Saw the #northernlights from my doorstep in light polluted central #Norwich. Appeared as a beam of slowly moving white light. Didn’t have the means to get a decent photo…but it was definitely there!
RT by @CarolineLucas: 🌱 Thank you to everyone who voted Green yesterday! Six Green Party councillors have been elected to the city council, meaning the council is under no overall control.
I don’t blame #Norwich City Council for tenants exercising their ‘Right to Buy’ their council home.
Goldsmith Street was groundbreaking in building social housing to a Passivehaus standard. It stands out as being exceptional 5 yrs later.
It’s the #Tories that allow prized social assets to be transferred into private hands, while making it very hard for the proceeds to be used to build new social housing.
Where is the incentive for other councils and housing associations to build to such high standards, if they know that just three years later the properties can be bought and that much needed home will be lost to the private sector?
All homes should be built to a standard that means they will be able to withstand the heat and cold pressures that will be thrown at it by 2050. They should be affordable to run and they should add as little carbon to the atmosphere as possible.
Just a reminder. Scotland and Wales removed this STUPID policy years ago. An easy example of sanity being brought to bear with devolved assemblies. Roll on independence.
I have a recollection of the guy who did it talking through the laws regarding stage hypnotism. The main thing I recall was it was important to make sure folks had completely come out of the trance before allowing them off the stage.
It was an ok night out, but I didn’t like people being unaware they were the butt of the jokes.
If you think hypnosis is all a bit of lighthearted fun and this blanket banning by some councils belongs in a museum, it’s perhaps also worth remembering hypnotism has been used by the police.
The CPS takes a very dim view of it and warns of confabulation, whereby the witness afterwards will have no way of knowing whether it’s a real, planted or imagined memory.
I actually forgot to post here about last week's #Norwich#Amiga Group meet which was really busy and a lot of fun - I'll post some more pics at a later date.
For now though here's a highlight - one of our members created their own box for their A1200! How cool is this? And far sturdier than any cardbox box it would have originally shipped in.
I love living in #Norwich (most of the time). I love the mix of people, green spaces, political openness to new ideas (compared to rest of county), independent shops, historical buildings and culture.
But do I want it to be thought of as a place that is exciting by the Times?
But at least living in #Norwich I have an MP, (Clive Lewis) willing to call out the dangers of getting into bed with the AfD:
“You don’t give platforms to people who would take your platform away and when we talk about AFD, we are talking about a party whose members have been actively planning to deport millions of Germans who they deem to be not sufficiently German”
Next #Norwich#Amiga Group meet is on Tuesday 23rd January at Albion Games Cafe, 21 St Benedict's Street, Norwich, NR2 4PF from 17:00 - 21:30. It's free entry and all are welcome!
We'll have plenty of Amigas out to use and play with plus there will be an OctaMED demonstration and tutorial too!
The man who sleeps in the alcove by Marks & Spencer told me, an hour ago, that the authorities had confiscated his sleeping bag.
Stop this #Norwich Council , #NorfolkCountyCouncil
Stealing a man's means of protection & shelter in sub-zero temperatures is tantamount to manslaughter.
Police Commissioner Giles Orpen Smellie - you know what it is to be in the open without shelter in wintry conditions from your service.
It makes me so sad and angry to read about real impact of #poverty that is stunting the growth and health of children in my city of #Norwich.
Next time you hear a statistic on poverty uttered from the mouth of our hedge fund manager PM you won’t need the ONS to tell you it’s a lie, just look at the Victorian levels of decay that are creeping in all around us.