The unusual site banners are to bring attention to the fact that Labour activists in Bexley are manipulating Facebook Groups with fictional posters. They deny it, threaten police action for ‘harassing’ a fictitious character and then demonstrate their willingness to impersonate by creating a false Administrator account in my name. The banner on display is chosen randomly from a selection of three, with a fourth bearing the familiar Bexley Council is Bonkers logo.
4 August (Part 1) - Cheap but maybe not too nasty
The new
Bexley Magazine came tumbling through my door a few days ago which is good
because there was a period a few years ago when it rarely showed up. However
there was something very different about this one; it is a good job that the
Covid or whatever it was has gone away because one powerful sneeze might have blown a
hole through the new issue.
The paper is not only thinner but has also lost its gloss. It has gone from a
good looking piece of work to, well, a bit cheap.
I took my Dad’s old micrometer to it but the scale has faded somewhat and my
eyeballs are not what they were so I cannot give you a precise measurement to
the nearest thousandth of an inch. (All my father’s aero engine designs were in
Imperial measurements.) But it is quite obviously thinner.
The postal scales came up with 55 grammes while a two year old copy reads 75.
The content is of course much the same and might reasonably be described as
interesting and worth looking through.
The Bexley Magazine has clearly been the latest victim of ‘the cuts’ but maybe I
should be pleased about it. I have a collection of Bexley Magazines going back
to before BiB started. A bit of space saving will be welcome.
Batteries are potentially dangerous. Don’t wrap your AA cell in wire wool (old schoolboy trick) or even
keep one in your pocket with a bundle of keys.