Saturday, December 29, 2007

Christmas over - Cairngorms next

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Christmas over - great time had by all ... 12 relatives (including the 1-week old new niece !) in the flat for the main meal and no major pr...
Friday, December 21, 2007

Christmas blogging levels ...

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Now, I am in Edinburgh over almost all of the holiday period - and may even be at my desk on the odd (unspecified!) day or two - but I have ...

Staff Meal Out

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Christmas meal out with the Labour Group staff later today. Every one of them deserves a medal this year - no, not for putting up with us! ...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

... oops, nearly forgot ...

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.... oops, nearly forgot ... one other potentially , very significant decision that the Administration seem to be almost stumbling towards ...
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Yet another very long Council meeting

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Full Council meeting today didn't end until practically 6.30pm :-( ... and, unfortunately, there was indeed a general theme of 'upd...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Up close and very local

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I mentioned the parking woes building up right outside my doorstep last month - see here . Well, the measures to help with the numerous safe...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Come back "Vicious Vince"

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Can you believe it - the new Leader of the Lib- Dems is only 40 years old ... ... add to that, the incumbent Tory Leader being a stately 41...
Monday, December 17, 2007

Blatant mis-use of Council publications

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The Libs in Edinburgh really know no shame. They really don't. I've had previous rants about their potential mis-use of Council publ...
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Full Council this Thursday

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Full Council meeting this coming Thursday ... always seems to be such a meeting in the last week before the Christmas break :-( I've nev...
Saturday, December 15, 2007

New Niece

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Niece number 3 born earlier this afternoon - to my sister-in-law and husband :-) Haven't been to visit yet, but the new arrival is alrea...
Friday, December 14, 2007

Xmas parties commence ...

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Yes, they've started! - already been to a couple of local events in the last few days ... ... and tonight sees the main Labour Group Xma...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Goodbye biomass :-(

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The 'supposed' green credentials of the local Libs and Nats took another nose-dive this evening. In fact, as far as I'm concerne...
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Another "Working Group"

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Edinburgh's case for additional 'Capital City supplement funding' got a pretty luke -warm response this afternoon from the new ...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Parity of esteem?

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I don't know Councillor Martin Ford , he's not of my political Party, but I feel he's been treated appallingly badly over the la...
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Lies, damned lies, and statistics

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As regular readers will know, I rarely (if ever?) have a serious pop at named, individual politicians - I really do try my best to keep arg...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Lowest, local unemployment since 1970's

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Now, given that Edinburgh is on the verge of 'financial and social meltdown' after years of neglect - according to my Liberal collea...

A plague on all our houses

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I've mentioned before that I do not envy the position that the Leader of the Opposition at Holyrood currently finds herself in ... but...
Monday, December 10, 2007

Collective schizophrenia?

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I've had a bit of a rant about population trends on a few occasions in the past - see here and here - and note that just last Friday, ...