Weekly wrap-up, 2009 – 2010 RIP

5:16pm, 29th January 2010

My last post started life as this week’s weekly wrap-up, but then killed it off.
The point of the posts, which I’ve been doing since last May, was to be some sort of ‘report’. I’d started them at the suggestion of a commenter on the blog. But I just don’t think they were adding anything.
And [...]

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Developing council policy

2:53pm, 29th January 2010

I indulged my inner geek last weekend, going along to the second half of the UK GovWeb barcamp (essentially an informal conference about technology in the government sector). I always feel a little bit like the token sceptic at these things, perhaps because I am one of the few politicians who goes and find my [...]

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What do you want from this blog?

2:17pm, 19th January 2010

I’ve been in reflective mood about this blog recently. Perhaps because it’s New Year, perhaps because it hit one year old last month. Whatever the reason, I’ve been thinking about it’s future. I set it up as an experiment, and for the first three months was surprised at its success and the size of [...]

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Merry Christmas

8:18pm, 22nd December 2009

As hinted at yesterday I’m taking a break from blogging for Christmas. My last ‘official’ bit of council work for the year was last night (a meeting that finished at 11:30pm!) and while I’ll be using the Christmas break to keep on top of things and hopefully clear away a few loose ends I’m [...]

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Ego-Kemp folding

1:59pm, 8th December 2009

Or maybe it’s Kemp ego-folding. I don’t know. One thing I do know is that despite my love of the internet it infuriates me to discover that little fads have passed me by.
And so it is with Kemp-folding which I’m currently finding very amusing, even though I can see that it is one of those [...]

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Weekly wrap-up, 4 December

5:06pm, 4th December 2009

It isn’t unique to being a councillor (although it might be exacerbated by the lack of structure) but I struggle to think of the things I have been up to this week! So when I can look to my diary to remind me of what meetings and appointments I’ve had I find myself thinking [...]

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Wandsworth’s public art

2:33pm, 25th November 2009

One of the interesting things about blogging is the little things it throws up.
My post about the Battersea Park Act of Remembrance prompted an email about the state of the statue which, in turn, prompted discussion about the way the council ‘advertises’ the public art.
While we have various various publications about heritage trails around the [...]

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Chugging, comments and blogging

11:43am, 17th November 2009

It’s occurred to me that I never returned to the comments I removed from the blog during the chugging episode, despite promising that I would either restore them or explain why I removed them.
In fact, I made the decision fairly soon after I removed them that they would not be returning. This was after [...]

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Am I celebrity?

2:43pm, 14th November 2009

A silly little thing, but I can’t resist a copy and paste of one of the best bits of spam I think I’ve ever had:
Dear celebrity,
May I kindly ask you to send me one or two hand-signed autographs.
I am an enthusiastic collector of autographs for many years and would be delighted to increase my [...]

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Remembrance Day

12:47pm, 11th November 2009

I took my son along to the Act of Remembrance in Battersea Park this morning.
It might, at first sight, be a slightly odd thing to do. He has just turned one and I can’t claim he showed much awareness of the service – the passing ‘planes interested him far more. But I felt [...]

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