Education for Penyffordd Cllrs 2011 ?

Civilised Streets: Guide to Traffic Calming [Hardcover]

Carmen Hass-Klau (Author), etc. (Author), Inge Nold (Illustrator), Bram Coombs


It's bit dear but they can borrow our copy for free


Link Bookworld

Penyffordd 2010 and 2011

National stuff that affected Penyffordd.

1. National Government let the banks bet Trillions and then bailed them out with us having to pick up the bill over the next 20 years.
2.The banks then failed to lend to small business and people who want mortgages.
3. Interest rates kept artificially low so savers are paying for those who lent too much.
4. The EU and USA are bankrupt. The debt is being hidden.
5. Penyffordd Cllrs backed North Wales Police in not policing traffic in Chester Rd risking lives.
6. Penyffordd Cllrs sat on their hands whilst Chester Rd became the new best short cut that is faster
than the bypass via A55 Warren Hall.
7. Penyffordd Cllrs backed our CBM even when he told lies over speeding traffic figures.


2011

1. The unions who sponsor the Labour Party who got us in this financial mess will try their best to overthrow the current government with civil unrest and strikes.
2. Penyffordd Cllrs will continue to ignore traffic issues in Chester Rd.
3. The Western World will sink into a greater financial depression.
4. The Conservative Lib Dem government will continue to show that they are not interested in communities and speeding traffic.
5. Penyffordd will be partially insulated from further recession due to Airbus being down the road.
6. Penyffordd Cllrs will continue to back Gosafe in ignoring Chester Rd.
7. Penyffordd will loose our CBM. ( No great loss here)
8. Welsh Assembly Elections.


I have about 10 Foie's lined up that will be more difficult to ignore.

Chief Superintendent Ruth Purdie - A product of the politically correct

Chief Superintendent, Ruth Purdie, North Wales Police: Community prevention of crime at first Rape & Justice in Ireland con. from RCNI on Vimeo.


Link Vimeo
Former Penyffordd village bobby and now in charge of South Flintshire division of which Penyffordd is part of.
No wonder she has no interest in village safety or environment. If you read the vimeo link. Wrong vocation really. Should have been a social worker.

Penyffordd rural homes at risk from heating oil thieves

in The Flintshire Chronicle.

Our dog Trollie would just love to run with these, he would run until fatigue overtook him

I personally have no truck with those who allow the savage killing of foxes. Our dog however would love ( a life's ambition)  to run with the hounds. The pack instinct in dogs very powerful, primeval. It is acted out each day in the garden instigated by the bitch Dolly.

Link Walesonline

Everything you wished to know about swimming in freezing water

In The Independent

Some things I thought might be true confirmed.

Carl Sargeant AM and Mark Isherwood AM Welsh Assembly Elections 2011

to be expanded shortly................

Two foxes seen together today on walk

Lisa tried to take a photo but they were too fast.
They are relatively safe where seen. It's wild and rarely visited. Maybe 10 people a year go through this area.  The local hunt would not get near this here. Slight concern over two badger setts that have been visited by two people and dogs. The snow shows up everything, the woods are full of badger and fox tracks. We hope the visits  are not for bad reasons.

With regards the foxes perhaps they are a mating couple. Foxes only cause trouble at lambing time. The rest of the year they (and buzzards, crows, magpies, ravens, badgers) clear up fallen stock (inc dead lambs) and anything else that's dead. Nobody is supposed to know that though. There was a dead pheasant on the bridle path the other day, it must have been killed by a domestic dog. I left it on a path I know is used by foxes and badgers. Anyway some thing has had the Xmas pheasant as I checked today, all that's left are feathers.

postscript: John Large when out viewing the lunar eclipse the other night spotted a fox walking up the middle of the road in Green Park.

A meal fit for Kings

Let us begin

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A master chef who does not cook writes....................

a little later

Christmas Day Walk

 

Mummy's Boy and the Dark Destroyer looking a little timid wearing 

Aunty Joyce's coats which she made for them

v

Badger Wood 

A Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year to those that visit

 

May peace be with you

Nadolig Llawen i chi gyd a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!

Gordon Brown's Legacy

The article by Libby Brooks worthy of any troll* on the web. The comments are especially worth a read, lest you forget. The Guardian

* a troll being a wind up merchant

A building that has a story

This house sits on the edge of Llandegla moors. A Winter walk past it today and not one person or car seen for over 2 miles. To get to it you drive down a lane that I think must have been private it's over a mile long. The entrance used to boast two large sandstone pillars at the entrance until our farmer friend Elwyn sold them for a tenner. They are still on the estate just a bit further down the road. The farm has a walled garden of some acres. The ten foot wall which protects the garden from the very cold winds must be over half a mile long. The fields that make up the estate has stone walls whose length can be measured in many miles. It would take a few million to return the walls to their former glory.

This was a house built with vision, a paradise. The instigator of this estate was supposedly an officer who had returned from the Napoleonic Wars. He must have returned with a lot of gold to build it. The house bears a stone with the date of 1812. The owner would have never seen all the splendor he planned. Beech trees line the roads and forest strips between some of the fields, the trees well over 100 ft high, many 100's of them. I would name the estate but the owner is a very private person. And so it sits in dereliction waiting to be returned to its former glory. It will not matter however if it stays as it is, a little paradise in a world that is too busy with too many people.

Link Napoleonic Wars

The New Horticulture

How do you like my polytunnel? At the risk of giving Howie our CBM the excuse to raid the house I wish to discuss latest methods of growing food. That's food Howie not Ganga. Over the past month or two I have been researching hydroponics, aeroponics, growing small apple, plum, apricot and pear trees.

Not many people know you can grow a pear tree on a hawthorn bush or have ten different apple varieties on the same tree. Different fruit trees can be put together for as little a £4 a go and if you can find people (scion4fruitUK) to swap fruit tree material with you can do it for nothing. All you need is a small section of a branch (scion) and a suitable root stock for £2 and you can get fruit in three years.
If you can clone rootstock its all free except for a few postage stamps
There are over 3000 varieties of apple in the UK alone. Varieties that taste good, store well, crop early, crop late.

As for drugs. Each week we have media reports that various drug operations have been busted with loads of back slapping thrown in. I think a complete waste of police time even Former Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom thought this.  They are not even scratching the surface. A quick look through Ebay under the heading "hydroponics" shows the full extent of what is a multi million pound growing industry. It's now possible to grow drugs in a busted fridge the technology has got that good.

Here's a good site that shows how things are progressing  OODU
It's ironic that the illegal growing of drugs is also the way forward for year round fresh fruit and vegetables with very low energy requirements. The technology is being pushed forward by NASA for when we head to the planets.

I am currently working on my Genesis project which is about growing food aeroponically insulated with Kingspan. You can go an awful long way with a plastic storage box, 12 volt LED's, aquarium air pumps and air stones and water pumps. Or you can pay a £1000 for a proper one.

Links
Wikipedia Hydroponics
http://www.gb-online.co.uk/livecart/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRnBzn_ytQ4
Kuffelcreek
Welsh Apples
Different Systems

Flintshire AM Carl Sargeant urges young people to vote

in the Flintshire Leader

Is there any power in voting. Why should the village of Penyffordd vote for Carl Sargeant next year.
The WAG have stuffed Chester Rd with the "improved" A55 Warren Hall exits. We are now the natural short cut to Mid Wales to and from the North of UK inc Scotland.

Work on Warren Interchange junction between A55 and A5104 in Broughton completed

Link Flintshire Chronicle

Will this mean more short cut traffic for Chester Rd, Vounog and Corwen Rd?
Are our elected representatives asking for traffic data before and after opening? Ostriches with heads in the sand.

A world I am not familiar with

There is a family in the local newspaper who have had their Xmas presents stolen. They had managed to scrape together £3000 for the presents but some low life has stolen them.

The words scrape and £3000 in the same sentence.................................

Gritters spotted

Twice this morning. They even went up Penynmynydd Rd. A quick audit of grit bins on the Vounog yesterday when walking the dog revealed them to be empty.
Complaining about lack of gritting is like pushing at an open door. Pay more rates get more gritting. It would be fair to say the current conditions are unusual over the last 10 years.

Politicians - lowest form of life?

Lib Dems backstabbing here Press Association
Oliver says things are ok The Telegraph

Physicists push back the boundaries here Nature.

Have politicians actually evolved?

Elton John - All the Young Girls Love Alice