Gus the Neo is unwell

If you cast your mind back to the very beginning of this blogs months and months ago, you might remember that I talkes about Gus the Neopolitan Mastiff languishing in Freshfields Rescue Centre. I take him walkies every Sunday, and I was trying to figure a way of adopting him, but alas he is far too big.

Well the bad news is he has only been given a couple of months to live, as it turns out his feinting fits are due to his heart packing up. I’ll try and keep you informed on how gets on. I went to see him on Sunday and apart from the fact he cant go out for a walk and he has fluid on his stomach he seems ok in himself Ah well. Oh yeah I would have shown you some photos but the one’s from Sunday but they were on the mobile phone which was robbed in last night’s daring robbery of my crib……

Off me chest-Getting screwed in Kensington

I am writing this on my fourth laptop. This bizarre situation has occurred because yet again my house in Kensington Liverpool was broken into and amongst other things the work’s laptop was comprehensively knicked, along with the back up memory stick of all the current work.

The circumstances are far more worrying as my son Kneale was in the house at the time and cam down and disturbed them. Fortunately  no harm came to him

This was by far the worse of all the break ins and damage done, mostly because the data that was lost. I had become a bit blase about the loss of the object but the loss of hard graft and intellectual property is far more galling.

There seems to be a crime wave going on especially around this part of L6 Kensington and belies some of the claims by some of the local organisations that things are getting better on the community safety front.

What is even worse is besides feeling crap about it all and the loss and the inconvenience, it just makes you feel vulnerable, it makes you feel that putting the effort into anything is pointless and it makes yo question some of your core values, especially when your community or members of it don’t share or even understand the word values.

I’m in a real life dilemma, should I quite this area, somewhere I have lived for years and feel a genuine committment to. but I am at a point where I personally find it difficult to cope with this situation without moving on to calmer climes.

Izzy Wizzy Let’s get Bizzy

Using Sooty’s magic incantation Warren Potter has managed to save the Matthew Street Festival from the Jason Muggle. Hurrah said the students of LImDebWarts and as the festival mysteriously went from an outdoor festival to a mainly indoor festival.

“Hang on a minute Warren Potter” said Hermione Baldock isnt that what the Muggle King had left before your hols. “Don’t worry” said Warren adjusting his helmet, as he put fires out on the side, “vote for me you rotters”…..well if it was in a book for kids you wouldnt believe it. The Matthew Street Pub based festiv

Kensington Neighbourhood Centre Watch- number 1 08_08_07

Overwhelmed by the good news that we were going to get a new multi million £ Neighbourhood Centre, complete with Fire Station (we might even get Warren Bradley as our local fire bobby) PCT offices, (handy if you get diabetes type 2) retail space, (handy for shopping) office space (very handy if you want to open an office?) and finally 51 apartments (used to be called flats when I was younger). We did used to have an impressive art deco style bingo hall/ex-cinema and ice rink on the site (but who needs an ice rink, well Widnes do because they have decided to build one as part of their regeneration, but what do they know) so an exciting bit of cutting edge architecture (see picture) will all these stunning facilities was a no brainer.

Alas the PCT decided they didnt want in and despite suggesting that Kenny regen might want to look again at what the Centre will offer (e.g. low rent enterpise units for new and emerging businesses or some other daft idea) .So we may be left with the possibility of “Neighbourhood Centre” being nothing more than a block of flats with its’ own firestation, handy for those chip pan fires if you are allowed chip pans in an apartment, and a couple of shops, I am distinctly underwhelmed.

So I’ve decided to post a weekly photo of the site on the blog with a brief description of build progress as the site has only been empty about six years, so I’m sure we will being seeing rapid progress shortly as this legacy project nears completion and we get the full benefit of the new facilities, right I’m off to the Matthew Street Festival. DOOOOOH!!!

Stunning Architecture-It’s as though the Bauhaus never existed or Lego

Picture 1

8th August 2008

Jason it’s time to go…..don’t forget to turn the light off

Well without going into great detail about the debacle about the Mathew Street Festival, and listening to Radio Merseyside callers to Roger Phillips. Jason Harborrow must go, the ignorant cocky bastard needs to take the sword out of the sheath and plunge it deep into his breast. Unfortunately he’ll waltz off to another highly paid job….just watch this space.

This doesn’t bode well for 2008 and the great birthday celebrations are now starting off now with a bang but a whimper. The whole shebang 2007/2008 has been run by outsiders, I dont want to sound parochial but the calibre of  some of the people employed at great expense is highly questionable.

If we learn one lesson, is that Liverpool has the talent and ability to do everything ourselves. I still don’t know why as a city of cocky people we don’t seem to have the confidence in ourselves.  We always defer to the suit, the voice, the CV, let’s draw a line underneath this, roll our sleaves up and do it ourselves and fuck the lot of them.