Currently in Kitzbühel enjoying the mountains. ...

Currently in Kitzbühel enjoying the mountains.

Weather a bit wet but managed to do some walking yesterday (but was ill so missed out) and the weather is supposed to improve later in the week.

Finished off a website sale too, have just registered their domain for them and will be uploading their site soon.

Acension Day

Well we (lacking a priest at the mo and possibly for some time to come!) had a guest celebrant for Acension Day yesterday.

He refused to wear a Chasuble (never mind a Maniple!) and looked like he wanted to avoid the thurible, but he seemed a nice enough chap when I bumped into him in the pub afterwards.

Vicars or lack of them

Apparently the parish priest's post at our church is not going to be replaced because the diocese can't afford to.

Now consider there is a shortage of Liberal Catholic parishes in this city. Of the three that I know of, one is now being church planted by Evos. One is going to have to share clergy with the other (non Liberal Catholic) parishes in its benifice and who knows who is going what is going to happen to us.

Obviously provision for "non FiF" Anglo-Catholics is not of interest to the diocese.

AGM and Appointments

Well we had the Council's AGM yesterday, which elects the Lord Mayor for the year and appoints the cabinet, committees and oustide bodys.

I have been reappointed the Chairman of the Scrutiny Board 1 (Finance, Procurement and Value for Money, Human Resources, Corporate and Customer Services, Culture, Leisure and Libraries) and aslo been reapponted as one of the City Council's 3 memebers on the West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority. I have been put on the Planning Commitee this year as well instead of the Licensing and Regulatory committee I was on last year.

Elections

I retained my seat!

2006 Election results
for Bablake ward

Candidate's Surname	Other names	Party	Result
Simpson	Peter	Liberal Democrat	761
Williams	Andrew John	Conservative	2368
Youett	Christopher Nicholas	Labour	1213

Result: Williams, Andrew John - Conservative hold

We took control of the city too! (We ran it for the last two years with the Lord Mayor's casting vote, but it is nice to have an outright majority!)

Overall Results

Party	Number of seats 2005/06	Current Gains / Losses	Final Total 2006/07
British National Party	0	0	0
Conservative	27	+2	29
Green Party	0	0	0
Independent	1	0	1
Independent Voice of Longford	1	-1	0
Labour	20	-1	19
Liberal Democrat	3	-1	2
Socialist Alternative	2	+1	3

First Entry

Thought I'd better put something in here.

Well average day at work, several users with minor problems helped.

No programming today just analysis and design. Oh well at least I am not writing manuals.

Train home was 20 minutes late due to a something falling off a previous train at Watford Junction !?!

Council Group meeting this evening and more Council paperwork to read when I got home.

As I said average day.