Stephen Gower

Same, but I'm assuming in your case you're not the idiot who can't communicate, while in my case I very much am.

www.who-rabies-bulletin.org/site-page/oc... indeed

Map pavement parking hotspots Five years ago, the Government consulted on how the dangerous practice of pavement parking could be tackled in England. The Government has yet to respond. Together we want to show how pavement parkin...

Not sure why that second X link has appeared - sorry about that! You can map pavement parking hotspots via this link act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/176767/...

Signs of the Zodiac?

Only clubs within the "central permit area" and only until Botley Road is reopened and the congestion charge comes to an end. But I agree this is not the way to mitigate this. I think they should have a club minibus from the P&R, paid for with grants like news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/106500-of-gr...

A dialogue box, headed "Track your item" with a space for "Your reference number", that has been filled in (then redacted for this screenshot) with a button that says "Track your delivery". An error message in small red text is below the box for the reference number and reads "An update will only be provided when we attempt to deliver your item". Finally there are two links, on the left the text "Need help with your reference number?" and on the right the excellent Welsh flag and the text "Cymraeg".

Royal Mail will allow me to track my item, but only after delivery.

Rule 78: Put Street Trees Almost Everywhere

Street trees do it all, they...
Cut crashes by 45%
Raise home values 9%
Boost retail sales 12%
Clean air, cool streets, absorb stormwater, improve health, and make places more inviting

Walkable City Rules www.amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...

Gravestone inscribed: Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell. 13-6-1957, 10-2-2019. Barrister of the Middle Temple. My brain, socialist. My heart, anarchist. My eyes, pacifist. My blood, revolutionary. Around the edge, the legend: The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman with someone else’s teeth.

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby.

Note the border inscription.

A spiral staircase in a lovely concrete carpark. Out the top of the stair you can see the sky, Edinburgh Castle, and the Red Arrows.

Haha! It worked!

I scoped out the angle this morning and figured I’d be very lucky to pull it off, but it was surely worth a try, eh?

#Edinburgh #RedArrows #Photography

Online Safety Act: "a little inconvenience is a small price to protect our children"

Asking people to drive responsibly where there are children: *tumbleweeds*

As Orwell's novel start to enter the public domain, I'm rewriting them to give them happy endings.

The project is called Orwell That Ends Well.

Google Streetview image of a terraced street (Marlborough Road in Oxford). Houses on the left each have a small front yard, where those on the right open directly on to the street. The street is not wide enough for on-street parking on both sides; the right hand side has double yellow lines. Incidentally in the distance there is a van parked on the double yellow lines fully blocking the pavement.

Should the folk on the right hand side of streets like these have the same opportunity of charging as those on the left? If so, what solution is suggested?

I hope at least the councillors can read www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... before the debate. If they have any more time, there's plenty of links in that article to research published in peer-reviewed journals.

And now I see Oxford City councillors @katherinesmiles.bsky.social and @andrewgant.bsky.social are citing this book in a motion to "Ban Smartphones in Oxford Schools". Is there any chance at all we can do evidence rather than sensationalism?

Put a clothes peg on their clothing.

A coot made of felt

felt coot, might delete later

Oxford residents get 100 free passes p.a. for the congestion charge. When will Oxford bus users get their 100 free bus passes?

I don't get the link between the data breach and the Greater Oxford proposals. Am I missing something?

This has come to a head today as our children's school announced they are banning all smartphones on site (I assume just for pupils!) from mid July. It will be fine, we're only 5min cycle ride from the school, so for evening activities, they can come and pick the phone and head out again.

The theory of learning styles sounded good and presented simple answers to real problems of why some children thrive in some teaching environments and some don't, however the research evidence wasn't ever there. This feels very similar to the enthusiasm with which this book about phones has. BICBW.

The Anxious Generation is a book that blames smart phones for all that is wrong with the young'uns today. It is being widely read and promoted by teachers and school leadership here in the UK at least. From the outside (as a parent) it has a similar feel to the now debunked "learning styles" theory.

"The Anxious Generation" is the new "Learning Styles". Discuss.

Where this?

It would be good to see some results of the Oxfordshire Greenways idea during this council cycle. We couldn't ask for a better champion though!

A previous line manager once complimented me on the clarity of my emails & I explained that what I do is make a list of all the things that have to go in the email and then don't put anything else in.

I'm beginning to think that LDR stories are a net detriment to the BBC News output.

In Oxford they had to stand as "Independents" to win their seats, only to join the Conservative group as soon as the council was formed.

"People who cannot set up a digital account due to them being digitally excluded can still have access to paper visitor parking permits. They will need to call the team, using the number above, and will be assessed on a case-by-case basis" www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-an...

Something close to that from @oxfordclarion.bsky.social go.bsky.app/Gf6AWuT