Down with colds! Down with colds! Down with colds! Down with colds!
Colds are rife in our family at the moment, and just hoping that they dont develop into more flu stuff. So as for me and my household we say…….
Down with colds!
I usually take a bit of time out at the start of the year to reflect on life etc, and the main reflection is that I am aware of the lack of time I have had in the past year, to reflect for myself and the likelihood of finding time this year is scary. Looking back on my blog posts I think there were too many posts highlighting what others have said or passing on news and whilst the original posts are important there is a quote below from Henry Thoreau that comes to mind.
“when our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper or been told by a neighbour; and for the most part the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper or been out to tea and we have not. In proportion as our inward life fails we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters proud of his extensive correspondence has not heard from himself in a long while.”
Whilst it seems a contradiction to use the quote, it serves to remind me of the need to find time.
Happy New Year.
I have pretty much stopped melting and apart fom a twitchy eye and slightly slurred speech and back to normal.
NCVYS has just brought out a policy brief on the new childrens paper download it here
Yesterday I woke up no sense of taste (some would say I never had any anyway) then today started dribbling, and cant close one eye, I am slightly paralyzed on one side of my face, been to the docs and it is Bells Palsy although I like the name Idiopathic peripheral facial palsy (its the idiopathic bit I like – it kind of sums up how I feel when I am drinking anything), so am on a range of tablets and eye drops to treat the symptoms. (cost a fortune in scripts) . Josiah and Bethany helpfully commented that I was melting down one side! The docs know the cause in neurological but no cure however most (70%) recover in about 5 weeks.
Phil Hope, Minister for the Third Sector, has reaffirmed the Government’s commitment Great Expectations psp that volunteers will not have to pay for Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks that are required for volunteers working with children and in other sensitive roles.Battlestar Galactica: Razor movies
If my son wants help with his homework because he is cutting corners is it okay to give him the wrong answers to teach him a lesson?The Brothers Bloom movie download Star Trek: First Contact movies
This morning I had some time off so we went to Axminster just up the road and called on the River Cottage shop there. It was very nice, stuff in boxes, little plastic around, lots of local river cottage produce, and some local veg. However the longer I was there the more uneasy I became, the place was clearly branded, and seemed to be building on the river cottage brand using this to hike prices on other products. Most of their veg was supplied a well known food box scheme but the prices seemed over the top compared to the door to door supply. I wonder if they pass these prices onto the farmers. Then there was the more subtle things like all the apples were labelled grown in Somerset, reinforcing the brand ethos which is great, but bananas were simply labelled organic. Which is okay and a step in the right direction BUT why not say where these are from? Does acknowledging that they travelled lessen or negatively impact the brand power of river cottage, were they trying to protect the brand identity. The whole enterprise had subtlety moved away from the original self sufficient ethic of the original River Cottage experiment that I watched so enthusiastically. Okay Hugh Fernly -whitingstall needs to make some money but wasn’t he trying to get away form the big business approaches, isn’t this current river cottage enterprise a mask for a consumer identity and development mentality that seems to lurking beneath this supposedly local/ethical brand . I openly acknowledge I use a mix of local shops and supermarkets and I always feel uneasy coming out with a trolley load of stuff, but on leaving the River Cottage shop today I felt far more tainted.
This week FYT
are launching a new ASBO certificate for young people. I will be awarding three ASBO’s to young people involved in the detached work in Chard who spoke at the council meeting and were congratulated by the committee on their work in drawing the community together.Waiting… buy
Community cohesion action plan
In response to the 10-month review by the Commission on Integration and Cohesion, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has announced a ten-point action which includes a £50 million investment over the next three years to promote community cohesion and support local authorities in preventing and managing community tensions (an increase of £2 million in 07/08). The funds are to be spent by local councils responding to local challenges in various ways including through community based projects, youth projects and volunteering. The action-plan also calls for a new inter-faith strategy.Lolita moviesThe Shaggy Dog trailer