"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up."
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful.
Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance
A punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet?
All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life.
Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte
The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on.
It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause
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The cost of building our local leisure centre had ballooned to more than £30 million when it was opened in 2000, eye-wateringly expensive to our London borough, one of the poorest in the UK. Four years later the centre had closed because of serious building defects. A law suit, several years, and another £13 million later, it reopened. It’s big and bright, but has left a nasty taste in the mouth of the locals. There is time to ruminate on this, in our age of austerity, as I wait for the kids to emerge from the Kafkaesque changing [
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Parking wardens working for London’s local authorities routinely issue tickets against authority-owned vehicles. When this happens, the authority takes itself to court to argue that it shouldn’t have to pay fines to itself. Sometimes, they ask the courts to award themselves legal costs from their own pockets. This according to Barrie Segal, who published a book in 2007 on London’s insane parking enforcement called The Parking Ticket Awards: Crazy Councils, Meter Madness and Traffic Warden Hell.
(CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Boing Boing London councils issue themselves parking tickets, fight them in court: [
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It’s hard to be humble when you come from Stoke Newington – as many of the residents prove. Not affluent: mean, mode or median? Obviously not all (or even many) of them grew up there, but house prices now and the deceit of short-term rentals around the parish of St Mary’s each time a scion hits Year-6 will embed the burgeoning ‘new priest-class’ there.
Also, Hackney improvements today coincide with opening of 3 academies – ie. schools not run by the local authority, an authority that hosted the first school in Britain closed under special measures. With the loss of the [
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Who is the ‘us all’ in this – it certainly isn’t me!
It’s simple enough, just ask the school to say how many children over the years have registered from the same flats and houses in Grazebrook, Barbauld, Carysfort, Burmah or Springdale roads and then the address is changed before their child makes October of year 7. Then magicly they have ‘moved’ to ‘just off’ Cazenove, Brook or Allerton roads. No science would be involved and it is the most open secret imaginable with flats rented for that very purpose year, after year, after year and the whole thing [
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I think this looks like Kelvin Hall though.
CHURCHES
IMPOSE
SWINE FLU
BAN
via HACKNEY GAZETTE.
“Thanks to Winston Road for the Halloween hospitality!
via Yfrog – vj9 – Uploaded by marcusfairs.”
It seems this year Winston Road was being advertised on twitter as the place to be – I gave up hosting after 20 years when mums from other parts of Hackney started complaining that we didn’t serve the parents any wine. Although they walked round to us it never occurred to them to offer anything back!
Architectural and Design Team leadership services are required for the restoration of the Haggerston Baths, a public bath house in the London Borough of Hackney
via Haggerston Baths restoration | News | Architects Journal.
Financial difficulties will force the Hackney Empire to close down for nine months in the new year, sacking the majority of their workforce in the process.
The Empire, a former music hall turned TV studio and bingo hall that reopened as a theatre in 2004 after a three-year, multi-million pound refit, will close its main performance hall after the annual pantomime wraps in January, and won’t re-open until the 2010 panto. New chief executive Clarie Middleton, only in the job for a month, ominously called the closure a “period of reflection”, and despite the venue remaining open for youth [
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“I do frequently encounter people who live in Hackney, though. You can tell who they are because Hackney is all they ever talk about. They climb off their bicycle (painted in anti-theft paint), curse all car drivers, curse centralised government, curse Margaret Thatcher (even 20 years on), roll a cigarette, flick a crumb of spelt from their raggy jumper, and then they say something about Hackney.”
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Well LBH jetwashed the first one off!
“The controversial new Banksy artwork in Gillett Square has been defaced. The street art, which could be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, has been scrawled over in turquoise paint with the slogan Love not Money…”
(Via Hackney Gazette BANKSY DEFACED: .)
“THREE Teams from East London have brought home medals from the British Synchronized Ice Skating championships. The teams from Lee Valley Skating centre in Leyton took two ‘first place’ trophies and a runner-up place at the Open National championships in Sheffield”
(Via East London Advertiser Skaters cool about bringing home the ice trophies: .)
Hmmm one might have accepted an apologist piece on why Hackney were right to leave the borough an ice rink.
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Despite warnings to avoid non-essential travel, I made my way into work today. With no buses, most people stayed home. I don’t mind the snow, but as you will see from the snap on the left, the idea of salting, gritting or clearing the snow off the sidewalks/pavement is a bit of a novelty for Hackney Council. So while the snow itself may not be that bad, it was like walking on an ice-rink.
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“we are told many officers are being taught to surveil …”
“Campaign groups have branded Hackney Council’s policy of filming potential litter bugs madness and called for alternative methods to keep the borough’s streets clean.
Environmental enforcement officers have been recording people they suspect of dropping litter or cigarette butts on their mobile phones.
They have been seen chasing people across some of the borough’s busiest roads to catch them on camera.
And in one incident, two officers burst into the Village Café on Mare Street, filming customers to catch a woman in her late 30s [
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Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?"
Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile.
Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit
"Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.
heavy words thrown lightly
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
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