Welcome to Indigo Whisky 027 for the 22Dec2007

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Weather: Cold and frosty most mornings, brightening up but not warming up in the day. And Fog arrived today disrupting the airlines on the most inconvenient day for holiday travellers.

Last night was the longest, in the past celebrated as Saturnalia and we can look forward to longer days from now on

Wokingham News:

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Lots of demand for the Wetherspoon special Christmas Roast at the Lloyds No.1 bar the Gig House. We had lots of visitors to our http://eating.inwokingham.com listing from http://maps.google.com and GE where the new image service is proving popular. Rossini and Sorrentos

Wokingham Borough Council - News releases - Details Wokingham borough’s young people have elected a new Member of Youth Parliament (MYP), who has pledged to get their voices heard on a bigger stage Adam Connell from Wokingham, was elected by youngsters aged 11 to 18 from across the Wokingham borough during a five-day ballot earlier this month, after receiving 593 of the 1,976 votes cast. He will take over from current MYP Yan Couper-Harris on February 1, 2008 It was revealed at a special ceremony on Thursday (December 13), The overall results were: 
· Adam Connell, 16 from Wokingham  – 593 votes 
· Shabana Karim aged 15 from Earley – 516 votes 
· Carlie Norwell aged 15 from Wokingham - 401 votes 
· Salah Elnour aged 15 from Lower Earley - 257 votes 
· Paula Frost aged 15 from Wokingham - 209 votes. 

Wokingham Borough Council - News releases - Details

In October 2006 Mr Vic Moszczynski made a voluntary and legally binding agreement with the court to refrain from encouraging the public to his property. 
 
The agreement expires in January 2009 and bars him from encouraging members of the public to visit his home, either directly or through family members or friends. 

  Council killjoys order homeowner to pull the plug on his 20,000 Christmas lights | the Daily Mail

upmarket Sonning at the northern end of the borough, ex fireman raised £55k over 18years.

Borough Council - News releases - Details 20/12/2007 Wokingham schools go global with rafi.ki

Rafi.ki (ki is the country domain code for Kiribati ) is an online community where any school can set up its own web page, similar to a ‘myspace’ page, and can buddy up with other schools to work on a huge variety of projects in different subject areas.  For example, a business studies project might see two UK schools set up rival businesses, or a philosophy of religion project might involve pupils at a Hindu school in India comparing their lives with pupils from a Catholic school in France

Rafi.ki is operated by gemin-i.org, a UK registered charity that specialises in developing web-based education tools for use around the world. The company runs three different social enterprises including rafi.ki.  Schools who would like more information on Rafi.ki can contact project manager Trine Petersen at trine@rafi.ki or on (020) 7702 9629 or can visit www.rafi.ki to find out more. .ki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And wondering if we will have snow this Christmas I was listening to the http://TWIT.tv network WindowsWeekly tech prog #44 and was amused by Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott firstly discussing the problem of living in small town USA

Recording: Bus bit

and then about snow clearing challenges in even smaller town US.

Recording: snow bit

Some local worker here have been working to head off potential Christmas problems.

Wokingham Borough Council - News releases - Details 20/12/2007 Keeping Christmas spirits high but legal. Wokingham Borough Council’s licensing and trading standards teams visited various pubs across the borough to make sure that they were complying with their licence conditions and selling authentic branded spirits in the run up to Christmas and New Year celebrations. 

Wokingham   Current press releases 19 December 2007 Marlow officers test pub-goers for drugs Marlow police were targeting illegal drug users at the Cross Keys on Saturday evening (15/12).

The operation was the second time the Ion Track Drug Trace Detection Device- or itemiser, has been used in Wycombe rural and was used with the full cooperation of the licensee. The Itemiser works by reading a swab taken from flat surfaces or someone’s hands as drug residue is resilient to normal cleaning. Results are ready in seconds and if a sample taken from the hands is positive, the person will be searched. No illegal drugs were found on Saturday at no one was arrested.

And we think of those who will be working over this holiday time, Council, travel and utility workers, Carers and Hospital staff and so many more.

And check out http://specialselection.podshow.com

next week for my Christmas Special Selection, the all music show (well mostly) with songs by Duran Duran and Alice Cooper

Music: Christmas! Of course! Bill deRome

Don't Forget you can find the shownotes at http://inwokingham.com