Be Warned Long Post With A purpose
Back to normality the blog has quietened down and I can have a bit of a waffle to myself. Sky News prompted me.
This post is about jogging memories
Having listened to Sky news in the background this morning, I have sort of been catapulted backwards, with old memories with my brain being jogged into action.
Its strange isn’t it! You suddenly see a place you have been or visited plastered all over the news unfortunately in this case for very sad circumstances, how it affects you personally!
My thoughts are with those families that have been affected by loss of loved ones at Mont Blanc.
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| Picture J.Astbury Jan 1991 Photo scanned and sorry about the cat hairs on the Scanner |
Although I am not a climber, I have had the experience of skiing across The Valle Blanc many years ago. Oh boy what an experience that was. I can understand the buzz that people get from being out doors and exploring what Mother Nature has to offer.
Moving On?
Sky News again The Speed Limit Review, now whilst I know Solihull MBC seem to have already thought about this review, I’m not so sure WCC have. I was over the moon almost a year ago when Cllr Hawkins (Solihull ) published this document and hoped there would be hope for Forshaw Heath Road Forshaw Heath Lane
Gosh another bit of cross boundary join the dots thinking and communication (NOT) as I have said before some of the things alluded to in the SDC Draft Development Framework should be used for other things, mind you aren’t roads classed as infrastructure, therefore part of development.
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G4S or is that Group 4 Security
This will surprise you I am sitting on the fence, as recruitment, vetting, training and licensing all take time and rely on other external organisations. (My question is How did they perform) it all has a knock on effect.
Recruiting an additional approx 8000 people in approx 24 weeks is near on impossible. G4S should have said when the suggestion of their goal posts changing reportedly in December 2011 We can’t meet that requirement. (amended just listening to Sky News original requirement 2000 went up to 10k) The mind boggles.
Instead greed and money appear to have taken over. Somebody somewhere said YES we can do it. Personally I hope they lose a damn site more than 50 million. Which leads me on to --------------Ã
Those In Charge
Whilst Directors of the highest level in any organisation I include government.
Making decisions is about informed decisions, If those responsible informing those that are ultimately responsible tell them what they think decision makers want to hear instead of what the decision makers need to hear, the rest of us stand no chance, at best we are spun and become negative influences and don’t like change which is far from the truth.
Whilst being catapulted into the past by the news I realised that the same things I was waffling about when I started this blog are still bothering me.
Whilst being catapulted into the past by the news I realised that the same things I was waffling about when I started this blog are still bothering me.
What Has Today’s News made me realise?
- My small corner of the earth has a problem with crime
- My small corner of the earth has a problem with Speeding cars
- My small corner of the earth has a problem with being told crime has dropped.
- My small corner of the earth is really fed-up with the following
- Crime
- Speed
- Potholes
- Noise
- Planning
- My small corner of the world is fed up of people saying No it doesn't happen when yes it does happen.
- My small corner of the earth fails to talk to each other, probably because there are fields and 60 mph lanes between us.