Cant stop laughing at this one, Joey from Fazak,( lol) put a comment on Lousie Baldock’s blog site, (titter) it’s so so funny, he has just compared Joe Anderson with, (rofl I ‘m cracking up now) a ….wait for it…..a .. potato…… my god and there I was thinking the LebDims didnt have a sense of humour, I mean life must be very serious having to make all those swingeing cuts affecting poor and disadvantaged people (espcially in rib tickling Fazakerley), whille keeping the cultural gliterartti in buck’s fizz and canapes during the city’s time in the 08 spotlight.
As I’m not the one making all the cuts I can take the piss guilt free
so here goes
Warren Bradley stretching the budget ooops his head’s come off….
Phil Cool Man of a 1000 faces/canapes/budget cuts with David Tenant looky likey
Mike Storey head of regeneration (showing off new LCC Parking attendants £59 fine, three points or extermination you decide within 14 days)
The New Dr Who Davi Tenant and his evil nemesis the Master
and finally testing out joey from fazaks side splitting jokey comparison…….
A potato and joe anderson (the potato is on the left, sorry right…god I’m confused now, it’s all the laughing I’m doing Joey you are a right libDem card and no mistake)
I suppose if you want to vote Labour it wont be on the basis of Joe’s Movie star good looks, but on the policies although there is one star maybe…he oes look like .Toy Story’s own Joe Anderson Lookey Likey
So if you vote Labour in May It’ll maybe be more of a Joe “Spud U Like” Anderson and what he stands for like rather than Warren “The chips are down” Bradley! an what he’s cutback on…..now where did I leave that potato peeler
To Cut or Not to Cut- Almost a Comb Over
March 25, 2008
Houston we have a comb over
Spent some time over the holiday weekend trying to work out whether to get my flowing locks cut. The last time I felt the cold cold steel of the Barbers tools, was in Icmeler in October when I got a really really short cut off Ibos hairdressers in Turkey.
Since then life sort of got in the way of getting a trim and at Christmas I was too ill and my head to tender to expose to the wicked winter elements. I then used the argument that having some male pattern baldness maybe I should let it grow in order to see “What was left”.
As it turns out a lot left on the sides and not much on the top. The musing then developed into thoughts about having a “CO” or comb over, maybe even as extravagant as Donald Trump….maybe not….. still cant figure out why people have a CO, really people shoudl embrace their baldness, after all someone has to be the age you are, why strive for eternal youthfulness. Anyway looking the way I do means Poles give up their seats on buses for me. and people think `I am wiser than I obviously are. Having a clod of hair carefully placed over the bald pate may make people change their erroneous opinions about me.
MY Hair well Its sort of got a mind of it’s own growing out horizontally and also vertically, wild mint me mother used to call it, with a look which has been described as “Scary Clown”, “Bloke off the the Operation Game” “A Grey version of Ken Dodd” ” Catweazele” ”Doc Brown” and “Stokowski”. I will [probably answer to all these names if called by them.
Chickened out in the end, maybe I should wait until I’m in Turkey again, any excuse to get over there!.
Artist impression of what should be there
THE STORY SO FAR
I’ve been doing some informal and impromptu research by asking virtually everyone I’ve met recently what one would expect from a community financed “Neighbourhood Centre”, and the sort of averge comments I’ve had have included a CAB, Credit Union, Community Centre, Youth or Communities facility, even an Ice Rink (I think that person may have just ahve been on mind altering drugs).
But imagine my surprise seveal months to here that instead of a range of community and neighbourhoody things, we were going to get included Office Space, a fire station, apartments (41) and some shops. No community space, no community faciltities, I was very disappointed, why wsnt there low cost enterprise space for local people to set up as businesses, and more importantly why werent lcoal success stories like HEAT, KCLC (the learning centre) being mooved into the Office space.The simple reason is that someone has got £ signs in their eyes and dcided that the office space need to be on full commerical rent, which put it out of the reach of local organisations, even the ones set up by kenny regen.
But then I heard some goods news, they were taking the Office spaces out of the equation, I thought “Finally someone is seeing sense….” but with every Yang there has to be a Ying in this case thne Ying is more and bigger £ signs, in the shape of 50 (fifty, five zero) more flats. a total of 91 flats……who is the one on mind altering drugs now then.
The two things which perturb me most about this whole thing is where are the profits (if there is any given the current creit crunch) Liverpool City council, Kenny regen co CIC (“dont worry it’s jus a loophole” Lynn Spencer) Parks Partnership Ltd, or some developer in Manchester.Alrady the Community has jsut stumped up over a million quid to the Manchester based developers to pay for a “Shortfall”.
excerpt from Kensington Regeneratiosn’s Board Minutes 18/12/07
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AGENDA ITEM 6: “THE NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE” PROJECT |
| Guy Illingworth gave a presentation on the “Neighbourhood Centre”. Frank Doran asked what the units would be used for if not retail. Guy Illingworth said that the units could be used for what the market wanted. Pat Barton asked who would be responsible for maintenance of the apartments and was told if Riverside Housing and Arena Housing agree terms for the apartments it would be their responsibility. At this stage the Chair reminded everyone that this was a confidential item and was not to be discussed outside the meeting. Madeline Heneghan asked if the Fire Service’s choice to relocate from Low Hill Station to the “Neighbourhood Centre” was a firm decision. She was told that it had been confirmed by the Fire Service, she then asked if the Fire Service were looking for financial assistance. Lynn Spencer said that there was an application expected from the Fire Service for a revenue grant for activities. Jimmy Baptista said that for the £1.9 million gap funding he didn’t think that an Iceland store and a Fire Station was a good return in addition to the money already spent on assembling the site. Norma Williams stated that the Board had already discussed this. Cllr. Louise Baldock asked had the housing needs for the area been taken into account and had consideration been given to providing three and four bedroom accommodation. Cath Green said that there were new developments in the area such as the Tunnel Road development which will provide a good mix of accommodation. Cllr. Louise Baldock asked if the 40 jobs for the Fire Brigade are new jobs or existing jobs and was told that they were existing jobs from Low Hill Fire Station transfer. Cllr. Louise Baldock also asked if there had been anymore thought about the name for the complex and has the listed building that will be incorporated into the site got a name? The Chair said that the name of the listed building is Clare Terrace. Cllr. Louise Baldock suggested calling the complex ‘Regency House, Place etc’ with a play on the name Regeneration. Richie Keenan said that he thought that the community would be getting an excellent facility, one that they have never had before. Graham Knott asked, if the 90 residential units in effect caused the shortfall and need for £1.9 million subsidy, had enough effort been put into marketing? Charles Hubbard introduced himself and said that looking at the wider picture the market is not strong at the moment in Kensington and if the market gets better in the future there would be chances to claw back some of the money. Graham Bell then asked what are the guarantees for costs being contained and timescales met. Richie Keenan asked what materials were being used for the building and was told that the shop front would be fully glazed, red brick and render to the upper stories. Beech Street would have copper cladding not wood. Kay Gray asked if there would be a bank on the new site and was told that more and more banks around the country are closing branches but it was hoped that there would be an ATM machine located on the Prescot Road side of the build. Insp. Dave Charnock asked if the design of the building had looked at secure by design to deter crime. Charles Hubbard said that there would be a need to liaise with the police. At this point the Chair asked Guy Illingworth and Andrew Kingsley to leave the room while a discussion and vote took place. The Chair then asked Committee members for any questions. Tom McGuire asked what the percentage of increase in rent would be over time and Charles Hubbard stated that there would be a five yearly rent review and a review of leases. There is a new national standard called the “New Lease Code” and its aim is to be more flexible for small businesses. The normal rent growth is 6%. Rent at the moment is £11 per square foot and raises to £20 per foot. This would trigger clawback of the grant. Tom McGuire then asked who are the parties who would benefit from this increase and Delwyn Jones said on a sliding scale Liverpool City Council will get 90% and CTP would get 10%. Graham Bell said that we have been looking at this project for three years now and to not develop this site would be morally wrong. It will be a land mark for Kensington. Madeline Heneghan asked who would own the Fire Station and was told that Liverpool City Council own the lease which is freehold. The Chair thanked Charles Hubbard and Delwyn Jones. Recommendations · That this project is approved. It is a flagship project and is considered good value for money considering the scale of the benefits that it will bring to the area.· The capital resources for this project, £1,228.200 for 2008/09 and £716,450 for 2009/10, can be accommodated within the physical programme. A vote was taken for 1st recommendation and the result was; 22 votes for, 1 against and 0 abstentions and for the second recommendation the result was; 22 votes for, 1 against and 0 abstentions. David Lewis had to leave the meeting during the next item and with the Chair’s permission, given that the meeting was his last Board meeting, he asked Board members to join him on Wednesday 19th December 2007 at St. Sebastian’s Parochial Club for his farewell party. He said that it had been a privilege to be a member of Kensington Regeneration and that he would be sad to retire. He hoped that Kensington would become everything that it needed to be. |
It looks like anyone rocking the boat like Jimmy Baptista and Lousie Baldock are jsut being ignored for some greater good, but no one is really sure what that is.
Show me the Money!
March 23, 2008
Anne Marie Turner
(worth about £62m)
Heather Mills
(Only worth about £25M)
Has anyone noticed the striking similarity between the newsworthy but lying ex wife of Macca Heather Mills and our very own Kenny Mistress of Money Anne-Marie Turner
In common well both have Millions of pounds to control, both only like to see good news printed about themselves, any more similarities please leave as comments, but keep them clean, and as far as I know Anne-Marie has still got both her legs
Stalked!
March 21, 2008
I have been meaning to write up a couple of episodes occurring in my life recently.
I am a bugger at resisting religious and celebratory events, the whole Christmas shenanigans leaves me cold, and so does Valentine’s Day. As far as I can see the whole thing is there just to get you to pay 40 quid for some roses you could get for a tenner at any other time of the year. I also think guuilt has a lot to do with it too.
Anyhow as usual Valentine’s Day seemed ages away, and I had sort of booked a night out with Sheila, admittedly it was on the 15th, so I had sort of put the actual day to the back of my mind somewhat.
On the actual day Sheila’s early morning phone culminated in me admitting at that stage I hadnt bought a card, but was going to sort it out by the end of play. I had t work in the early evening and I had planned to drive up to Southport, with the card, witht the flowers, and with the pressies.
During the day I was looking for the opportunity to get out and buy a card, didnt quite manage that either.All day in the Fazakerley lots of strange thigns started to happen, including a heart covered “Steve’s Luv Mug” appearing, a small toy dog in my coat pocket, a cloth rose left on my desk, a valentine cracker left on my windscreen a pack of sweet hearts elft on my desk and most msyteriosuly of all a pack of “hot lips” (chilli flavoured chocolates) unceremoniuosly handed over to me by Pauline the receptionist (not known for her sense of humour). So by this time I am almost frantic to find out who has been doing this “Valentine stalking”. It had to be my workmate Wes, but why would he be doing it, and if it wasnt him who was it?
Anyhow after a quick trip to (the) ASDA on the way home to buy a cd a dvd, card and flowers, I get home and find much to my surprsie that Sheila has called on me left a table strewn with rose petals a single red rose a prepared tea ete etc (you can now see what I’m up against here) so I think “she’s been, she has had to go home and left me my tea”. I decided I needed to hide the evidence of the day’s gifts, so I pulled the cracker and stuffed the warapping down deep into the bin, and had all the cards and gifts gathered together when I turn aorund and there is the woman in question, Sheila…. suddenly the penny drops maybe she was behind all this stalkery, especially after she says “Why have ypu pulled the cracker yoruself?” “Er…..well I didnt want you to see if in case you got jealous”…….DUH!
New Car and the wonders of CCTV and just how crap can some Merseyside Police can possibly be!
March 21, 2008
Wrote this blog ages ago, didnt finish, but better late than never
This may take some time but read on….I’ve just got a new car, well it’s new old car, and 18 year old Toyota Corolla off Ebay (naturally). But you may be asking “what happened to the beloved Vauxhall Diesel Frontera I bought in late 2006 (again on Ebay).
Well on in the early hours of 29th December last year, at about 6.30 in the morning, there was a loud bang outside, the beloved Sheila moans “sounds like someone has crashed into your car”, so pulls me carcass out of bed and sure enough a there is a ford Mondeo lodged and abandoned into the front of my car. I go down, pee’ed off and try to wake the Neighbour whose car it is, the Police duly turn up and I have to make a statement. produce my documents, (even my licence) as I have been involved in an RTA. I find out that the poor woman across the road (who I later discover is called Sylvia) has been burgled and the thieves have stolen goods (big telly, laptop etc) and tried to steal the car, but alas they didnt get very far indeed.
Anyhow I mention to the Policeman that there is probably a good chance that the factory (liverpool digital) has probably caught the whole thing on CCTV as one of their cameras points in the direction of my seat. I also drive my car around because it doesnt look like much damage has been done, but as the week rolls on the door is slowly bending the wing in and I also notice the Mondeo has sliced into the tyre, plus the front plastic bit (technical phrase) was bent and cracked. So I think maybe Sylvia across the road might want to pay for the damage herself, thereby saving me making a claim. So I go over to see her ask her whether she wants to pay for the repairs, which she doesnt and how is she generally, it’s then I bring up the subject of the CCTV cameras across the road and the Kenny Regen funded ones at the other end of the street. Apparently the ones paid for by Kenny regen “Dont have film in them!?” and the one across in Liverpool Digital wasnt clear. This lAst point turned out to be a blatant lie, as I went over and checked them myself. It very clearly showed four lads carrying the stuff out if the house and coming and going into another house in the street, lovely.
It si also obvious who one of them was and with bit of basic detective work, I found out where he lived what his name is, etc etc. All this while the police are claiming there’s nothing to see.
I’ll let you know whether the police get any sharper
Guilty as charged your honour
March 21, 2008
Guilty As Charged After having several emails asking me where and what was happening to the blog I am as they say ”guilty as charged”, I’ve just been flaming lazy. So spurred on by all this personal abuse and criticism, I’ve decided to blog for ten minutes every day, even if I have frig all to say.Examples of mail I have been getting:“ Oi Faragher what’s happening to yout *****blog?”
L.Baldock ( and her a local elected rep too)
“How come I never see you down in Wetherspoons on Curry Night’s anymore, where’s my publishing deal and when am I going to get to meet Tom Slemen”
Old Dick (pain in the arse)
“ Get me out of this foukin country soon, I beg of yoo”Marek Chleb (Old Dick’s personal carer)“ I found this blog about walkin dogs read it and thought it was interesting , then I realised it was you and I’m never going to read it again, and how come you’ve got a carbon monoxide detector in every room in your house even the outside shed?”M.Curran “Get the poster off my wall”Norma Lee“Yeah that’s a great idea Steve go for it”Steve “the singing pharmacist” Abramson“No haven’t you got the message yet have you”Most people who run Kenny regen
