I’m not sure why there are such frequent interruptions with the blog, but please bear with us on this.
I don’t think there’s anything sinister here.
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I’m not sure why there are such frequent interruptions with the blog, but please bear with us on this.
I don’t think there’s anything sinister here.
The first time I broke with my left wing family tradition and voted Tory was 1992. That was the first year I joined the Tories (it would take me a few years before I would become active). I thought the floor would open up beneath me.
I knew for years I was too economically literate to [...]
I was at the meeting yesterday with Alan Pilbeam, the managing director of First Eastern Counties, pleading the case for some sort of service to replace the Route 66. We didn’t expect much, we didn’t get much. Hopefully someone from First Eastern Counties will be talking to the Wherstead Road residents soon. It would also [...]
Both Ben Gummer and Ipswich Spy have it wrong, the problem with Gordon Brown’s visit was not the fact that it was publicly funded (well not entirely the problem), but the fact that it blended the political campaigning in a marginal seat (and marginal ward) together with an official visit. So the speed limits being [...]
http://philsmartsucks.com/
It’s not about our councillor – it’s about an American second hand car dealer.
The Ipswich2006.com domain has been hijacked. This was a great site with a lot of old photographs and memories, particularly around Old Stoke. Now if you go to the domain it’s been hijacked by some comparison site:
http://www.ipswich2006.com/
There’s still a discussion site here:
http://www.mrsite.co.uk/uforum/default.aspx?siteid=ipswich2006com&domain=ipswich2006.com
The ownership details are here (I have no idea if they are current or [...]
The bus trade press have a rather dry piece on the sell off, without mentioning the crucial part played by Chris Mole. Apart from that it is the same old stuff, John Carnell saying that Ipswich Buses is too small and David Ellesmere saying that Ipsiwch Buses should never be sold off and anyway its [...]
I’ve just picked up this piece in the Star talking about fury at the ungritted paths. One of the more interesting comments at the bottom of the article was this:
…How about … clearing the path for yourself? No if somebody slips on the path you have cleared you will be sued. Society is caving in [...]
Merry Christmas to all my readers. If you object to the term Christmas or to such an overtly Christian celebration, a doubly Merry Christmas to you as well.
We’ll be making more trouble next year.
It’s not just Belstead Avenue that isn’t gritted, but also Turin Street, Vaughan Street, etc. If anyone is getting fed up of the impromptu ice rinks, there’s a link to an on line form here:
https://www.ipswich.gov.uk/site/scripts/xforms_form.php?formID=152
As Belstead Avenue is used as a through road by drivers who dislike the incline on Luther Road this is not [...]