Showing posts from March, 2021
Figures available this week from the county council shed some light on the changing shape of the town centre. They compare building use over the previous 19 years. The number of convenience units as reduced in number from a high of 17 to 11. This is a…
The thread of posts of Facebook about whether or not children should wear masks while in lessons clearly seems to have missed the irony that some of the responses are themselves juvenile and worthy only of the school playground. How it all started Mas…
Should we all be concerned at the proposed reduction in civil liberties associated with the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Court Bill, especially after the mishandled aftermath of Sarah Everard's death? Under the Bill, our police will have more pow…
Plenty at yesterday's town council meeting about the velodrome. There was some disgruntlement about the way in which the public had picked this up and were already voicing some negativity. The mayor Cllr Gavin Harris said in the absence of any amb…
We've long been a supporter of the simple act of voting for our town council. We've written quite a lot on the subject of co-opted councillors, whose democratic credentials are based upon how their fellow councillors have acted on their behal…
I had to laugh at this Facebook post of yesterday. This commenter must've returned from Mars. Perhaps she was being facetious. Needless to say, there followed largely facetious comments about the scheme.
... now you don't. It was like it never happened. Today, G H Lewis & Sons removed the street furniture from Market Street, completing the exodus of the active travel scheme. There remain those who lament this somewhat shortsighted decision…
It's interesting that the contractors responsible for installing—and now removing—the active measures on Well Street (and Market Street) were faced with a number of residents who asked what they were doing. When people understood, they actually te…
Today was the Glorious 15th. Interesting that neither Beauty on the Square nor the House of Hair & Beauty were open today. These aside, all other hairdressers and barbers were open to take advantage of the freedom they are accorded from now on to …
This is actually the first Mothering Sunday in lockdown. Last year's was one day ahead of Monday evening's formal lockdown announcement which came on March 23rd (yes, Easter brings Mothering Sunday one week earlier this year). Not that 2020&…
We know from yesterday's announcement that hairdressers and barbers will open from Monday March 15th but non-essential retail—the bulk of the town—cannot re-open till April 12th (although in supermarkets non-essential aisles can do so from March 2…
When someone has news they are about to receive their vaccine, have you noticed the propensity for them to tell others? It's obviously big news and it's obviously a huge talking point. So it was that on Wednesday we received our call that we s…
I suppose it's a measure of just how quickly our three county councillors want rid of the active travel scheme that they have instructed its removal at the same time as the trunk road agency continues to rebuild and resurface Park Road. Normally,…
Post- flooding , while Tommy's gets sorted, they've done a clever things with the windows. Using vinyls, they've wrapped them so that you cannot see the work going on within but, using imagination, they have used the covering to great effe…
The unseasonably good weather over the last week and a half, falling covid-19 rates and about one third of Wales' population having received one vaccine shot have resulted in a something of a shift in public perception. We first saw it on Februar…
