Life in and around Headington & OX3 (mostly), and Oxford (occasionally)
"To every complex problem there is a simple solution, startling in its simplicity, piercing in its clarity, and hopelessly and completely wrong" - Gore Vidal.
Letter in The Oxford Mail: Plans are being inflicted on us for questionable benefits/.
Four Councillors and the Clerk of @oldmarstonpc are unhappy with the Access to Headington scheme #Acces2H http://t.co/cutRG7cbi6
— Tony OX3 (@TonyOX3) July 27, 2015
Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 20 – 26 July.
The Post Office is definitely moving to the Co-op.
The Headington Shark’s fame has spread as far as India. It features in a list of “Unusual monuments around the world you have not heard of” in India Today (link c/o @RuthWilk).
The Marston Meatshop is going to become a greengrocer. Shame about the spelling.
Marston meat shop is becoming a greengrocer! pic.twitter.com/OKJQdOZXqt
— Stuart Bryant (@amigastu) July 22, 2015
Some new wooden posts with cryptic signs have appeared in Headington Hill Park. Apparently they are part of a scheme by @runengland to promote running and jogging.
Retirement home Douglas Veale House in Trafford Road has joined twitter @DouglasVealsHse.
Old Marston Parish Council @OldMarstonPC has published its comments on Access to Headington on its facebook page.
The @Oxonbike station at the Churchill is open and operational.
Headington Farmers’ market opened on Saturday for the first time. It will be weekly, every Saturday, from now on.
For the first time since Headington Headlines started the were no posts on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum this week:
Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 13 – 19 July.
A job fair in Barton on Wednesday attracted over 300 people.
The hospital porters’ strike I mentioned last week is going ahead on Tuesday this week (21 July). They are striking against FTSE100 outsourcing company Carillion plc, which proposes to cut their pay and jobs.
Headington’s LibDem councillors have arranged three more chances for people to find out about the Access to Headington scheme being put forward by the County Council. Details here. If you still don’t know what this is about, start here.
If you couldn’t go to the exhibition last week, the artist’s impressions* of the first phase of @BartonPark_ housing have been released. Comments reported in the paper are generally favourable.
* = architects’ computer graphics images
Remember @QuarryVelo‘s Quarry-Roubaix ride a month ago? Here are some photos by @Howard_S.
There’s been a very lively discussion about the @HeadingtonPlan and in particular about long-distance buses on the e-democracy forum this week.
Active posts on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum this week: