Junction 21a with part of our village in the bottom left.
Click the image for the larger picture and take a guess.
Do you know what this is?
April 14th, 2010 · News
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Council cuts! + Update
April 9th, 2010 · community
There have been 3 comments recently added on the “council cuts” post of February this year remarking on 5 to 7 councillors quitting. In light of this I contacted the Parish Council to ascertain if there were any truth in the matter.
I cannot recall who answered the phone, but I informed him of who I was and that I manage the other sometimes controversial village website. I mentioned the recent comments regarding councillors quitting and when asked if this were true, aftera short pause he said “yes”. Given the tone of his voice it was obvious he would not or could not supply who or why, or in fact the number whom he said, “handed in their resignation”.
So! who and why have our coucillors resigned?
(dates and times incorrect – see original post)
For the current membership of the Parish Council visit website
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“You’ve been googled”
March 11th, 2010 · News
Have you checked out Google Earth of late?
Recently updated we now have street view and some you can see what ornaments are on your windowsills, you can see the children in the school playground, who is having a coffee outside Real Flavours, even who is nipping to the pub of a lunchtime.
More information at http://www.google.co.uk/help/maps/streetview/
What are your streetviews on this, good, bad or indifferent?
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Council Cuts
February 25th, 2010 · News, community
Did you catch David Parsons on the news yesterday regarding the 66 million pounds of approved cuts to Leicestershire’s County Councils Budget? Services earmarked include school bus services, libraries and road repairs amongst others. Whilst there are fears for the young, the elderly and the vulnerable, a budget loss of this size is likely to impact on everyone.
Also in the plans are the loss up to 650 council jobs, does that mean that the total claims for expenses will be lower than the £879,598 for last year, somehow I doubt it.
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“A Wreck or Ruin”
February 17th, 2010 · News
Putting Kirby Muxloe into google I came across an entry about our castle on “Anglotopia.net” a large site that devotes itself to all things loved about Great Britain.
The entry was by Phil Hackett, the Chief Executive of Shakespear Country, the official Tourist Board for Stratford-Upon Avon, Warwick, Royal Leamington Spa, Kenilworth & the Cotswolds. Take a look at the site, he talks of a drive out which brought him to visit our Castle. He mentions it being one of the last of its type, a quadrangular castle that is built of brick. He says it is such a wonderful place but the thing that makes it so interestin is that it’s not a ruin.
Here is a petty one, is it or isn’t it a ruin? Phil Hackett says not because it was never finished, I say it is because it falls into dictionary definitions but English Heritage say remains, this also is a synonym of ruin. What say you?
Is there nothing more interesting I hear you say, this is Kirby so you tell me.
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Catching Up
February 10th, 2010 · News, community
With time away due to illness, what has been happening and what is to come?
Luke Bowyer a young Kirby resident of 6 organised a table top sale and collected £325 for Haiti earthquake survivors. The Royal Oak has made it into the top 10 restaurants guide in the Leicester Mercury last week. Kirby House is one of the care homes earmarked for closure or sale, which in turn could save the conservative run council £1million a year if sold to the private sector. So just £69 million left to find.
The next event on the calendar is Shrove Tuesday on the 16th February when it is time to eat the items Christians are not permitted during lent, hastily followed by schools half term from Monday the 19th of February to Friday 23rd.
What else has been happening or about to, let us know?
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A frozen moat
January 10th, 2010 · News
Someone somewhere will keep a record of when the moat freezes over and if they do they can add this winter.
It has been frozen on and off for several weeks now but this last week seems to have made the ice thicker. It’s not shown here but the area around the bridge is free of ice so the ducks have their (almost freezing) water.
Despite the incidents on the news there are shoeprints out to the middle in at least 2 places. Hopefully this thaws quickly enough that no-one comes to harm.
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Chip Shop Or Not?
January 10th, 2010 · News
A recent comment that was potentially misplaced in Kirby Characters reads, “Barries the shop on Barry Drive has closed down. However me and my associate are after the Lease and change of use proposal for Kirby Fisheries opening mid 2010″. This struck me as somewhat odd, given that earlier in 2009 a communication was received asking to place an advertisement on the site in jobs and vacancies for, “staff wanted for a new chip shop” coincidentally named Kirby Fisheries, but it was not actually located in Kirby Muxloe.
According to Blaby District Council neither would this one be as Barry Drive is officially within the boundaries of Leicester Forest East, also pointed out in the November post along with only one application which was declined.
So what we ask is this, is the chip shop fact or fiction and if true would it be welcome? I say fiction having spoken to the planning department at the council late last year and given the area where they wish to locate it. Would I welcome it, for the number of times I would use it, no loss no profit really, but what say you?
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What A Lot Of Rubbish
January 6th, 2010 · miscellaneous
Are you waiting on getting your waste to be taken? I can appreciate that the weather is hindering the collections given the conditions of the roads, but come on council a little more organisation would not go amiss.
I contacted the council twice today, the first this morning simply to enquire if the collections would go ahead given the weather prior to carting it all out, the answer was “yes they are out but we don’t know yet if they will last the day”. That’s fair enough, I made sure all rubbish was available to take, card & paper in one extra bag and cans & bottles also in an additional bag given the number of weeks since the bins and boxes were taken for recycling. It is now 4.15 and my drive looks as if it’s replaced the tip at Whetstone.
The second contact was to ask if the items for recycling are still being collected, yes hopefully they are, “they have been out since 7.30 this morning but the side roads are bad and the lorries are extremely heavy given the excess weight from Christmas, Leave it out until 5pm and if they haven’t been collected there will be a full pick up next week”, oh good because then it can all be brought back to keep the drive warm in the snow.
The gritters were not too helpful then, they weren’t where I live either, did they come out at all? Perhaps it’s time that the council started working on a rota system like many other services do. A rota does not mean you have to work Christmas day and Boxing day, but it would mean that there would not have to be a massive and troublesome collection after Christmas.
The July fortnight, no Shops open on a Sunday and the Monday to Friday and 9 til 5 jobs are becoming more scarce. Is it not time the council boarded the 21st century? It’s a good job that nurses, policeman fireman, prison officers and postmen don’t work that way, imagine the excess that would gather up. And I bet that council workers were glad that they could find shops open when they needed one outside of 5pm and a weekend.
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HERE’S TO 2010
January 1st, 2010 · News
Here’s hoping that you all had a good Christmas and that each and everyone of us are looking forward to 2010.
Thanking you for your continued support in 2009.
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