T-Mobile are at it again. Enjoy 
12 Comments CherryPie on Oct 30th 2010
22 Comments CherryPie on Oct 29th 2010
I felt a bit out of control with my eating this week because at the weekend I was visiting family which meant eating out and northern tea. I didn’t manage to catch up with the points after that. It was however nice to catch up, although we had met earlier this year it is two years since we last visited. Doesn’t time fly?
Anyway back to the weight loss, another 1.5lb this week. Because I help out at the meetings I have been given the new Weight Watchers plan in advance of it’s launch in two weeks time. I am not going to say to much about it till then, but I like what I see and I think it will work for me. At first glance I think I will be including quite a few more healthy options into my diet and of course I will let you know how I get on.
I do however have a few challenges ahead of me towards the end of next week… there is a big family gathering due to a celebration (or is that commiseration) which will provide quite a few eating challenges 
17 Comments CherryPie on Oct 28th 2010
The latest issue of Private Eye bids a fond farewell to the Metrix consortium:
So. Farewell then to the Metrix consortium and the crazily expensive plan to privatise defence training at a new academy in South Wales under a PFI contract which rose from £11bn to £14bn and was plagued by delays.
Defence secretary Liam Fox has admitted: “It is now clear that Metrix cannot deliver an affordable, commercially robust proposal within the prescribed period and it has therefore been necessary to terminate the [defence training] procurement and Metrix’s appointment as preferred bidder.”
If only Fox’s predecessors had paid more attention and heeded what the Eye has been saying for many years. In 2006 Eye 1164 pointed out that “another crucial service is being privatised to take advantage of accounting tricks”. And in June 2008 we exposed MoD documents already showing an “affordability gap” and a host of internally acknowledged reasons why the deal was a thoroughly bad idea. But still the MoD ploughed on – simply to get the cost of the wretched academy off the government’s books under PFI’s accounting “magic”.
Right click on the image and choose view to read the full article.
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 27th 2010
The last two photos are of building across the courtyard from the tithe barn.
11 Comments CherryPie on Oct 26th 2010
I mentioned previously that I had re-found my secret bench at Attingham Park, I invite you to sit with me a while and enjoy the view, whilst we chat and ponder on the current situation.
I find it difficult to concentrate on the view in light of the dire situation we are in and I feel for those who suffer the most in such times, I think this video sums it up.
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 26th 2010
