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April | 2011 | the sandals are off
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The sandals are off. Monthly Archives: April 2011. Did we start too late? April 25, 2011. 8230;or, “please can we have the AV vote in a couple of months time? But I do feel that the longer the AV campaign goes on, the more people will come over to the Yes side. The frailty of the No camp’s arguments means that the don’t stand up to close scrutiny. How the Tories must have cringed as Baroness Warsi was comprehensively taken apart by Adam Boulton. How to be more visible. April 20, 2011. In my own case, the...
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January | 2011 | the sandals are off
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The sandals are off. Monthly Archives: January 2011. The Madness of Crowds and Grandma’s Apple Pie. January 19, 2011. Hayes thinks WDC should enable the provision of a ‘Community Stadium’ – a 17,500 seater stadium built as some kind of joint venture with the Council. What’s really scary is. In Wycombe. Nonetheless, the consultation was accepted by the cabinet as evidence that the public were behind the plans. 8217; most people would say no. It depends how you pose the questions sometimes. I do know that ...
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We have to make this work | the sandals are off
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The sandals are off. We have to make this work. May 13, 2010. A few Labour bloggers and twitterers are crowing about Lib Dems ripping up their membership cards and joining the Labour Party. I don’t buy it, frankly. I’m sure there are a few, just as there are a few every time we update our policy in contentious areas. But not many. For the sake of the future of our democracy, we must make sure that it succeeds. Sixth Formers are a tough test. Tuition Fees, Compromises and Crossing the Line. I’m afra...
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October | 2011 | the sandals are off
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The sandals are off. Monthly Archives: October 2011. October 31, 2011. I am grateful to my friend Neil for encouraging me to write more often. My problem at the moment is not lack of things to write about, on the contrary: there is just too much to choose from. So I’m going to roll my sleeves up and plunge in with our old friend, the EU. I’m not sure that Steve would have wanted that! The Euro crisis has been a field day for the ‘I told you so’ brigade, and not without justification. Howe...Before we glo...
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They Don’t Hate Us Anymore | the sandals are off
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The sandals are off. They Don’t Hate Us Anymore. November 30, 2011. We had the good fortune of securing Tim Farron to speak at our annual dinner this year. Not only was he a very entertaining speaker, but he also helped us draw a line under the difficult elections we all faced back in May. He was speaking to us in the middle of a by election campaign in Hazlemere, which we subsequently won. The thrust of what he was telling us is that the public have begun to see that:. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Recent...
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Melting Planet | the sandals are off
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The sandals are off. December 8, 2011. For as long as I can remember, back to my childhood, there have been wonderful natural history programmes made by the BBC. Always narrated by the iconic David Attenborough, I find them utterly compelling viewing. The latest season ‘ Frozen Planet. Any remaining climate change deniers would do well to watch the last episode when it reruns on Sunday. The photographs of glacier loss even in just the last 30 years, and the explaination of the albedo effect and runaw...
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May | 2011 | the sandals are off
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The sandals are off. Monthly Archives: May 2011. Swept Away by the Red Tide of Protest. May 7, 2011. Of course, every cloud has a silver lining, and we managed to buck the trend by getting three new councillors elected too. In fact we are still the largest opposition party on Wycombe District Council. We achieved this by one councillor, who won by one vote! This certainly goes to prove that every vote counts – a lesson there, I think. Those Who Cannot Remember The Past. The Trouble With Grammar Schools.
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We may live to regret the empty chair | the sandals are off
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The sandals are off. We may live to regret the empty chair. December 9, 2011. British walk away before the real negotiations have even begun. No chance for compromise. No chance to argue our case. We aren’t playing. Of course the Eurosceptics are cock-a-hoop. They should be – if Britain ever leaves the EU in the future, it will probably because of that one petulant moment when we vacated our chair at the top table. And frankly, if we go around enough sharp bends we could easily be flung aside. I agree ve...
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Kunzle Showboats | the sandals are off
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The sandals are off. July 27, 2004. Who can forget Kunzle Showboats? Delicious chocolate shells filled with fondant cream,. Sponge and topped with more chocolate or small sweets. You could buy them individually in sweet shops and. Coffee shops. or your mother would buy a box of them. Then all of a sudden, they disappeared from the shops. Well, I have been trying to find out for several years. The original Kunzle company became the property of. Lyons in the late sixties. Lyons continued to produce. 10 tho...
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December | 2011 | the sandals are off
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The sandals are off. Monthly Archives: December 2011. We may live to regret the empty chair. December 9, 2011. British walk away before the real negotiations have even begun. No chance for compromise. No chance to argue our case. We aren’t playing. Of course the Eurosceptics are cock-a-hoop. They should be – if Britain ever leaves the EU in the future, it will probably because of that one petulant moment when we vacated our chair at the top table. December 8, 2011. For as long as I can remember, back to ...
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