We had a bit of an open house/party last night to celebrate me being selected as a Green Party parliamentary candidate for East Devon (plus my birthday & my little girls’ birthday). My mother in law Sue asked whether we would need to get some rosettes, and suggested maybe we could knit or crochet them. [...]
Of Corsage: We Need Green Party Knitted Rosettes!
Posted January 31st, 2010 by sharon. Comment (1).
Did I mention….?
Posted January 30th, 2010 by sharon. Comment (0).
….I’ve just been selected as the prospective parliamentary candidate for the Green Party for East Devon? How do I feel? A mixture of things really – I’m proud of myself for getting off my bum last autumn, joining the Green Party and saying I was going to do something in this area….then doing it by [...]
February Meeting in Honiton
Posted January 29th, 2010 by sharon. Comments (2).
Everything is moving on well with the newly formed East Devon Green Party. We had our founding meeting in Sidmouth on 16th January then another meeting on Mon 25th Jan to get our constitution firmed up. The next get-together is planned for Saturday 13th February in Honiton this time. As the district council area of [...]
Winter Walk to Stockland
Posted January 24th, 2010 by sharon. Comment (1).
Natasha, Aleck, Chilli (our Gordon Setter) and I walked to Stockland and back yesterday. It took us two whole hours but it’s the first time we’ve walked that way and the four of us encounted many obstacles along the way! The fields were quite boggy but we weaved our way through them, and I taught [...]
Equal Parenting
Posted January 23rd, 2010 by sharon. Comment (1).
In Sweden, fathers are offered up to 16 months paid paternity leave after the birth [...]
One in nine of us…
Posted January 23rd, 2010 by sharon. Comments (2).
One in nine women in the UK will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some time in their life. It is the most [...]
Conservatives’ Marriage Tax condemned by LGBT Greens
Posted January 23rd, 2010 by sharon. Comment (0).
Phelim Mac Cafferty, National Chair of LGBT Greens asked: “In reaction to Conservative plans yesterday to offer married couples a transferable tax allowance, LGBT Greens want to ask why do we have yet more planned tax breaks which favour marriage and thereby heterosexual relationships? Further- what reassurances can the Conservatives give us as to what [...]
British Supermarkets at root of vegetable supply problem
Posted January 23rd, 2010 by sharon. Comment (0).
Interesting article by Felicity Lawrence in The Guardian last week – British Supermarkets at root of vegetable supply problem.
Apparently demand for carrots shoots up due to panic buying as Downing Street warned about crop shortage…
On Monday morning root veg took its place alongside the prime minister’s presentation of his election campaign team. Carrots and some [...]
New Website for Membury
Posted January 23rd, 2010 by sharon. Comment (0).
Did you know the little Devon parish of Membury is getting a brand new website? Did you know it already has a website? I found it the other day – from reading the quarterly parish newsletter The Membury Mercury.
The current website is part of the local channel and is called Welcome to Membury. The new [...]
What is a parish council?
Posted January 22nd, 2010 by sharon. Comment (1).
There are around 10,000 community, parish and town councils in England and Wales.
Community, parish and town councils are the part of local government closest to the people. They serve the smallest area and are responsible for the most local of matters.
In England they are called parish councils or town councils, if they cover a largely [...]