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Obituary

My parents told me about Mr Common Sense early in my life and told me I would do well to call on him when making decisions. It seems he was always around in my early years but less and less as time passed by until today, sadly, I read his obituary.

Please join me in a moment of silence in remembrance. For Common Sense had served us all so well for so many generations.

Obituary

Common Sense

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At 6 pm she fell asleep, at 9.40, Steve went upstairs, and this is her sleeping!

At 23.30 I went into see her, she was sat with ALL her books on her bed, and told me “Mummy I need some new books, see”

Now please bare in mind this child who needs more books has a 6 foot high by 4 foot wide bookcase in her bedroom… with 6 shelves FULL of books. Another 3 bookcases in the living room, full of books, and more boxes of books in the “library room” Which she regually can be found “sorting out”

ARGH… And I bought her a new book today.. Which is really very very pretty. Rainbow Sea, A sparkle book.isbn : 1740470893

Kids!

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Who are yours?

My Hero is my husband, who despite my anger, pain and frustration still makes me laugh smile and keep mobile.

Villians… Council employers everywhere who manipulate the truth to meet there own agendas.

However I couldnt agree more with this man either..

Peter Beresford, chair of Shaping Our Lives and professor of social policy, Brunel University

My hero is Doug Paulley, a disabled man who lives in residential care and who will not be known by most readers. He has consistently fought for his own and other people’s rights in and beyond residential care, taking on big organisations such as Leonard Cheshire Disability. Long may he do so in the cause of control, choice and independent living.

The ones that have really bugged me over 2008 are the people who talk user involvement, while making every possible effort to tokenise, undermine and invalidate it. No need to name names. You know who you are. And so do service users.

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/12/12/110216/heroes-and-villains-of-2008.html

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We were driving along. We had the back seats down, as we had removed some pallats from the car this morning. Asha had her arm hanging down next to her seat when one of the seats fell back.. The poor thing was in agony.. Hazzard lights flashing, I stopped the car, mid road.. and flew into the back seat. Asha settled and recovered. daddy sat next to her, I got back in my seat, and carried on driving. We got to bangor, and asha was laughing again. My heart has just stopped pumping!

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“My mother says”

I shouldn’t eat that yellow snow….
I should learn the know what is good, and what isnt so.

My Nanny tells me what to do.
I ask her why.. she tells me so… I can have more fodder for the army, my son.. Now look here.. Your mother told you not to eat that yellow snow..

My Daddy shows me videos on u tube.. from when he was a little boy.. They talk about making choices and days before CCTV.

I look at him and ask.. if he went on the beach… How its dangerous.. what about the sand, inbetween your toes…
My Daddy says…

In the days before your nanny, we ate our food of a glass plate, and drank out of china cups. We played football in the road and we could buy what we needed….But now the goverment is scared, we might make an floating parafin bomb, so we all sit in the dark, and drink out of empty cups.. so they can build an army, to protect what they dont own. But remeber son.. dont you eat that yellow snow!

My apoligies to frank zapper

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Now have you noticed how we once more are losing our freedoms… balliffs, internet, contact point for our children.. database id, cards…..

Peter “Pete” Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer, political activist, and a key figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 50s as a member of The Weavers, most notably the 1950 recording of Leadbelly’s “Goodnight, Irene” that topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950.[1] As a result of an anti-communist blacklist, his career as a mainstream performer was seriously curtailed. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a pioneer of protest music in support of international disarmament and civil rights and, more recently, as a tireless activist for environmental causes.

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First of all the Daily  writes on its front page today…

Web inline for film style ratings….

then inside has

“mr burnham has take down times, this means that if web sites such as you tube or facebook are alerted to offensive or harmful content, they will have to remove it within a specified time once it is brought to their attention. He also saiys that minsiters are considering changing libel laws to give people access to cheap legal recourse if they are deflamed online….”

Saturday dec 27th

Then the same day the NSPCC claims

Web content ‘disturbing children’

The charity wants websites to direct children to help and advice

Three out of four children have seen images on the internet that disturbed them, an NSPCC poll suggests.

The charity is renewing its call for computer manufacturers and retailers to install security to stop children finding violent or sexual content.

Sorry BUT… get out of bed with the goverment will you and start facing the real world… More children are hurt in school than anywhere else in the UK!!!

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“mummy thankyou for my walking doll Its just what I wanted…”

But Asha you didnt know about them…

” I know mummy, but i kept looking in shops for a dolly with blue and black clothes, which could walk, to show you one”

What else can a mummy say

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Taken from there 2007 accounts

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/includes/documents/cm_docs/2008/2/2007_accounts.pdf

Now I am not saying that fair trade isnt good. I think fair trade is very good, but i think it has to be a universal fair trade, as applicable to those who stand beside these charities in the uk.

Why can charities such as OXFAM claim fair trade, when they are putting antiquarian booksellers out of business, by gaining reduced prices at fairs, and online sales sites? Surely this isnt “fair trade”

read through the accounts… It makes “interesting reading”

Vicki xx

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Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had cancer, died on Christmas Eve aged 78.

He wrote more than 30 plays including The Caretaker and The Birthday Party. His film scripts include The French Lieutenant’s Woman.

His style was so distinctive, “Pinteresque” entered the Oxford English Dictionary.

I loved some of his works.

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King Cotton? – Thomas Armstrong

Anyone read it?

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Yes, we had a great, fun and lazy christmas day. Much needed, and great fun!

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On Christmas Eve, after we all had our baths, the three of us sat down to a big pan of stew, and pulled some crackers. Asha, and I then had a long story session, which lead to Asha falling asleep unusually early.

This is just a cute photograph of her with one of her teddy’s which she has decided to name Hoopy!

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Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda

From all on Familytreehouse.

Asha,

Steve,

Vicki

and Mousehole.

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WHEN SANTA GOT STUCK UP THE CHIMNEY (Traditional)

When Santa got stuck up the chimney,

He began to shout,

You girls and boys,

Won’t get any toys,

If you don’t pull me out.

There’s soot on my back,

And my beard is all black,

My nose is tickling too.!

When Santa got stuck up the chimney,

Achoo, Achoo, Achoo. ‘t

Was on the eve before Christmas Day,

When Santa Claus arrived on his sleigh,

Into the chimney he climbed with his sack,

But he was so fat – he couldn’t get back.

Oh, what a terrible plight, gangway,

He stayed up there all night.

When Santa got stuck up the chimney,

He began to yell. Oh hurry, please,

It’s all such a squeeze,

The reindeer’s stuck as well!

His head’s up there in the cold night air,

Now Rudolph’s nose is BLUE!!

When Santa got stuck up the chimney,

Achoo, Achoo, Achoo, Achoo, Achoo, Achoo, ACHOO!

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He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his sack.
His eyes how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry;
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow.
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face, and a little round belly
That shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly.
He was chubby and plump,–a right jolly old elf–
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself.

Written by Clement C. Moore in 1822 as a Christmas present to his children.

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Its 11.30 at night. Asha actually went to bed at 8pm tonight, and fell straight asleep. after three Peggy Burton Christmas Stories. :

Christmas Adventures in Hazelnut Wood,
A Happy Christmas for Mr Mole

Christmas comes to Mrs Mouse

and a Rodger Hargraves Mr Christmas (Mr Men) however she is now sitting in bed, with 25 books of the bookcase in her bedroom, having needed the toilet, and will probably have another 50 there by the morning! – Argh she wants me. got to go!

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It would be far less painfull for Gwynedd council to just tell all  independant traders, that they are not interested in there counciltax or income in general, and just kill the great independance which has been central to Pwhelli as a Town for Many Many years.

Its amazing to think that in the 1940’s it was one of the Main farmers markets in north wales isnt it…

Well now Gwynedd council, having put an Asda and a Aldi there are adding a whole host of tourist items to it.. Small trader, QUIT whilst your ahead.. Oh and sue the council if you can as well

Developers have unveiled plans to regenerate a retail park at Pwllheli in Gwynedd.

The proposal by St Malo has a food superstore along with non-food shops, a car park and a road link between Cardiff Road and Ala Road in the town.

A spokesman for Gwynedd County Council said there would be “considerable constraints” to developing the site.

St Malo is also linked to a plan to build a bowling alley, cinema, hotel, restaurants and shops on Anglesey.

The company said it had secured 40 acres of land south of Ala Road in Pwllheli in 2006.

It said the proposal for a food superstore along with other shops would be on 18 acres of “developable land” which comprises low-lying grazing enclosures and brown-field land.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7795932.stm

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Asha made her presents, or rather chose and decorated her presents for granny and grandad this year, Enjoy!

And finally Grandad’s Key ring.

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After the chaos of last year, we decided that this year we wern’t going to have a christmas tree.
I have always had a real one, but I just couldn’t face it this year, so we agreed Asha could decorate her “den” with some of the items we would normally put on the tree.

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