Cartoon hits the mark!

Without wishing to be political, this cartoon in today's OBSERVER hits the bulls-eye fair and square! I will make no further comment!

Clean for the Queen in Aldborough Hatch - Saturday 27th February 2016

Clean for The Queen is a celebration of the Queen's 90th Birthday.
Some 30 volunteers took part in CLEAN FOR THE QUEEN organised by the Aldborough Hatch Defence Association on S aturday 27th February. The kitchen team prepared coffee, tea and biscuits and later hot soup and hot dogs. The lads and lasses set out on a bitterly cold morning with their litter-picks akimbo, their purple CLEAN FOR THE QUEEN sacks safely encased in the rubber rings and their smart yellow tabards (all courtesy of London Borough of Redbridge Recycling Team) and blue gloves (kindly supplied by Forest Farm Shop). And all Volunteers received a free REDBRIDGE bag to carry their shopping – again courtesy of the Borough. It should be noted that all the materials supplied by LBR were paid for from funding that was bid for LBR Recycling – and did not come out of Council Tax!

A total of 60 sacks were filled whilst we collected some car parts either discarded or the result of an accident a few hours earlier when a car hit a tree at the top of Aldborough Road North. We also found some mops and lots of Vodka bottles –so many Vodka bottles that one lady said that she had never seen so many in all her life! In fact we found bottles and cans of every size and variety including two unopened tins of Tuna!
One lady who spent all morning cleaning at the entrance to Benina Close (a private road where the residents appear to throw all their rubbish over the fence and are apparently happy to live on the edge of a rubbish tip!) asked if we could do this every month and seemed disappointed when I said we would do it annually!
One young man purchased - at his own expense - a long-handled pooper-scupper and a black bucket. He toured to roads on the east of Aldborough Road North (Applegarth Drive, etc) and found the pavements clean, but in Aldborough Road North and the pavements to the west (Roy Gardens, Oaks Lane) there was dog mess all over the pavements which filled his bucket.
One little girl who worked all morning with her mother told me that it had been the best day of her life!
So a BIG THANK YOU again to everyone. It was the community of Aldborough Hatch at its very best. Here’s to the next time, but if I see someone dropping litter I will tell them what for!

ILFORD RECORDER 25th February

I guess  these speak for themselves!

The ENOUGH IS ENOUGH Campaign Headquarters is fully open!

The Enough is Enough Campaign Headquarters is now fully operational as seen here with the Chairman wearing two of the new ENOUGH IS ENOUGH Button badges. T-shirts are next! If the ILFORD RECORDER says I am indefatigable, I will prove them right!

Overheard in Waitrose

Personally I am an Aldi shopper - but visit Sainsbury's once a month for two or three things Aldi do not stock. I was directed today to a Facebook page with conversations overhead in Waitrose. Here is a selection. They made me smile - and I guess one member of my family who only goes to Waitrose will smile too, for he has a sense of humour.

Overheard in Waitrose a couple of years ago; one woman to another: "This recession is really hitting hard. We've even had to stop drinking wine with dinner!"

 'I've just seen someone in the car park driving a Ford Focus. I do hope they're turning around'

Overheard in Waitrose Fulham on Sunday: 'I'm not going to lie Daddy, but I really prefer the Waitrose in Belgravia.'

Last weekend "It's Saturday, what do you mean you don't have any gorgonzola picanté?"

Two people having a heated argument at the front of local store.
One said 'I know I am right, I'm a solicitor' .To which the second calmly said 'So am I'
Boom!
 
Overheard in Waitrose:
Mum: Oh just watch my bag
Son: We're in Waitrose not Tesco
 
"Sebastian do stop sulking...they just don't sell pot noodles"
(Sebastian was about fifty!)

 "Did you know that that woman down the road votes Labour, and she's got an AGA!"

Lady looking at the reduced bread, "Oh look dear this will be perfect for the peacocks"

 "David, the hens only eat Waitrose kale and you know that."

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH Campaign gains momentum!

The pressure is on with the ENOUGH IS ENOUGH Campaign against further sand and gravel extraction in Aldborough Hatch - within a few metres of the 153 year old St. Peter's Church, built without proper foundations.

Today’s ILFORD RECORDER carries two letters regarding the sand and gravel exhibition – see here! Well done Nicholas and the Lady – I know who you are and we are very grateful.

Also the EDITOR’S COMMENTS on the same page equate our campaign with two others in the Borough – the mobility card and the Kenneth More Theatre – with the Editor describing me (forgive my blushes!) as ‘indefatigable’. I had to look that word up in the dictionary to discover that the definition is “a person that cannot be tired out, unremitting’. Unsure if I ‘cannot be tired out’ for I am fairly weary with Brett Tarmac at present.

Please make sure you attend the Exhibition to demonstrate to Brett Tarmac that we mean business – and will not go away. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

I have been on this earth for 30,286 days! It's a fact!

My friend Margaret sent me the link to a website that tell;s you how many days and months you have been on this earth.

I discovered that:

You are 30286 days old.

Which is 4326 weeks and 4 days.
That's 82 years and 336 days, including 20 leap days,
or 82 years, 48 weeks and 0 days.
In other words, that's 994.97 months.
Therefore, you are 82.92 years old.
You were born on a Saturday, your last birthday was a Wednesday
and your next one will be on a Friday.

And - would you believe it - it is right! 

Here is the link: 

<http://www.korn19.ch/coding/days.php>

Try it!