Chris Skidmore's resignation & upcoming by-election may be an opportunity for Lewisham Mayor Damien Egan. He has been selected for the newly established safe North East Bristol. This will absorb parts of Skidmore's Kingswood which is being abolished at the next General Election.
Labour will not have selected a candidate and the winner will only be in post for a few months.
Logical then to blood Damien in the by-election.
We attempted to wassail our favourite apple tree today but the swollen River Avon got in the way. Waved a cider bottle at an alternative tree in the park and then went to the pub. Happy #TwelfthNight#Bristol
Didn’t there used to be an open-access electronics / making things workshop in Bath or Bristol? Sort of place where you could pay a membership fee to use the facilities? Or am I dreaming it?
Anyone have any pointers? @jarkman or @jonty, do either of you have any ideas?
My son (21) is keen to do some building / making but our spare room is a poor substitute for a proper workshop.
30 Dec 1623: John Digby 1st Earl of #Bristol recalled #otd from his post as James VI & I’s ambassador to #Spain as hostility between the two countries escalated (BM)
From black hole physics to theoretical behavioural ecology. John M McNamara giving an inaugural lecture in Budapest, Hungary: "The art of the state, modelling the endpoints of evolution by natural selection". (Don't miss the famous photos of Alasdair Houston and John from the 70s)
I'm Joe from Bristol, England. By day I'm a Producer at the legendary Aardman Animations. By night I like to read, spend too much money on food, and play board games.
After a lovely year with the fine folk at idlethumbs.social (thanks @tabacco) I wanted to move to an instance closer to home where I'll feel marginally less guilty about filling the local feed with posts about The Demon Headmaster or musings about the age of the air in a scotch egg.
Meanwhile in #Bristol, another tower block is found to have structural problems that indicate a major collapse could be caused by fire or other problems....
Increasingly we are reaping the harvest of shortcuts in #construction & maintenance - short-termism is now biting back!
Bloody hell, the team at The Old Bookshop in Bedminster, #Bristol, know what they're doing. Beautifully clear menu of all the beers on offer, in legible print rather than ‘quirky’ handwritten chalk. And great service patter: “I’ll bring your beer over. It just needs 30 seconds to settle for a perfect pint...” #beer