It's who you know!!

This private car park behind a well known local business had it's car park tarmac'd for nothing by Conwy Council a few years ago!
Yes that right for nothing , paid for by the local tax payers!!
It was a " Gentleman's Agreement"
It was in return for the Council staff been able to park a couple of cars there themselves!!
Oh yes , that was the official line taken when the council got found out!!
You by all accounts don't see too many council staff park there cars their now!!!

Referance previous post.
I can not be sued as it is the TRUTH!!

Vindictive Blogs

Some one sent me an e mail link to a particular nasty vindictive blog like web site based locally.
The guy who sent me the e mail seems a bit peeved that this other one is trying to steal his thunder.
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I have no intention of giving this man and what seems like a friend or 2 any credibility.
It is obvious that he has a split personality and talks to him self, and his friend as if there is a whole group of separate people.
I took a good look earlier.
Web sites and blogs are not immune from legal action for deformation etc.
Trouble is you can sue these people if one so desires and be awarded vast amounts of money, if one succeeds.
There lies the trouble, if the persons concerned have not got a pot to p--- in whats the point?
To my e mail acquaintance , I would say the man concerned must be more than a little unhinged and looks to me a green eyed monster.
Take a closer look, he is an ex this ,that and the other.
Let people like this play all on their own, they soon get bored!
He seems from his own posts to have more than his hands full at home!
I for one, shall not be putting his site onto my favorites!!

High Street Rents

The 2 shops above are on the market "To Let "the top one next to Woolworth's is £57,500 rent plus £21,312 rates per year.

The bottom one , the old Burger King and even older National Milk bars, I remember having my lunch there many many many moons ago!

has an asking rent of £95,000 plus £30,464 per year.

That's before they even open the doors and put switch the electric on let alone staff costs!

The bottom one would have to make at least £4,000 per week profit to to break even.

In this day and age of the cut price Charlies and the fact the consumer wants more and more for as little as possible is there any wonder the high street is dieing on its feet?

We are getting more and more like America and veering towards out of town shopping.

Pedestrianise Mostyn Street and the end will be nigh a damn sight quicker for Mostyn Street.

The Johny come lately's like Graham Peers jewelers should shut their mouths and take note what has happened else where.

Parking

This poor bugger was issued with a ticket at 7.20 am this morning, on the west shore in Llandudno.

Cllr Evans will no doubt be made up!!

Parc Llandudno

First choice travel completed the deal on Parc Llandudno for a 15 year , full repair and insure lease for a sum of £173800 pa, plus business rates!

Granted the premises is much bigger than the one in the photo!

It is one of what is know as a travel hypermarket and the unit is 4354 sq feet, it has 5 yearly reviews.

These figures are facts not rumour, I have seen the official paperwork.

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But what a hell of a commitment, what are the others paying? All pro rata the same no doubt.

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I would not want to be going into retail at the moment, not the way things are going.

I can see a lot more business going to the wall in the next few years.

The small man is definitely going to be a business of the past, in the not too distant future.

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The local council have may be, through no fault of their own done nothing to help the small business, increased rates and red tape introduced by the government via Brussels, etc.

Bastards the lot of them!

Have You Seen This Man? {repeat appeal}

This man is wanted by the Electorate of Llandrillo yn Rhos and The Council Leader.
He was last believed to be a County Councillor and Cabinet Member of Conwy Council.
Earning in the region of £20,000 per anum of OUR money!
He was elected by the residents of Llandrillo yn Rhos and was last known to be LIVING ON ANGLESEY!!!
THIS IS A TRUE STORY!
Sightings on a post card please to the Leader Of The Council.

Smoking ban??

It has been announced that the Chester city Council has now banned all smoking on the rows in Chester. they class the world famous rows as an enclosed area.

That means no one can just nip out of one of the restaurants, on the rows for a quick smoke.
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Mean while over in the down town county of Conwy , the planning department are passing plans left ,right, and centre for smoking canopies for pubs!


.Some thing very funny to my mind, take a look at the top picture, that is a local public house in thye county of Conwy,
and they allow smoking in their little tent.
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Is it that the law is very ambiguous or is it a case of Conwy planning not knowing their arse from their elbow?
One fine has been given out so far , and that was in a van, Cllr Evans seems made up at that little flexing of the councils very small muscle!

No Jag prescott

Wondered what had happened to this chap.

He by all accounts came on a shearings holiday to Llandudno!!
Look at the chaps face next to him!
Its like some thing out of "one flew over the cuckoo's nest."

Restaurant???

With reference to previous post, this is the front 0f the building, I wonder what the present owners dad , Ken would make of the state of the "fine food" establishment now? He and his wife worked like dogs.

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My pride would never let me let a property of mine sink as low as this.

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I bet a pound to a penny soon as some grant money becomes available, this will take a large chunk.

The council will pay up because it will have gone so far down the scale it will embarrass the town.

Mind you can it get much worse than this?

The residents I think are a load of dead beats, not a 100% on that though.

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To think people pay to get food from a place like this, when there are so many other options in the town.

Beats me!

Bloody Disgrace

Slum like!

This is the rear of a property on Castle Street ,Conwy.
It serves food from its restaurant, bet its very tasty to!
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I imagine the kitchen is where the extraction flue comes out of.
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Only tonight their van was outside the guild hall with their outside catering produce!! Serving the good cuncillors of Conwy town.
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By appointment to the good cuncillors of Conwy!!
That will be on the side of their van next!
The front above the restaurant does not look too clever either!!

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Not playing!

I am not getting involved repeating what is on the windows of this shop in Conwy.
But take it from me the owners do not agree with the council of planning.
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Looks like they have taken the huff!!

Wetherspoons Llandudno

These pictures above are the side of Wetherspoons, Llandudno.

Is it not a planning matter when the sidewalk is obstructed in such a manner?

This has been the case for over 2 years.

The local Cuncillors walk in this vicinity several times a week, do they not think they should do something about it?

Doubt it some how.

Selfless

It was time for the monsoon rains to begin, and a very old man was digging holes in his garden
"What are you doing?" his neighbor asked."Planting mango trees" was the reply."
Do you expect to eat mangoes from those trees?""
No, I won't live long enough for that. But others will.
It occurred to me the other day that all my life I have enjoyed mangoes planted by other people. this is my way of showing them my gratitude.
"Anthony de Mello, S.J.

Reflection

I am not a politician, never will be, I am far too honest for my own good and to the point.

I am fearlessly loyal to my close and loved ones and would go out on a limb for what I believe in.

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. With that in mind I was in a local cemetery earlier and as usual walked passed the final resting place of " Welly Evans."

He was one of the first members of the military to die in Iraq.

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I know his mother by sight and knew his father to say hello to, his dad is now dead, died of liver failure.

He had by all accounts not drank for a while before Welly died and was waiting for a liver transplant.

On the day Welly was buried he by all accounts picked up a drink again and never stopped till the day he died.

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I do not know the answer and my opinion is it would have been something had he died in a war more people believed in.

It brings life and what really matters home to me when I see his grave, there is a picture of him on the grave with a big smile on his face.

God bless him!

The Demon Drink

I was a guest at a Genesis concert over the weekend, very nice to.
Overheard that there were over 50,000 there. I was with my host 4 rows from the front with some die hard Genesis fans.
One hell of a walk from were we were sitting to the loo and to get a drink.
Did not bother us, we had plenty of time to get "comfortable"before the show.
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The point I am going to make is that at the front the tickets had been changing hands for up o £300 per ticket, yet from the moment the show started some of the very same " die hards" were leaving their seat to get some booze, not only "die hard " fans but "die hard" drinkers, they must have been desperate to get alcohol to have left the show and walk so far to get drinks.
At the end of the show you should have seen the empty plastic bottles and seen a small minority after their night of fun.
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I welcome the news that the conservative party are proposing to put a levy on alcohol for the purpose of addiction treatment, lets be honest, it is not going to make much of a difference to the drinker putting 7p on a beer when they are paying £3.oo for a 500ml bottle of beer as was the case over the weekend.
The chance for some problem drinkers to get help if they want it is the difference between life and death, it is said for 1 alcoholic there are a further 20 family and friends affected.
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.Is is not a crazy state of affairs when some one can now buy a bottle of beer for the same price as a can of fanta?
To the majority of us having a drink is a nice way of ending the day , or having a nice drink with some friends over a chat or dinner, but for some it is a living hell and death.
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Drink a good servant but a devil of a master!