Northern Grep - The blog of Shaun Holt

High water

Yesterday I was working in Sheffield so was unable to attend our local Post Office closing (for the final time) at 1pm. I have lived in this community on and off for most of my life and the Post Office has always been there. Despite a campaign and alleged consultation process (of which I participated) the Post Office was slated for closure.

Without doubt this is a sad day for the village and more importantly the good people who ran it so well. This village now only has the primary school and village hall as a glue to hold together its sense of community. I do believe this closure will have a negative effect on the social cohesion of this village and contribute further to the decline of our good, English society in this area. In effect, having young children will become the main social networking enabler in this village.

On my way home from work I managed to drop in at the Boston Park site of the local nature reserve. I have never seen such an abundance of surface water (see below) and over at the Ten Acre Lake system one of the viewing platforms is again submerged.

Today is also the sixtieth anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. As a fan of what ifs I do wonder what would have happened if Nathuram Gadse had missed.

Mozilla Firefox, according to this article, has also captured 30% of the browser usage statistic in Europe - Get in there:-)