Sunday, February 28, 2010

Game on!

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I do know that one swallow doesn't make a summer ... ... but the polls reported today at a Scottish level and at a UK level are part ...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Another glorious defeat

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Stopped working for a few hours this afternoon to watch the Italy V Scotland rugby match ... ... I should have gone back out to do a bit ...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

Campaigning day

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Campaigning work almost all of today again - there's just no doubt that the pace has really stepped up a gear. Several weeks coming up ...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Election mania

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Well, it may be several weeks to go (of course, I don't know exactly how many?) ... ... to the General Election but all sorts of deadli...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Hutchison walkabout

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Periodic ' walkabout ' for the Hutchison Estate area later this morning, with various Community Councillors and assorted Council S...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Neighbourhood Partnership meeting

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Edinburgh South West Neighbourhood Partnership meeting this evening ... unsurprisingly, the whole evening was really dominated by the prop...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Monday blues ...

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Did something this morning I've not done in a very long time - turned up an hour early for a meeting ... ... having altered a time-slot...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

Play the ball, not the man

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No point in avoiding the subject ... and I can hardly deny that I regularly read the Sunday Observer :-( Well, today's re-launch may ha...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Allotment visit

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Managed to fit in a brief visit to the allotment this afternoon, pretty cold but clear sunshine ... quite a contrast to a few weeks ago ! Br...
Friday, February 19, 2010

5 Centres to close in South West!

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Many of you will have already spotted that 5 of the 6 Community Centres about to be closed are in the South West area of the city: Gorgie ...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Gorgie War Memorial Hall fights back ...

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All credit must go to the Management Committee at the Gorgie War Memorial Hall - one of the six Community Centres threatened with closure ...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

6 Community Centre closures

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I reckon we've got literally weeks and weeks of this type of story about cuts and closures to come yet :-( six community centres over £...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

At least show some decency?

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Looking back at the leaked (so-called) 'officer-proposals' from the Evening News coverage of the 25th January - that article predic...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

over £1million removed from Council grants

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More depressing detail from that local budget - and I suspect many of the SNP /Lib-Dem Coalition backbenchers don't even realise they...
Friday, February 12, 2010

More expensive than Council Tax?

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Been looking in a bit more detail at that appalling local budget ... ... the level of price hikes, for some pretty basic services, is frank...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Good day for Edinburgh's vulnerable :-)

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Might well have been a bad day for Edinburgh's schools ... but, at least it was a good day for Edinburgh's vulnerable. In the secon...

Bad day for Edinburgh's schools :-(

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Well - budget meeting over and the SNP /Lib-Dem Coalition proposals were passed :-( As I've indicated before , we remain firmly of the ...

Protecting Front Line Services

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Budget Day - in Edinburgh at least! Rather than repeat some of the earlier main messages , I'm just going to provide a couple of links ...
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