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Thanks to Sarah Booker-Lewis and Cash Murphy and BBC Online News for the Headline

Sad to see that despite evidence to the contrary not being made available to the decision makers ( or did they just not want to know?) that Wellington House in Brighton which offers care to 21 people is going to be shut with an estimated saving of £336,000 a year.

Although the facility will not close until all of the 21 people affected “have a been transitioned to an alternative service”. Their words.

Some Councillors argued that Evidence should have been made available to the Cabinet meeting of Council prior to them making their decision from Leaders in special schools in the area, who know the numbers who will require Wellington House in the future.

One estimate of costs relating to the needs of these adults currently using Wellington House is £250,000/year for each adult. So for a saving of £336,000 , the Council may end up spending over £5 million/year. Yes I’m scratching my head too.

Not to mention the loss of social cohesion and community that the people of Wellington House currently have. I’d be interested to know what plans the Council have for the real estate Wellington House is part of.

Although this is in Brighton , to be honest decision making like this can be anywhere in the UK or the World for that matter.

Namaste and Thank you for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Victoria Bourne and BBC Online News for the Headline

Maricarmen Escabel  87 ,was carried out on a stretcher from her home of 70 years after being evicted by an investment Company Urbagestión who had bought the apartment building she had lived in all her life and insisted that she paid double the rent for which of course she did not have the money for.

Thankfully her Lawyer in negotiations with Urbagestión have successfully gained their agreement to let her stay at the rent that she was paying and could afford out of her pension.

However Senora Escabel is in hospital and is not well enough to hear the good news, largely due to being traumatised by the process of the eviction. I hope she recovers and is able to move back to her apartment with the confidence that she can live her final years in her “home”.

Who ever owns the investment Company Urbagestión should be ashamed of themselves. The name suggests Urban Management, and I would dearly love to know the owners behind this facade who thought it appropriate to hound a woman out of her home of 70 years.

It’s by no mean definite that Maricarmen will be able to move back to her apartment as she has suffered so much. However, I wish her well and think that she should get some reparation from Urbagestión for their harsh actions, lack of understanding and greed.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to George King and BBC Online News for the Headline

A record number of 16.9million parking charges were issued by Private Companies in 2025/2026. So most drivers have come across a situation where they are trying to park and want to get a ticket, but there is no signal and there is a sign saying no card or cash payments .

It really doesn’t matter how old you are, some oldies “love” technology, most don’t.No one should be forced to sign up for applications or indeed scan bar codes ( which are notoriously scammy).

Recently on holiday in Cornwall we got a ticket, my partner thought it had gone through, but it hadn’t so we got a fine on our return home. It was stressful in the car park , we must have spent about half an hour trying to pay and then stressful when we got home. I do actually believe we tried ringing the number for customer service help but we couldn’t get through. My partner paid the fine as the letter was quite threatening.

The latest twist to the sorry scenario is that Cornwall Council has put a sign up in their Council run Car Parks to say that they have had to increase parking charges as they have lost money for Council supplied social services that they used to pay for with EC grants, but that they could no longer apply for as the UK was no longer part of the EC and that the increased parking charges are now used to pay for local services. I suppose moving to cashless and card less payments was another way for them to save money.

Rightly or wrongly I reduce my stress levels by going to places where the parking isn’t complicated. Hence we go to National Trust sites( parking included in membership, ticket machines run on solar power, but you can always leave your card in the window of the car.)Also we do tend to park where there is free parking, some places just seem to think it helps local businesses which it does.

We frequent coffee shops and local shops because we can park for free. There is no doubt in my mind that hospital car parks should be free to those who have appointments or are visiting sick relatives. That to me is a no brainer.

There is something called the British Car Park Association (is your car park a member )and what do the B.C.A think of fining vunerable people, not sure anyone has asked them? However, parking is a money maker for many organisations both Public and Private. Do they really want to make things easier for us or anyone for that matter? The answer is no.

Thanks to Luis Reyes at AutoNotion (sorry the Headline is too long)

So to process all this data generated by us we need servers. Servers need electricity and water( to cool them down). Microsoft trialed having a server in the coastal waters off Scotland which worked well for them, using the surrounding sea water to cool the servers and an efficient wind powered electricity supply. The underwater tube was hermetically sealed  and pumped full of nitrogen to prevent any oxidisation.

The trial was a success , but the project was scrapped as the concern was how do they access the tube when things go wrong and possibly the practicalities of having an underwater server in a busy New York waterway with all the associated paperwork in getting access. The environmentalists were concerned by “heating up the sea water”.

Enter the Chinese who have built a full scale version of an underwater Server closely based on the Microsoft Pilot and seem to be having some success with it.

The problem remains that Servers on land require, a massive water supply ( for cooling all our hot ideas!) and a small power station requirement for electricity. Not to mention all the concrete used to house the server.

I thank Autonotion for explaining the situation so well,it seems sad that the Servers use so much energy and perhaps we need to understand better what use they are being put to and is it worth destroying the planet?

Thanks to Tommy Begley and Motorcycle News for the Headline.

Sad to say, despite the Ace Cafe being in a superb location in London on the North Circular Road , accessible to many bikers and a Legendary Biker’s Caf, (reopened thirty years ago by Mark Wilsmore )

Since the 17th July this year,it’s had to close its doors at 6pm on Friday evening.

This is a great shame as on a Friday night how brilliant it must have been to gather at this iconic venue and meet up with other bikers over nice food and drink. To sit and watch the world go by in their very boring cars.

Unfortunately, due to irresponsible rat run bikers taking to the North Circular until the early hours and causing distress and potential fatalities Mark had to make the decision that he could no longer open on Friday Evening as the risks to his customers and other road users on the North Circular was too great.

Rossi and Barry Sheene have said that racing on bikes on public roads is a risk too great to take. Stick to the Race Days, with their run offs and no stone walls , barriers or telegraph poles and enjoy your coffee and bacon rolls on a sunny evening. So the Ace Cafe can get back to being a brilliant place to go on a Friday night in London.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Georgie Docker at BBC Online News

The Creamfields Festival is held on land owned by the Daresbury Estate, about half an hours drive from Liverpool. I read a blog about someone who has been to the festival four times and recommends it. It’s electronic dance music , House and Tech House, Techno and Trance.

The Daresbury Estate is quite an extensive area, however, in true Modern Day Pirate Fashion, the drug dealers who wanted to “supply” at the festival buried their various stashes in the land where the festival would be held, presumably in the middle of the night over a period of months before the festival started with the intention of unearthing them when the festival was running, thus getting by the strict security at the Festival.

They were foiled by the Police and presumably sniffer dogs who must have had a whale of the time running across the land and finding stashes of buried drugs. The Police with the usual dry humour have said that if anyone wants to reclaim their property to please contact them. The fact that these stashes have been found has probably saved someone’s life, drugs are so dangerous and unpredictable.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Dan Sales and BBC Online News for the Headline.

A father and his two sons were on the ascent up to the summit of Mount Fuji when his 7 year old complained that he was tired.

The father in what he described “as a rash decision” decided to continue with his older son and leave the child sitting on a bench with some snacks and a soft drink. The bench was located at a height of 6500ft (over 2000metres) and conditions were foggy and rainy.

The father continued his hike and was three hours hike away when the Police caught up with him and after eight hours he was reunited with his “tired and fussy seven year old”.

The poor dad was probably coerced into going further by the elder son who was probably glad to see the back of the little “whiner”. The dad was caught between a stone and a hard place. Glad it all ended well though.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏