Just had to have someone call to remove a massive wasps nest from inside the canopy over our front door, he said the next has probably been there for a few months, I cannot see how we missed it untill today, when all of a sudden there were thousands of wasps outside the front of the house, which we then managed to trace where they were going to, through a small hole beneath the tiles into the hollow of the overdoor canopy.
Maybe the last few days of rain had kept them all inside the nest and this afternoon they all decided to have a hover party outside the house, all at once.
So having had a guy kill the nest and all that was inside the canopy, we now have all the ones that were on fly about arriving back finding the nest dead and now they are buzzing around like mad things very pissed off.
It seem that some local idiot posted a message on an anonymous forum page named "/b/" that he was going to visit St Aelreds School here in Newton today and harm people.
They published a photo of themselves one of them brandishing a Gun, with a notesaying..
Tomorrow last day of School /b/ We gona fuck up the bullies and leave this world
This is the photo they published
Later in the same forum thread, it seems that theoriginal poster ( alledged poster) added..
OP here, tested it at firing range, we have 2 shotguns as well, its locked in but tomorrow i have key.
St Aelred’s Catholic Technology College ,England
watch BBC
The police were informed and this morning have been at the school, and have just released info that a 19yr old boy has been arrested but not yet questioned.
I wonder who the other hooded idiot is thats on the right of the photo, hiding behind his hood, glasses and cloth pulled up over his face?
The police haven’t said they have two people arrested, so I guess we will have to wait to find out who the masked figure is…
The St Helens Star website has a short breaking news post about the incident
POLICE have confirmed they attended a ‘security alert’ at St Aelred’s Catholic Technology College, in Newton-le-Willows this morning.
A police statement read: "Officers were made aware of threats to the college in the early hours of this morning (Friday, 11 June) and appropriate measures were put in place.
"A 19-year-old man from Newton-le-Willows has been arrested on suspicion of threats to kill and has been taken to a police station on Merseyside where he will be interviewed by detectives."
It is understood a squad of armed officers were sent to the school earlier this morning following an intelligence tip-off. Police say there have been no injuries.
A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of making threats to kill at a school on Merseyside.
Police received reports of threats to kill in relation to St Aelreds college in Newton-le-Willows in the early hours, a spokeswoman said.
Officers went to the school earlier and "appropriate measures were put in place" she said. They have now left but local patrols have been stepped up.
Nobody was injured in the incident, a spokeswoman said.
Andy Burnham, the Leigh MP, who is contesting the Labour party leadership is a former pupil of St Aelred’s secondary school, now known as St Aelred’s Catholic Technology College.
I need to find somewhere that sells conservatory gutter fittings to replace some broken fittings on my conservatory, nearest I can find are the ones for sale at the
Why is it that people on bicycles think that they can take no notice at all of traffic lights being on red? -and- Why is it that police cars waiting at the same lights do nothing about it?
I must get the gallery system on the newton-le-willows website up and running over xmas, I turned it off when it started to error a few months ago, and just have not found the time to get it working again, but I will find time over the xmas break.
Have lately been trying a new drug to get my psoriasis under control, psoriasis has plagued me now for about 15 years, most of the time I suffer with over 70% of my skin effected by psoriasis, I have probably spent around 8 months worth, or more, of the last 15 years as a hospital inpatiant because of it.
Well, all’s changed, recently I have been allowed access to a new drug, this new (to me) treatment is just brilliant, its self injected, every two weeks, which is a little disconcerting at first, but easy enough to do, a course of the drugs lasts 16 weeks, and I was pretty much clear of psoriasis by the 8th week, and by the 12th week I would say I only have a few small patches of psoriasis, and all this is almost without using topical treatments like Dovabet, 50/50 and the rest of the crap that just ruins your life, which I could quite easily use a tub of 50/50 every other day previose to this new drug.
So I am just starting my second 16 week course, and I have my fingers X’d that all goes well, and that the psoriasis can manage to stay away.
Of course the drug, which I forgot to mention is called Humira or ‘adalimumab’, has some pretty serious side effects, so that even the top few lines of the drug companies own website says
"Serious infections have happened in patients taking HUMIRA. These infections include tuberculosis (TB) and infections caused by viruses, fungi, or bacteria that have spread throughout the body. Some of these serious infections have been fatal."
Its that last word, ‘Fatal’ which worries me loads, Humira seems to have side effect issues which allow certain cancers to develop? I suppose with the many lifetimes worth of PUVA and UVB/A that I have had over the years, I should be quite wary of skin cancers, but to be honest, it feels so great to just have some normal skin again, I reckon Its worth the risks.
While chatting with a pal yesterday, he mentioned something which I think is a brilliant idea.
Why doesn’t the Council for each area of the UK, each constituency, which sends an MP to sit in the House of Commons buy a property in London, and from then on that property will always be used as the home for which ever M.P. they have elected to represent that Constituency at Government.
In this way, no single M.P. would profit by getting Interest Payments on any personal property, it will stop M.P’s keeping for eternity the furnishings and fittings that they manage to get through their expenses on that personal property.
The Constituency owned London property would be an asset on the Council books/accounts, and all expenses, furnishings will belong for all time to the Constituency.
There would be no home flipping, because they will always have their own home, and have to pay their own home costs, there could be no arguements then over needing a propety in the London area, and the local Council would have full transparency over the costs of housing their M.P. at Westminster.
This afternoon, I have thrown together a Gallery Latest entries Module, this is for installing as a module into Joomla, not as a gallery plugin into Sobi2, its not pretty code, but it seems to work ok, it was hacked together using parts from other components, the Sobi2 Vscroller Module, the Joomla latest News Module and other bits of php from around the web.
It allows you to set the number of colums and rows of images that you want to display ina block, and set the width of the module, each image links through to the details page of the particular Sobi2 entry.
Backup your site and database before you even think to use it, I have only tested it on Joomla 1.0.15 with Sobi2 from v2.8.7.2 to latest v2.9.0, this only works if you have Joomla with Sobi2 Component and the Sobi2 Gallery Plugin installed.
Try it, and if you hack at it and improve on it, please send me a copy of your update.
I don’t know why, or how, but something very odd has happened in the last 24hrs concerning a post a made last week about Cuil and the spamming of web page input forms
All the cached pages of that post, which were in Google have disappeared
The day after I made the post, I spoke with friends and pointed out that it was already the top result for a search in google UK on the words ‘Cuil Spam’ and it was like that for a few days, they did the same search as me, and saw the post in the results.
Then suddenly, all reference to the blog post I made for Cuil Spamming Webpage forms pages have disappeared from Googles website, yet every other post from the last few years, right through to yesterday which I have made on this blog still exists in Googles cache.
Its as if someone at Google is covering up the Cuil Spam websites story, by deleting all reference to it from the Google cache.
I can think of no other reason for the cache cleansing than some person or policy at Google aimed at cleaning the Cuil search results of certain reported problems (or hacks) on behalf of the Cuil websites, ex Google employees.
A Cuil Google Conspiracy, or old pals act to get certain Cuil stories removed from Google ?
Steven Dowd
PS..
A Few minutes after posting this, I checked Google, and this post was top result for the search term ‘Cuil Spam‘
Here’s the screen shot of that, this time if the cache gets cleaned, at least I will have a photo to prove it.
Quite a few years ago, while confined to my bed with a serious back problem, and bored to the point that you would even read the instruction manual for a VCR, I was handed a nice thick book to read, 700 pages of story called ‘Hidden Empire, THE SAGA OF SEVEN SUNS’, I was captivated by it, couldn’t put it down, ended up reading the whole thing over the next two days, only to discover at the last page, that it was book 1 of a multi-volume series, and now I just had to have the other books, the Earth Defence Forces and the Ildaran Empire just couldn’t sit around in space and wait, I needed the other books now!
One by one relatives sourced me the other books in the series, and I started reading, book, 2, 3, 4 5 arghhh! book 6 and 7 where not even written yet.. I was leaving the hero stranded, treading water in the one sea on a water world, and the next book wasn’t even written…
A year later, the eagerly awaited book 6 was released, and I was first in line to get a copy, having pre-ordered many months before with Amazon. Knowing the publication date, and expecting the delivery, I speed read through the first 5 books, to get myself back upto warp speed, and on delivery morning eagerly awaited the postman.
The book arrived, and I immediately started reading.
Everything worked out for the heroes, and the whole story moved on loads, then I ran out of pages, and looked at the publication date for book 7 … sh*t, I have to wait another 12 MONTHS!
The time passed, and again i placed a preorder with Amazon, and again, knowing the arrival date of the book, i speed read through the previous 6 books, and then the morning of the delivery arrived, and I started reading.
12 days later, i finished the book, i just couldn’t get into it, Book 7: The Ashes of Worlds, it just doesn’t flow like the other books did, it was almost boring, to be honest, if this had been book one, I wouldn’t have even bothered to finish it, the whole book to me at least read like it was written by a man who was totally fed up with the whole story, who was looking for a way to just get it ended, it was like a film that was going great, but someone realised it had reached the 1hr 28min time point, and they had to get it finished by the 1hr 30min mark.
I feel the last book, a total disappointment, not written with the enthusiasm of the previous ones, and having the feel of a film that ends oddly, or the hurried script rewrite of a weekly TV episode that one of the stars gets sacked, and the story-lines get re-wrote to kill them off in some off-screen event, because the actor was sacked and the final departure couldn’t be filmed.
All the story threads of the Saga of the Seven Suns all get finished, nothing gets left unanswered, but some of the concluding events seem almost laughable considering the effort that obviously went in to planning the complex story-lines of the previous 6 books, it may have been better to close the saga over two books, but this would have meant an 8th book, and the authors contract was most likely only for the seven.
Having taken the time to read them all, and then laid out the cash to buy the series, which isn’t a small amount to buy all seven books, I am regrettably unimpressed by the concluding volume.
