I Aten’t Dead


down the barrel of the cannon
Originally uploaded by ramtops.

I’ve been in Edinburgh for a few days, though, and extremely fab it was too. Gorgeous, civilised city – I forgot how much I missed it. Full and extremely boring account to follow in a day or so. 53 photos here.

in other news, I appear to have been elected to the Executive of North Somerset Liberal Democrats, and am an official delegate to conference – should be fun. perlmonger wil have to stay home and mind the cats, and man the phones.

supper nanny


supper nanny
Originally uploaded by ramtops.

presumably they’ll be helping the children with their meals.

weekend 18-19 nov 06

some weekends are nice, some weekends are busy – an occasional one is both. And this one just passed was indeed one of those.

so what did you do, then?

the truth is out there

proof – as if proof were needed – that there are indeed aliens in Long Ashton.

say no to ID

“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to scrap the proposed introduction of ID cards”.

sign here to add your name to a petition on the Downing Street web site. 433 names as I sign.

please pass it on.

well, I wanted to get involved …

so far this week I have done:

  • two afternoons at the weekend organising the Parish Plan questionnaire hand out
  • school governors’ curriculum sub-committee meeting
  • Village Walk committee meeting
  • school governors’ Assessment for Learning walk through this morning

and upcoming is:

  • tonight and tomorrow night – deliver aforementioned questionnaires (which have to be collected again by Dec 15)
  • get up early on Saturday and make some muffins for the local Wildlife Trust bazaar
  • Nailsea Festival committee meeting
  • go to Scotland for six days (hurrah!)
  • full governors’ meeting two hours after I get off the train back from Scotland
  • N Somerset LibDems AGM
  • Long Ashton Millennium Project mince pie and win thing in the village hall

that takes me through to the end of November …

still despairing

Mr Reid said that “”move away from the traditional view that justice has to involve going to court”.”

and towards a police state, presumably. More from the Guardian here.

I bet Tesco would *love* this

Shoppers were urged yesterday to take direct action to force supermarkets to cut the excessive and wasteful packaging that goes direct from the shop shelf to the household bin. The environment minister Ben Bradshaw advised food shoppers to leave excessive wrapping at the tills and to report the stores to trading standards in an attempt to cut the amount of unnecessary plastic sent to landfill sites.

story from the Guardian.

I’d love to see it happening, though …

tuneful

83.3% Correct on the tone deaf test. It should have been a bit higher, but like a fool I hit the green button one note before the end of one of them, which was different.

hurrah!

goat successfully mounted!