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Any definite opening date. I have had my legs crossed for ages.

Balfour Beatty have just come along and taken away the waste bin which is regularly used and full because it is an environmental health hazard. It appears that the bin has had cat waste deposited in it and the operative has refused to empty it. This cat waste as mentioned above is regularly deposited behind the garages at Muir Close by persons unknown who carry this waste presumably from their house and drop it on the footpath by the garages. The photo of this rubbish dated 7th September this year has lain strewn over the footpath until last week when I swept it all up and put in the waste bin. The bin is emptied every week, and now it is removed, will mean that the litter will now be cast over the road and in the garage entrances. Balfour Beatty say there are other bins close by. I am taking the hedge waste from the verge (see above) reported in July this year to the tip tomorrow. As usual no action when reported. I haven't bothered about the tree branches cut off a lime tree and left on the ground also since July. It's about time Muir Housing, Herefordshire Housing, local councilors and Balfour Beatty came up with a plan to enhance Hereford's estates instead of ignoring it.

All part of the Global Reset. Watch all the other banks follow suit. Coinage of the Realm is going to disappear to be replaced by personal credits all through your smartphone if you use one.

Don't worry Denise, it's most probably 5G so you should be able to get good reception on anything you touch! Funny that they are outside older persons homes ie Brook Farm Court and another on Belmont Road at Priors Walk.

Meeting: Herefordshire Council Meeting date: Friday 22 January 2021 Title of report: Appointment of Chief Executive Report by: Chair of the Employment Panel Purpose To approve the appointment of a chief executive and head of paid service. Recommendation(s) That: Recommendation(s) That: (a) Paul Walker is appointed as the council’s chief executive and head of paid service. (b) The solicitor to the council is designated to be acting head of paid service from 12 February when the current chief executive leaves the council’s employment and until the newly appointed chief executive starts in post. (c) To ensure appropriate and necessary separation of statutory roles, the interim head of legal services is designated to be acting monitoring officer for any period of time when the solicitor to the council is designated as acting head of paid service. Renumeration 15. The gross salary for this post is currently £155,022 and the salary costs will be met from within the existing directorate revenue budget. 16. The financial estimates below are based on the assumption that a new appointee will need to give notice to their current employer and will not be available to start with Herefordshire until April 2021. Background stories Copeland axe £110,000-a-year chief exec New council senior manager very positive about Harrow Best of luck to him in the present climate. Wonder if he likes bypasses?

03:00am 2nd January 2020. Not able to sleep at night I have been listening to Jim Davis on Radio 5 Live a phone in programme, broadcast between 1am to 5am where "ordinary" members of the public ring in to discuss subjects revolving around Coronavirus and its variants. He has just done 3 episodes on loneliness and how to beat it. A diverse cross-section of the public offering their views about how it has affected them and how strongly they feel let down by this government. I recommend listening to the programme of 2nd January 2021. I am not a fan of the BBC even though my partners daughter works for them on the technical side, but Jim Davis's manner I feel reassures those with concerns and the many who get a fair crack at putting their point of view across - some of it anti BBC. A major part of the programme tonight is whether parents should send their children back to school. Fortunately I have no children, but the consensus is that all schools should be shut down till March. Trying to get back to sleep and I wish everyone a Happy and Healthier New Year. No doubt we will find out as the year progresses. Jim Davis shares the early morning time slot with Dotun Adebayo who I find also listens to callers views sympathetically. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09160sf

Complete list of 2095 world billionaires here to gloat over and make you sick. https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

Note that Lewis Hamilton has been knighted for driving around in circles, that I am sure he does it very well. I am surprised that all our MPs have not been similarly knighted as they have been taking us mere mortals for a ride in circles for years.

Open public toilets The following public toilets that meet the Covid-19 guidelines are open in Herefordshire: Hereford - Castle Green Hereford - Gaol Street Car Park Hereford - Union Walk Is that all in a city of 61,400 people? If it wasn't for the supermarkets I would be pi$$ed off. What are other shoppers doing, especially the ladies, when you need to go. https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/community-1/find-toilet?documentId=217&categoryId=200139

A message from Lord Drone: Greetings, readers. I wasn’t allowed to say anything until today, but it's now okay for me to share that I have volunteered for the Covid-19 vaccine trials that Imperial College are running in partnership with Oxford University. It's important that we all do our part to beat this virus. The vaccine is the one that has been developed in Russia. I received my first dose this morning 6:20 am, and I wanted to let you all know that it’s completely safe, with иo side effects whatsoeveя, and that I feelshκι я чувю себя немного стрно и я думю, что вытл осные уши. чувству себя немго страо https://www.dailydrone.co.uk/index.html

Still nothing happening, unfortunately Cllr Hunt sadly died as he had contacted me the week before his death. However 5 months have now passed. Took a short walk around the house (13th December) prior to my weekly litter pick and came across more moronic activity to brighten one's day. There is a public waste bin 2 mins away, but too much trouble for the brainless to deposit their waste sensibly. Cat litter left around the garages. Dumped on the footpath every 2/3 months. Drink cans left on top of hedge every week. And now masks hung up in shrubbery. Balfour Beatty acknowledge my reports - little done. The kerbs still need a hoeing to get the weeds out and drains emptying - very simple, but what do you do with the waste?

Can we include the government - highly dangerous and very volatile.

Unpaid carers save UK state £530 million every day of the pandemic With every day of the COVID-19 pandemic that passes, unpaid carers are saving the UK state £530 million in the care they provide, new research by charity Carers UK shows. The research, released for Carers Rights Day, estimates that the care provided by people looking after older, disabled and seriously ill relatives and friends during the pandemic stands at £135 billion so far, after just eight months. Previous research by the charity found that the majority (81%) of carers have been taking on more care since the start of the pandemic and nearly two thirds (63%) are worried about how they will continue to manage over winter. Carers UK is calling on the Government to provide additional support for carers over winter and ensure those caring for more than 50 hours a week get access to a funded break. With many crucial face-to-face support services such as day centres and support groups significantly reduced – or in many cases closed – because of costly infection and control measures, Carers UK is warning that people caring round the clock are going to break down after months of caring without respite. and Carer’s Allowance is the lowest benefit of its kind at £66.15 per week. We want to see Carer’s Allowance significantly increased for all carers in the UK. Find out more You can read more about the challenges faced by carers during the coronavirus outbreak in our report, Caring behind closed doors: six months on (October 2020), here. Back in April 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we also released our original, Caring behind closed doors (April 2020), which you can read here. You can find information and advice about caring during the coronavirus outbreak here.

Here is a pick me up for all those people locked down and in need of getting back to normality. https://youtu.be/yPDkCOJO3pc

I can see a problem with the number of car parking spaces needed for their planned growth as there is no extra space to expand. With the busy vets opposite, the amount of increased traffic movements could lead to accidents and delays on the Belmont Road. Will have to wait and see.

Avara not only ruining the River Wye, but also Brazil's ecostructure. Extract from The Guardian 27th November 2020

Is this what is going to be the New Normal? Gives a new meaning to Neighborhood Watch. I think we are going to see a lot more people questioning the rationale of what is being done by a government not using it's brain and following orders. Well worth reading the comments below:

Nice work if you know the right people: Boris Johnson REFUSES to apologise for £18 billion 'cash for cronies' scandal and says No10 moved 'heaven and earth' to snap up PPE - as fury mounts over government's 'jobs for pals' * National Audit Office said officials signed contracts for thousands of face masks that were actually useless * NAO looked at 8,600 contracts awarded by Government from January to July amid claims some were flawed * Boris Johnson told virtual PMQs: 'We shifted heaven and earth to get £32 billion items of PPE into this country' * Alok Sharma refuses to apologise for trying to get PPE for NHS during first wave blaming 'huge pressure' * Spanish middleman was paid £21 million of taxpayers' cash to set up PPE deal with US jewellery designer * Suppliers with political contacts were given there own 'high-priority' lane and were ten times more likely to get Government contracts * Companies with 'no relevant experience' pocketed £12 billion in shambolic scramble for PPE described as the 'wild west'. More than 1,300 contracts worth £10.5 billion were awarded by the Government with no competition whatsoever – increasing the chance of money being wasted * US jewellery designer Michael Saiger was handed 'a number of lucrative contracts' worth £200 million after he started providing gloves and gowns to NHS staff. Young entrepreneur Sabia Mokeddem, 23, was handed a contract worth £880,000 * Lord Feldman's PR firm is helping a Covid testing firm given £28million contract after meeting where former Former Tory chairman was in the room advising Matt Hancock .

Where does the madness stop: More than a few people are struggling with the name for Eli Lilly's antibody therapy bamlanivimab, which won an emergency OK on Tuesday in non-hospitalized COVID patients at high risk of severe disease. The tongue-twisting drug name even received some gentle ribbing on Fallon Tonight: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CHb_5oEAr62/ All the news on the gravy train. https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/covid-19-tracker-johnson-johnson-aims-to-test-shot-kids-president-trump-talks-firing-fauci

Here in Newton Farm, although I didn’t witness it, just been told of a bizarre incident this afternoon where one member of a gang of youths walking down the street was stark naked except for a mask. He then went into the local corner shop and wasn’t confronted, maybe because he had a mask on. The police were called and are now looking for him. I think lock down has got to him. Anyone else see him?

Academy of Ideas – Free minds for a Free Society It is often said that one cannot solve a problem if one is not even cognizant of it, and herein lies one of the reasons freedom is retreating so rapidly from our world. Many people still believe themselves to be free and as Goethe wrote: “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Those who believe themselves to be free disregard the fact that to be governed in the modern world is to be . . . “…watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured [and] commanded, by beings who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.” Pierre-Joseph Proudhon https://academyofideas.com/2020/09/greater-good-tool-of-social-control/

Anyone know who to contact on the telephone in Hereford Community Clean-Up Group as I don't do Facebook.

A Mitchell & Webb comedy sketch to cheer you up as we go into further lockdown. https://youtu.be/UxiBywqsFcI?t=250

Notice a huge drop in people posting with their comments on Hereford Voice - any reason - are we all fed up? What are you doing to get you through these current times. Due to sleepless nights listen to some interesting programs on BBC 5 Live (broadcasts on Hereford & Worcester local radio) between 1am to 6pm where I find the presenters raise current topics with the public and invite them to phone in with their diverse views - mainly older, mature persons - well worth a listen. Dotun Adebayo with BBC Radio 5 live has a pleasant approach/manner which encourages people to get involved.