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I'm off to Brighton on 23rd Feb. At my own expense I must add, don't want anyone thinking I'm off on a Jolly, although my indulgence on this trip has been to book a double bedroom in the guest house because single rooms are always an afterthought stuck in a garret or above the kitchens at the back with nothing but a brick wall beyond the slit of a window.

Why Brighton? Skillset, a government agency concerned with training, has organised a first-ever conference about training for radio http://ww… Continue

Compost: is that a polite description for what's happening to the country?

No, it's what it says. Compost is vital to us all. We throw away about one-third of all the food we buy. That's partly because of sell-by dates, but also two-for-price-of-one offers that we grab, and then never use, and just because we are profligate in our use of precious resources.

That's likely to change. Present predictions for the economy are dire, and we still don't have a viable alternative for oil, althou… Continue

It's customary at year's end to look back, and hopefully gain some insight that could help in the coming year. Traditionally that process would have started with the end of the harvest around Halloween and lasted through the dark days of winter. Today we are more rushed.

The Local Development Framework currently being prepared by Suffolk Coastal District Council should make us all pause for thought. It's not just the inconsistencies it reveals or the anachronism of a process that's clearly cost… Continue

My old car died recently and went to the scrapyard, who said they would have paid me £150 two months ago but demand, mainly from China, had dropped off, so they just took my old friend away.

Yet there are those making plans for the future. Felixstowe Port has started upon a massive expansion. From three million containers handled this year it will grow to nine million. There will be thirteen new cranes on a brand-new dock, and the railway line dualled to take additional traffic.

This brings mo… Continue