2009 July

Entries from July 20th, 2009

Over 1200 against, one or two for – it can only be one thing

July 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Hands off Herts, Sandy's blog

Those were the letters sent to St Albans District Council in connection with Helioslough’s second application to build the freight terminal. Tonight’s meeting of the St Albans Planning Referrals Committee duly threw the application out No real surprise there.
The big new news is the opposition of the Association of Train Operating Companies [...]

LibDem Big Lunch dodges big drench – just

July 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

The annual St Albans LibDem constituency barbecue took place today – the same day as people across the land were organising their own Big Lunches. Ours wasn’t a street party. But 70 of us gathered in the garden of the LibDem headquarters in Hatfield Road to enjoy some brilliant food and just about [...]

Money for old rope

July 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Sandy's blog

We have always had a rope swing in our garden. Our children’s friends love it. Unfortunately squirrels also seem to have a taste for manila hemp and so every so often they bite through the rope where it is tied round the branch and it all comes down in a heap – fortunately without serious [...]

All that is needed for evil to triumph…

July 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

I don’t always quote Conservative philosophers in my speeches. But I did quote Edmund Burke in my speech at the demonstration against the Helioslough freight terminal application organised by STRiFE outside the Alban Arena on Saturday. All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
There must have been a [...]

Vince Cable Master Class

July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

LibDem Treasury spokesman dropped by the University of Hertfordshire at the end of last week and gave a master class in political economy.
He was there at the invitation of Welwyn Hatfield Chamber of Commerce and Welwyn Hatfield LibDems, whose parliamentary candidate Paul Zukowskyj teaches at the university.
In effect what we heard was a brief summary [...]

Divine intervention

July 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Sandy's blog

I have been meaning to post this photograph for some time. It was taken in Driftwood Way in Chiswell Green. The gentleman behind the hands was a member of the Three Valleys Water leak detection team – and he was using divining rods to do his business.
I was absolutely fascinated and made him [...]

Cathedral like a beacon on a hill – the view that could be lost for ever

July 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Hands off Herts, Sandy's blog

I have sent in my personal letter of objection to the Helioslough proposals for the Radlett freight terminal. I hope I am among many, many local residents and organisations to have voiced our dismay.
There are so many different grounds why this proposal is wholly unsuitable for the site -

“coalescence” of currently separate communities destroying [...]

Sandy 4 St Albans

Sandy Walkington campaigns with the Liberal Democrats across St Albans