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Powers That Be Must Do Something

Jan29
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Sandra

Last Easter, travellers armed with hardcore setup camp in Blackmore on greenbelt land, and subsequent attempts to remove them have failed, including an appeal to the High Court.

There has been a recent hearing at local level where information has emerged that one of the travellers owns a property in Melton Mowbray, and the other traveller claiming he has nowhere else to go actually rents a property in another part of the country.

http://www.thisistotalessex.co.uk/news/BLACKMORE-163-110k-home-owned-illegal-traveller/article-1762673-detail/article.html

It’s about time the powers that be did the right thing for the local taxpayers and these ‘travellers’ should be forcibly evicted.
Our greenbelt land is under enough of a threat through housing pressure as it is, and small villages that no-one seems to care about deserve protection against illegal developments.

The area of Brentwood is already having to find 14 sites for travellers and I trust these will be brownfield sites and will be monitored and enforced to stop another Crays Hill travesty from happening.
I am sure that if the current illegal site was in the backyard of the High Court Judge that said they could stay, his verdict would have been different.

True travellers should be given help to change their lifestyle, but these parasites in Blackmore are trying to use the guise of a traveller to bypass planning laws and destroy yet more of our precious greenbelt land.

When will our laws protect those that pay the taxes?

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Copper Thieves Strike Blackmore

Jan20
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Sandra

With our first performance of Blackmore’s Got Panto due to be staged tonight, we were greeted with the news this morning that there would be no heating in the village hall due to some scum stealing the outside copper piping. As tonight is our invited audience of OAP’s this is a very serious matter.

To my knowledge, Blackmore Village Hall is a privately run venture without any involvement from the Parish Council. The groups that use the village hall complex pay rent to help keep everything going, so these scum are literally stealing from the Blackmore Residents.

The village hall was built by the residents of the village back in the 60s. And I mean they literally built it with their own hands. The fact that very little vandalism has occurred at the village hall in the last 40 years is testament to how respected the facility is by the majority of the villagers.

I wonder if the sudden increase in petty theft in the area has anything to do with the residents that suddenly arrived at Easter last year and started to develop the greenbelt land they had bought. And then some wanker of a judge at the High Court decided to let them continue despite greenbelt land being destroyed. I may be jumping to conclusions, but it is my blog and I shall jump to whatever conclusions I like.

I wonder how long it will be after the pipes are replaced that they will disappear again. SCUM.

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Dress rehearsal sorted – bring on the show!

Jan17
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Sandra

Now I am home in the comfort of my sofa with a steaming cuppa by my side and dinner in the oven, I think it’s time to reflect on today’s dress rehearsal!

I started the day getting the final bits of costume, namely tights and hair grips, and by midday the dress rehearsal nerves kicked in. I’ve been doing shows at Blackmore for the last 11 years so it is beyond me why nerves still exist. So I left my husband and drove to Blackmore stopping at the flat in Boreham en route to find a few last minute things. Once in the car and out on the open road the nerves left me. Maybe the nerves exist because I’m worried some idiot will have an accident and close the A12 – then I’d be in trouble!

I got to the hall without incident for about 2pm and started getting ready – laid out my costumes to make sure I had everything I needed, and got my makeup done.
After a wander round and chatting to a few people, I sat down to go through my lives. Remarkably, we started on time at 3pm, and I had no nerves at all!

Well considering the shambles of a rehearsal that we had on Friday evening, I think the dress rehearsal went very well, despite a few dodgy bits. In the past we have done a dress rehearsal followed by a full run through minus costume which can be quite exhausting, but I fully expected to have to do some of the bits that were quite frankly dire. But we didn’t. Instead we have a script only rehearsal tomorrow night and no other rehearsal!
Yes that’s right we go straight into the show for the OAPs on Wednesday without no further stage rehearsal! That’s a first!

Well, I’m glad we have a rehearsal tomorrow night as I think it would feel odd having 2 nights off then straight into a show.

I will keep my fingers crossed and hope my nerves stay away so I can enjoy my last panto for a while.

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