What more can be said about Climategate? Since it hit the headlines I’ve surfed intensely and have become so disappointed with the AGW debate & what’s happened at CRU. But then that’s just it. One side claims that there is no debate to be had, that the overwhelming consensus is for AGW and that catastrophic climate chaos [...]
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It’s always been the case – well certainly in some of the more ‘wealthy’ areas of Norwich (and I’m sure Norwich is not the exception) – that come election time you tend to get Green Party posterboards outside houses that you know are two car households.
It’s two weeks since we got rid of the TV and life goes on. I think the only program we all seem to be missing is Waybuloo! And everyone seems to want a cuddly Waybuloo character for Christmas. Actually I wanted to correct something in that last post
Not the first or the last, but we got rid of the TV by free-cycling it to some needy students. For some time the TV has been neglected. My partner was purged of any TV habit when we had a long-term guest earlier this year who just couldn’t stop herself watching TV and talking to you [...]
As a cyclist I always cycle on the road. What really winds me up is when I see adults cycling on the pavement. And then there are those cyclists who are kitted out in dayglo vests and super bright LED lights and cycle on the pavement! My 4 year has recently learnt to cycle and [...]
This is a subject close to my heart & something that I agree with: Think-tank the New Local Government Network (NLGN) says that new allotments should be created from what is an estimated 3,500 hectares of derelict brownfield land & that local councils should promote “edible landscaping”. Apparently there are 100,000 people on a waiting list for [...]
Occasionally our eldest [8] sits in on the evening television news. Today we saw footage of the Olympic Torch as it wound it’s way through London. There were the clashes of protesters with police, attempts by protesters to grab the torch, runners flanked by the Chinese special Torch protectorate, who were flanked by dayglo bicycle [...]
There’s saying that Norwich is ‘the graveyard of ambition’: people come to the city intending to stay for a short time but because it’s such a ‘fine city’ they end up staying (forever!). For someone who likes to climb, Norwich was just about the worst place in the UK for me to end up. I’m [...]
