Market Square - Three things of concern

Do they bother you?

First the A frame advertising in amongst the attractive tubs of flowers.

Murray's claim that they need the advertising.

Well I won't be going in if I can avoid it.

Second , the full waste bin. Where is the next lot going?

Lastly the thoughtlessly parked bike.



Next day:

The bin has been emptied but a fresh bag has been deposited next to it full of newspapers and beer cans. This kind of thing is becoming more common. I emptied the contents into the bin - why is it coming here in the first place?

"Everyone else is doing it" -  Is this sign also unacceptable?

They are springing up all over our pavements.

For me the case is different as a useful car park is being indicated. The pavement not overused.

Do we need some rules?

A strong challenge to educational thinking

"In a damning indictment of Labour's education record since 1997, the Cambridge University-led review accuses the government of introducing an educational diet "even narrower than that of the Victorian elementary schools"."

Reports the Guardian yesterday.



At last an independent group with considerable authority is speaking out. An exhaustive study that must be heeded.

As a former teacher in both primary and secondary schools, I agree wholeheartedly with their findings.

This is one area of Labour's policies that has been disastrous for young people and their parents.

At an early age children need to develop naturally in a positive stress free environment with as much contact with parents and friends as possible.

They have an abounding drive to find things out. This is how they learn to speak with all its rewards of communication. The last thing they need is to be regimented in larger groups. They need as much one to one interaction as they can get, to answer and develop their individual exploration of the world in a positive encouraging atmosphere.

Teachers who love education, know this, and are dismayed by government diktats.

Many of those that had a long experience of teaching found the new emphasis over the last ten years, unwillingly imposed from on high by Head Teachers, unacceptable to their sense of what was right.

Most of them who were proactive and had that highly valued quality of self motivation, got out of a spirit crushing system and found other jobs .This happened all the way from the classroom to the Head's office.

Coming before an election - will this register with the voters?

The Liberal Democrats have been consulting with teachers and concerned parents for the last few years and will have a well thought out policy. I don't trust the Conservatives one bit with their "bring in the army" approach.

"Zit Down"

"Don't move.You vill zit quietly ant listen to vat I zay"

"You vill learn vat is good for you"

"No questions allowt"

"Vat is dis - Vy? Vy? Vy?"

"Vee know vat iss bess for you"

Know wonder Ulverston kids misbehave as they occasionally do. Try experiencing their 'learning' environment at Victoria High.

Teachers turn into bullies when they are themselves put under pressure.

Keeping my fingers crossed for the future!

"Oh No" - Illegal activities again

Local Government - this time SLDC - are winding me up a treat and I'm in great danger of turning criminal in frustration.

The locking up of the public toilets at dusk is driving me bonkers.

I past a man peeing beside someone's front door as I walked along Upper Brook Street.

"Do you really have to ?" received the rejoinder " I'm busting for a pee - where else can I go"

I had no reply.

I talked to someone yesterday who told me they had shit in the alleyway across from the toilet in The Gill. She had to clean it up herself.

The fair is in town and The Gill is milling with people - it's also the Lantern Procession - and the toilets are locked - with their lights on!

Do we have to revert to life in the middle ages.

Someone could easily nick the hasps on all the toilets in the town so that they can't be locked any more.

If that fails , I guess the next step is remove the gates themselves - not difficult!

Anyone who checks will find that the nuts on the ones in The Gill are only finger tight . . . . .

Yobos in Ulverston

You could argue that they are irresponsible young kids.

Far from it these are just little yobos.

There are bigger yobos and great big hairy - probably with a paunch - yobos.

I reckon that for the most part once a yobo always one. They grow up and have little yobo children who are uncared for and undisciplined. They will sit at their tele and drink beer while the kids are out creating havoc. These kids learn to take care of themselves by grouping with other yobos.

Some of the parents have in the past visited this blog and been permitted to make comments. Then when they are banned they eventually give up.

Many are to be found on the Nowhere chat group. Go there and you'll be educated into the kind of yobs we have in amongst us.

I visited them when they posted the thread "Dellow is a cunt" which still appears on some graffiti in town if you know where to look. They seemed surprised when I turned up as a poster on the thread and since then having ignored them, they ignore me!

Comments will still appear along the lines "I saw Dellow on the curb in town and only just resisted running him over."

For the most part the yobos here haven't a clue who I am but because their mates are having a dig they join in - Good for a laugh!

Whilst initially ignoring them, I'm changing my mind and feel that we have to go in and sort them out and make them more aware of what its like to be human and considerate of others.

These are the kind of people that are supporting the BNP and aggressive to any group that doesn't agree with them.

If our society is not to go totally downhill we have to deal with these kind of people and not ignore them.

How?

EXASPERATED

Geoff,
Some time ago I sent you emails about getting a bench moved in Cross St . I corresponded with Jayne Kendall and John Bath at Capita.
I thought it would be a simple matter that could be done in a week or two i.e. to move a bench about 50 yards so that old people can sit with their shopping until a taxi appears.
First I was told the seats were in store, then was told the Probation service would <> them - how long can it take to paint a bench ? Now the Probation are <> to cope with this huge job.
Four months later we are no nearer and the only person to have been any help is Norman B-R.
Even he cannot get things moving because now the GPO think it is a security risk to have seat under their window.
I bet you are glad you didn't get elected as I'm sure this typifies local government. IT IS SO EXASPERATING .This type of thing is bound to have an effect on elected councillors .


I agree with you this is why I'm resorting to just doing the job myself when ever I can and ignore local government and councillors - hence The Gill Banks project and coming up that at Lightburn Park. Maybe the public will begin to feel the same. Even councillors like Colin Williams face evasive action when he comes to try and get rusting lamposts repainted.

The system is going to pot - or has it always been like this with bureaucrats taking control and we're just beginning to notice?

Cameron would promise us the world

If only to get into power.

But how competent would he be?

I'd choose Vince Cable any day!

(Note: I put "cameron" into a Google image search :

What did I get ?

Not this one, I assure you! )