Category: General

As seems to be the norm these days, you have to follow up if you want feedback.

As some of you may have seen from an earlier post, they were looking to restrict how often you could go to the recycling centres in the borough, why?

There was a council meeting last month, but I heard nothing back, so I followed up at the start of the month and nothing again, so I chased again today and this was the response.

“Hi Mr James,

There is no update yet from the Cabinet member on the recommendations made by the Scrutiny committee on the proposed changes. Once I have more information changes I will let you know. Therefore, no changes have been implemented and the current rules have not changed.  

Kind regards,

Asya”

Well at least its good news, but so frustrating you have to keep following up to get feedback.

Today we were at Claire’s dad to watch the Coronation of King Charles III, for those under 70 years old, this would be the first one we have seen.

I didn’t realise until made on commentary that it also rained on the Queen Coronation back in 1952.

You can always count on the British weather, but as always we carry on and pulled of an amazing event.

Wow that was quick, it said would take 10 days to process the application.

Less than 3 hours later, I receive an email and everything was OK and I’m good to go.

This morning I did a new DBS check, something that should have been simple, turned into a bit of a shambles as the photo app wouldn’t read the passport.

In the end I had to do it manually, but thankfully that went through all OK.

Now just to wait, approx 10 days.

Today was St George’s Day, but for some reason it’s not celebrated as much as the other UK’s saints days or even other countries events in England.

It was also the first ever government alert test, which was meant to go off at 3pm, we actually got ours 1 minute before 3pm as were just leaving a car park.

I couldn’t understand why people were complaining about this.

Hopefully it won’t have to be used for a long time in the future for real.

I was out doing my daily walk and I thought I could hear sirens.

Next moment, I see a car driving on the wrong side of the road and then a little further back a police car. This was in a built up residential area.

The vehicle being chased definitely didn’t want to be caught, but was also driving in a manner that was dangerous to everyone else.

I hope they were stopped sooner than later.

I chased today, as I had no response regarding the reductions in visits to the recycling centre I posted a view week ago.

This time I got response very quickly.

“Dear Mr James,

Thank you for your email.

The Fair Use Policy decision has been called in which means that the decision will be discussed at the Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee meeting in more detail. This means that the implementation of the decision will be postponed.

We will respond to residents who have raised questions regarding the new policy after the Scrutiny Committee meeting which will be held on 25th April at the Civic Offices.

 Kind regards,

 Asya

Asya Mircheva”

Let’s see what happens after the 25^th April?

The man turned up this afternoon to do the oven cleaning.

He has done a great job, don’t you think?

Gave them an excellent review on Google.

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