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I am a founder member and currently secretary of the West Norfolk Autism Group and am autistic myself. I am a very keen photographer and almost every blog post I produce will feature some of my own photographs. I am an avidly keen cricket fan and often post about that sport.
An Important Letter to be Delivered on International Women’s Day
An important letter to be delivered to world leaders on International Women’s Day (8th March) and a few other bits. Read, enjoy and please share widely.
INTRODUCTION
This blog post features two special sections to start, and then some regular aspiblog fare to finish. We start with…
A LETTER TO WORLD LEADERS
Because I am on the mailing list of ONE I received their email containing a letter about education for girls and a button to click to add my name. Here is the text of the letter
A Letter to Leaders
You couldn’t be where you are today without a good education.
But because poverty is sexist, 130 million girls across the world are denied this basic right. Indeed, if the number of girls out of school formed a country, it would be the tenth largest on the planet – bigger than Japan or Germany.
All children deserve a good education, but in the poorest countries girls are denied it more often than boys. Education is vital for moving out of poverty. Every additional year of school that a girl completes increases her future earnings, which is good for her family, her community and her country.
We cannot afford to squander the potential of 130 million girls to cure diseases or end wars, invent brilliant technology or revolutionise an industry…or simply to access opportunity.
We are coming together and uniting across our divides to get every girl into school and to make sure she gets a quality education once she’s there.
But we need you to do the same.
Your education helped you to get where you are today – and it is in your power to help millions of girls to get theirs. Please act now, with the right policies and the necessary funds.
Show us that politics can work for the people – starting with the people who need it most.
To add your name to this letter, as I already have:
ADD YOUR NAME WITH ONE CLICK
The letter will be delivered to various world leaders on International Women’s Day, March 8th.
SOME SPECIAL COINS AT AUCTION
These pictures are of lots 1036-40 in James and Sons’ February Auction. This auction, like our January auction which is Monday-Wednesday of next week is a three day affair, although day three, which the coin lots will be opening, will be at the Maids Head Hotel, Norwich, after two days at our shop in Fakenham. Save for the picture of the presentation box for lot 1040 these images are all ultra hi-res (600 dpi) scans…
A COUPLE OF LINKS
First from Neurodivergent Rebel this post titled Frienships & Loneliness.
Second, courtesy of People Need Nature comes this report entitled A Pebble In The Pond (it is a 16-page PDF and thoroughly worth reading).
PICTURES FROM KINGS LYNN
Here are some pictures from earlier today…
First Bus case -Supreme Court Decision Wed. January 18th
An important case reaching its conclusion – please follow the link below to find out more from the DPAC website…
Source: First Bus case -Supreme Court Decision Wed. January 18th
Pictures and Petitions
A couple of important petitions, a couple of interesting links and some photographs taken in and around King’s Lynn – enjoy!
INTRODUCTION
I have two important petitions to share with you, a couple of other links and some new photos to share.
RENATIONALISE THE RAILWAYS!
For my first offering I turn to the campaign group We Own It, and their petition calling for Britain’s railways to be publicly owned and controlled. Click on the screenshot below to visit and sign this petition.
AN ANTI-FRACKING PETITION
The latest area to be targeted by fracking companies is Derbyshire. Click on the image below to visit and sign the petition against this:
PHOTOGRAPHS 1:
A COUPLE OF LINKS
Autism Mom’s most recent post is entitled “Words My Son Can Use” and is a very interesting read.
Welfare Weekly have produced a list of the 10 worst excuses produced by employers caught failing to pay the minimum wage which you can read here.
PHOTOGRAPHS 2
We finish with a few more pictures, these ones taken this morning:
Labour’s latest #effectiveopposition for women stark contrast with Tory damage
An excellent post from Skwawkbox…
The Tories, without shame, claim they’re the pro-women party because of the fact of their two female prime ministers. Right…
They’veknown for yearsthat their policies have a vastly disproportionateeffect on women – and that has never stopped or moderated their actions. They’ve evenrefused to publish impact assessments on the extent of the damage. In spite of the willingness of media mouthpieces to talk about the issue with deadpan face, it is, beyond doubt, pure posturing and snake-oil.
Jeremy Corbyn started his leadership of the Labour party by appointing the first-ever majority-female Shadow Cabinet and has continued to strengthen the position of women on the Labour front benches – and his party’s victory on Friday shows even more clearly that Labour is the real party that promotes and cares about women.
Stalking is not, of course, only suffered by women – but it isprimarilywomen who are…
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Am I the sun? Är jag solen?
An excellent post from Anna about the challenges currently facing her hometown…
Note: English text below the Swedish
Trosa kommuns politiker, som är satta att leda utvecklingen har under många år lyckats leva på gamla meriter. På senare år har dock verkligheten hunnit ikapp dem.
De kan inte längre stoltsera med topplaceringar på diverse rankinglistor, som numera är så populära för kommunpolitiker att lyfta fram som framgångskvitton.
Jag ritade för några år sedan en teckning som anspelar på kommunens stadsvapen och spådde just att kommunens män (för det är mest gråsprängda äldre män som bestämmer) kanske en dag flyger för nära solen, precis som Ikaros.
Rankingplaceringarna har nått lägre nivåer än tidigare de senaste åren och kommunens män gör inte särskilt mycket åt det utan skyller mest på orsaker som de själva inte tycks kunna råda över. Således lär man ju heller inte kunna förbättra situationen eftersom man saknar insikt om sin medverkan till att en förskjutning nedåt har skett på listorna.
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Dinosaur on Tour (tweet)
INTRODUCTION
I have just spotted this on twitter – Dippy, the famous Diplodocus from London’s Natural History Museum is going on tour…
THE TWEET PLUS MAP
Here is the tweet:
UK tour for @NHM_London‘s Dippy the diplodocus https://t.co/ZBGxOxLaIe pic.twitter.com/CyDEZ1QOOT
— BBC News Graphics (@BBCNewsGraphics) January 4, 2017
Conclave – Book Review
A review of Conclave by Robert Harris.
INTRODUCTION
I received a copy of Robert Harris’ latest work, Conclave, as a Christmas present from my sister. I included mention of Robert Harris in the post I created to mark my fifth anniversary as a blogger, the title of which was borrowed from the second volume of his trilogy about Marcus Tullius Cicero. I also mentioned the possibility of reviewing Imperatorm the third volume in the Cicero trilogy, in a couple of other posts but did not actually do so (it is a splendid finale to the trilogy btw).
A BOOK ABOUT CHOOSING A NEW POPE?
The whole of Conclave is devoted to telling the story of the election of a new pope. The scene is set with the announcement of the death of the old pope. To be elected a two-thirds majority, and it often takes several votes for a front runner to emerge. This being a novel, there are of course some extra twists. Four people in total are front runners at various stages of the process but do not win. Two of these people have their chances spoilt when details of past transgressions are revealed to the assembled cardinals, a third makes a speech which effectively rules him out and the fourth is hoping someone else gets elected. At the end a newly appointed cardinal who had gained one vote in the first ballot is elected at the eighth ballot (while I do not know of anyone in real life winning after getting only one vote in the first ballot, Cardinal Wojtila got very few votes in the first ballot of the second Conclave of 1978).
The winner then has to accept the office and choose a papal name. In this case he goes for Innocent, a papal name that has been used 13 times before but not in the last three centuries. There is of course a vast range of possible papal names – very few of those previously used would be unacceptable, while a choice of a previously unused name could also work. There are two papal names I do not see being claimed any time soon however: Pius XIII because of the character of Pius XII, and Peter II because of the sheer hubris involved in choosing that name (although Steve Berry in The Third Secret has someone choose the name Peter II, and yes that person does then come to a sticky end).
Although all the action takes place within the confines of the world’s smallest independent country, the book never flags or lacks interest. An excellent novel and one I heartily recommend.
Winter Pictures
A few links and some pictures – enjoy.
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to my first post of 2017. I have some pictures to share with you of course, and one or two other things.
SOME LINKS
My first link is a quiz from the British Humanist Association entitled “How Humanist Are You?”
My remaining two links are to petitions:
- 38 Degrees are running a petition to stop filibustering in the House of Commons.
- petitionsite.com have a petition calling for the renationalisation of our railways.
Mention of the railways leads me to the following from twitter:
Join campaigners outside King’s Lynn railway station from 7am to make your opposition known https://t.co/G21HNBd7uc
— JoAnne Rust (@JoRust45) January 2, 2017
This is part of a nationwide protest against the continuing increase of fares for increasingly poor services on British trains.
PHOTOGRAPHS
These pictures comprise my last from 2016 and my first from 2017…
Debenhams soak homeless man on Boxing Day – ruin his clothes, donated food
The season of goodwill? Not to the security guard in this horrible story…
Posted on Facebook yesterday evening:
What have we become in the UK – a nation of bullies?
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Text version:
So to some of you you know my predicament of being homeless. But yesterday morning I woke up feeling wet socks and clothes thought I might of left a bottle open or something. I then get told by the security of Debenhams I have 10 minutes which was fine. But as he walked away he said enjoy your water bed. So I bite back as it being boxing day. So I then begin to pack up my bedding to then discover that the secunity guard from the inside of debenhams had flooded all my bedding. And ruined clothing food dog bedding public donations brought by the kind members of public. So a few of us went into speak to management didn’t do anything apparently it’s acceptable to bullying the…
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