flakes of nuisance » Clissold Leisure Centre http://mcneillfamily.com paying attention to distractions since 1958 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:49:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Clissold Compete in the National Arena Swimming Leaguehttp://mcneillfamily.com/2009/10/10/clissold-compete-in-the-national-arena-swimming-league/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2009/10/10/clissold-compete-in-the-national-arena-swimming-league/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:36:10 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=1616 Tonight is a really big night for Clissold Swimming Club competing the National Arena Swimming league at Clissold Leisure Centre. A big leap for a small club on the up!! Seems strange to be so far away (for ‘strange’ substitute any of many words). A seventh place from the Clissold – well done.

]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2009/10/10/clissold-compete-in-the-national-arena-swimming-league/feed/ 0 well you could push our ignorant arses over with a soft stick – we were correct!http://mcneillfamily.com/2009/09/19/well-you-could-push-our-ignorant-arses-over-with-a-stick-we-were-correct/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2009/09/19/well-you-could-push-our-ignorant-arses-over-with-a-stick-we-were-correct/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:02:19 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=1190 So according to this we, (the mouthy community described by LBH councillors and officers alike as misguided, fanciful and alarmist), were pretty damn accurate in our calculations for the costs of Clissold Leisure Centre. We said almost £50,000,000 they said, “nowhere near that”.

This figure in the Freedom of Information disclosure won’t include officer-time, precautionary redundancy costs*, auditors’ fees, consultants’ fees, lawyers’ fees, recruitment costs, either! Mr Pipe is not expected to apologise to anyone anytime soon. Can anyone explain why the out-of-court, ‘no-blame’ settlement remains confidential?

(This calculation also makes no mention of the additional £10,000,000 windfall grant [

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