Those taking a quick glance at the list of the blogs on the right of LibDemBlogs might be suprised to see Iain Dale listed. However it’s not the blue one, but the yellow one
Category Archives: Politics
Levy arrested again
BBC breaking that Lord Levy has been arrested for “conspiracy to pervert the course of justice”.
Oooh
Campaigner
We’ve just received the new Campaigner from ALDC. I’ve got to say that it’s a massive improvement over Grassroots and for the first time I actually read it. It’s a lot more reader friendly and the colours make a massive improvement.
LibDem Blogger makes BBC 7 days quiz
So who got question 4 of the BBC 7 Days 7 Question Quiz right then?
Paul by any chance?
Black bag update
A follow-up to the post on Sunday regarding the black bags in Park Ward which are still on the streets. I’ve got an email from the officers informing me that they should be disposed of tomorrow.
Subject: RE: FW: Fly Tipping/Posting: 03224017
In an effort to look through all of these bags they were left in the street until an Enforcement Officer had looked through them all for evidence. This has now happened – a few addresses have been found and action will be taken. I have now told Cory that the bags can be collected and this will happen as part of the full cleanse of the street tomorrow.
I’ll just have to wait and see.
The awful state of Park Ward
After an email to the council on Thursday evening and with the rubbish still out on Saturday, I decided en route to the High Street I would take photographic evidence of the fly-tipping problem I’ve got not only in my ward, but metres from my house.
For over 10 weeks now we’ve been using wheelie bins in Park Ward, as the majority of the house have small alleyways we have two 120 litre bins. A brown one for recycling which is collected every other week (and if that’s full you can leave more to the side if it’s clearly recyclable waste) and a black one for landfill waste which is collected every week, but no side waste. This includes black bags which are no longer collected, however it seems that some households in Park Ward just don’t care and continue to dump and allow others to dump black bags outside their houses.
20mph wheelie bin
I’ve got into the habbit of checking Google Analytics daily to see which search phrases are used to find my site. Most are related to mobiles, 24 or E4 however this one caught my eye: 20mph wheelie bin.
So I got Google to tell me which search engine was used (Yahoo) went there myself and tried the query. The results showed that I’m fifth 🙂
However what was disapointing was to find a Mr Stephen Tall first!
I’m sure my blatant attempts to use SEO tricks will force me to be top before the end of the year.
ps. if anyone knows exactly what was searched for please let me know.
Remembrance Day
These last two days have seen me fulfilling the Civic duty part of being a councillor. Yesterday being the 11th November I was invited to attend the Remembrance Ceremony at the Lincoln War Memorial on the High Street. It lasted for around half an hour, and I stood fully gowned with the other councillors in front of all the shoppers who had taken time to stop and remember. Today I was invited to attend the Remembrance Service at Lincoln Cathedral. The Cathedral was filled with ex and current service men and women, as well as family and members of the public. Any event at the Cathedral is always lovely and well set, and being a councillor I got front row seats this year.
Next on the list of Civic duties are the Christmas lights switch-on this Thursday and the opening of the famous Christmas Market next month.
Cameron spoof taken off website
The BBC are reporting that Cameron spoof taken off website, however on the same page is a link to their media player which still shows the clip.
16:01 Edit: Link now gone
16:07 Edit: Try this? (Can’t confirm if it’ll work as the firewall at work won’t let me try).
16:21 Edit: Does work for the time being with Window Media Player selected as your prefered player.
Blogging at conference
Having finally got a chance to use a real computer instead of my phone, I’ve been looking at the webstats.
On the Monday of Conference last year there were 10 posts appearing on LibDemBlogs, however this year on the Monday there were 84. Whilst I don’t think that there were many more computers available, more people seem to be taking the time out to blog, or even use their mobile phones to post whilst in the conference hall.
Looking at the hits and visitors to the site, last year saw no real increase whilst conference was happening, most likely due to the fact that the regular readers were at conference. However this year I have a nice spike on the graph, with an increase in hits of 38% compared to last week, which is nice.