I try to keep my finger on the pulse of cultural as well as political developments in the European Union, in so far as my writing, lecturing and political duties allow, though that is getting increasingly difficult as the EU expands. Indeed, some of the newest members, such as Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, are amongst [...] 
Some good news at last about the winter heating allowance - I've finally found that the £100 owing is going to be paid into my constituents bank account this week. Only 5 months of persistence! At least I got there, he is still waiting to hear back from his MP who he wrote to in December. Whatever attributes a Councillor needs - dogged determination is high on the list! Plenty more issues to...
The Telegraph is reporting that Nick Clegg came under fire in Afghanistan. Yet 24 hours earlier they reported the completely made up story that Nick Clegg would support a minority Tory government. This Telegraph story has been denied by Nick Clegg's team and consisted of quotes like "The Telegraph has learned " and "sources say", but with no direct quotes from anyone. Most people are under the impression that the "Torygraph" was living up to its name and printed the story as a favour to their Tory friends in order to help the Conservatives squeeze the Lib Dem vote in ...
From the Spin Doctor column in yesterday's Wales on Sunday: GOSH! Have we really got this far into the column without a mention of Lembit Opik, Montgomeryshire MP and fiance of one-half of a chart-averse novelty pop act? Well, fear not, because TV viewers are about to get a glimpse into the couple's domestic arrangements: the pair have signed up for a fly-on-the-wall documentary, Living with. . . the Cheeky Girls. The show, say digital channel Living, "will see them followed by cameras in their homes and private lives". No doubt this will see Lembit making a guest appearance or ... 
Someone claiming to be Paul Thorogood, the candidate of the Cut Tax on Petrol and Diesel Party in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election, has just left a comment on this blog promoting his candidacy. Should I: delete it?list all the other candidates?charge him for the advertising?
Nuff said: MPs 'give up secret expenses bid'.
"Nick Clegg will back Tories in hung parliament." You might not think this is a highly controversial sentence to write in a Tory newspaper...but according to various Lib Dem members on Lib Dem Blogs and Lib Dem Voice, it's time to panic. There is a lot we don't know about the political future, but it doesn't take someone with an MA in politics to tell you the Tories have risen from the subs bench and are back in play. It also doesn't take much to work out that it would raise our profile if we flirted outrageously with the party ...
The Telegraph has the story
Richard Webster's new blog kicks off with a discussion of media reactions to the revelation that the so-called fragments of a child's body the discovery of which propelled the Jersey child abuse enquiry onto the front pages has been revealed by carbon-dating experts to be not a piece of bone at all. Webster has written extensively about miscarriages of justice against care workers, most notably in his book The Secret of Bryn Estyn and his own investigation had led to this latest revelation about Haut de la Garenne. He is also interviewed by Brendan O'Neill in Spiked magazine. It seems ...
Two upcoming events from Friends of Magdalen Green! The first is the public meeting tomorrow - Tuesday 20th May - at 7pm in Dundee West Church. The evening will include a talk by Andrew Gray, the local swimmer who took part, very successfully, in the Special Olympics in China. The results of the photo competition will be announced at the meeting - and a big thank you to everyone who took part, we received 68 entries with lots of lovely views of the Green. In addition we will be selling Friends of Magdalen Green t-shirts, £8.25 each - see photo ...
At lunchtime, I posted my take on the Telegraph's exclusive claiming the Lib Dems would be prepared to back - or, at any rate, not vote down - a minority Tory administration if David Cameron's party is the biggest single group in a Hung Parliament. Of the 40 comments so far posted in response, opinion [...]
Welcome to the 65th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (11th-17th May), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed. Let's get straight down to it, in descending order of popularity: 1. The Paddick Diary on Peter Black AM's [...]
My thoughts on the coalition conundrum are below but I thought it quite relevant to venture to Conservative Home and see how the 'other side' saw us: Some were supportive... "Clegg is most definitely on the right of his party, and though that still makes him somewhat to the left of Dave's Tories, he's still much more in line with the historic Liberal tradition that we're quite familiar with. The two parties arguably have a lot more in common on their good sides than either would like to admit..." ....said Nizhinsky. However, several posters simply felt that the offer of ...
It gave me quite a jolt when two Golden Wedding Anniversary invitations popped through the letter box at the weekend. Have we really got to the stage when friends are celebrating 50 years of life together? Ian and I have managed 40 years so far, which seems extraordinary enough. I recall my father saying that he remembered the time when he looked in the local paper at the wedding...
Paul Walter of Liberal Burblings has a couple of postings on the new Mayor of London. The first concerns Boris Johnson's call for new legislation preventing the Mayor of London from serving more than two terms. This seems to me entirely sensible. In a perfect world all local councillors would be limited to two terms. When you are elected you fully intend to represent the people in the council chamber. Unless you are very careful, after a few years you find yourself representing the council officers in your ward. The trouble that all parties have finding council candidates means that ...
So a senior al qaeda leader has been captured in Mosul. This happened ten days ago and then quickly unhappenned. Then it was Abu al-Masri, who had apparantly been killed back in May of last year. What do we think? Does anyone really know what's going on?
Compost - now I've written about this subject before, though I'm no gardener. But we keep a bin in the back garden and are slowly learning how to make it turn grass cuttings and many other things into the ultimate organic good stuff. Recycle Now is a not-for-profit organisation which encourages people to have compost bins. They reckon that at least 30% of the contents of your rubbish...
When I wrote last year about Eurovision being ruined by the result being predetermined in advance by countries employing block voting tactics should read THIS on the BBC website. The report says that if you remove the in built bias of countries voting for other countries that speak the same language, there is clear statistical evidence to prove that some countries will always stand a greater chance of winning because they are part of a voting block. Time for the BBC to pull the plug on Eurovision. The fact that it is an extravaganza of camp-ness is not an excuse ... 
The Observer now carries a little supplement of articles from the New York Times. Last weekend I manage to read it, which I consider quite an achievement. The supplement this week carried an essay from Mark Leibovich on the lessons which Obama has learnt in the long battle against Clinton. Leibovich argues that Clinton has turned Obama into a "giant killer", made him angry (that's good,
Gordon Brown tends to bore all those before him. Not at the Google Zeitgeist conference. His speech is actually really rather good, setting out a compelling case for a more open globe and stating that it must be argued for as opposed to assumed. Check it out below and let me know what you think.
The Daily Telegraph's Mandrake was intrigued by this: The Lib Dems have hit upon a novel way of getting party members to head for Crewe and Nantwich to campaign for Thursday's by-election: they're offering them the chance to have "a cuppa" with one of their big guns.Each day until polling day, a name will be drawn from those who have signed in at the local campaign and the lucky winner will take tea with a Lib Dem "name" such as Simon Hughes, Vince Cable, and, on polling day, the party leader Nick Clegg himself.As ever, Lord Bonkers was there first. ...
People often use Sky News as a reason why we should not have a BBC News Channel. Today's headlines tell me exactly why we DO need an alternative to Sky. Just look a the sensationalist tabloid journalism they have churned out to go with the vote on hybrid stem cell research in the House of Commons this evening. Whereas ITN went for the factually accurate And the BBC Shame on Sky. I think their own journalists bias has overcome their objectivity here.
Put together by A Very British Dude.
This morning, a team from the Council's greenspace department were hard at work, weeding paths, trimming borders and generally doing more than the usual weekly tidy up. And this afternoon a police van arrived, labelled a Safer Neighbourhood Team 'mobile police office'. The gardens, and our estate, have been the centre of regular bouts of antisocial [...]
Anyone who lelieves the statement today from the head of Ofsted is anything about schools more than it is about getting a job under David Cameron needs a reality check. in the first case, for an Ofsted official to be critical of the new Ofsted regime when it has not even been in place for a full three year cycle is ludicrous in itself. how can they assess a three year rolling plan of school inspections based on the new system when some schools have not even been inspected using the new criteria ? But let's put the arguments she ...
I suppose that one of the advantages of blogging intermittently is that it makes it quite easy to temporarily drop out of the blogosphere if such is necessary. Nevertheless there is a point at which you have to come back (or otherwise you're missing, as Jack Dee would have it) and so it's time for me to break cover, as it were, to let you know what's been going on (as if you couldn't guess half
Go check out this post by Greg Mankiw. He sights Obama talking to beef farmers about US exports of beef to Japan to duck out of a question about trade with China. This chump is either a callow bastard, a misguided fool, or a reactionary "beggar thy neighbour" idiot. Either way, I don't want that behaviour and that faulty reasoning sitting in the Oval office.
There is little doubt that the story in this mornings Daily Telegraph saying that Nick Clegg would help the Conservative Party form a minority administration if it were the largest single party is mischief making ahead of the important by-election in Crewe and Nantwich. It's subtext is obvious; why bother voting Liberal Democrat, you will end up with a Conservative government in any case. On that level we should be immediately weary of it and on one important level dismiss it as the idle speculation it is; however, it does raise important questions so it is worth addressing just on ...
Watched Mushishi the other night and I have to say, I am still trying to work out what happened at the end, anyone has any ideas as to what happened please let me know...WARNING SPOILER! look away now if you haven't seen it ...why did he disappear? Wii fit is proving to be a huge hit - aerobics has never been such fun although worryingly, I seem to be really enjoying the boxing... This is a great website for budding modelmakers... www.papertoys.com
UPDATE: Paul Walter is reporting that he has it on good authority this is bollocks planted by the Tories. Interesting. I had noticed with some curiosity that none of the other MSM sources had picked up the story (other than the Mirror, who are forever wailing that we're a bunch of closet Tories and have been since the days of Charles Kennedy, so whatever). Still, if that's true, it means the
The rubbish crisis has worsened in Naples, with angry residents setting the rubbish alight. The Mafia are deeply involved in the crisis. Belusconi may be able to solve it with an iron fist perhaps. Also residents in Naples burned homes of Roma (gypsies). Berlusconi's right-winged Interior Minister has had to deal with it. Italien police forces have been focusing raids on the Roma community. Perhaps they should deal with the real trouble makers- the Mafia. However Berlusconi's Government would much rather use immigrants and minorities as a scapegoat. The EU and the Catholic Church has been keeping an eye on ...
President Abbas of the Palestian territories, has criticised Bush over his bias towards Israel. "What the president said at the Knesset made us angry, and to be honest, we don't accept it," It was following a speech by Bush to the Israeli Parliament. Bush's bias is pretty disgusting. In the Israeli-Hezbollah war, the UK and US dragged their heals to stop the UN making a quick peace deal (which ended up quite simple). Simply because they wanted to see Israel kick Hezbollah's arse. (However that's not really to do with Palestine) The US has been quite happily allowing Israel to ...
Morgan Tsvangirai postponed his return to Zimbabwe because of fears of security. The MDC are claiming that the army has 18 snippers ready to shoot Tsvangirai. He fled Zimbabwe after the first round due to safety fears. But it could well be true. If Tsvangirai was shot, the only person who can be elected in the second round if Mugabe. However I expect Zimbabweans would rather vote for the dead candidate, if Tsvangirai was killed. Quite simply it's not a nice thought. Its not like in Pakistan when Benazir Bhutto was shot, because it was the Parliament that was importants, ...
Boris Johnson will cotinue getting around £250,000 for writing his Daily Telegraph column, in addition to his Mayor's salary of £137,579. But he'll be writing his column in his spare time at the weekends. So that's all right then. Plus in the Henley Standard, Boris pledges to work "up until the last day" as MP for Henley. He's so in demand!
There is a strong case for term limits, but it seems very strange for Boris Johnson, newly elected Mayor of London, to be advocating it for his own position at this time. He says a two term limit would prevent "cronyism" taking root. But surely it is up to the voters to decide if they want to limit a person's terms. Indeed, they have just done it to Ken Livingstone - which makes the timing of
A plug for this blog. One of my work colleagues has gone to Serbia as one of the UK experts on the Eurovision Song Contest.
UPDATE: As I mention in this later post, A very reliable and informed source tells me that the parliament/Clegg/Tories Telegraph story referred to below was a planted piece of mischief making by the Tories rather than anything originating from Clegg & co. I note that the article contains no direct quotes and is mostly written on the basis of "The Daily Telegraph understands that...". This is a
A very reliable and informed source tells me that this morning's hung parliament/Clegg/Tories Telegraph story was a planted piece of mischief making by the Tories rather than anything originating from Clegg & co. I note that the article contains no direct quotes and is mostly written on the basis of "The Daily Telegraph understands that...".
In an interview with BBC Radio Scotland, Harrods proprietor, Mohamed Al fayed has said that he'll make the highlands his permanent home if Scotland secedes from the Union. The news will have the Gnats quaking in their boots at the thought of thousands of Scots suddenly deciding that this would be a price to high to pay for independence. In a quite bizarre interview Al fayed also claimed that Scotland was founded by Egypt. His tale tale relates that a sister of Tutenkhamun, called Scota, had a fight with her father and left Egypt with her two sons. When they ...
So there I am getting off the plane at San Francisco International Airport and a voice behind me says "Adrian, Torquay Grammar School Old Boys". It was Martin Bowley who had been on he same flig...
Think tank Reform have awarded their 'Reactionary of the Week' prize to the entire Conservative Party. The award was earned "for declaring that lesbian couples should be prevented from having IVF treatment unless they agree that a 'male role model' would be involved in the upbringing of their child", a policy most justifiably derided, mocked and attacked on our liberal blogs last week. Reform, which lobbies for a very liberal reduction in monolithic, centralised government, is too often dismissed as Tory-leaning. The above combined with how they granted the 'Reformer of the Week' prize, albeit cautiously, to Gordon Brown, demonstrates ...
I’m attempting to get a motion on the agenda of the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth this autumn. The motion itself speaks for itself (see below). If you support it, and are a voting representative for conference this autumn, please can you email me (to semajmaharg[at]gmail[dot]com) the following details: Your name Your address Your membership number The local party you are a voting representative of (or LDYS as appropriate) I need everyone’s details as soon as possible as the deadline for submissions is 12 noon on Wednesday 21 May. Many thanks! Giving Citizens a Voice in Parliament Conference notes: a. In ...
GlaxoSmithKlein Chief Executive Jean Pierre Garnier's performance this morning on the Today Programme was disturbing. I find it amazing that even in the recent aftermath of the overdue legislation obligating drugs manufacturers to declare of knowledge of side-effects of their drugs, GlaxoSmithKlein's new Chief Executive could even dare not to answer whether GlaxoSmithKline under Garnier would repeat the reprehensible conduct it displayed over Seroxat and not release such information until the failures of the drug were played out in patients unnecessarily abrupt lives. Not only did he refuse to answer the question, he implies that Naughtie's queries are intrusive and ...
Via Virtual Economics, I found this neat little visualization tool from Neoformix. “Introducing News Spectrum ! It is a visualization of the words used for two topics in the latest results from Google News. One topic is coloured blue, the other red, and the associated words are coloured and positioned based on how highly they are associated with the two topics. Click on any word to see the related Google News results.” - Neoformix So, Jeff Clark at Neoformix suggested using it to find the associations between two news topics, Seamus McCauley inventively tried two news sources. I thought I ...
Th Council's Youth Service, with the Police and Bath and North East Somerset Racial Equality Council are offering a free go karting trip to young people between the ages of 12 and 19 in the Snow Hill and London Road area. The trip is on Monday 9th June and will depart from the Riverside Youth Centre on the London Road at 6.30pm and due to arrive back at 9.30pm. Local Councillors and police beat team, as well as B&NES youth Workers will be attending. Places are limited and will be on a first come first serve basis. Please contact Rosco ...
Sensible or suicide? Intelligent or insane? I am, of course, referring to this morning's Telegraph story which states that Nick Clegg would tacitly support the Tories if they end up as the largest single party at the next general election, but lack a majority. (Although, interestingly, many LDV readers expect the Tories to secure enough [...]
Rob Parsons, residing in A Comfortable Place, beat me to it but there is a nice story in The Economist this week about how Belize Bank is holding onto $10 Million that the Belizean Government thinks belongs to the people of Belize, a gift from the Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, to build housing and help alleviate poverty in poverty-stricken Belize. Belize Bank is controlled by BB Holdings Ltd, whose Chairman is the one and only Lord Ashcroft, who is of course, the Deputy Chairman of our lovely Conservative Party. He is, as well, the single biggest donor to the ...
David Cameron gave the biggest hint today that a Conservative government would be a Conservative government. Amazing us with new levels of being vacuous, he has today announced that a Conservative government would seek to reduce the level of taxation, by ensuring Britain spends within its means. Fair enough, that's a prudent step to take, however, as we are becoming increasingly aware "this will be at some point in the future". Such a non-promise. This is the equivalent of saying, we will cut crime 'at some point in the future', its obvious and somewhat pointless in saying it. The Conservatives ...
The Whiteway respect residents association formed last week after an inaugural meeting at South side youth Centre. I a pleased to see that the residents of Whiteway have taken this bold step and I wish them well for the future. The Whiteway estate spans the border between Twerton & Southdown and has had more that its fair share of problems over the last few years and I hope...
Imagine this. A developed, progressive democracy has a moderate Labour government. They have won a record three general elections in a row, after years of unhappy toil in opposition. The foundation of their success has been a strongly performing economy, with stable prices and low unemployment. The government has done a pretty good job of keeping its income and spending in balance. Consumer debt has been too high over the years but that hasn't done the government too much political harm. There have been many mistakes and missteps but, all in all, the prime minister and cabinet have seemed pretty ...
The Sunday Telegraph’s Mandrake diary yesterday reported the party’s Tea for Two competition for helpers signing in at the Crewe and Nantwich by-election HQ over the next few days. The party will get in touch with the winners once they’ve all been drawn but we can exclusively reveal the two winners randomly selected so far: Alun [...]
News has just reached me of the likely demise of Gretna FC as their entire staff, yes EVERYONE at the club, have been made redundant. I presume that this is also the reason why their website seems unobtainable at the moment. A sad, sad day for football in general and for Scottish football in particular.
Lib Dems claim a victory for Common sense on Council Office Refurbishment Project Lib Dem group leader Ian Radford responding to the Conservative group’s decision to accept the Liberal Democrat’s campaign to put the Council Office project on hold said: Last July we opposed this project without costing that the Council should have an expensive office refurbishment. As recently as February we put a motion to full council calling on the project to be put on hold until the outcome of Local Government review became known. This motion was rejected by the Conservatives on the council. Liberal Democrat Group Leader ...
It might sound a bit daft but a day out in a graveyard is one of the most interesting things you can do... The achitectural styles, the faux gothix design, the inscriptions and stories that surround the individuals and the respective fame of some of those interned. It all makes for a great insight into a community. Hampstead Cemetery, West Hampstead, is no exception - it's on Fortune Green Road and is well worth the time in terms of having alook about and appreciating it's charm and depth. If you click on these pictures they should opne up full size ...
At the start of this year I wrote about how Prime Minister's Questions could be improved - including the suggestion that the PM could involve the public by letting people video themselves asking questions to which he then responds with video answers. And lo - that's what 10 Downing Street has gone and done (though I suspect not just as the result of my suggestion!).
Elizabeth Shenton's campaign continues at a cracking pace here in Crewe. Volunteers are coming from far and wide (and locally too) to help in these last few vital days. Many MPs and even a few Peers are slipping quietly into Crewe HQ, to help in any way they can. I can vouch for the fact that MPs do know how to operate Risographs and stuffing machines. They're also handy to have around when you need up to date policy advice. Yes, I know that's what the Extranet is for, but hey... I nipped upstairs earlier to ask Chris Huhne a ...
In politics, as in love and war, most things are generally considered to be "all fair". Over the years political campaigns, based on increasingly sophisticated information systems, have become ever more targeted on the swing voters in the swing constituencies. As in the US, this has made a small number of swing voters exceptionally valuable. The result is large amounts of money are being focused by all the parties on their target areas. During the 2005 general election it became very clear that the Conservatives had developed exceptionally sophisticated information systems that could generate probabilities of voting Conservative based on ...
I have said before that it's more important what the message is, than who is saying it, yes? That if the message is right, it doesn't matter if it's a hateful person saying it, and if the message is wrong, it doesn't matter if it's your best friend? I had a bit of a failure with that recently (and yes, all the people who've commented that what he said was good, I do believe you, I just can't read even his name without the red mist descending), but today I wish to report a major victory. I'm listening to Woman's ...
Why, it's none other than Jo Swinson walking the streets of London, late at night, in just her bra. She's lucky she wasn't arrested if you ask me!
Today I find myself over the worst of my near-death man-flu experience, but still without any physical energy at all. It's a good job I work in a typical twenty-first century occupation - slumped at my desk in front of a computer screen for a reason beyond comprehension - rather than in an iron smelting works or anything that requires me to lug things about all day, or else I may have had to take the day off. So, for one day only, I am delighted at the decline in our glorious manufacturing heritage. I tried to walk up to ...
Gordon Brown, or at least his employees, is/are proving much more wired-up that Tony Blair. I remember being asked by my boss to find Tony Blair's email address and the best I could find was the address for his constituency office in Sedgefield which was only meant to be used for his constituency matters. Gordon Brown has a prominently displayed email form and also, now, his own You Tube page.
This Friday when the Student Union bars and shop closes at the University of Wolverhampton they are unlikely to open again.
The Telegraph reports: City grandee Sir Nigel Rudd, chairman of airports operator BAA and deputy chairman of Barclays Bank, was one of the two BAE Systems executives detained briefly last week by US officials investigating allegations of corruption by the UK defence company. Sir Nigel, a non-executive director at BAE, was issued with a subpoena by investigators from the Department of Justice (DoJ) when he arrived at New York’s Newark Airport en route to a holiday in Florida. Yesterday, The Sunday Telegraph disclosed that Mike Turner, BAE’s chief executive, had been detained at an airport in Texas, where his laptop ...
I spent most of yesterday down in Crewe helping in the bye-election. On the doorsteps it was a generally friendly affair - I bumped into Conservative activists from around the region and they all seemed to be acting good naturedly, and our activists were visible all over the place. Labour seem to be concentrating entirely [...]
Duncan Brack and Ed Randall, authors of the Dictionary of Liberal Thought, have kindly agreed to let us publish extracts on Lib Dem Voice. Last month, Henry David Thoreau. The entire book is available on Amazon here and can also be bought at the Westminster Bookshop. A non-party-political movement that grew up in the 1920s and [...]
On Friday evening I went along to the Mayor's Reception at Gateshead Civic Centre. As usual, a good proportion of the people there were Labour party members though their ranks were depleted when compared with previous years. I wonder what caused that! There was one conversation I overheard which is, I suspect, typical of many that have taken place in Labour's fast declining membership in the
The Farmers Market had a Do on Friday, to celebrate the markets 10th birthday. A lovely spread of local produce and a celebratory toast with Camel Valley champagne. The Farmers Market is a real success story with a great range on offer. Freshly caught fish from Falmouth Bay, organic meats and cheeses, local honey, great bread and, of course, home made pasties. Chatting with the Town Crier, he congratulated me on my speech at Mayor Making. Nothing to do with the content, just 'we could hear what you were saying'. That's odd, because my wife says I mumble at home. ...
I was revising for my Mastermind recording at the weekend so I couldn't go to this. Reading this story now though I wish I had!
Tell me something I didn't know ...
Just listening to a very interesting debate on the Westminster Hour on Radio 4. Why do people keep arguing that Welsh and Scottish MPs should be axed rather than simply reducing their salaries? They obviously don't handle the same workload as their English counterparts, although it would be good to hear what Jo Swinson or Jenny Willott thought about that point! As Welsh AM's salaries rise it's obvious that devolution must be easing the burden considerably, although I'm sure the socio-economic mix of an MPs constituency must directly affect the size of their casework folder. Why can we not increase ...
Facing a crucial week Gordon Brown will find no relief from reading The Independent, who tell us that backbench MPs are planning to oust him if he fails to turn around the fortunes of the labour Party. A number of MPs want to put Charles Clarke up as a stalking horse against the Prime Minister but the newspaper reckons that this is unlikely to succeed. Instead there is a move to drown Mr. Brown under a a "tidal wave" of statements from MPs that he has lost their confidence because the public have turned against him. Meanwhile. former Welsh Secretary ...
A short guide to the best of Lib Dem Voice In the final full week of campaigning for the Crewe and Nantwich by-election, we featured heaps of stories about the goings-on. There’s trouble for the Tories, consideration about whether it’s better for Labour to win or lose - given the calibre of their leaflets, they deserve [...]
I've received complaints from residents about the overgrown grass at the Technology Park (particularly in Riverside Avenue to the front of the technology park) and immediately east of West Loan in Perth Road - opposite Clovius Duveau Drive. I have been in touch with Scottish Enterprise and Dundee Contract Services about both areas - asking for the grass to be cut and tidied up. | < | May 2008 | > | ||||
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