WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[PanBiker]

There's a bit of a to do about the positioning of these. It has been pointed out and objected to that the street where they are is regularly coned off when there is an event on the town square. It also has minimum parking opportunity and is not really a through route. Coop car park has been suggested as a better alternative, I would tend to agree.

[Tizer]

I heard today from one of my former science colleagues in New Zealand. He told how the best known industrial and academic chemist in NZ had died recently and there was a very big turnout for his funeral at the University of Otago. He had a big family and many colleagues and friends and was much liked, so it was a sombre occasion. It became even more sombre when the service was interrupted with the announcement of the terrorist attack just along the coast in Christchurch.

[Stanley]

Slept until 4AM. Shock horror!! (Who cares.....)

[Big Kev]

There's a bit of a to do about the positioning of these. It has been pointed out and objected to that the street where they are is regularly coned off when there is an event on the town square. It also has minimum parking opportunity and is not really a through route. Coop car park has been suggested as a better alternative, I would tend to agree.

I've walked past them a few times and the vehicles, parked next to them, weren't plugged in...

I presume they're switched on

[PanBiker]

Not sure how many of the locals have electric cars, not the whole issue of course they are there for anyone to use but no damn good at all if normal fuelled vehicles park in front of them, or the street is cordoned off. I can see this becoming an issue similar to the morons that park on the double yellows and zig zags on Church Street. I assume the parking wardens will ticket inappropriate parking there when they choose to visit the town. Must have a look to see if there are restrictions. Having said that, aren't these points a commercial endeavour, if that's the case they wont have the authority to enforce parking restrictions as they are not on private ground. Waste of time, money and space where they are.

[Stanley]

I tend to agree, especially on access.
Did you see how 'successful' the new contract litter wardens have been?
Yet again I think about my 'Phillishave 2405' electric shaver. I've been using it for at least 30 years and it is as good as ever. Many years ago I bought a small simple sharpening kit for the blades and occasionally give it a service. Few things give service like this nowadays and when you have them, look after them. (I think about Ian and his favourite toaster!)

[PanBiker]

Strangely enough I just gave the Dualit toaster a de-coke yesterday. Well, I cleared its crumb tray and sandwich toaster cradle, gave it a good shake and then a wipe and polish. As one of the ads on TV says, "still winning"

[Pluggy]

There was an electric car (a real one, not an hybrid) being charged on one of the new posts on Ellis street when I walked past today.

Got a labour flyer so probably a panbiker special. Nice colour job, not reeking of old engine oil.........

[Stanley]

I got one as well Pluggy and thought perhaps they had contracted the printing out to the Tories.......
I tend to thing that the glossier they are, the less convincing!
Mat up with Jackie and set all the arrangements in place for looking after Jack when I go in for the operation on the 15th of April. That's a load off my back!

[Tizer]

This will give the Tories a shock and should provide some support for Labour. Jim O'Neill is a former chairman of Goldman Sachs and was an advisor to Cameron's government and he's always worth listening to.
`Take over pharma to create new medicines, says top adviser' LINK

[PanBiker]

Got a labour flyer so probably a panbiker special. Nice colour job, not reeking of old engine oil.........

Nowt to do with me, this one was centrally produced for our PPC Azhar.

Never noticed that the ones I have a hand in reek of engine oil? Lib Dems must be the same as we use broadly the same technology. The days of offset litho have long gone, multicolour industrial copier is the way to go.

Tories don't produce owt locally as they have lots of brass and it all has to be shiny.

[Tizer]

Jacob Rees-Mogg probably has his printed using the original Bavarian Solnhofen lithographic limestone: LINK
If that's in short supply he'd have to revert to good old vellum and his resident monk.

[Pluggy]

Its usually Mr Whipps lot that make the smelly political flyers. The voting notifications arrived today with a big warning to bring photo ID to vote on the envelope. Its all change.

[PanBiker]

Its all change.

Maybe, this is only a trial, cost a bob or two though. Skipton are doing it as well.

Wait while you see the boundary commission stuff, two wards in West Craven, just a case of which bits of Barlick get shoved into Earby!

[Stanley]

I agree with Jim O'Neill Tiz.
How many voters will be put off by ID proof? What proportion will be Labour?
In the real world it's Butcher's Day, far more important.....

[PanBiker]

National ID Card, compulsory voting and a change to a PR system, we need a change in how we do things.[unquote]
I agree with all that, Ian, but it's going to be even harder to bring it about now with the right wing libertarians on the rise in Britain. It'll be like throwing petrol on a fire. I'm sorry to be pessimistic but we missed our chance and it's going to be a lot of bad before we see much good again, regardless of which way Brexit goes.

[Tizer]

Whoops! I might have messed up Panbiker's last post, above. I was writing a reply to the past line of his post but it's all come out peculiar. Perhaps I clicked on edit instead of quote? But then why has Stanley's name got into it too?

[PanBiker]

Can't explain that Tiz, never mind.

Main thrust was that both Labour and the Lib Dems are likely to be the losers with this flawed trial. Only about 45 cased of personation at the polling station across the whole country last year. The main problem area is the postal votes always has been and all this initiative does is encourage more electors to request a postal vote or not bother at all.

[Stanley]

Repeated for anyone who doesn't like Politics Corner, too good to miss I reckon.
The fact that a friend has sent me a mystery present. Tension mounts at Number Ten. (East Hill Street)
Formula 1 quali in Bahrain, let's hope it is better than Oz. C4 standards have slipped.

[Tripps]

Burnley v Wolves on match of the Day. I smiled when saw and advert on the pitchside rotating hoarding for Benedictine. Those who have been keeping up will know all about why it's only there on this Premiership ground.

[Stanley]

I wonder what Rees Mogg's attitude to the adverts would be.... 'Benny and hot water' was a common tipple in Foulridge Working Man's Club.....
A 1951 guide book to Lancashire and Yorkshire sent by a friend.
The fact that the clocks went forward an hour.
An email from Uncle Bob asking me to explain English hot water systems and Brexit.... I have left replying to it until later when I have woken up!

[Tripps]

An email from Uncle Bob asking me to explain English hot water systems

Tell him it's what you mix with your Benedictine.

It's only 12 15 on first day of April and already I've seen this - Cat flapNot before time I'd say.

Time for bed said Florence.

[Stanley]

David, that's the first time I have ever seen Mail Online. Is that really the future for newspapers? By the way, no signs of Larry's cat flap on my page.....
Does anyone remember the great sand shortage story?
See THIS famous 1957 BBC April Fools day hoax.

[Cathy]

Someone said that the Stonehenge stones have been moved to work in with daylight saving.

[Stanley]

I doubt if anyone will fall for that one Cathy!