Is there a race on earth that has not committed atrocities in their own or other people's countries if you look into their history? Many of our atrocities are documented. Our histories are documented. Many others, for example those with purely oral traditions are not.
I think a major part of the controversy around the Colston  statue, is that while there may be other edifices connected with the slave trade and slave ownership in the UK, a large proportion of Bristolians felt that the refusal of the council to remove or to amend the context of the statue in any of the suggested ways, was tantamount to rubbing salt into their wounds.Â
It should be remembered that the reason my son in law and many other folk suffer so badly from the horrible effects of Sickle Cell Anaemia every day of their lives is due to the slave trade … the effects of the slave trade continue take their toll on the descendants of those slaves and cannot be forgotten or ignored.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sometimes direct action is the only option open to "ordinary" people. I suspect that women wouldn't have got the vote without brave women prepared to suffer forced feeding in jail, punishment for public order offences in the main, to fight for what they believed in.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Unless the machine is under guarantee/warranty why would you contact the manufacturers for a repair?Â
We have a very good local chap who used to work for Hotpoint and now has his own business repairing Hotpoint and Indesit machines. I’ve never paid him more than £100 for a repair, if that, including callout.  There are small firms like his all over the country repairing washing machines, dishwashers etc.Â
Lucky you, around here they promise to come and then never turn up!
And as for a plumber or electrician they are even worse!
We find tradesmen by personal local recommendation on the Next Door App. Never had a bad one yet.  An elderly friend in a different part of the country had been struggling for months to get a plumber … we suggested trying Next Door and now she’s got someone reliable she can call on when her heating or whatever is playing up.Â
Boris and his flat. Why is the flat open to being tarted up by the current incumbent? It is not theirs but only a temporary residence. Shouldn't the flat be maintained by 'the country' or else you have a BJ of a renovation that is a 'tip' to the next incumbent, who then changes the decor to a tip for the following one. I saw on the TV last night the Theresa May room and the Lulu Lytle (? really? Lulu Lytle?) version (and I know this is all taste) and the renovated version would have given me nightmares. I heard a report (BBC Radio 4) about council tenants where they had sewage leaking though their ceilings and couldn't get the council (gov) to do anything about it and BJ then spends 10's of thousands on that?
And if this funding is following ministerial guidelines, can someone explain what would contravene them? If a minister can take money from donors to 'enhance' their life - surely that has to be wrong and open to abuse in anyone's eyes.
With other council tenants there used to be a decorating allowance allocated for when you moved in. Otherwise decorating was up to you. He's got Chequers and Chevening too ... is he getting rich benefactors to do them up according to his personal taste too?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We find tradesmen by personal local recommendation on the Next Door App. Never had a bad one yet.  An elderly friend in a different part of the country had been struggling for months to get a plumber … we suggested trying Next Door and now she’s got someone reliable she can call on when her heating or whatever is playing up.Â
I will keep that in mind. In the case of our printer though we went for a slightly more basic model , we don't do that much printing. It only cost us £54 , I doubt I could have got anyone to even look at the old one for much less. I don't like this disposable culture but we seem to be stuck with it, especially for"tech" items. I changed the battery on an old mobile phone years ago, the new one lasted less than 6 months. I gave in and got a new phone.Â
It's odd that Boris was quick to try to rewrite the rules when one of his mates got done, but the rules are quoted here constantly now they benefit him. I still can't get my head around how taking ANY money at all other than salary and paid outside work (which again I'm not in favour of without constraint) can be right. If my local MP had been paid £n,000 to do up her house, the first question has to be why - what is the benefit to the donor? It's just completely wrong to me.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sometimes direct action is the only option open to "ordinary" people. I suspect that women wouldn't have got the vote without brave women prepared to suffer forced feeding in jail, punishment for public order offences in the main, to fight for what they believed in.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In the case of our printer though we went for a slightly more basic model , we don't do that much printing. It only cost us £54 , I doubt I could have got anyone to even look at the old one for much less. I don't like this disposable culture but we seem to be stuck with it, especially for"tech" items. I changed the battery on an old mobile phone years ago, the new one lasted less than 6 months. I gave in and got a new phone.Â