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Thanks to Tudor Tarita of ZME Science for the Headline.

There you go a Medieval Best Seller the ” Emendatio vitae-The Emending of Life by Richard Rolle a Yorkshire Hermit and mystic.

Emend means fix, it’s used in publishing and editing and is not as all pervasive as ammend. So fixing life. An interesting concept.

Richard Rolle himself in his day ,the 14th Century was more famous for his writing than even Chaucer, so the fact that his complete manuscript was found by a researcher working in a Shrewsbury School shows just how a good work can be mislaid.

The manuscript is original and more complete than any other that has been found.

Somehow , I don’t think it will make the WH Smith Best Sellers List in 2026.

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Thanks to Helen Burchell at BBC Online News for the Headline

Thankfully common sense has prevailed at the former school of Samuel Pepys.

I really enjoy listening to Samuel Pepys’s diaries on audible, he was a brilliant man and diarist. He had many interests in science, literature and business and certainly was a man of his time. The diaries do convey his interest in the “ladies” , which often time he will fight and try and stay faithful to his wife. Very often he fails and he seems to have a fondness for theatre , which even he himself tries to ration on the basis of trying to be good and God fearing, using New Year resolutions and abstinence to stop him straying. He loved music and singing and was delighted when one of his young boys turned out to be an excellent musician and would accompany him on his outings. I think this young man lived in his house for a while, possibly until the plague reeked havoc with all their lives.

So maybe he wasn’t the best figurehead to hold up for “Pastoral Guidance ” to young people and it was great they all voted to acknowledge this while still appreciating him as a significant historical character. The School Building will still be called Pepys House in recognition of their past pupil.

AI generated Samuel Pepys

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Thank you to Daniel De Simone, Investigations Correspondent and BBC Online News for the Headline

Not something I’ve heard of before ” A duty of candour”. Sounds like something that the chap who led the Charge of the Light Brigade would stick too over a few rounds of port on the after battle mess dinner. Yes it sounds rather quaint and old fashioned, a relic of the past.

“No need to mention that , there are things that aren’t said amongst us gentlemen” . It was understood.

Fast forward to now and it is not acceptable not to tell the truth, the real truth, no matter how hard it is.

If things are to get better and if people who are in positions of authority are not to be encouraged to hide their failings and faults then yes, they need to be scrutinised and be made to be “honest”.

Some of the “facts” that have come out of the woodwork have obviously shocked even our hardened , embattled MP’s and Civil Servants, which is why there are changes afoot.

Yes there’s been a delay , but maybe the delay will allow those who are pushing for full disclosure to achieve it. I’m sure we can still maintain State Security but also not use the State as a “protection racket” to allow poor conduct and incompetence to dominate a Service that we should be able to trust and have confidence in.

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Thank you to Martyn Smith,Local Democracy Reporter, Dudley BBC Online News for the Headline

Well some of you may go surprise, surprise with this story. In the end though it was a bit of a damp squib as the complaints fell off the cliff after the Private Parking Company did some extra training on Customer Service skills and also ticked off those operatives who parked illegally while ticketing the Public.

Apparently since the extra training there hasn’t been any complaints, which is good as the Company supplies Parking Attendants to some 60 Councils .

So the poor members of the Public who were subject to a sarcastic jibe or two from a jobs worth can settle back into their normal routine and just hope that the machines are working and that their cars are in working order and don’t need to be rescued from a pay as you stay Car Park. Time is money when it comes to Car Parking.

A penny for his thoughts

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