Overtaken by IT by not Embracing it (Update)

(Well done to Bawdsey Parish Council who are holding their next meeting by Zoom video conferencing and are inviting emails from Parishioners who wish to join the meeting) I am a member of a group of people with a common leisure interest. Nothing formal, just a group of friends, albeit large, with a common set … Continue reading Overtaken by IT by not Embracing it (Update) →

Give us This Day our Daily Flour

First I would like to say I am not good at cooking. When you look at the best chefs on Saturday Morning Kitchen the one piece of equipment that you will not see on their counters, unless they are doing a 'teach in', is a set of scales. Jamie the Chief Chef of Essex says … Continue reading Give us This Day our Daily Flour →

Wild Life Projects

I see that our old friends the Shottisham Village Association are promoting grants from AONB for wild life initiatives around the village. The initiative is on behalf of the Parish Council. I like the idea of Wild Flower Areas which we blogged on some time ago. Increasing the number of pollinators has to be a … Continue reading Wild Life Projects →

Restricted Byway

Picking up on a issue that the Parish Council are progressing to change the Restricted Byway at the end of Church Lane going east to the entrance of the Parish Field. See a previous post. I have had a look around on the internet to see if I could make sense of the whole RB … Continue reading Restricted Byway →

Crap Along the Byway

I see that there is still quite a lot of rubbish strewn along Hollesley Road. Now is the perfect time to collect it before the ferns and other roadside plants grow and mask it like they did last year. Here are a few of the pictures. Unfortunately the photos are really lacking in quality but … Continue reading Crap Along the Byway →

Odds and Sods

Just a few bits. Were you Game for Game The Sorrel Horse, once again, thought up a new idea for a Buffet Night. 'Game and Country'. I see from Facebook that this went down really well. They seem to have struck the right note once again. We are coming up to the Chinese New Year … Continue reading Odds and Sods →

Byway but not a Highway

Checking Facebook I see that the Shottisham Village Association are publicising the Parish Council's desire to get the local authority to reclassify the piece of road from Tower Cottage to the Playground entrance as a highway from restricted byway. Excellent initiative that this site supports. It will increase the available car parking spaces when we … Continue reading Byway but not a Highway →

Transparency but Blinkered

Transparency regulations introduced at the beginning of this century were supposed to make a significant change. Here we are two decades later and has it made the difference that it was supposed to make? In essence the public has the right to see information recorded by councils that was denied to them before the change. … Continue reading Transparency but Blinkered →

What a Little Water Can Do

I see that the people in the Shottisham Village Association have been going at the Phone Box again. I had a look after they had power washed the outside. It does look cleaner.

Water but at What Cost

I was interested to hear the other day about the plan by the water industry to be carbon neutral by 2030. Quick enough? Only time will tell. So it got me thinking; 'how much CO2 is produced when making a gallon of water?' In 2007 the Guardian reported that, to produce a litre of water … Continue reading Water but at What Cost →