A big date for the diary…
Weekend Wanderings: Yackandandah Part 1
There are some excellent photographs in this post about a mining town…
Last week or the week before I had to go to Wodonga with my daughter, she had to do something at the University there, and in the morning I had some time to kill so some friends suggested that I go to Yackandandah to look around and take some photos. It is an old Gold Mining town, and I have to say I wasn’t disappointed.
There you are the sign says it all. Like many places in Victoria gold played a big part in their history. You can see the remnants of that period in them as well.
The wide footpaths in the main streets with the verandah part covering the whole part of the footpath. Such an old fashioned thing now. I love seeing them. Walking along the street here I was very much reminded of Maldon, another gold rush town in Victoria, but Maldon is so much busier…
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Architectural Features of a Norfolk Village (1)
I am treating this as the first of a series of related posts owing to the fact that time restrictions on Wednesday when I took the photographs that are its raison d’etre meant that we (my mother and I) accounted for barely a tithe of the interesting buildings in the village (East Rudham).
We had hoped to start with the Manor House but this was not accessible, although the publicly accessible part of its driveway provided an angle to capture the rear window of The Old Reading Room and also a section of brick and flint wall…
Having got a shot of the rear window of the building, The Old Reading Room was an obvious next port of call…
Just across the road from the Old Reading Room, is the Wesleyan Chapel, these days a private residence rather than a religious building…
After the Wesleyan Chapel came several very quirky specimens of local archiecture at the near end of School Road…
From the near end of school road, we proceeded round the south side of the village green, starting with a shot of a section of brick and flint wall and continuing with a couple of a large barn behind which lurks a modern house…
Before proceeding to take front on shots of the barn and the cottages that adjoin it, I took a couple of panoramic views from the green…
The barn has a very fancy weathercock above it…
Next we come to two cottages painted in pastel colours (one yellow, one blue)…
These two properties are separated by the width of what I have called “Fox Gate” from the detached cottage called Caradon…
Between Caradon and the old post office (a very short distance) were a number of other properties to be photographed…
The building that used to be the post office is now much improved from the mouldering wreck it had become before restoration…
From here, via a shot of the side of the pub it was on to the church, the approach to which goes past an old cottage…
I took several shots of the church, was is almost entirely 19th Century, with a few hints of older stuff around…
Although it involved some mildly unpleasant walking, the churchyard provided a few other good brick and flint shots and a slightly tree obscured shot of the Manor House…
The penultimate phase of this picture gathering expedition involved taking close ups of London House and the adjoining building that had not so long ago been an eyesore and a health hazard – there were loose tiles on the roof, and a not terribly wide pavement between the front of the building and the A148 (and for all that for that part of its length IT IS THE VILLAGE STREET not many motorists take due note of this important fact)…
The final picture was this ‘home shot’ – on the right of the shot as you look is Mulberry Coach House and straight ahead is part of Mulberry Barn (this property now forms a right-angle, as two loose boxes have been converted into extra rooms)…
Tories pledge free vote on right to punch people in the face who don’t prepare dinner
A thorough and very funny skewering of Mr Cameron by Tom Pride…
(satire?)
David Cameron has pledged a free vote in Parliament on punching people in the face who haven’t prepared dinner on time if the Conservatives win the General Election.
The Prime Minister’s pledge to allow a vote on the face punching ban if he has a clear majority after May 7, was last night hailed as the right move by campaigners.
Mr Cameron said he shares people’s frustration at the legislation outlawing the slapping of tardy food preparers in the kisser– which has now been in place for decades – and would like to see the ban repealed.
In a statement to the press, Mr Cameron said a free vote on the right to punch out the lights of anyone not having food ready on time was the right approach and Mr Cameron’s pledge – made in an article in the Countryside Alliance magazine – would mean there was a real possibility of the ban being overturned and…
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Nigel Farage angers voters with bad taste Jimmy Savile joke in Stoke Mandeville
Mr Farage unerringly locates the self-destruct button again! (thanks to Tom Pride for original post)
(not satire – it’s the UKIP!)
On a visit to Stoke Mandeville today, UKIP leader Nigel Farage made a ‘joke’:
“Jimmy Savile and now HS2, Stoke Mandeville has had it all!”
Hundreds of people have reported being sexually abused by Savile at Stoke Mandeville hospital.
As an example, one woman described being raped by Savile on about 10 separate occasions at the hospital when she was aged eight or nine years old.
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Q: What not to do if you’re a politician on a visit to Stoke Mandeville?
A: Make a Jimmy Savile joke.
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An Eventful Day at James and Sons
I now have a new work computer at James and Sons. Today was a today for cranking out publicity. I put out an email advertising the fact that James and Sons will be at the collectors fair at Stanway Rovers FC on Wednesday (it is just off the A12 at junction 26), and also two emails advertising our upcoming auction on March 25th at the Maids Head Hotel in Norwich. One of these was aimed at banknote collectors and one at stamp collectors. I shall reproduce all of these here for your benefit…
My twitter following on @aspitweets continues to grow at a satisfactory rate.
A Pot Pourri of Pics (and other stuff)
As I prepare for another day at work, I am listening to commentary from the Cricket World Cup. Bangladesh are giving a good account of themselves against New Zealand in Hamilton, while in between rain breaks in Sydney England look like finishing a truly appalling world cup campaign with victory over Afghanistan (maybe they should accept Cricket Japan’s invite to stop by for a few games on the way home!)
The pictures I will be sharing at various points in this post are from two sources, imaging for the March Auction (now practically complete) and some pics from in and around King’s Lynn. At some point in the future I will be putting up a post about architectural features to be found in the village of East Rudham, having recently taken some good pics there.
A lot of the imaging I did on Tuesday was of banknotes in albums, but a few other bits got in there as well…
My Wednesday morning walk was fitted in between the cricket commentary finishing and meeting my mother to go to East Rudham for lunch, photographing architecture, providing a tutorial in MS Access and finally playing bridge at the Jolly Sailors. This latter was enjoyable in spite of the fact that I had the kind of luck that should be toasted in extra bitter Fernet Branca!. At 5p a hundred I ended up £1.30 down on the evening – and on the three hands on which I was declarer I made two of the contracts and went one down undoubled on the other. Here are some of the highlights from the walk…
I will finish by showing you some images from yesterday’s mop-up operation…
A big gay post for the day
A must read post for anyone even remotely concerned by homophobia…
As predicted, Mandatory Review has effectively destroyed independent Tribunals
An excellent post from kittysjones…
Section 102 and Schedule 11 of the Welfare Reform Act, (Clause 99) is the (State) power to require revision before appeal. People who wish to challenge a benefit decision will no longer be allowed to lodge an appeal immediately. Instead, the government introduced mandatory revision or review stage, during which a different Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) decision maker will reconsider the original decision and the evidence and, if necessary, send for more information.
Many of us have campaigned since 2012 to raise awareness of Clause 99. During the Consultation period, I wrote a set of responses to the government’s proposals, which many people used as a template for their own responses. I remember that we ALL RAISED THE SAME CONCERNS.
In summary, the main concerns were that basic rate ESA was to be withdrawn during the mandatory review period, leaving sick and disabled people with no money to…
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UKIP MEP claims decarbonising Europe will mean less carbon dioxide for plants!
Tom Pride provides another priceless demonstration of UKIP stupidity!
(not satire – it’s the UKIP!)
When I first saw this video of UKIP’s agriculture spokesman Stuart Agnew MEP claiming that decarbonisation will deprive plants of carbon dioxide – I honestly thought it was a spoof.
But no – it’s the UKIP.
Hard to know where to start when it comes to explaining just how ignorant these comments are.
So better just let you see for yourself:
For me, the most disturbing thing is that the video was posted by the UKIP itself.
Presumably they must be actually really very proud of their stupidity.
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