Trollie's friends

Trollie and friend

Saying hello, ears back sign of subservience. The box on the collar a behaviour control device (legal)

Hanson Cement from Nant-y-Frith

Trollie's new play area

Two acres of enclosed field with good quality sheep fence to run around on..

Dolly and Trollie

 

On Trollie's new play field all enclosed with sheep fence so he can have a run off lead.

Moel Famau and Black Mountain at Nercywys on the right

Trollie's new mate at Nant y Ffrith

It's cold and I have a cold

When your partner has a cold its hard to avoid one yourself. It's a year or more since my last one. I have a 1000 things to do, I do not feel like doing anything. Sleep is strange, everything is just existence without much joy. After a cold I always feel better, more toned, more refreshed. Just a week or two to go.

A55 Chaos

And in the real world The Daily Post

Winter Snow

Everything – whether you live in the middle of town or the middle of the countryside and however dull and quotidian – is stiller, quieter. The pace of life is forced to slow in a land suddenly rendered both beautiful and unfamiliar. You can't help but look at your world anew and the sight restores and replenishes, at some deep and primal level, the soul. It's the loss of that sense of restoration that causes us to bemoan the modern lack of proper seasons.


Link The Guardian

Carry on Speeding

Link Walesonline

No electric trains for Penyffordd

in The Daily Post

Quote " Wales is the only European country with not a single metre of electrified track other than Albania and Moldova.”

Twitter the snow

If you do Twitter you can Twit if its snowing near you.
Here's the current snowfall.

http://uksnow.benmarsh.co.uk/

At the time of blogging its snowing in East England, North Wales and a little in Scotland.

postscript. The standard of comment by some who Twitter is derisory. No wonder I leave the social platforms alone.

Christmas presents

If your stuck have a look here, also some good curry houses. The Northern Face gloves look good

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/christmas10/chrgif/the-50-best-christmas-gifts-for-men-1038266.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/the-50-best-curry-houses-2138567.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/christmas10/chrgif/the-50-best-christmas-gifts-for-women-1838587.html

So radiation is bad for you

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/is-it-time-we-learnt-to-love-radiation-2142997.html

Not much happening in Penyffordd

My new slippers have come via Ebay ordered the day before yesterday. It's freezing but it looks like we will miss the snow for now. My favourite commentator on life is back at his seat after a holiday in Australia  http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/. If you want to read a comical look at Australia scroll back through his previous comments.

Banks

in The Guardian. These are the banks we have bailed out. They should be nationalised. They are currently of no use to society just a huge drain with no benefit except for rhemselves. Eric the Cantona has recommended the withdrawal of savings from these banks. He has a valid point.

This is how it continues David Malone ( slight swearing) The comments are worth a read.

Links
Jim Corr
Dominic Lawson

Waste Matters

Brian November 22, 2010 at 16:07If you murder someone make sure you put them in the right bin. Just leaving them somewhere counts as fly-tipping and the only defence to that is being a traveller.

Link Anna Raccoon 

We are a stupid nation

The Labour government previous wrecked this country's finances. ( It is yet to be played out)  Now they are in the lead poll wise with a vacuous leader who talks of "profound change" bullshit. Why are we soooooooooooo thick?

Link
The Guardian

Ed Milliband

Our favourite curry house

named the best in Wales. The chicken tikka masala which is NOT a traditional Asian dish but created in the UK is divine. Sir Anthony Hopkins thinks it's good he pops in if he is within 50 miles of the place. Me I'd have it airmailed to California.

Links
BBC NE Wales
Bengal Dynasty

We're all doomed!

 

I have had an email today from a partner of the Motley Fool. The email is advertising their financial news letter. The basic message is 

a. Get out of property as an investment ( not your home)

b. Buy Gold

c. Get rid of anything to do with the Euro

d.  The Bond market is about to burst

e. The FTSE 100 companies are well over valued.

Link (not sure for how long)

http://www.fsponline-recommends.co.uk/page.aspx?u=toxicendo&tc=LMYKLB09&PromotionID=2147067298&

The above happens when governments fail to regulate markets properly then try to hold everything together with manipulation.

None of the above should be classed as financial advice.The sites I read however are all shouting the above. We shall see.

 

An ex policeman's view of law and order

(and mine) in The Mail.

"As a retired police officer I, and many of my colleagues, have always felt that the government have always deliberately put hurdles in the way of the police gaining convictions resulting in terms of imprisonment.
The prison population has remained relatively static in the last 50 years yet the crime rate has increased dramatically.
My impression was that the government created legislation and procedures to make policing so difficult that a specialist solicitor could always get somebody of on a technicality (deliberately built in).
Another way of keeping effectiveness down is woolly soft sentencing. When I joined the service anyone assaulting an officer automatically went to prison. The theory was that the courts must protect those that protect the public.
Now, they don't even necessarily get prosecuted for that. Offenders can even badly beat up the elderly and still avoid prison.
The government does not protect its public and has not done so during my lifetime."

- Dave, Gloucester, 22/11/2010 00:15

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331806/More-police-streets-does-NOT-mean-crime-claims-minister-Nick-Herbert.html#ixzz15zwDXkFY

A Blogger exposes himself

The Druid of Anglesey has come out. His blog is the way forward for democracy. Flintshire could do with a couple of Druids. Their flavour of no consequence just an honest dialogue and a way forward. IWJ non comment and Albert Owen MP comment are to be expected if the blog is read as their non performance is constantly mentioned.

Link Daily Post

Mark Tami MP in the House

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Business, Innovation and Skills: Topical Questions (18 Nov 2010)
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Mark Tami: In response to my hon. Friend  the Member for Wrexham (Ian
Lucas) and my right hon. Friend  the Member for Leicester East (Keith
Vaz), the Secretary of State gave vague assurances on intra-company
transfers, particularly those that are vital to the future of Toyota on
Deeside. When will he finally end the uncertainty that still hangs over
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The View from Model Farm over to the Cheshire Plain

The Coalition Government is making cuts

Public borrowing rises yet again.....................

Link Bloomberg

Alison is saying nothing

Link Alison Halford

Road safety and vigilantism

in The Economist. The police as usual quite happy for the slaughter to continue.

Chester Rd traffic survey.

Chester Rd is having a traffic survey. I've asked Cllr Cindy Hinds who put it there and for what purpose. Cindy knows nothing. This seems to be par for county councils. To my mind anything done in a ward, our representative should know what's happening, they are just not told.

This unit is different to speed survey equipment held by Flintshire Highways and Gosafe. They use doppler wave technology with no wires.

On a general note this machinery is currently everywhere I go in Wrexham Borough Council and some Flintshire trunk roads. 

Link
Countonus
Tube Counter

keyword: count on us,

Investment in Chester Rd, a new waste bin.

Flintshire towns get millions spent on them but hey let's not moan. This one's smart and has been bolted down well. Anything not bolted down gets lifted up and thrown around by those short of something to do or those with too much ale inside them.

I am not made of the right stuff

For the last few years I have had the annual opportunity to travel to a golf country club in Derby with £50 in spends plus travelling expenses for a days golf. After two goes I have decided it's not worth the candle. Braving the morning and evening rush hours a right PIA.

In The Flintshire Chronicle we have Geoff Coote who travels from Derby to Sandycroft and back every working day. A 200 mile trip and three hours of travelling along some of UK's busiest roads. A large photo of Geoff with the reported article. He looks very pleased with himself , I think a prime candidate for therapy.........

Idiots who block you in or out of your drive

This year I have had some problems with idiots. They block my drive with their cars then come back maybe five or ten hours later.
Hence the various signs plastered on my gate. (its still happening).

Here's a man who has the right idea. His punishment completely wrong.

Link http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1330189/Pensioner-caught-CCTV-using-car-shunt-vehicle-blocking-garage.html

Remembrance Sunday 2010

Penyffordd and district remember those who have fallen in the wars. The weather cool with rain. Those present that I  recognize. Cllr Cindy Hinds, Cllr David Williams, Arthur Arnold, John Martin and wife, Tony and Decima Hodge, CBM Howie Williams on duty with his military service medals on full display. Also in attendance former Penyffordd CBM Ian Millington in the leading police car..

 

Quantitative easing explained USA style, we're doing it too

Cattle trouble again

We hate walking through fields with cattle in. We have just about given up excepting there being a very healthy distance and an option to get out the field before they get to you. Having bull terriers who wish to "engage" makes it ten times worse.
Here's a couple who did not make it.

Link Mailonline

The policeman's policeman Sgt Antony Heaword of Deeside

Flintshire Footpaths

I have a bit of a whinge over footpath issues in Flintshire. Cllr Cindy Hinds got the footpath over the road sorted recently for us Penyffordd footpath walkers. Barbwire across the top of the stile is quite popular. I have had one woman in Treuddyn asking me to get out of her garden when I was standing on a public footpath. Still haven't got her sorted. FCC seem decidedly slow for some reason.
Klaus can come in handy you know, especially if he hasn't been in the paper for awhile.

It does seem however we are well ahead of counties in South Wales. Carmarthen has only 35% of public rights of way open. Here is God's country on the edge of Flintshire, not known to many..................

Links WalesOnline

Angela Merkel makes them have it

Speaking in Seoul, where she is attending the G20 summit, Dr Merkel acknowledged her demands have upset the markets but insisted it was unfair for taxpayers to be saddled alone with the cost of sovereign rescues. “Let me put it simply: in this regard there may be a contradiction between the interests of the financial world and the interests of the political world,” Dr Merkel said.

“We cannot keep constantly explaining to our voters and our citizens why the taxpayer should bear the cost of certain risks and not those people who have earned a lot of money from taking those risks.”

Link The Irish Times.Com

Shed Thefts

HUNDREDS of pounds of gardening equipment was stolen from a shed in Penyffordd between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, November 2-3.


Link Francesca Elliott at The Flintshire Leader


Looks like they knew what they were looking for, Stihl is good stuff. I have stuff similar to that stolen, it's next to where the dogs sleep.....

Temporary good news for Chester, Wrexham and Corwen Rds

Link Daily Post

Then the flood gates open courtesy of Flintshire County Council and the Welsh Assembly Government when A55 Warren Bank exits open in December.

Houses recently sold

4 Holly Drive £140,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0NE 3rd September 2010

22 Coed Y Graig £170,000
Penymynydd, CH4 0XD 1st September 2010


6 Coed Terfyn £171,000
Penymynydd, CH4 0XB 6th August 2010


8 Fairview £136,500
Penyffordd, CH4 0HZ 21st September 2010

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..............................