The Kirby Muxloe village website

There is a website named ‘Village Signs’ which denotes itself entirely to, you’ve guessed it, village signs. from travells around the country pictures are taken of the signs and posts follow with the story behind them. It tells us who began the tradition, why he did,where and when he did, and a little of the story behind the sign.

There are only three in Leicestershire so far of which ours is one, Earl Shilton and Ratby being the others. We have a link from their website so believe it only fair that we return the favour/gesture.

Take a look, you may find one that brings back a memory or two, it may even inspire you to visit the place and make a memory or two.

The school transport between Kirby Muxloe, Ratby and Groby is not being withdrawn, only that for Markfield, Thurcaston and parts of Anstey I understand. I’m assuming the meeting did not go ahead for obvious reasons. Perhaps contacting Leicestershire County Council as I have done today, (should have done it last week) would have put peoples minds at rest and prevented any misunderstandings.

For future reference the Count Council will always provide any changes in writing. If I feel an idiot for not checking, and I do, how must the person who initiated the flyers and meeting be feeling?

I wish to offer my sincere apologies to those of you who contacted the site admin and have had no response. This was not intentional  and due to a broken link the emails have not forwarded to me.

The problem has now been rectified and I am in the process of dealing with each one, again very sorry. In connection to “Major New Development” there are now links to both Kirby Muxloes and Glenfields Parish Council websites with thanks to both of them for publishing  details of the pro-active steps that have been taken against the application. There are also statements made and questions asked which do not necessarily relate to a specific post so forums are going to be introduced to allow you to voice your own opinions on your chosen topics.

So here we go again!

This general election has brought about much mealtime discussion in our house, my eldest has just voted for the first time. It has been traditional for us to stay up until the results  are in despite generally having strong suspicions of which party will win. This time however is more than a one horse or two-horse race.

This is the first time for many youngsters to vote and after discussion my daughter and I, out of interest, completed 3-4 of these party comparison survey websites, but only to reach 3-4 different results. Chatting on Facebook as many people do she told me that many of her age-group are or have voted for the Liberal Democrats. Also on the Vote for Policies site the majority result after 286.000 at 12.30 was also in favour of the Liberal Democrats.

I was telling her how discussion on politics and religion were considered taboo subjects given the rise in agitation they cause. She aid without discussion how are we to assess what difference a vote could make, we are happy to air our opinions Then informing her of how household were once visited by party representative in an effort to gain a vote, she asked why did they stop.

Outcome of this was her suggestion to have a meeting in the village hall in the run up to elections where party representatives can be available to answer questions, not just on their policies but more so what they can do for us and for Kirby. We are not all old school and voting as our parents did or their parents, or their parents parents etc…… what we will we get this time, a Conservative for a change?

I think that would be a good idea, after all it’s only once every 5 years and it’s not as is there was no time for organising it.