Lorry crash Penyffordd

LORRY CRASH: A lorry has banged into a Flintshire railway bridge and trains have been stopped for safety reasons. The incident happened on the A5104 in Penyffordd.
More will appear in The Daily Post ( to the right )

The bridge is fairly easy to miss. It's on a straight bit.
The road to Pontblyddyn one of the most dangerous in Flintshire.

The Lowlands

have been having a bad time.

http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/boat-sinks-river-dee-during-6378916

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/floods-your-photos-around-north-6379053

The attractions of Penyffordd were that it was a small Welsh village, it was well up above sea level and the mother in law could not get here on the bus!

When I were a lad in Scroft in 62 I had to wear my wellies to walk up the street. This of course was due to global warming.

When they canalised the River Dee they made it so water could not reach Sandycroft. Perhaps some one had left the water defenses up so that the river flowed back up the ditch.

I also walked on the River Dee in 1962. This not through Sainthood but due to the fact that the ice was a foot thick. I'm named after my dad's brother who drowned in Chester Canal in the blackout during the war.

The gateman at Graessers was under instruction to ring dad if I was seen heading towards the river.
The ditch that ran parallel to the road a perfect hidden route.

The threat of corporal punishment could not cancel the lure of the river.
It was also possible due to sandbanks to wade the river to the other side at Sealand.

Been there, got the tee shirt, the folly of youth.

Penyffordd Community Council meeting tonight at 6.30pm

All are welcome to attend.

http://penyfforddareacc.com/your-council-politics/community-council/minutes/90-october-agenda.html

Can't find November, December agendas can anyone help?


postscript: comments worth a read.

An email from one of my councillors

Good morning!

     I really don't want to disturb you about this but I had no one else to turn to. I'm in Ukraine to see my cousin who lives here. she's critically ill and needs family support. She is diagnosed with (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia) - a type of Blood Cancer in 2005 and she had been undergoing treatment since. The chemotherapy treatment was going fine until last week when the doctor noticed that the disease has relapsed and the only way she can survive is by undergoing a BMT (Bone Marrow Transplantation). My sister whose marrow matched she has agreed to be the donor and she will be undergoing the transplant soon at the Salvator Mundi International Hospital here in Kharkov, The estimate for the transplant is £6,000 GBP I have already spent approx. £3,500 GBP towards her treatment. Since the amount is huge, I request you to lend out a helping hand and support me with a loan of £2,500 GBP Since I don't know your financial status at the moment, any kind of help whatsoever will be deeply appreciated. Your help and support will give her a chance to live a normal life once again. There is nothing called a small help when the heart giving it is big. Any amount will be accepted with gratitude and paid back after the surgery. Please let me know how much you can loan me so that i can provide you with the details to get the money to me and, I will pay back as soon as I return.

Regards

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Name and email edited out. Not sure how these work. This is the second cllr this year that has sent me one of these. The second cllr in question had to change email address.
Not sure if just the email name is borrowed or they take over the email account. Hope I don't find out the hard way...............

Big Dog at Chirk Carboot

A 5 stone, 9 month old American Bull Dog. Soft as a brush. Now living in a good home.

Can't take ours he's like a bull in a china shop.

Village Xmas Decorations

have changed this year from the expensive street illumination accessories. I say expensive I do not know the cost but it's not cheap.
Each year my ear drums are subject to the why oh why do we have these naff xmas lights
I usually say bah humbug.

We are having a Christmas tree next to the Millenium Clock.
There is also a Xmas tree at Dobshill.

Faster Internet for Penymynydd Rd?

The men who dig the road up have been hard at it today. I thought they were going to stop the large amounts of water that lift the BT communication manholes, 1000's of gallons spew out onto the road whose drains cannot deal with the volume.

Nothing to do with that.

Apparently its so Ysgol Penyffordd can have faster internet

I find BT's roll out of faster internet annoying. They still act as a public monopoly.

It's outside the house yet we can't have it.

It's available in various parts of the village.

Best you register an interest if want faster internet

Not sure if this link works for you
http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=25633&s_cid=con_ppc_maxus_vidZ59_T1&vendorid=Z59&gclid=CNCvjJPhirsCFQTItAodYFQAoQ&gclsrc=aw.ds

It's called BT Infinity which just about weighs up the company.
You may wish to google the term. There is nothing infinite about BT excepting phone conversations with them.

Coca Cola causing trouble

Not just with your teeth and pancreas.

http://www.wrexham.com/news/coca-cola-lorry-leaves-flat-feeling-motorists-38871.html


postscript: Some people are saying wait till the new cinema and shops get going. Traffic ! You ain't seen nothing yet.

Further postscript. Linking Father Christmas with drinks that f children up in many ways should be banned.
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/thousands-flock-see-iconic-coca-cola-6353443

Friday night a bit early

Something you may have missed at Airbus

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/airbus-a350-xwb-flies-over-6351144

The new type of wings made at Airbus Broughton flew over here on Thursday.

What the above article does not explain is that the wings have large sections of carbon fibre which is new for commercial aircraft. This involved the creation of a new factory.

Wikipedia explains
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A350_XWB

JFK Assassination - The view from Penyffordd

This pre Twitter, Facebook and Blogger. Communication was sooooooooo difficult then.

Mrs Parkins, of Egerton Street, Chester, was living in Penyffordd, Flintshire, at the time of the shocking event.

Link http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/128580/how-pensioner-broke-news-of-jfk-s-assassination-to-harold-wilson.aspx

An accident waiting to happen

A young man in a small black car comes hammering up Penymynydd Rd, pushing cars in front of him exaggerated weaving in and around parked cars.

He will either run a child over or cause someone else to.

His profession? Penyffordd primary school teacher.

Someone needs to have a word with the headmaster or governors

This young man is an idiot, he needs stopping now.

Good news on Immigration?

http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2013/11/27/at-the-eleventh-hour-cameron-buckles-on-bulgarian-immigratio

We shall see.

I should point I have no issue with immigrants who come here to work.
They do the work and the long hours that a lot who live here find unacceptable.

It's a little known fact that Polish people keep cleaner houses than UK people.

That Mark Tami is a very nice man

Mr Tami did not support a major airport at Broughton, arguing: “It is in a very built-up area, and we have two perfectly good airports at Manchester and Liverpool. We do not need to expand any service at Broughton; we need to ensure it is easier to get to and from the airports at Manchester and Liverpool.”

Link http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/north-wales-economic-jewel-crown-6343253

Also of importance

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/mp-mark-tami-calls-rail-6342924

Photo Competition - Guess Who?

Circa 1984

The children are not from Penyffordd.

This photo can be bought here

http://www.localbygones.co.uk/store/products,l107c93e_507.htm

Medical Plans

Go ahead all around Penyffordd.

Buckley, Hope and Broughton.

http://www.newsnorthwales.co.uk/news/128557/cautious-backing-for-broughton-medical-centre-plans.aspx

Penyffordd? We've been stuffed.

Doomed forever to travelling outside the village to visit a doctor.
Many having to get the bus.
I had to do three visits last time to get a prescription from my Buckley doctors. The practice manager took exception to me making a formal complaint over her head.

Fancy doing three trips to Buckley on a bus to get a prescription?
There back, there back, there back.

If you want expert advice Penyffordd Chemist the only place to go.

May I suggest some of our councillors have sat on their hands for the last 30 years. We've had doctors surgeries, a medical centre but they have been allowed to atrophy.

Perhaps the village would have been better served with a more eclectic councillor committee. It's the residents fault really for rubber stamping the same old tired faces.

Penyffordd residents can now suffer at their own leisure. Architects of their own foolishness.

Carnival 2014 Help and Ideas Required

Meetings in December and January 

Click image to read further

John Gray over at Trelawnyd

Apparently John's a "Friend of Dorothy".

http://disasterfilm.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/judyjudyjudy.html

Since I last looked John has a new friend called Winfred as well.
(second picture right hand side)

All these girls in John's life.

Dobshill Ambulance Station too far from major population?

There's a form of mathematics that can be used to find the optimum position for a depot within a given irregular area. I used it to base an argument on why the edge of Flintshire should not be the place for a giant dumping ground for North Wales. St George's near Rhyl I found to be the optimum place for North Wales.

If Flintshire is about 30 miles long and the ambulance depot is 3 miles from one edge one might reasonably ascertain that Dobshill is not the optimum place for a centre.

Having watched my mother in law die waiting for an ambulance I have first hand experience.
It was tragic Keystone Cops.

I am usually against tables. The current farce of Police Crime Statistics is good example. All our politician's fault.

If we have data of when emergency call was taken against arrival of ambulance we could all see.
The Ambulance Services blaming volume. I think a poor excuse.

Some crap corporate speak from Welsh Ambulance Services. It should be banned.

http://leaderlive.co.uk/news/128518/flint-councillor-raises-fears-at-ambulance-response-times.aspx

Give us a Kiss

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/10464450/Pictures-of-the-day-21-November-2013.html?frame=2741363

How to hold a ferret

http://www.localbygones.co.uk/store/products,l10a9055_4798.htm

Any regular readers will remember I got bit by a ferret last week. Got bit on my thumb in two places that made gripping stuff for 4 days a bit of a job. According to its owner they can "lock on".

Not an inviting prospect at all.

Anyway, this chap Roy Smith from Queensferry looks like he won't get bit. No room for the barsteward to swivel around and bite.

Being from S'croft I remember this chap.

Third Rate Nation

On off, on off, on off, on off went the electricity supply at 5.45pm.
Was it 8 times or 10 ?

Winter arrives Penyffordd - snow and sleet

A55 may best be left alone if possible
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/a55-crash-flintshire-causes-long-6317670

John Peters of Penymynydd - Funeral

Parking News

Since the changeover for parking violations from North Wales Police to Flintshire County Council in October over 50 individuals have received fines.
To be honest NWP were not interested in parking violations for various reasons. No need to go into that here lol.

 FCC however are a different kettle of fish. There are habitual yellow line and footpath parkers in every community.

 There's gold in them towns and villages ......

Penyffordd remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice

Off we go.

Members sharing a light moment beforehand.

Those in attendance included Tony and Decima Hodge, John Martin, Cllrs David Williams, Cindy Hinds and Edwina Davies.

The procession included former armed forces personnel, Penyffordd Scouts, Cubs and Brownies.

The names of those who fell reside on the walls of the Penyffordd Memorial Institute.

We remain in their debt forever.

I spy with my little eye something beginning with F

In Captivity

This morning I was looking for something in the shed when I heard this rustle. Sometimes I get blackbirds in but this sounded bigger. Low and behold!

 What shall I do? Propagator looked handy so I dumped it inside and taped lid on with gaffer tape. There is a way to pick ferrets up, a way I'm not familiar with.... Cue exit to kitchen with blood stained hand. I had gloves on but this creature greatly resents 

being picked up went straight through gloves..

Cue 99% isopropyl alcohol spray.....

They need water but NOT cheese , dogfood, catfood or sugery food.

What's left you may ask?

Cue teatime, gratefully returned to owner nearby.

The other escapee was caught earlier also after biting someone......

Fact of the Day - Male ferrets if not neutered or allowed to have

sex will die.

Parents say lives at risk at crossing in Penymynydd

The story here
http://www.newsnorthwales.co.uk/news/128122/parents-say-lives-at-risk-at-crossing-in-penymynydd.aspx

Our lolly pop in Chester Rd has had some near misses.

Time for compulsory 20mph zones

Teenager dies in Penymynydd crash

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-24800949

http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/127914/cadole-teenager-killed-in-crash-tragedy.aspx

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/sarah-jepson-tributes-kind-caring-6267984

Recent Property Sales Penyffordd District

Sales recently added within 500m of CH4 0LJEdit location 3 Melwood Close £140,000 Penyffordd, CH4 0NB 23rd August 2013 5 White Rock Road £205,000 Penyffordd, CH4 0YR 8th July 2013 Sales recently added within 500m of CH4 0HPEdit location 2 Park Crescent £118,000 Penyffordd, CH4 0HE 28th August 2013 34 Berwyn Avenue £138,020 Penyffordd, CH4 0HS 13th June 2013
You can search all these sales totally free of charge by going to OurProperty.co.uk.

Road Accident at Penymynydd

Link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-24780401

Story says road closed.

Nigel Jones remembered

in The Leader
http://www.newsnorthwales.co.uk/news/127787/tearful-tributes-as-flint-town-council-shares-memories-of-popular-clerk.aspx

Penyffordd History

in The Leader
http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/127741/-it-s-been-a-big-part-of-my-life-i-ll-never-cancel-it-.aspx

Saturday Bonfire Night Road Closure

Penymynydd Rd at the Chester Rd end will be closed between 4 pm and 9 pm.

Footpaths Flintshire

Whilst we're still called Flintshire perhaps I should bring up the following article.
http://www.newsnorthwales.co.uk/news/127735/calls-to-help-ensure-route-in-higher-kinnerton-is-recognised.aspx

Klaus and his mate Elwyn on the case.
Some good information on footpaths and bridle ways.
On what to do if you use a footpath that gets blocked.

Where I walk there are a few paths that appear on Ordinance Survey but not on the FCC Definitive Footpath Map. What do you do if you are the only one who walks them? If you are the only one who knows about them. Some farmers just block them off.

Penyffordd Children 'at risk' because of lack of school transport in Flintshire

in The Daily Post. Our two county councillors in the frame.
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/children-at-risk-because-lack-6243015

Penyffordd Spared

It looks like we will not be getting 80 mph winds. Ken has got his sandbags out over the road. Not needed I think.
Here's the bad stuff. The media in its element.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10407815/Weather-St-Judes-UK-storm-live.html#disqus_thread

Flash Flood

Just had a gigantic shower. Never seen anything like it ever.
Lots of water coming down Penymynydd Rd. Roof systems couldn't deal with levels of downpour.

Of course it comes straight down the hill and straight across the road into gardens and houses that are below the level of the road.

In my opinion no provision can be made to prevent this happening here.
The amount of water was astounding.
Lots of people out with cameras.....

Also hit Llangollen, A5, Brymbo, Caergwrle.
Delays are being experienced on roads.
NWP are on the case.

Bonfire Night - Penymynydd Rd Closure

I've been approached by someone who believes the above may be happening.

If it is going to happen Penymynydd Rd residents who will be affected should be given good notice.

Volunteers and Ideas required

Penyffordd Carnival 2014

Click image to read

Stood next to a mountain

Chopped it down with the side of my hand.......................

Penyffordd Bonfire Night 2013

Saturday 2nd November 2013

at Penyffordd Institute Field CH4 0LS

Penymynydd Rd closed between 4 and 9 pm

Police Honesty

Time for change.
Henry Porter telling at as it should be in Comment is Free
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/20/police-corruption-demands-royal-commission

Torches and candles to the ready

Electric has gone off about three times tonight over a period of a minute or two. Not sure how many houses involved. As the Prime Minister says " Just put your jumper on !"
Hanson Cement red chimney light didn't go out.
Mind you I suppose they have stand by generators.

Weather outlook for Nigel Jones' funeral 11.00am Penyffordd Church

Cloud in the morning. Rain appearing after midday for the afternoon.

Local Pub Wars ?

Going past the Millstone the last week or so I have seen the board outside advertising Greek nights, Italian nights and Spanish nights.

50 yds away on council land now sits a board from The Red Lion advertising a charity night.
The Red Lion is quarter a mile away.
I think cheeky monkeys.

Does this now mean that the post where the road splits between Hawarden Rd and Chester Rd can be used by The Millstone and Penyffordd British Legion to advertise events?

Privacy matters - The EU steps up to the plate

Privacy should be a natural state for individuals, organisations and companies. Having the spooks wade through your laundry when and if they want needs to be stopped.

The EU are taking positive steps against GCHQ and the NSA.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/17/eu-rules-data-us-edward-snowden

Lets hope their actions have teeth.

The argument that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear is for the naive.

Edward Snowden should get the Nobel Prize.

Our MP's including our Prime Minister who thought he was wrong should hang their heads in shame.

I've signed up to Blogger, I have a Gmail account my stuff is scanned to aim adverts at me. This is different however to the spooks looking for dirt to hold over you.

Proposed Wrexham Prison Side Effects

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/fears-former-prisoners-sent-rhyl-6182150

Further - Death of Nigel Jones - Funeral

Funeral is  next Friday, 11am at Penymynydd Church.

postscript: Refreshment will be available after at The Bridge, Pontblyddyn.

Nigel Jones has died

Nigel, Clerk to Penyffordd Community Council has died.

Nigel a larger than life community member.

Thoughts to family and friends.

Link http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/127249/flint-community-hero-dies-suddenly-out-walking-his-dog.aspx

Provisional funeral arrangements http://penyffordd-district.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/further-death-of-nigel-jones.html

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/nigel-jones-tributes-paid-flint-6200820

Harrassing Community Councils

Thanks to Ann for the "heads up" on this.
There is of course making valid points but this looks allegedly a bit much
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/man-court-accused-harassing-llansannan-6161840
Will have to read it through later on.

How's the Penyffordd Council website doing. - Minutes and Agendas?
My wife Lisa can knock a website up and have the minutes on without any training inside an hour.

Tally ho !

Comments are temporarily turned off

until the spammers go away.

Farmworkers being antisocial

At the moment ( 21.26hrs) tractors with trailers are going through Chester Rd and other Penyffordd roads. Some of them are taking off at the traffic bumps creating large bangs.

I wonder if you can have a word with the farmer Tom?

It's not on and they should not be doing it.

Noisy Environments

As Penyfford Airport ( or Hawarden or Chester choose your name) traffic starts to pick up the link below is something to bear in mind for your children. You can also put living next to the A55 or right next to a trunk road ( Penyffordd Bypass) into the same category.

Link http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/why-living-near-an-airport-could-be-bad-for-your-health-8867387.html

Parking News and Quiz

Flintshire County Council have now taken over responsibility for proper parking. So if you park on yellows and paths you had better watch out. Someone in Hawarden has been sorted. FCC have the usual system where you pay a reduced fine if you pay quickly.

The "someone" in Hawarden however is not happy. His defence of " I've always parked there!" will not stand as a good defence when he contests it at the magistrates court.

Quiz

The above yellow line sequence is in Llangollen. Do you know what it means?

Chirk Carboot has the lot

Doing turnaway business too

How to fly an Airbus 380

Might done this one before.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelvideo/10353292/How-to-fly-an-Airbus-A380.html

House Sales Increasing

Sales recently added within 500m of	Edit location
Cambrian House Station Way £168,000 Penyffordd, CH4 0GA 7th August 2013

Sales recently added within 500m of	Edit location
2 Mount Tabor Close £180,000 Penymynydd, CH4 0YS 9th August 2013 22 Well House Drive £135,000 Penymynydd, CH4 0LB 31st July 2013 24 Fammau View Drive £143,000 Penyffordd, CH4 0JQ 19th July 2013 26 Coed Y Graig £150,000 Penymynydd, CH4 0XD 12th July 2013

Sales recently added within 500m of	Edit location
34 Abbottsford Drive £166,500 Penyffordd, CH4 0JG 19th July 2013

Policing at the speed of light

North Wales Police are to have a new North Eastern Headquarters at Llay near the Sharps. That means Penyffordd is 5 minutes down the road.

Link http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/police-purchase-land-brand-new-6120306

Penyffordd Cllr Progress Report

We haven't got one ! lol

They have one here for some Wrexham cllrs though.

Link http://www.wrexham.com/news/wrexhamcoms-councillor-progress-report-rossett-36577.html

This sort of thing should catch on!

A Village Common

Penyffordd is lacking community spaces including a central full size football field in my opinion. There is a large field next to the old signal box that is central, a good size, it has a stream running through the middle and has had little use over the years. In fact it is used as an unofficial village common.

With the recent explosion in village housing perhaps a good time to try to purchase this field for the future community. Those who have benefited by being able to sell their grazing fields as accommodation land should perhaps leave a lasting legacy for the village. Without the village here they would not have been able to make large profits from their land......

I should point out to those that do not know that Penyffordd was supposed to benefit from 106 agreements with the housing developers. However Castell Alun school have pinched most of the money and are baulking at allowing all Penyffordd district children access to their school.

keywords:  brassneck

Allotment News Part 44

Penyffordd Community Council meeting is this coming Wednesday. Not too many items on the agenda.

One item is Cllr David Williams' attempt to form a second set of allotments in the village.
This has been ongoing for two years. What's gone on you really couldn't make up.
postcript: people changing minds etc.

PACA is a fund raising group who run the original allotment  that was gifted by a fine individual.

After reading the council agenda I was going in the direction of the planned second allotment so I went for a nose.

What is the progress? A field full of hay! Not an allotment in sight.

I'll report back after minutes have been ratified in a months time. Democracy at the speed of light.

Is the Penyffordd Community Council website showing council minutes and agenda yet?
Just had a peek, still nothing happening.
http://penyfforddareacc.com/news-events/meeting-minutes/87-minutes-agendas.html

ps. I have to admit to not paying attention to PCC meetings these last few months so there may be developments I'm not aware of. I'm sure all will be revealed in the fullness of time.

The Energy Debate

It's all getting beyond a joke. I have the ability to lower my energy bill, a lot haven't.

Energy costs affect many services and most products for sale. Our elected government ( small g) seem happy to let the energy cartel extract the urine.

I've sent an email just to my elected MP Mark Tami telling him his boss Ed Miliband has done the right thing raising the stakes on this issue.

I had an email reply within 2 minutes from Mark thanking me for my comment.

Democracy at the speed of light.

As opposed to Penyffordd.................

Saying that Cllr Cindy Hinds is prompt with replies.

postscript: One for the global warmers
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100238047/global-warming-believers-are-feeling-the-heat/

Penyffordd girl's leap of faith

Shannon Spicer, from Penyffordd, raised £1,100 for Alder Hey Hospital’s oncology ward by jumping 10,000 feet from a plane.

Read full story here  http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/126789/penyffordd-girl-s-leap-of-faith-to-say-thanks.aspx

Complaining about Community Councils

I tend to think things go up in a stepped manner. Councillors, community council, County Hall, Welsh Assembly Government and finally EU.

I've been in contact with FCC and it seems some things do not step up gradually.

FCC do not do Community Councils.

If you live in Flintshire and perhaps other Welsh Counties and you have a gripe against a community council over vindictivness or whatever you need to contact The Big "O".
Otherwise known as The Ombudsman.

Did I say that !

I've fired some missives off to the local papers today about a proposed wind turbine that cannot be seen from Penyffordd.

Hope Mountain is in the way.

Also had a reporter on the phone.

Best course of action is let the ideas flow, write them down. Condense them into keywords.

I've been lazy today didn't write anything down so all my good stuff got left on the table.

Perhaps just as well.

Quote of the Millenium

"You're a very bad man."
Who says there is not a God.

Chester Rd Traffic Survey

Highway council man trying to put down wires without getting run over. It would be interesting to see before and after traffic calming data.  This of course is frowned upon by Highways.

It's like trying to get data out of the NSA......

Windscreen News

I use my car windscreen as an environmental indicator. It's been clean since the new build kiln.
The question is what do I have on my car windscreen?

1. Cement dust
2. Greenfly sticky stuff
3. Saharan sand.

I reckon its No 1. That's alleged of course without a chemistry analysis.

Energy to rise again - Time for Revolution

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/sep/20/energy-firms-increase-prices

What this country needs is a revolution.

Energy affects the price of many things.

Lots of people going to have to choose whether to put central heating on or stay cold.
Problem being with a revolution is that we have no one who will side with the people.

Our politicians are all in Big Business pockets.

Postscript. Forgot the government's Green Taxes !

Friday Night Part II

Tis Friday Night Again

Aliens 16 miles above Penyffordd

Not your usual cranks.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-truth-is-out-there-british-scientists-claim-to-have-found-proof-of-alien-life-8826690.html

Flintshire County Council - 20 mph Zones at Schools

The other morning the school buses could not get up Penymynydd Rd due to parked vehicles.
Flintshire County Council will be taking over illegal parking shortly.


The WAG and FCC are to be congratulated over the following developments.
http://deeside.com/front-page/flintshire-council-to-implement-20mph-zones-outside-all-schools/

Chaos on the A55 yesterday morning

Perhaps a good reason for looking at live Daily Post news before you go out and whilst you're out. I don't do Facebook and Twitter, I presume however you can get alerts.
Better than being in a one and a half hour queue.

Did a two hour queue Wrexham to Chester once, not pretty.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/a55-a494-delays-after-hgv-6026462

postscript: I think you can get NWP and Flintshire Leader alerts on Facebook / Twitter too.

Peter Green continued...

Link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Green_(musician)

Friday Night Late

Hazel Shakeshaft Funeral

Penyffordd schoolboy speaks of relief after horrifying accident

Link http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/126402/penyffordd-schoolboy-speaks-of-relief-after-horrifying-accident.aspx

Main roads and children on bikes don't mix. They are a nightmare for drivers.

Neither do children on bikes on paths. You can get seriously injured outside my house stepping onto the path without looking in both directions. Speeds of 20 mph plus are reached outside my gate

I'm of the opinion that riding a bike safely for your own sake and others is not part of any school training these days

It will be interesting to see whose fault it was. Will NWP publish their findings?

Probably long drawn out over insurance claims.

In the papers today

It's been a funny year. The latest surprise is that I agree with Roberta Owen's letter in The Chronicle about weapons of mass destruction. Roberta usually writes rubbish about windmills.

Here's the Russian President telling it like it is about Syria and how USA need to stop killing people.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-11/vladimir-putin-addresses-america-nyt-op-ed-calls-caution-syria

Also in The Chronicle we have Mark Tami MP and David Hanson MP posing in pinnies handing out food parcels.

Brass neck are the words that come to mind gentlemen

These two were willing lieutenants for Gordon Brown MP architect of very high borrowing and "light touch" regulation where city people lined their pockets with large amounts of money and left us the tax payer to pick up the enormous ongoing bill.

Gordon Brown should be in The Tower for what he did to this country.

Never mind Mark and David, the sheep are too busy working to pay increasing bills  and too stupid to see what's really happened.

Tories would have done the same.

We're being ripped off over borrowing money, energy bills, petrol.
Buying a house has become a bad joke for many, again due to Gordon Brown MP.

Take no notice of any green shoots of recovery you read about in the papers. There is no confidence, little money available from lending institutions. UK is going through a large change that includes the decimation of high streets. I can't really put that totally down to Gordon, more to do with the Internet.

postscript. Forget Gordon  helped in a large way to f up the private pension system

Wrexham Council to broadcast meetings on the Internet

This is a bold step forward.

Link http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/126357/go-ahead-to-broadcast-wrexham-council-s-meetings-on-the-internet.aspx

This will mean you will able to listen in real time as opposed to 1 month behind with regards Penyffordd Community Council.

What did you say? You could always attend the meetings !

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Where are we up to with Penyffordd Community Council communicating with residents in the 21st century?

Penyffordd Walkers Beware

Cattle can cause severe career change.
Unless I can jump over a fence quickly I avoid cattle especially with young.

Here's a frightening story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2416089/Try-grabbing-horns-Pair-terrified-ramblers-left-trapped-wooden-stile-hour-cornered-angry-BULLS.html

Syria - Cameron and Hague's war plans ruined?

Check mate to Russia?
Perhaps we can send Cameron, Hague, etc to fight with Al Qaeda which is what they want our armed forces to do.

Link http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-09/syria-welcomes-will-comply-russian-chemical-weapon-disarmament-initiative

But wait, here comes the joker

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-09/kerry-tells-lavrov-chemical-disarmament-demand-was-rhetorical-not-meant-be-proposal

Funeral Philip Johnson Today

To Malpas to look at the big boy's toys

A good afternoon at the Yesteryear Rally

http://www.malpas-yesteryear-rally.co.uk/pictures.htm

Lots of tractors, motor vehicles, steam engines.
Chainsaws, coal, steam, Romany caravans, wood cutting.

A bit of rain.

Then to Larry's at The Bridge, Pontblyddyn for a spot of tea.

Fancy That

Someone walked into a shop in Penyffordd dressed for work today including their work badge.
Problem being they thought it was Monday..............

Penyffordd County Councillor Attendance Records ( money for nothing perhaps )

Meeting attendance of Cllr Cindy Hinds

Date range:  Earlier - Later

Attendance statistics for Cllr Cindy Hinds

Statistic	Count	Percentage
Total expected attendances:	14
Present as expected:	12	86%
Apologies received:	1	50% of absences
Absent (incl. apologies):	2	14%

Explanation of the statistics counts

Total expected attendances

The number of meetings that the councillor was expected to attend in their capacity as member of that committee. This only includes meetings for which the councillor's actual attendance status is known.

Present as expected

The number of meetings that the councillor attended in their capacity as member of that committee.

Absent (incl. apologies)

Meetings not attended, where the councillor is a member of the committee, including apologies submitted.

(nis)

This information is not included in the summary statistics above.

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Attendance statistics for Cllr David Williams

Statistic	Count	Percentage
Total expected attendances:	9
Present as expected:	2	22%
Apologies received:	7	100% of absences
Absent (incl. apologies):	7	78%

Explanation of the statistics counts

Total expected attendances

The number of meetings that the councillor was expected to attend in their capacity as member of that committee. This only includes meetings for which the councillor's actual attendance status is known.

Present as expected

The number of meetings that the councillor attended in their capacity as member of that committee.

Absent (incl. apologies)

Meetings not attended, where the councillor is a member of the committee, including apologies submitted.

(nis)

This information is not included in the summary statistics above.

Other meeting statistics options

Link http://cyfarfodyddpwyllgor.siryfflint.gov.uk/mgAttendance.aspx?UID=178&LLL=undefined

Local Council Websites

http://treuddyn.org.uk/

http://www.higherkinnerton.org.uk/

http://leeswoodcommunity.org.uk/

http://www.buckleytc.org.uk/

http://www.moldtowncouncil.org.uk/

http://www.broughtonandbrettoncommunitycouncil.gov.uk/BroughtonBretton-CC/Default.aspx

http://www.gwernaffield.org.uk/


Not a silly fir tree in sight.

Syria Further

This man linked below is class.
Erudite, clear, educational. Everything our National Media is not.

Just so you have a better grip on what's really happening.
The stench of hypocrisy from UK and USA over powering.

The Internet changeth everything.

http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2013/09/syria-cui-bono/

http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2013/09/syria-cui-bono-part-2-a-partial-analysis/

Perhaps our MP's need to get out a bit more.

ps. It appears the NSA know our every computer move even the encrypted stuff.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security

So if you use smart mobiles, computers, internet they have you sorted. Where you go, what you do and what you like. What your companies trade secrets are. What's in your bank account.

Of course it's all in safe hands....................

Time for revolution.

How to defeat NSA
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance

Alternatively we could all put dynamite, fertiliser, guns, bullets etc in our emails.......

Penyffordd & Penymynydd Parent & Toddler Group

Below copied from their site.

The first session of the new school year will be this week on Tuesday. Come and join us, whether you are a regular, an old friend who hasn't been for a while, or a new mum/ parent.

We begin at 9.15 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I'm looking forward to seeing how Jay (nearly 10 months) will enjoy the toys this week - he hasn't been for nearly two months and has come on so much - still not walking but everything else... walking around the house with chairs/ his trolley so he will be able to move much more in the hall. He also enjoys big spaces...

Looking forward to seeing lots of other children too - Jay loves watching the older ones playing and we also love seeing younger babies!

Link http://penyfforddtoddlers.blogspot.co.uk/

Cllr David Williams using Penyffordd Community Council Website to voice his own opinions

But can't manage agendas or minutes.

http://penyfforddareacc.com/news-events/meeting-minutes/61-meeting-27-03-2013.html#section-kmt

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Hello Readers and critics, sorry for not getting this sorted yet, the next meeting is in September so with a bit of luck minutes and agendas will be in place by then. I am taking the Latin out of this one but will leave it in on some of the other articles for our continental readers.

Really, this is just another practice which is all helping. 

Sorry again for not being as efficient or switched on to these things as we all would like, but would anybody trust our local blogger to administer such an important site!

Dave W

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Cheeky Sparrow Hawk

Click photo to enlarge

Sitting on a neighbour's fence looking at the budgies

Now which one can I have?

Budgies are safe behind netting

The bird has been hanging around for a couple of days.

Property Sales Penyffordd district

18 Hillside Road £146,500
Penyffordd, CH4 0JJ 5th July 2013

1 Poppy Field Drive £213,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0GE 2nd July 2013

8 Allerton Close £145,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0NJ 28th June 2013

1 Ffordd Haearn £233,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0JA 5th June 2013

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

Would like to live near a prison?

Seems your going to. Further up the coast perhaps Conway or Anglesey would have been better. Or near the minister who sanctioned it.

Link http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/uk/10-bbs-where-you-get-your-own-building-8796820.html


Postscripts.
Below is a link to Wrexham.com forum where the prison is discussed
http://www.wrexham.com/forums/wrexham-surrounding-area-forum/410-wrexham-possibly-getting-super-prison.html

Letters
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letters/letters-a-super-prison-costs-too-much-8802299.html

Is village safety perception improving?

One of the aims of the Welsh Assembly Government is to see more children walking to school. With Penyffordd Junior School's major route to school now traffic calmed we are seeing double the number of children walking to school.

Progress in a backward direction

The computer spirits have been somewhat against me recently.
Apple make a very nice phone called the iphone4.
The engineering of the product is truly awesome.
I rarely use superlatives, people who use them in every sentence grind.

You take a photo, you email it to an account. I manipulate it slightly in Coreldraw Photo then upload it to the blog.

It's no longer that way.

That award winning company Microsoft with Win7 have buggered stuff up.
Coreldraw falls over.

Photos off the phone appear upside down on the blog.
Apple say its not their fault.

Various softwares including Google's Picasa do not fix it.

Sometimes all the icons appear on the blog right hand side, a lot of the time they do not !
A Google issue.

Cllr Cindy Hinds Summer Newsletter Page 4

Cllr Cindy Hinds Summer Newsletter Page 3

Cllr Cindy Hinds Summer Newsletter Page 2

Cllr Cindy Hinds Summer Newsletter Page 1

Click photo to enlarge

Note Cindy's new email address