Sunday, January 30, 2011

Only 13-weekends left!

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Only 13-weekends of Holyrood campaigning left after today! So - no rest for the wicked, and most of this afternoon spent on the doors. I sw...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Burns Supper 3

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Burns Supper number three tonight! No speeches to give this evening though - was asked to simply 'Chair' the Tynecastle High Scho...

Glasgow today ...

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Over in Glasgow most of today - no respite from the Holyrood campaigning though! .... attending a brief training-event for the Party's...
Friday, January 28, 2011

More interesting AV polls

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More interesting polling on the AV-referendum reported today ... you can see all the details here ... ... once again, were the 'actual...

Burns Supper 2

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Asked to stand in (just yesterday!) at another Burns Supper this evening - and give the Immortal Memory :-( ... actually - was a very enjoy...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Audit Committee

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Audit Committee this morning - main agenda can be found here ... ... pretty light load for this Committee actually: usually never enough ti...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

I've succumbed to Twitter

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Couple of days ago, I succumbed to Twitter :-(( Using it pretty much like I use ' facebook ' and it will principally feature a fee...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Too far, too fast?

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There's just no denying that the release of today's quarterly GDP figures has taken everyone aback ... ... I swear that Radio5 Live...

Craiglockhart Community Council

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Craiglockhart Community Council this evening - you can see the agenda here , and previous minutes here ... ... meeting very much dominate...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Local Budget for 2011/12

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Nearing the end of our 2011/12 local Budget preparations now ... ... several meetings later today should help us reach a conclusion on the...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Campaigning Sunday

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Campaigning afternoon today - good turnout of activists and endless tenemental stairs climbed and doors chapped ... ... good response overa...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Ed Miliband and the Burns Supper

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Well, yesterday was completely frantic - in a perfectly good way ;-) Ed Miliband was up in Scotland - mostly Edinburgh - for a series of e...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

London today

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Down in London the whole of today, for a series of meetings at the Electoral Reform Society ... ... including a very successful evening rec...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Elections Consultative Group

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Elections Consultative Group met for the first time in 2011 this morning ... ... you can definitely sense the impending 'electoral event...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Policy and Strategy Committee

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Policy and Strategy Committee this morning - not as lengthy as usual: all the reports can be found on CPOL , with the main agenda here ... ...
Monday, January 17, 2011

Tynecastle Parent Group

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Tynecastle High School Parent Group meeting tonight. Plenty of discussion about the impact of potential budget reductions to front-line tea...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Budget meeting and a quiz

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Successful budget-event held yesterday --- good attendance at an open-meeting we'd organised to try and get some 'external' inpu...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Congratulations Debbie Abrahams!

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Personal bias admitted, of course ... but many congratulations to Debbie Abrahams ;-) Not the most ideal of local circumstances to be a can...