfalliance.org.uk/

Website includes fixtures, tee times and results.
The site is password protected for member use

Match Secretary
Mike Parry

Tee Time Hotline  01352 710044

The dogs having a game

North Wales Police - What they are allowed to get away with

The excellent Druid.

Badger seen next to Penyffordd train station

Scuttling up the bank next to the road. First time we have seen a live one. We know where dozens of setts are. We have friends who have a sett within 50 yds of the house.

Blogger gets 19 years in jail

There's a few in Penyffordd would like that sort of penalty.

Link Telegraph

Tata Steel

John Summers Steel works ( Corus) to be renamed Tata Steel. No one would have thought 30 years ago that UK's steel industry would be decimated and the rest sold off to India with the active help of the EU. The above photo is similar to the two furnaces that were part of our local steel operation 40 years ago. As an apprentice I had the opportunity to see one of these furnaces in full operation. I also visited Brymbo Steel Works which used electric arc to make steel. In fact our own Cllr David Wiliams was an apprentice at British Steel another of it's names. We went to the local Tech college together.

Link Daily Post

Keynote speech by Ed Milliband new Labour Leader

"Look, let's be clear about this: I am not and never have been Gordon Brown, who of course was to blame for everything and I never liked him anyway. What I do have is a few worries about immigrants, a head of steam with which to fight mill-owning Tory infidels, and access to Ed Balls' gigantic brain with which to maul pipsqueak Old Etonian drapers. The policies used as weapons in this Holy Jehad will have been received by me direct from the hand of Mrs God (Harriette) , and will in turn be spread far and wide by the North English & Caledonian Society for the Propagation of the Labour Gospel (Old Testament revised version, 2010).
Unlike Lord Mandelson, I feel profoundly uncomfortable with the idle rich, and tend to come out in protesting hives whenever accidentally exposed to them. Thus will my trusty fag Mr Balls ensure that their riches are decimated by taxation in very short order. However, I find Trade Union officials to be well-intentioned and generous donors, although much maligned by the popular press which, at times, sails perilously close to the wind of change.
Above all, I accept the necessity for cuts, and pledge here and now to cut the hours worked by every teacher, nurse, civil servant, woman, black person, immigration official and export manager".

link The excellent Slog

When you are young

you do silly things.....................

OnlineTelegraph

Carnage continues

No traffic policing in N Wales equals http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/93635/motorcyclist-killed-on-a550-near-hawarden.aspx

Tinkersdale should have been made 30 mph 20 years ago. It is used a race track by many. When driving through its best to stay as far away as possible from the white line in the middle.

keywords. Cllr Clive Carver, Hawarden, A550, B5125,

Further Link Daily Post 

Postscript: This accident according to photos in the papers happened within 100 yds of a stop junction. It is a 30 mph stretch of road. It's opposite the top end of the carpark.

Chirk Carboot Sale

An Autumnal Walk nr Nant Y Ffrith Bwlchgwyn

Cllr Colin Bithell

I understand that Colin is not in the best of health. May he get well soon.

To The Indian

 

Or rather the Bangladeshi opposite BQ in Shotton. Possibly the best restaurant of its type in Wales or even UK. Sir Anthony Hopkins calls in specially if he is passing within a 100 miles of the place.

If it's good enough for Sir Anthony it's good enough for me. I always have the Chicken Tikka Masala, Lisa has 10 vegetarian curries to choose from. We have a portion of rice and chips with nan bread as well.

Tonight we have had a takeout which we set out as a meal at the table at home with heated plates. There is enough of it left for a second banquet tomorrow evening. ( I tell fibs more ammo will be needed for the curry left overs ( rice and chips) ).

The takeout can take up to 30 mins to do, best phone in order

Links 

Bengal Dynasty Shotton

The Takeout Menu

Penymynydd Car Collection Services placed in administration

Link Business Desk.com

To The Post Office

David has mentioned me in his latest councillor newsletter, perhaps the county's legal heavyweight Barry Davies will not be needed.

I see in Penyffordd Community Council minutes July 2010 that Chester Rd is to have it's road markings altered so that action can be taken against speeders. This was asked for months ago but county council moves in ways at it's own pace.

Will North Wales Police then do it's job, one of which is speeding? Not holding breath....

Public left to fight anti-social behaviour alone, says top policeman

Speeding is anti social behaviour. Chester Rd has been left on it's own for 4 years now. Perhaps this may change.

Quote "''They (the public) are on the streets and police are in buildings and vehicles, not doing other things. That is the critical issue."

Article in The Telegraph

Council to consider broadcasting meetings on the net.

No not Penyffordd silly, they still can't even get agenda or committee meeting minutes online.

Click Daily Post

UK a bad place to live

Read

The British Isles are the worst place to live in Europe, according to a new survey that claims residents endure higher prices, work harder and receive poorer public services than their counterparts on the continent. 

Link Telegraph

Also read 

UK pension gap worst in Europe

Britain has the largest pensions gap in Europe and people need to put £10,300 a year more on average into their pension pot if they want to keep their current standard of living in retirement, new research claims.

Link Herald Scotland 

Gordon Brown should be put in the tower ruining this country for personal ambition. Still you get the idiot you vote for on the ballot paper. 

Link Mailonline Crowded Britain

Postscript. The double dip second depression hasn't even started yet.

 

NWPA should go

The excellent Druid tells why here. They know speeding goes on in Chester Rd but do nothing, I've told them more than 50 times.

The Daily Post found out distorting information to suit their agenda

The comments on Druid needs reading.

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe

 

Which is the hot one?

Moe ,Capsicum Annuum Yellow hot pepper 3-6 inches long smooth skin 50,000-75,000 skus. Problem being you label plants then the sun takes the ink off.

Link www.dragonchillies.co.uk 

 

Life is changing fast

The Leader regularly has articles on how Buckley is turning into a ghost town and that pubs are closing. The credit crunch along with other factors have made people alter their lifestles drastically. We have had to alter ours and we have few overheads. In The Post there is an article on a pub landlord who has seen a 35% drop in turnover since last summer. These sort of figures are not sustainable and are being felt by a variety of business from top to bottom. I went in a BQ Super store last week. It was immediately apparent they were not doing very well. Stock levels of items was very minimal the racks looked three quarters empty.

There is no answer to the small shops closing unless there are radical solutions. What are required are very low business rates and low rentals without having to sign up for terms like 5 years.

This will not happen. The Private Sector which pays for the Public Sector is making large sacrifices. The Public Sector is going to have to change there is little money left.

The blogs I read say we are in for a double dip recession.

Penyffordd News - Little happening

We have a couple of lads with scooters buzzing around. Accidents waiting to happen, such is the current way of the world.
Oh! forgot the speeding traffic. Penyffordd councillors still collude with CBM Howie Williams to do nothing about speeding traffic on our major route to school.

postscript: scooters are breeding there are 4 of them now......eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Education, Educasion, Educashun

It would appear our previous government have cocked up our education system as well as allowing the bank crooks to spend all our money including that for the next 10 years. I took the 11 plus which I failed. My reasonable understanding of mathematics not good enough to counter my poor grasp of the english language. Technical college was taken up with the Theory of Flight, mathematics of stress, strains, etc. I have continued my education ever since in whatever direction was needed.


It would also appear our education system rewards those who make easier examinations. You would wonder which idiots would allow the dumbing down of education which is the hub of our future prosperity and culture. Step forward the Labour party. I am not expecting too much from the new incumbents, we will have to see.

Link Corrupt and Diseased Education System in The Independent

Dangerous Dogs in the Mailonline

 

Face like a box of frogs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1312606/Rescued-hyena-Odi-enjoys-better-good-bath.html

Millennium Milestone

Lisa's Kitchen Chicken Pasta

 

Chicken pasta with lettuce, grapes, various tomatoes out of the garden, avocado and parmesan cheese. Dressing made out of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic, chilli and basil.

The Compost Heap

Today I have been moving the compost heaps I have. I'm very rich I have four. The compost heap is the heart of fertility in the vegetable garden. Problem is they are all in the wrong place.

There's a resident of Cymau in The Leader. He found an adder (poisonous) with young in his compost bin. I have been taking things carefully. I have a friend who has grass snakes (non poisonous) in his compost heap. You draw the carpet back and they dive back down the holes in the compost.

Link The Leader

The Fun about to start

The Prologue.

Gordon Brown took 13 years spending all our money and that of our children in an effort to keep any Labour opposition out of government for decades. Immigrants allowed in by the million to further dilute the opposition vote. He nearly did it.......

Fast forward to present day. Labour have rightfully been kicked out of office but instead of hanging their heads in shame at what they have allowed to happen to our country they try to mess things up further.

The unions are organising strikes against cuts needed due to Gordon Brown's purposeful mis management.

What we can look forward to?
Inflation  - reduced pensions - civil unrest - not many new jobs, industry including the automotive laying off large numbers of workers. They will be making cars that no one will buy. Houses are nearly impossible to buy for first time buyers. We know a couple whose mortgage has jumped from £450 to £900 per month. They cannot afford this and are now renting. More of this sort of thing to come.

Abroad.
USA is weak and will not recover. Obama wil be defeated.
Greece will default on its sovereign debt next year.
Portugal. Ireland, Italy and Spain are in big trouble, so are we.
The Germans are holding lots of Greek debt.
All the banks are telling BIG lies.

China will be the new world leader.

Batten down the hatches

Saint Les Rowlands of Leeswood

or an alternative heading " Creative Car Maintenance for Beginners"

The exhaust has been making a noise for about a month now. Time to get it fixed. Les finds exhausts a bit of hassle, there is little profit , he does not have the right equipment so we went to a garage recommended by "a friend ".

So up the car goes on the ramp for a check. A hand over the exhaust end shows the exhaust to be in good shape, then there are murmers about the inlet manifold. Further investigation shows that to be ok. Bonnet up bang bang bang goes the engine. Second opinion sought from another mechanic.

Questions - Have we had the timing belt changed recently, does the vehicle run well? How much are we willing to pay? Talk of taking it apart to see what's up. Murmerings about sticking valves.

Put us right off our sandwich from Philpotts off Watergate Street.

It is decided a second opinion is required. This garage are talking serious money plus vehicle hire whilst its in. Up to Les at Leeswood. Bonnet raised a few seconds attention to the air filter body - knocking noise fixed. Les recommends a hole drilled in plastic filter body for a self tapping screw to replace broken locking bracket. Total cost zero.
The garage involved is in Saltney.

Les prepares / takes cars for MOT's, does honest work if it's needed for retests.
Telephone 01352 770199

Uncle Colin with Trollie, Gregori and George

 

A Walk in the Dark

 

A walk in the dark and the wet tonight. Saw a barn owl and I think pipistrelle bats, dozens of them. Last week we saw another type of owl. I think a tawny owl although it was a bit dark in colour. You can't hear them fly they run on silent.

Experts discuss Hanson Cement Padeswood concerns

Click NE BBC Wales

North Wales Police management can't be trusted

Is it not time to call a moratorium on statistics issued by North Wales Police?

Daily Post quote " Police could not comment on why some incidents were not being recorded. But from statistics that had been recorded, a spokeswoman said anti-social behaviour had reduced in April-July 2010 compared with the same period in 2009 – 15,810 to 15,035, down 4.9%. Last year anti-social behaviour incidents reduced from 44,903 in 2008/09 to 41,584 in 2009/10, a reduction of 7.4%."

Read the story here

I complained about anti social behaviour two weeks ago. The result silence from NWP.

Hughes Family Greek Contingent

Visiting UK. All multi lingual even young Derek ( a little ). Michael my brother fluent in Greek, French, German and English. Currently teaching English.

 

Derek and Sophia

 

Lisa reads Thomas the Tank Engine to Gregori who goes to school this year but talks to me as if he were 25 years old. " Uncle Colin what do you think.............."  etc

Derek and Michael

Michael's family including George ( Go Go) second from right but
excluding Alexander who did not make the trip

Millennium Book Signing today

 

At The Institute

Property sales August update

32 Green Park £145,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0LY 8th June 2010

this excludes most probably sales on Meadowslea

China the new world power

The excellent Slog.

Call to keep HGV's out of village

Alyn and Deeside AM Carl Sargeant is calling for the county council to address the concerns over HGV's  after conducting a recent survey of householders in Hawarden.

Link  Flintshire Chronicle

Why should HGV's come through Penyffordd if we have a bypass?

Penyffordd Community Council Meeting 2010

Half way through. Have just seen Howie. Is he to be let off speeding duty in Chester Rd? FCC have still not altered road paint on Chester Rd. Has anything been done over the impending increase in traffic from A55 Warren Bank exit that is currently being constructed?

When are we to get council agenda online?

Postscript: Was there a meeting? 
Further postscript: No there wasn't a meeting as some councillors were still in the Bahamas.
Meeting next Wednesday. Clerk Nigel has very kindly put all agenda sheets plain to see on the council notice board.