Party Conference

Sorry for lack of posting in the past few weeks, had quite a number of meetings. Today I’m off to party conference, and I hope to return to normal service when I’m back.

Top 30 Councillor Blogs

I’m pleased to announce that as well as coming 95th in the top 100 Conservative blogs, I’ve also been come 26th in the top 30 Councillor blogs.
1 Luke Akehurst
2 Waendel Journal
3 Paul Scully
4 James Cleverly
5 Bob Piper
6 Andrew McConnell
7 Faulkner Journal
8 Bristow Blog
9 Iain Lindley
10 Councillor Terry Kelly
11 Matt Dean
12 Andrew Burns’s Really Bad Blog
13 [...]

A superb day

During my lunch break today I popped down to watch the Tour of Britain come through Newbury. I was impressed by how well organised it was, don’t think I’ve ever seen that many police motorbikes! Apart from about three streets in Newbury the rest of the approach was done by rolling roadblocks, it seemed to [...]

Top 100 Conservative Blogs

I’m pleased to say I’ve come in 95th in the Top 100 Conservative blogs as voted for by readers of Total Politics and Iain Dale’s Diary.
A big thank you to everyone who voted for me!

TOP 100 Conservative Blogs
1 Iain Dale
2 Conservative Home
3 Dizzy Thinks
4 Burning our Money
5 John Redwood MP
6 Archbishop Cranmer
7 Mr Eugenides
8 Daniel [...]

Tour of Britain

The Tour of Britain comes close to Reading tomorrow. I’m (hopefully) going to catch a bit of it in Newbury to cheer some of cycling gold medallists from the Olympics, plus no doubt some 2012 hopefuls.

A warning to coffee drinkers

Read this…

Reading Station Redevelopment

Network Rail will be displaying plans for the £400m Station redevelopment at the following locations:

Wednesday 10 September, 10am - 6pm: Waterhouse Chamber, Reading Town Hall
Thursday 11 September, 10am - 8pm: [...]

Caversham Festival

Saturday 13th September from 10.30am - 5.30pm is the date of the fifth Caversham festival. It takes place just in the recreation ground next to Westfield and Gosbrook roads, and has entertainment and stalls for all the family, so pop on down.
As always it’s free, with a small charge for parking.

Exhausting Weekend

What an exhausting Saturday, not helped by having a rotten cold, cough, headache (and so on…). I was up for a surgery at Caversham Library at 9.45, typically as I wasn’t very well it was packed for the two hours; I think we had around 5-10 minutes free in the whole session. Having said that [...]