Moel Famau to become a Beacon

in the Daily Post. It would appear this will not be permanent though.
The lights will be set up for a week after 25th October 2010


Link http://www.jubileetower200.co.uk/

Vehicle Noise

At last some common sense in Walesonline

Lisa's Kitchen - Lemon Meringue

Antiques Road Show comes to Penyffordd

or I wish it would. Here is a fly door knocker made out of cast iron or steel. It has been cast. Has three different paint colours. The underside including the legs are painted black. The paint looks pretty tough could be stove enameled? It's about 5 inches long. The wings are used as the door knocker mechanism.

 

Link http://antiquedoorknockers.co.uk/

Unusual Traffic Calming Method

because the police have given up on Flintshire communities courtesy of our politicians. A community reduced to gimmicks.

 

In the Flintshire Chronicle

More Mushrooms

Found this during the walk today along with a good soaking from a shower. It's called Fly Agaric it was used by Russian noble men instead of vodka or whatever. Not recommended unless you know what you are doing. No I have not tried it. The Carlos Castaneda books cover this subject plus a few others. The books can be read as fiction. They are about men of Knowledge in Mexico an alternative view of the universe.

Links

Amanita muscaria

Ladylisabooks

Arnold in trouble with Pensions

No not our Arnold, I mean Arnold the Terminator. This shows how public sector pensions will sink the ship if not brought under control.

Links  
The excellent Cynical Tendency 

 Zero Hedge
 

Welsh Newspapers continue to shrink

This is depressing for local democracy. The newspapers themselves and or their websites need to survive so that local issues can be fully discussed. I am of the opinion that newspaper websites do not make much profit.

Link BBC News Wales

keywords, Leader, Daily Post

Latest Welsh Voting Intentions

read UK Polling Report

A County Councillor's Dilemma

in Alison Halford's Blog.
The Welsh Ombudsman still looks at her blog every two weeks. My Blog log records search entries in Google.

One in a million

Schoolboy takes action over speeding in The Daily Post

Speed Cameras for Flintshire Communities?

A big thank you to the Leader

The Chronicle

Have you ever tried to find the letters page in The Chronicle. It takes about 5 minutes. Today I have made the letters page. More later.

Snouts in the trough continued

So our government stood by whilst the city bet our country in a card game and lost. Then Mp's were caught fiddling their expenses (very small beer compared to former). Now it seems they have been handing out more of OUR money to civil servants and ramping up their own pensions whilst our schemes fall through the floor. ( courtesy of Gordon Brown)

Link The Slog

"Deputy Prime Minister without Portfolio (or Party) Nick
Clegg said six weeks ago:
Private sector workers have already seen final salary schemes close, while returns from defined contribution schemes fall. So can we really ask them to keep paying their taxes into unreformed gold-plated public sector pension pots? It's not just unfair; it's not affordable."

Banks

I used to have a business account in Hawarden. I ran it by the seat of my pants expanding business with what ever was available ( credit cards were still to come ). It got to the stage where the manager wanted the banks money back so I would get phone calls most days to say money was needed for the account. The sound of the old fashioned dring dring phones still still causes me to pause. I finally had enough money to clear the loan and I foolishly let the bank manager know. Next day he was around knocking on the door wanting his cheque.

Times change my problem was a bit of over trading. Current banking problems remain. We the tax payer will be paying for these idiots for the forseable future. The Slog reveals that Barclay's Italian sovereign debt stood at £790 million during the recent stress tests designed to test the banks robustness. Two months later the debt has strangely gone up to £8.6 Billion -- Crooks! They are all in it together banks and government. No more boom and bust said the man. lol

Link The Slog tells it as it is

Penyffordd Crime Wave Update

My sources tell me it's Penyffordd Holywell not us that's having the issues.

Traffic Jams

You do not know what you are missing.

Link The Independent

MARK ISHERWOOD: HUGE CHALLENGES FOR NORTH WALES POLICE

Mark Isherwood AM explaining the future police cuts required for N Wales. You may think I've turned into a true blue. This is not the case. The blue yellow team are pandering to the speed lobby. I have a letter in the tubes about today's Leader comment on speed cameras. If published it will not go down well. Although the letter could be used to say that things are going to change... I doubt it.

Link Mark Isherwood AM debate at the Welsh Assembly

Village Gossip - Break ins

I am told there have been 4 break ins recently, one near where I live. Should the village not be told if the gossip is correct? Also where the break ins are happening.

Gwernto Newt

This little lady found sitting on the road in Gwernto Woods. There also many toads. Toads are nice not slimy like frogs, they seem to have calmer personality too.

keywords Common Newt