Sandy 4 St Albans » Joy Mann http://sandy4stalbans.org/blog Sandy Walkington campaigns with the Liberal Democrats across St Albans Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:29:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Councillor bites dog http://sandy4stalbans.org/blog/2010/03/18/councillor-bites-dog/ http://sandy4stalbans.org/blog/2010/03/18/councillor-bites-dog/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:19:50 +0000 sandy http://sandy4stalbans.org/blog/?p=1465 Well sadly not but it got you reading the post.  I was out with Joy Mann in the Lower Road area of her Bedmond and Primrose Hill ward.  (For the information of St Albans viewers, this is about as far west and north as you can go in the parliamentary constituency, next to the West Coast mainline and to all intents and purposes in Hemel Hempstead – but I digress.)

2010_0318StAHalfMarathonPoolC0045Anyway the first house where Joy was called, the residents weren’t in, she pushed a leaflet through the letter box and a silent dog lurking inside bit her finger.

Just to be on the safe side, I took her to the doctor’s in Kings Langley – where the nurse was fully booked doing vaccinations.  So off we went to Hemel Hempstead and the Urgent Care Centre.  The picture shows Joy duly bandaged and armed with antibiotics afterwards.

But it reminded me of the dangers faced every day by postmen and deliverers of every kind.  And also how difficult and inconvenient it is to get to the rambling hospital site at Hemel.

Last weekend I wrote a post about Hemel A&E closing and that all roads no longer led to Hemel – well today they did.

]]> http://sandy4stalbans.org/blog/2010/03/18/councillor-bites-dog/feed/ 0 Bedmond Tin Rocket http://sandy4stalbans.org/blog/2010/02/04/bedmond-tin/ http://sandy4stalbans.org/blog/2010/02/04/bedmond-tin/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:24:03 +0000 sandy http://sandy4stalbans.org/blog/?p=1311 2010_0203StAHalfMarathonPoolC0030I can well remember my first time in Bedmond.  It was circa 1985.  With a friend, I had done  a great circular cycle ride from St Albans reaching Sarratt.  Coming back, we came up Toms Lane, and I well remember the weary push.  All I wanted was the ridge and the then easy ride back to St Albans.

Imagine my astonishment when I came to the top and found the tin church.  These are common in the Highlands, but I never thought I would see one in Hertfordshire.

Officially it’s the Church of the Ascension, and the tower looks like a Jules Verne rocket ready to blast you to the moon and beyond.

It’s the original flat pack church – normally designed for shipping out to the colonies.  Apparently you could even buy them in Harrods and I guess you still can.  It cost £80 – a bargain.   Refixing the steeple cost considerably more a few years ago.  And now they have a need to fix the roof.

So let me commend the parish coffee morning on the first Wednesday of each month.  You contribute to the roof, you get the chance to see inside the warm pitch pine interior, and you meet a lovely group of people including Bedmond’s energetic and much liked councillor Joy Mann.

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