Top food, top service, middling prices, beautiful building: Boffo!
Petrea, when you come over I'll take you and John there as you'd love the building (c.1503) as much as the food.
Monday, August 18, 2014
Yum
Top food, top service, middling prices, beautiful building: Boffo!
Petrea, when you come over I'll take you and John there as you'd love the building (c.1503) as much as the food.
Sunday, August 17, 2014
A Whistleblower Writes …
Ha!
Please read this article from the Guardian.
For any non-English readers, the Tories have been trying to replace state education with so-called "academies" (run for profit by corporations rather than for the education of students).
The OFSTED results (schools inspectors) gave the "academies" terrible reports, with good reason.
Suddenly, however, this spring, the "academies" were getting startlingly good reports and the right wing press (the Torygraph and the Daily Mail) were trumpeting their success.
Gosh! Maybe it's a GOOD thing to replace our free state education with profit-raking greed …
So what was happening?
By law, schools are only allowed half a day's notice of an OFSTED inspection. A friend of a friend who knows I love doing this kind of thing passed me this document, which I sent on to the Guardian's education department as well as local papers and other like-minded Tory-baiters:
It appears that the Tories, being a (cough) open and honest government (choke … gag) have been secretly giving their "academies" two weeks notice (sometimes more) of OFSTED inspections and parachuting in better teachers (only for inspection day), removing disruptive pupils, plastering over the cracks and slapping on a fresh coat of paint; in fact doing everything they can to fake a great report.
I had asked the Guardian to run with this and see where it went and it seems they have done just that.
Now all we have to do is kick the fuckers out at the next election and perhaps we can return to a decent education system, not one run for profit by filthy Tory financial donors.
Whistleblowing is a wonderfully rewarding hobby. I'd recommend it to anyone.
Please read this article from the Guardian.
For any non-English readers, the Tories have been trying to replace state education with so-called "academies" (run for profit by corporations rather than for the education of students).
The OFSTED results (schools inspectors) gave the "academies" terrible reports, with good reason.
Suddenly, however, this spring, the "academies" were getting startlingly good reports and the right wing press (the Torygraph and the Daily Mail) were trumpeting their success.
Gosh! Maybe it's a GOOD thing to replace our free state education with profit-raking greed …
So what was happening?
By law, schools are only allowed half a day's notice of an OFSTED inspection. A friend of a friend who knows I love doing this kind of thing passed me this document, which I sent on to the Guardian's education department as well as local papers and other like-minded Tory-baiters:
It appears that the Tories, being a (cough) open and honest government (choke … gag) have been secretly giving their "academies" two weeks notice (sometimes more) of OFSTED inspections and parachuting in better teachers (only for inspection day), removing disruptive pupils, plastering over the cracks and slapping on a fresh coat of paint; in fact doing everything they can to fake a great report.
I had asked the Guardian to run with this and see where it went and it seems they have done just that.
Now all we have to do is kick the fuckers out at the next election and perhaps we can return to a decent education system, not one run for profit by filthy Tory financial donors.
Whistleblowing is a wonderfully rewarding hobby. I'd recommend it to anyone.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Beware Saggy Old Men in Lycra
Hey, laydees … Saggy old men in lycra are waiting for YOU!
Please note, I'm the only one present with sufficient common decency to cover my lycra padded undercrackers with baggy shorts.
Meet the newly consecrated office road race team about to set off on our first practice run for next season's Tour de Broads. The gels are kitting themselves out with new bikes and Emily and Corrina should be joining us next time around.
Tragically, the boss has designed some company cycling clothes (bright orange!) which should arrive before our next ride.
Here's where we went. A lovely sunny evening with much banter and some wicked hill climbs and sprints en route.
We managed to get back in time for beer …
… and sunset.
Boffo!
Amazingly, no aches and pains today and having done the long distance meant I knocked five minutes off my time cycling home this evening.
Dammit … I'm becoming a cycling bore.
Monday, August 04, 2014
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