26 June 2013
The News starts off with a story of one of
the two new developments in the town centre.
This one is around the area of the library, justice centre and a car
park across the from the justice centre.
We are promised that the plans will be made public on July 18th. We will see ... Something else we will have wait for is
whether Sainsbury's will be given permission to turn the Cock and Bear pub into
a local supermarket. So the town is set
to lose yet another pub; a pub which was popular and busy up until Mad Maggie
forced the breweries to sell of their pubs.
The idea of the sell off was to free up the drinks trade and given
drinkers a greater choice. So yet
another well intention idea has been a total waste of time and dosh!
Still on
planning then; there's no word yet on the redevelopment of the Abbey Street/ring
road part of the town centre. And what
about the proposed plan to build 300 houses on Weddington Fields. That idea has gone off the boil since a buried
EA report was found and made public. The
report stated that the area was likely to be at serious flood risk for many
years to come, in not permanently. But the town still needs to build a large
number of houses and the arguments for and against various area still rumbles
on. The two area usually named are the
Weddington/St Nicholas Park area and the Woodlands in Bed'th.
In both areas there are lots of objections,
understandably of course. But of the two
I would sooner protect the Woodlands simply because of the large amount of
woodlands (the name says it all!") and their wildlife populations. As with all things, someone will end up disappointed. I bet it's Woodlands!
The American
health care system is the best in world - if you can pay that is! This morning we sat and watched a Channel 4
show, The Man With 10 Stone Testicles. What a mess that man was in. He could pee or dump properly; walking was a
nightmare. Most surgeons he had spoken
to said they were not willing to operate cos the risks. He finally found one that said he would - the
costs was $100,000+. Here's a man who
can't work because of his condition yet he was expected to pay that much to
save his life. Eventually the op was
done for free by the same surgeon. They
were able to save the patients penis and testicles and the growth of his
scrotum was weighed at 139lbs. Luckily
for the patient someone said he would the job for free while the rest of
American health care industry sat back and refused to help. Thankfully we here in the UK don't have to
worry about that - yet that is!
This morning
we tried to fix the two batteries I knackered.
We had bought 3amp blade fuses cos I'm sure that is what we needed, but
when we opened up the first battery pack the design was totally different than
earlier models. Now while Jan is off in
town she will be looking for 30amp and 5amp blade fuses. Hopefully they will do the trick and we can
both have a spare battery with us when we go out. Hopefully that is all we need, if not we
shall have to get them sorted at our local mobility store.
Yesterday I
posted seven photos onto my flickr page; even out of 187! Thankfully I wasn't paying for film and possessing. Anyway - here's the best of the shots ...
a
gannet, taken at Bempton Cliffs.
And it's
time for a funny ...
John F
Kennedy, Indira Gandhi, John Lennon. If history teaches us anything it's that
if you don't want your child assassinated, then don't name them after an
airport.
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