After a day spent cooking for the Telegraph, I sit down to relax with my local rag and… “I have a tiny kitchen and a tiny budget, and a tiny boys mouth to feed on a daily basis. I grow… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Essex’
“Concerned, Perturbed, Extremely Dissatisfied.” Southend Councils Letter to Royal Mail re Delivery Office Closures.
In a letter to Moya Greene, the Chief Executive of the Royal Mail Group, on the 6th of December, Rob Tinlin and the four Group leaders have expressed frustration with the way that the decisions regarding closure of local Post… Read More ›
“A Small Light” – Councillor Mark Flewitt on New Affordable Home Development.
Councillors at the Community Services and Culture Scrutiny meeting on Wednesday 28th November have unanimously agreed proposals to build a new Council property on Council-owned land. The Possible New Affordable Housing Development Site report, available to view on the… Read More ›
Labour Councillors Plea To Save School Breakfast Clubs
At tonights Community Services and Culture Scrutiny committee, Councillor David Norman expressed concern that “in effect one child in four across the town is living in poverty”. The figure presented by the Child Poverty: Are We Doing Enough? Report stated… Read More ›
Hunger Hurts. (July 2012)
Today has seen fourteen job applications go in, painstakingly typed on this Jurassic mobile phone, for care work, shop work, factory work, minimum wage work, any kind of work, because quite simply, this doesn’t work. For reasons unbeknownst to me,… Read More ›
Picking Off The Scabs From The Heroes: Essex Fire Strikes
Just penned this one as an Echo letter, but not sure if they’ll print it (despite my 100% success rate so far, I’m sure at some point they’ll think something is too controversial to print…) “I was greatly concerned to… Read More ›
Put Down Your Jerrycans And Carry On
The Echo comment from today says everything I wanted to about panic petrol buying and headless-chicken scaremongering tactics: “The Essex public hasn’t panicked, the tanker drivers have yet to cause any shortage in fuel supplies. Yet the Government seems hellbent… Read More ›
Don’t Blame Single Mums For High Streets Problems
Letter in the Echo newspaper, Thursday 1st March. In response to the following article: ‘Anna Waite: Druggies, Drunks and Single Mums Driving Upmarket Shops Out Of Southend.’ http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/9557798.Druggies__drunks_and_single_mums____driving_upmarket_shops_out_of_Southend___/ “Anna Waite thinks druggies and single mothers are killing trade in Southend… Read More ›
Job trial! Job trial! I’ve got myself a job trial!
You can hear the exultation in my title post, can’t you? I’ve been a busy bee today, nagging and begging and handing CVs in, and I’m not going to say too much in case it doesn’t work out and I… Read More ›
I’m Going On A Job Hunt
I’m going on a job hunt, I’m going on a job hunt, I’m not scared, i’m not scared… So, for what feels like the millionth time since I left the Fire Service, I’m trawling the Internet and the High Street… Read More ›
