Whitby floods

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It hasn’t made much news but Whitby has recently experienced rather a bit of flooding leaving quite a few people with homes far less habitable than they previously have been. Given Scarborough councils rather litigious nature I won’t say that the reduction in dredging of Whitby harbour and general neglect of Whitby’s infrastructure had anything to do with the seriousness of the situation. Nor will I suggest that Scarborough council has a resonably long, obvious and well documented antipathy towards Whitby. However I will say that in the numerous years I’ve been visiting Whitby for the Goth weekend the residents have been unfailingly welcoming and friendly and it’s an excellent town well worth visiting. In response to the floods the residents of Whitby are rallying round to help each other, but a bit of extra help never goes amiss. So if you can spare a few bob or live nearby and have furniture or food that needs a new home it’d all be very welcome. Details can be found on the Whitby flood relief facebook group.

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The security Jobsworths

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For those of you that are regular readers you may remember the other day when I went for little walk, that the police took interest in my interest in the various security features around Westminster. Well it seems the problem is far from uncommon and it’s not just the police that are against us filming well pretty much anything, as Rod Liddle recently found.

As the film so rightly observes they object to us filming but want to film us all the time, and when challenged none of them can give a reason why the filming or looking at stuff isn’t allowed. As far as they are concerned it “just isn’t” and that’s the end of the matter. Of course when the police do it, it’s more sinister as they are demanding not just that you stop but that you also account for your behavior and they then want to keep that on file for “a year”. I’m not sure I believe them about the year thing, given how reluctant they are to get rid of DNA data despite court orders telling them they have to. though maybe the police do get rid of their copy, but our beloved security forces have their own copy which doesn’t have to be got rid of?

I’m rather interested in testing what it takes to get them to start telling people to stop looking at stuff, evidence is not much, and what reasons they give. So next year the long promised security theatre and history tours will happen. Watch this space for event details I’ll even get a proper hi-viz vest and flyers so it looks proper.

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Last week else where

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I may yet get the hang of this, now just to actually do this at the start of the week and I might begin to look like a proper blogger.

Finally my discovery of the week is that wrapping cheese in tobacco leaves does give Tobacco flavoured cheese, just a teense over flavoured so not so nice – still these things must be tried.

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