Posted by in Opinion Ramblings (14 December2018) Please, Please – Let it be Over Well it is December so the focus of many is on Christmas and here in the small village of Ipplepen it isn’t any different. In fact people are now focussed on both Christmases which if not yet completely merged are at the very least running in…Read more »
Posted by in Opinion Ramblings I answered a phone call the other day the subject of which was an offer to provide me with electricity at a price less than what I am currently paying. Which would have made sense had they known how much I was paying in the first place and if they did know … How? Because…Read more »
Posted by in Opinion Ramblings So today (Monday 10th December) is day four and the penultimate day of the Parliamentary Brexit debate and all we have learned is that the Government of Mrs May is struggling to such an extent that they are now not only trying to rewrite history but even the Withdrawal Agreement itself as they go. A…Read more »
Posted by in Opinion Ramblings (7 December 2018) Ipplepen has a growing reputation as the village that is just up the road from Totnes where all of the ‘hippies’ live. Well when I say hippies they aren’t your 1960’s flower power summer of love hippies but those of the 21st Century who have arrived from London to ‘follow their dream…Read more »
Posted by in Opinion Ramblings (6 December 2018) Visitors don’t usually come to Ipplepen in winter not even to get away from their families over Christmas and the New Year. If they did they would find it very different to the summertime when the village is in full bloom and really – except for the number of cars – a…Read more »
Posted by in Opinion Ramblings Local Newspaper – Sad Demise In 2014 I wrote an article expressing my dismay at the decline in the Local Daily Newspaper which resulted in a very interesting and I have to say sad and pathetic response from the then editor of the Northampton Chronicle and Echo that is printed by Johnston Press Plc. The…Read more »
Posted by in Opinion Ramblings (4 December 2018) A Partridge in a ……… It’s Christmas so it’s that time of year we hear renditions of the twelve days of Christmas and “a partridge in a pear tree” Partridges of course don’t know that it’s Christmas. Or do they?. The reason I ask is because here in rural Devon at this…Read more »
