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More cat litter and cans dropped behind Muir Close garages again. Where's this person coming from to drop it here. It's a regular occurrence, but I'm not going to pick it up again. I've contacted the Council and they can send one of their operatives out. Shame is their pets are most probably better behaved than they are.

Some old photos taken in the park.

Natures way of culling the weak and diseased stock of trees. We have large trees behind our houses which haven't been looked at for over twenty years. Eventually they too will come crashing down with the consequent damage. As long as it doesn't happen on someone's watch no one really cares.

Hello Bobby I thought you weren't on this planet. Welcome back and look forward to your earthly comments.

It looks as if we won't be around to find out. Federal Drug Agency asks for 55 years to complete Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine 19th November 2021 Hungry for details on Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine? Just file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and wait until the U.S. tricentennial in 2076. That's the schedule the FDA proposed in documents filed in a U.S. District Court this week. According to the documents filed (PDF) in a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, the FDA asked a federal judge for 55 years to complete a FOIA request for data and information on the approval of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, Comirnaty. If the judge grants the FDA's request, the plaintiffs, Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency, would have to wait until the U.S. celebrates its 300th year anniversary in 2076 to view the full report. The FDA's request comes about a month after the plaintiffs, comprising more than 30 professors and scientists from some of the country's top schools, filed suit (PDF) to expedite their FOIA request. The group originally asked for documentation after the vaccine's approval in August, but the FDA has yet to turn anything over. https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/fda-requests-55-years-to-complete-foia-request-pfizer-s-covid-19-vaccine

If the council are serious about recycling then replace the single bins throughout the city and along Great Western Way with 3 section bins for recycling waste. In terraced streets one large multi-sectioned bin or waste receptacle for several households would reduce the number of bins to be used.

Herefordshire tops the national city league with 105,614 roadworks in the last two years. The west English county of Herefordshire has seen the most road and street works undertaken in the past two years by the council and utilities. With over 100,00 it is the only council area of any type in the country with a six-figure number of roadwork projects. Furthermore, it is almost 90,000 more than the national average for the same period. On average it is estimated that UK motorists lose 28 hours a year due to being stuck in traffic caused by roadworks, and almost everyone in the country has been impacted by them at some point. Even small works in the UK can feel like they take an eternity compared to other countries. For example, in 2016 a major road in the Japanese city of Fukuoka was completely destroyed by a massive 15-meter deep sinkhole, this was completely repaired and reopened in six days.

Not as catchy as Covid, but worth a listen.

This brilliant documentary by Tim Gielen reveals how a small group of super rich criminals have been buying virtually everything on earth, until they own it all. From media, health care, travel, food industry, governments... That allows them to control the whole world. Because of this they are trying to impose the New World Order. As they say by 2030 - You’ll Own Nothing, And Be Happy.

Comment from The Slog: Biden’s contribution, to climate change, to meet the pope. - 85 car motorcade in Rome – His own 244-horsepower car, “the Beast” – Each car generates 10x the normal amount of CO2 – 10,000 mile return trip on Air Force One – 2.2 million pounds of carbon total This has nothing to do with climate, It never has, It’s all a push for global governance and taxation. Green is the decoy to lead people into helping collapse the old economic system and ring in the new. They are laughing at us all the way to the bank for what we are all about to receive.

On Twitter today: COP coming to Glasgow. Leaders staying at Gleneagles Hotel & 20 Tesla cars (£100K each) bought to ferry them 75km back & forth. Gleneagles has 1 Tesla charging station, so Malcolm Plant Hire contracted to supply Diesel Generators to recharge Tesla’s overnight. Couldn't make it up.

The surgery have just rung me back and sorted out an appointment. I was told the surgery is having a new telephone system fitted in the next few days.

I have been trying to book an appointment at the Surgery on the telephone since 08:00 this morning, but as of yet been unable to speak to a human being. You obviously are in a queue so you are asked to dial 5 for a ring back. The phone rings but no one answers at the other end. Has anyone else had this problem? I got my partner's daughter to ring from her home in Oxford at 08:30 today and she got straight through and has told me the surgery will call me back this morning. I hope so.

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Development of a future new care facility in Herefordshire Agenda Cabinet - Thursday 28 October 2021 2.30pm Item 7 - Appendix 1 Looking for an option for the development of a new care facility in Herefordshire for meeting future demand and service delivery. Aim 1.4 It is intended that the options appraisal will enable the Council to adopt a preferred approach to delivering 80 new care home beds to provide high quality local care to meet gaps in future need. It is then proposed that the preferred approach would be developed more fully, so that it could then be implemented. Objectives: * Increased bed capacity in the market, including provision to meet complex needs * The Council controls access to the care home beds * Sustained provision of high quality care * Reduction in out of county placements * Forecastable and manageable unit costs and improved value for money for placements * A reasonable return on capital investment over an appropriate time frame * Established as an exemplar for the use of innovative technology * Environmentally friendly to Herefordshire’s Future Homes Standard * Make good use of proven and available models of design and delivery * Residents are connected to local communities routinely through the new facilities Regarding innovative technology hope they don't use these robots to replace the health care workers:

Byung-Chul Han: ‘The smartphone is a tool of domination. It acts like a rosary’ I came across this article in El Pais and an interview with the South Korean-born philosopher Byung-Chul Han where he discusses digital subjugation, the disappearance of ritual and what ‘Squid Game’ reveals about society. By combining quotations from great philosophers and elements of popular culture, Han’s latest book Undinge (or Nonobjects), which is yet to be published in English, analyzes our “burnout society,” in which we live exhausted and depressed by the unavoidable demands of existence. He has also considered new forms of entertainment and “psychopolitics,” where citizens surrender meekly to the seduction of the system, along with the disappearance of eroticism, which Han blames on current trends for narcissism and exhibitionism. This narcissism runs riot on social media, he believes, where the obsession with oneself makes others disappear and the world becomes a simple reflection of us as individuals. The philosopher strives to recover intimate contact in everyday life – he is known for his interest in gardening, making things with his hands and sitting in silence. He despairs of “the disappearance of rituals,” which also makes entire communities disappear along with them. We become lost individuals, in sick and cruel societies. The Burnout Society: Byung-Chul Han in Seoul/Berlin (2015) English Subtitles And with Boris meeting the financial cartel today this is worth a look: And now they want to take away your gas boiler.

The person responsible for dropping cat litter around Muir Close garages must have come out of isolation as I came across another load that had been dropped in the last few days. Hasn't this person got a black waste bin to put this rubbish in or are they homeless?

The only good thing with contactless is you actually swipe what it costs eg costs £7.13 - no need to take £10 out of ATM and have to pocket the change.

Who cares about the Carers? I've just signed Carers UK's petition asking the Chancellor to fund care now to help millions of older people, disabled people and carers who are desperate for better care. At the moment they're being ignored by the Government's reforms, which won't start until 2023. You can help by signing the petition too - it only takes a minute.

How Lincoln University regenerated the east Midlands city Could the benefits seen in Lincoln since the university’s inception be replicated in similar areas such as Hereford? When the University of Lincoln was first built on a derelict rail goods yard, it’s said that one of its buildings was designed to be converted into a shopping centre if the university didn’t work out. While that may be an apocryphal story, it speaks to the tremendous success of the university and its value to the local community. Since its inception in 1996, Lincoln has grown from 500 students to 14,500, generating £430m for the local economy annually. In this small east Midlands city of 99,000 people it is a vital presence: one in six people either works with the university or studies there. Local residents say the university has transformed Lincoln from provincial backwater to a culturally thriving, diverse city, with new shops and restaurants springing up to accommodate students and the graduates who stay to work in hi-tech businesses supported by the university. Maybe a chat with those involved with Lincoln's success would be useful for Hereford Council.

Just like government. Fast track contracts for their friends and brown envelopes in their pockets. Government needs to stop misleading the public and come clean. £37bn has been allocated to test and test contracts. Where has that money gone? We should not need to drag government to court to get an honest account. The problem is that they have had plenty of time over the years to perfect the money making machine.

All this rubbish in a small area at the back of Sherborne Close created by a group of idiots getting together most afternoons, some drug dealing. Where are the local community police on their bikes, after all the council want us to get out of our cars. What's happened to Neighbourhood Watch? These are most probably the people who go on about saving the planet when they can't even look after themselves.

Free bus travel at weekends within Herefordshire ALL bus travel within Herefordshire will be free on weekends from now on, Herefordshire Council has pledged. Thanks to investment as part of the £6 million Covid-19 recovery fund, anybody will be able to hop on and off any bus in the county, as many times as they like, without paying a penny. The only condition is that the journey must be entirely within the county. To help people make the most of the scheme, there will also be additional services on Sundays, serving several locations including Bromyard, Ledbury, Leominster, Kington and Colwall. No information has been released yet about the extra services. Coun John Harrington, cabinet member for infrastructure and transport, said the scheme would make it easier and cheaper to travel, helping connect people and boost recovery from the pandemic. With the free travel starting this Saturday, he said: “We are very pleased to be able to offer free, unlimited weekend bus travel for the whole county for what we hope will be at least a year.

In The Hereford Times today: Idea for new advertising board in Hereford unveiled A NEW digital billboard could be coming to Hereford, if Herefordshire Council agrees to plans and does not think it would make the A49 dangerous for drivers. Alight Media, based in London, has asked the council if it can put the digital screen – which would be 6.4 metres wide and 3.4 metres high – on land at the Richmond Place Club in Edgar Street. Documents submitted with the plans showed the adverts would be mainly seen by traffic heading southbound. And while consultants recognise there was currently no advertising at the site, it did feel as it was an "appropriate location for a landmark advertising site". They said The Richmond Club Place had been severely impacted by the coronavirus lockdowns so money from adverts would "assist significantly to the survival of the club along with the opportunity to advertise upcoming events at the club to the local community". Anything to distract drivers while they wait to cross Greyfriars Bridge.

Is the main stream media aware of his feat or are they still dragging covid, lockdown and Boris through the press. Good news is no news as far as these tearsheets are concerned.