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Stockwood Pete: A Mail Mystery
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Green perspectives on Stockwood and Bristol. Mostly. Friday, 3 April 2015. We've all seen a marked deterioration in the postal service. Higher charges, less collections, less deliveries, less staff to do the job. I think it's called 'efficiency savings'. Today, among the junk mail on our doormat, was this envelope:. Inside it was a letter we'd posted to London on 1st February. A conspiracy theorist might even believe there was more to it; a letter addressed to a radical bookshop might have less chance of...
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Stockwood Pete: June 2014
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Green perspectives on Stockwood and Bristol. Mostly. Saturday, 28 June 2014. An undeserved rescue for HorseWorld? It looks like HorseWorld's bodged up attempt to sell off its visitor centre site in Whitchurch for development may not be totally dead – in spite of being turned down by BaNES. The perpetrators may yet be rescued from the hole they dug themselves into. On 10. What HorseWorld would do with the windfall is anybody's guess. Would they revisit their expensively prepared scheme for a new Visit...
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Stockwood Pete: February 2015
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Green perspectives on Stockwood and Bristol. Mostly. Friday, 27 February 2015. Fracking: testing the grounds. On Wednesday, while a packed hall at the Wills Memorial Building was in thrall to a powerful talk from George Monbiot, down the road at St Mary Redcliffe another audience was learning about just one of many threats to the climate. Fracking for shale gas. Much of his evidence was based on the useful, if arguably limited “Shale Gas Extraction in the UK”. Not in my book. Or at least, only if int...
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Stockwood Pete: Bridging the Gap ? Not 'ere, mate!
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Green perspectives on Stockwood and Bristol. Mostly. Tuesday, 27 January 2015. Not 'ere, mate! The scene when Stockwood Pete left the Temple Gate consultation for a peak time journey home. The 3 mile trip took an hour, most of it spent here. The new proposals would do next to nothing to relieve the discomfort and delay of this and similar journeys. Do the current proposals for Temple Gate bridge that gap? If (a very big if) the plans now out for consultation. That doesn't really sound like a step forward...
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Stockwood Pete: Fracking: testing the grounds
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Green perspectives on Stockwood and Bristol. Mostly. Friday, 27 February 2015. Fracking: testing the grounds. On Wednesday, while a packed hall at the Wills Memorial Building was in thrall to a powerful talk from George Monbiot, down the road at St Mary Redcliffe another audience was learning about just one of many threats to the climate. Fracking for shale gas. Much of his evidence was based on the useful, if arguably limited “Shale Gas Extraction in the UK”. Not in my book. Or at least, only if int...
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Stockwood Pete: Stockwood hits the headlines – for better or worse
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Green perspectives on Stockwood and Bristol. Mostly. Monday, 13 April 2015. Stockwood hits the headlines – for better or worse. Strange that this Bristol backwater should suddenly attract media mentions across the British Isles. Stranger still that it should happen twice in successive months. Both stories have what the press loves – the chance to write a story that will produce a titter or a snigger among the readers. In March, it was the BioBus. And all points in between. Meanwhile, for balance, here's ...
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Stockwood Pete: October 2014
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Green perspectives on Stockwood and Bristol. Mostly. Tuesday, 14 October 2014. Food Colouring – without the E numbers. The blue was produced from tubers bought at January's 'Potato Day' at the Southville Centre. The 2015 repeat is on 11. It's a heritage variety called 'salad blue' and I'm told it also produces excellent blue chips. One to invest in again? Just harvested, this is 'Inca Rainbow' which came from another of this year's seed swaps. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mainly jazz in Bristol. Police - ...
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Stockwood Pete: February 2014
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Green perspectives on Stockwood and Bristol. Mostly. Friday, 28 February 2014. Whatever isn't happening at Temple Meads? Charlie Bolton's current petition (please sign it! Calling for direct bus links through Bedminster to Temple Meads, prompts a review of where we've got to on the need for a multimodal transport hub at the city's main station instead of the tinpot links that we have now. On Tuesday, Bristol's Cabinet is poised. This transport spend includes:. The remaining £4m chunk goes to 'improv...
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Stockwood Pete: Neighbourhood Partnerships in partnership
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Green perspectives on Stockwood and Bristol. Mostly. Saturday, 7 February 2015. Neighbourhood Partnerships in partnership. A good day at Circomedia looking at ways to make Neighbourhood Partnerships work better. Plenty of NP members and councillors there - Labour Green and Tory. For the Stockwood/Hengrove partnership, there were two of us Stockwood residents, but no sign of any of these wards' councillors. Pity. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What is the alternative to the #JuniorDoctorsStrike?
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