24 June - Something fishy going on
One of the silliest things I did soon after moving to Bexley 27 years
ago is dig a big hole in the garden and make a pond. It has created little but
work since and for silliness is probably second only to setting up this blog.
Beneath the pond nearly five feet down is a four inch pipe conveying water to a
filter and somehow the protective grid had been displaced and the water
flow slowed, eventually coming to a complete standstill. It took all day yesterday to pump the water out and get down and
remove one big round stone and not very much muck at all. That’s why there was no blog yesterday but in truth there is not a
lot to write about just now. Mick Barnbrook is supposedly rewriting his letters of
complaint about the police regarding their
cover up engineered to save Cheryl Bacon’s bacon but the silence from that direction suggests he has
broken his computer again. In preparation for one day getting hold of copies I have done a little research on
Bexley’s top cop and come up with something for later you might not know.
It’s not been complete slacking on the blog front and
I have been updating the 2014-2018 Index of councillors and revising
the old 2010-2014 one where necessary.
The job is difficult because Bexley council doesn’t provide a simple list
of names, jobs and allowances. There are lists of jobs and allowances with no
names attached and if you look at each councillor’s page you find some jobs
listed but some attract allowances and some don’t with no reference to the sums
of money involved. I am not yet confident that my lists are totally accurate but on
the other hand I’m pretty sure that Bexley’s lists are a mess too. Among several oddities
councillor Sharon Massey is still listed as Chairman of the council and I suspect Howard
Marriner may have words to say about that.
Bexley‘s webmaster is probably as confused about the new appointments as I am so I
am going to suggest to councillors they each check their own pages and let him
know where he has things wrong.
I suspect he is not wrong when he lists councillor Cheryl Bacon as the new
chairman of the Members’ Code of Conduct Committee.
A liar
has been put in charge of maintaining standards. You couldn’t make it up.
Another part of Bonkers which requires attention is the
Index of correspondence
relating to the Peter Craske affair otherwise known as
the obscene blog. It’s
not practical to put everything on line but the extracts must still tell the story. The job is ongoing.