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Will the television be revolutionised? Local Terrestrial TV comes to the UK

by Dave Greenhalgh

contact i-contact@gifford.co.uk

On February 11th, the i-Contact Video Network held a public meeting at Easton Community Centre to discuss Bristol’s new local TV channel. By the end of the year, it is expected that half of Bristol will receive an exclusive local TV service available to all television sets on channel six.Reaching 200,000 viewers, including Easton, it will accompany similar experiments in local terrestrial TV throughout Ireland and the United Kingdom. The Independent Television Commission have handed out two year

Restricted Service Licences (RSLs) across the U.K. City TV of Wiltshire have received international frequency clearance for a Restricted Service Licence (RSL) for Bristol and have applications pending for Bath, Exeter, West Wiltshire and Taunton.

Guest speaker at the i-Contact meeting was Dave Rushton, Director of the Institute of Local Television, chair of Scottish RSL holders Channel 6 and lecturer in Media Production and Media Management at Edinburgh University.After years of campaigning, he sees the RSLs as an experiment with the chance to persuade the government of the need for locally based TV, possibly

financed as Public Service Broadcasting by TV licence fees. Rushton says that RSLs are, ‘the last great television adventure which encourages broadcasting by community groups, voluntary associations, colleges and universities as well as by radio broadcasters, smaller television producers,video workshops and access centres. By connecting citizens to one another,

it could regenerate a sense of community and combined identity. If combined with the new information communications technologies, it could enable a more responsive, interactive political system to develop at a local level’.

City TV’s Simon Bond also addressed the audience of 60 or so. He outlined a commercially pragmatic ‘bottom line’ where the formula is viewers equals advertisers equals income. He explained the high costs involved in terrestrial broadcast compared to the less expensive equivalents of cable based public access TV in the United States (where most households have cable). City TV’s model comprises an even mix of shopping channel, video juke box and studio phone in. Simon Bond, former director of public affairs at Telewest, has so far declined to reveal who is financing the estimated 1.5 million capital funds required for the South West although he admits that both financiers and advertisers will be able to influence content. ITC safeguards against corporate control ensure that there must be a national plurality of ownership of TV broadcasters. However, there would appear to be little to prevent a large company using the local RSL as a golden advertising opportunity by monopolising and controlling content.

Dave Rushton has outlined a model for democratically run Television Trusts and cites examples in the U.S. where citizens own shares in the local channel raising funds through pledges made each year on a fortnight long Red Nose Day type promotion. A channel 6 model in Barnsley, a former mining community, is successfully developing around a community ownership

structure.We need to rethink the concept of what television is. Run locally, it needn’t subscribe to the high production values of the BBC, but could be content-led and directly relevant to the community. In Holland, one local TV channel rolls over the same set of programmes hourly, changing each day, more like a newspaper that you can pick up at any hour in the day. An

interest group, for example the Multiple Sclerosis Society, could be given a 20 minute slot each month to promote its aims and services. With role over every hour, a diverse range of 100 groups a month of immediate interest tothe community could be represented. Charities, business and central funding could support young talent to produce these valuable information films. It

could provide school, college and university media students with the perfect project.

Neither would a local sixth channel have to broadcast pictures at all times. It could be used for radio on TV supported by for example computer graphic art, only broadcasting when visual material is called for or available. 800 or so teletext pages could be used for anything from the local second hand car dealer through support for the homeless, homework support for school

kids to a local entertainment guide. Unlike the web, 99% of households have TV, 70% of which support teletext. The internet means we can easily access community TV output from other local communities around the globe, share our

experiences, bypass centralised news filters and never be short of material o broadcast. People needn’t be intimidated or even impressed by the BBC’s long established model, but rather can rather begin to creatively participate in TV as a truly interactive medium.

Without a chunk of our Public Service Broadcasting licence fee going to our local TV, however, or unless there is some other form of community accountability, we are reduced to lobbying City TV and their financiers for a chance to effect what goes into our local TV channel.

A Bristol coalition is in the process of forming to promote local accountability and input into the new channel.

Further information is available from:

i-Contact Video Network

c/o 76 Mina Road, St. Werburghs, Bristol BS2 9TX

Tel 0117 914 0188

Nicked if you do, nicked if you don’t… By Mike Holderness

mike.holderness@mcr1.poptel.org.uk

In the Thames Valley, it seems that journalists covering demos may get arrested on the grounds that they are protesters in disguise. In Birmingham, the only way that journalists can get close to a major news story is — you guessed? — by disguising

themselves as protesters.

Photographer Nick Cobbing was arrested in Oxford on 12 December 1998 merely for leaving a demonstration, it seems. When the event,one of a series of animal rights demos, quietened down, he “told a senior police officer that I wanted to leave, and showed him my NUJ press card,” Nick told the Freelance. Then two different police officers arrested him for leaving the demo, under Section 12 of the Criminal Law Act 1986.

Nick says he told the arresting officers clearly, three times, that he is a journalist, covering the event for the German news-weekly

Stern, and they should note the press card around his neck.Fortunately, a colleague had the presence of mind to get Nick’s

film from him.An Italian TV camera operator, a random passer-by and Roddy Mansfield of the Undercurrents video group were also arrested. When Roddy’s colleague Paul O’Connor called Thames Valley Police, Press Officer Janet Malcolmson explained that press cards are forged by animal rights protesters. She had no recollection of saying anything about forgeries when the Freelance later spoke to her, but stressed that the Thames Valley Force had encountered “people claiming to be journalists and press photographers and subsequent enquiries have shown that they are not.” She did not know who had done this, or where, or when.

The NUJ Press Card is (officially) recognised by all UK and Ireland police forces. It carries a Metropolitan Police telephone number which any officer can call to confirm a journalist’s identity using a PIN number.

At the suggestion of London Freelance Branch, NUJ General Secretary John Foster is writing to all Chief Constables, asking them to remind all their officers of the working of the Press Card. The Union would be interested to hear any concrete reports of impersonation or of forgery.

Meanwhile, in a different part of the forest: the Freelance understands that journalists have resorted to impersonating protesters

to report the eviction of those obstructing the romantically-titled Birmingham Northern Relief Road. The alternative is to check in at

a Rugby Club clubhouse four or more miles from the action, presenting a special BNRR press card.

Successful applicants are driven in a mini-bus by security guards to a fenced press compound, equipped with a tower for still and TV photographers. Protester Muppet Dave tells the Freelance that the tower is not visible from interesting parts of the action. BBC

West Midlands senior correspondent David Gregory says the view is adequate. The fence around the eviction site was made opaque with plastic sheeting on 12 December. During the first week of December this arrangement was enlivened variously by a BBC crew strolling onto the site and being evicted, and by two agency reporters diving out of the minibus and making a run for it. The Freelance is not aware of any charges or threats of prosecution. Bailiffs simply ban entire news organisations. Live TV and BBC TV West Midlands are amongthose to receive this accolade.

David Gregory stresses that the ban, following enthusiasm by “an alleged chief news correspondent who is leaving anyway — for

other reasons” has been sorted out. He understands that the Highways Agency, bailiffs and the police are concerned about the safety implications of a lot of hacks running around an eviction site. The protesters object to his crews filming certain things, too. Anyway, “we are getting video footage out — the protesters have cameras of ours, and ITN and Sky have cameras in there too.”

Hang on — now we have protesters working as journalists,because of the Highways Agency reporting ban.

The 1998 NUJ Annual Delegate Meeting passed a motion, proposed by London Freelance Branch, instructing the National Executive “to call, organise, finance and attend dignified collective defiance by journalists of future reporting bans.”

Undercurrents produced an award winning documentary about Police supresssion of the news. Breaking News in on UC9

Two in a bar to none in a bar – the Licensing Bill

You’ll all know of the changes in law, that have generally fucked up, our gatherings outside, Public order act CJA etc .

Then there was the club licensing rules, drugs etc and the ‘Barry Legg’ Act.

And now, here comes the next one

Licensing Bill 2003

http://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/articles/two_in_a_bar02.shtml

On 15 November 2002 the government published the Licensing Bill. It was launched as a ‘central plank in the government’s drive to tackle antisocial behaviour’. This comprehensive overhaul of liquor and public entertainment licensing proposes, among other things, to deregulate pub opening times. However, it also dramatically increases the licensing of live music performance, and replaces the ‘two in a bar rule’ with a ‘none in a bar rule’.

The Musicians’ Union welcomes the broad aim of the Licensing Bill insofar as deregulation of opening times may reduce binge-drinking, and alcohol-related crime and disorder. However, we oppose key elements of the reforms as they apply to live music. if all the provisions of this otherwise liberalising Bill were enacted, it would represent the biggest increase in licensing control of live music for over 100 years:

110,000 on-licensed premises in England and Wales (pubs, bars, restaurants etc) would lose their right to allow one or two musicians to perform. A form of this limited exemption from licensing control dates back to at least 1899.

Broadcast entertainment on satellite or terrestrial tv, or radio, is to be exempt from licensing under this Bill.

15,500 Churches outside London would lose their licensing exemption for public concerts.

5,000 registered members clubs lose their licensing exemption for public entertainment.

The very wide definitions in the Bill would cover carol singing and bell ringing (unless incidental to a religious meeting or service).

Thousands of private events, hitherto exempt, become licensable if ‘for consideration and with a view to profit’.

The same applies to any private performance raising money for charity.

Tens of thousands of private wedding receptions, parties, and corporate functions would become illegal unless licensed (the wording of the Bill suggests that payment to musicians triggers the licensing requirement).

A new licensing criterion is introduced: the provision of ‘entertainment facilities’. This could mean professional rehearsal studios, broadasting studios etc will be illegal unless licensed.

Musicians could be guilty of a criminal offence if they don’t check first that premises hold the appropriate authorisation for their performance.

Buskers similarly potential criminals – unless they perform under a licensing authorisation.

The maximum penalty for unlicensed performance remains a £20,000 fine and six months in prison.

Two in a bar to none in a bar – the Licensing Bill

You’ll all know of the changes in law, that have generally fucked up, our gatherings outside, Public order act CJA etc .

Then there was the club licensing rules, drugs etc and the ‘Barry Legg’ Act.

And now, here comes the next one

Licensing Bill 2003

http://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/articles/two_in_a_bar02.shtml

On 15 November 2002 the government published the Licensing Bill. It was launched as a ‘central plank in the government’s drive to tackle antisocial behaviour’. This comprehensive overhaul of liquor and public entertainment licensing proposes, among other things, to deregulate pub opening times. However, it also dramatically increases the licensing of live music performance, and replaces the ‘two in a bar rule’ with a ‘none in a bar rule’.

The Musicians’ Union welcomes the broad aim of the Licensing Bill insofar as deregulation of opening times may reduce binge-drinking, and alcohol-related crime and disorder. However, we oppose key elements of the reforms as they apply to live music. if all the provisions of this otherwise liberalising Bill were enacted, it would represent the biggest increase in licensing control of live music for over 100 years:

110,000 on-licensed premises in England and Wales (pubs, bars, restaurants etc) would lose their right to allow one or two musicians to perform. A form of this limited exemption from licensing control dates back to at least 1899.

Broadcast entertainment on satellite or terrestrial tv, or radio, is to be exempt from licensing under this Bill.

15,500 Churches outside London would lose their licensing exemption for public concerts.

5,000 registered members clubs lose their licensing exemption for public entertainment.

The very wide definitions in the Bill would cover carol singing and bell ringing (unless incidental to a religious meeting or service).

Thousands of private events, hitherto exempt, become licensable if ‘for consideration and with a view to profit’.

The same applies to any private performance raising money for charity.

Tens of thousands of private wedding receptions, parties, and corporate functions would become illegal unless licensed (the wording of the Bill suggests that payment to musicians triggers the licensing requirement).

A new licensing criterion is introduced: the provision of ‘entertainment facilities’. This could mean professional rehearsal studios, broadasting studios etc will be illegal unless licensed.

Musicians could be guilty of a criminal offence if they don’t check first that premises hold the appropriate authorisation for their performance.

Buskers similarly potential criminals – unless they perform under a licensing authorisation.

The maximum penalty for unlicensed performance remains a £20,000 fine and six months in prison.

WillyX get arrested :: ‘George and Tim Shake hands: – Stonehenge issues

WillyX gets arrested, Again 🙂

and .. .. .. thought you might enjoy this snap of George Firsoff and Tim Ingle-Abbott from the Stonehenge Peace Campaign .

Nice snap of them ‘agreeing and shaking hands’. Meaningless really though, ‘cos they’re on the same side………….

A full sized 1000×814 version of the picture, can bee seen at:

http://tash.dns2go.com/FTP/jpg/0269_20Aslide1000.jpg

A Technical Foundation To Building A Sound System

To most people, sound systems seem very simple – some speakers and some amplifiers, and you’re all set. In addition to this frequent simplistic perception, many people honestly can’t tell the difference between a good system and a bad one. Many defining elements of a “good” sound system are in fact a matter of opinion. Fortunately, among audiophiles and engineers, there is a lot of agreement on these elements.

There are interesting differences that exist in the opinions of audiophiles, engineers, and sound providers. Audiophiles and sound providers typically rely more upon first hand and communicated experience. Audiophiles tend to make judgments on perceived sound quality above all else – which is what it really comes down to. Engineers often get hung up on technical details, and sound people will often simply echo what the current mainstream industry practice happens to be. The engineers have because of their educational background some powerful and insight giving tools though, such as the Laplace transform and various Signals and Systems concepts. Audio Engineers are also knowledgeable of psychoacoustic principles, which play many important roles in music and sound, and give insight into music itself and how we experience it. Naturally, with experience and openmindedness, the perspectives of the differing groups become closer. Given the relatively advanced technological state of audio equipment however, the domains of engineering and mathematics remain the primary avenues via which advancements and contributions to the state of the art are made.

Suffice it to say there are a lot of subtleties that go into a good sound system – more than can be fully understood without extensive scientific knowledge, yet not so many that the issues cannot be explained in basic terms in a reasonably sized document.

An important side-note is that one should always be careful in taking as valid what anyone says about sound systems, and should carefully review their motives, experience, and training. Hype and marketing seem to be the way most business gets done in this new millennium – particularly in the music world. When seeking out information, keep in mind that the credibility of various information sources is often less than ideal. Many people’s opinions are often biased toward their own financial interests, and/or their own lack of knowledge or experience in a given area. Only those who put the time and energy into seeking out a wide array of information resources can achieve true quality and sophistication.

More info on this, starts at:

http://www.partyvibe.com/articles/building_a_sound_system/introduction.htm

Thought I would start the New Year with a quote, to get us going …….

Advice from Monty Python, on life

Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving

And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,

That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned,

A sun that is the source of all our power.

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see

Are moving at a million miles a day

In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,

Of the galaxy we call the ‘Milky Way’.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.

It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side.

It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,

But out by us, it’s just three thousand light years wide.

We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.

We go ’round every two hundred million years,

And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions

In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding

In all of the directions it can whizz

As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,

Twelve million miles a minute, and that’s the fastest speed there is.

So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,

How amazingly unlikely is your birth,

And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,

‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth.

Life of Brian – Monty Python

Eric Idle

Thought I would start the New Year with a quote, to get us going …….

Advice from Monty Python, on life

Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving

And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,

That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned,

A sun that is the source of all our power.

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see

Are moving at a million miles a day

In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,

Of the galaxy we call the ‘Milky Way’.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.

It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side.

It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,

But out by us, it’s just three thousand light years wide.

We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.

We go ’round every two hundred million years,

And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions

In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding

In all of the directions it can whizz

As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,

Twelve million miles a minute, and that’s the fastest speed there is.

So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,

How amazingly unlikely is your birth,

And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,

‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth.

Life of Brian – Monty Python

Eric Idle

‘A Right to Know’

Michael Crick introduced a program on BBC Radio4 on the amount of information, held on us, and , our rights in getting to see it. Here is an MP3. I think this is a splendid ‘overview’ of issues involved and commend it to you

http://tash.dns2go.com/FTP/MP3/BBC Radio4 – A Right to Know – Michael Crick 29dec02.mp3

Here are some of my own efforts, in trying the gett access, via using these laws.

‘Location Data’ on the use of a mobile phone

http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2002_07_14_tash_lodge_archive.html#79031925

MI5 – Some of my own adventures

http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2002_11_10_tash_lodge_archive.html#84336325

True Spies BBC2, after-show internet discussion .RAM

http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2002_11_10_tash_lodge_archive.html#84334842

The Anarchist Travelling Circus

http://www.g8circus.org.uk

The Anarchist Travelling Circus is UK-wide series of actions, projects and events, and a mobilisation against the latest knees up of the powermongers of world misery – the G8 Summit taking place in Evian (Lake Geneva, on the French-Swiss border), June 1st-3rd 2003.

WHY?

The summit-hopping protests of the last few years, labelled by Tony Blair post-Gothenberg, as an ?Anarchist Travelling Circus?, have done much to build and revitalise the growing anti-capitalist movement, to strengthen existing international solidarity, to create new links, and to facilitate the mobilisation of people and ideas. The inevitable publicity that surrounds such occasions has served to inform people about the existence of an organised resistance to capitalism.

While this process is important and should continue, it is clear that mobilising around specific one-off or annual events such as Mayday, G8, EU meetings etc. will never be enough.

The Anarchist Travelling Circus is an attempt to reconcile the mass mobilisations that accompany events such as the G8, with local projects and actions; to create links between the anti-capitalist movement and the daily stuggles in our communities and workplaces; to involve those who cannot or do not want to travel round the globe getting tear-gassed; and to continue to make the point that our multiple struggles against war and militarism, the destruction of the earth, debt and lack of housing, the treatment of asylum seekers, the mind-numbing, soul-destroying monotony of wage labour and many other issues too numerous to name, cannot be won until the fight against capitalism is won and that this must be fought – not a couple of times a year in set-pieces against riot police, but daily, constantly, everywhere.

This attitude has most recently been reflected in the idea of Social Centres and Social Centres networks which have been springing up around the country, inspired in part by the Social Centres movements of other European countries; and by the attempt this year to use Mayday for a ?Festival of Alternatives? that aimed to promote both theoretical and practical sustainable forms of resistance and involve a variety of groups and issues.

WHAT IS IT?

The idea of the Anarchist Travelling Circus, while still in it?s infancy, is a 5-6 week tour of the country, perhaps beginning on Mayday, and culminating in Evian on June 1st at the G8, with a possible ?No Border? Camp en route. As the Circus progresses around the UK, people would join and leave the procession at will, staying on the road til Evian, or never leaving their home town. At each city, town or village it arrives in people would organise actions around struggles they are involved in, open social centres, or organise cultural events. This would hopefully serve to highlight existing struggles and act as an inspiration for new longterm projects, as well as leaving a lasting legacy beyond the spectacle of confrontational action.

It is important that the emphasis is placed on the actions and events that happen in each place, and that the impetus for these comes from local people and the struggles they are involved in, rather than a touring procession of activists just parachuting in. It is also important to involve as many people as possible and to have an open and inclusive working process.

The theme of ?travelling? – in the form of convoys, critical masses and mass train bunks – would be primarily used to physically and visually link issues and ideas that are already fundamentally linked in that they all pose an opposition to capitalism.

GET INVOLVED

The idea is for anybody who is interested, from whatever part of the UK, to set up local groups to organise events and network the idea in their area. We would like as many individuals and horizontally-organised groups as possible to take part in this. The hope is that this would help to build links between anti-capitalists, refugee groups, those involved in workplace & community struggles, environmental groups, claimant?s unions etc., and also help to build a sustainable country-wide network, as well as involving people in ongoing projects in their area.

A discussion will take place at the ?Reclaim the Future? event on Saturday 21st September in London, and there will be a national meeting at the Anarchist Bookfair at The Camden Centre, London WC1, on 19th October, 2002.

This is going to take a lot of time, money and energy, so fundraising and networking should ideally start as soon as possible.

In the meantime an internet discussion list has been set up. To subscribe to this, send a blank email to:

anarchisttravellingcircus-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

If you are setting up a group in your area and would like someone to come and speak about the idea, please email anarchisttravellingcircus@yahoo.co.uk and let us know.

Tash’s ‘Free’ Desktops, available for download

Have prepared a number of ‘desktop designs’ and have made them available for download. Saved as 1024×768 .BMP files at 2.3Mb. Here are some samples. Please click line below for the full selection

http://tash.dns2go.com/FTP/Desktop1024x768

Hope you like.

Economic League

Economic League, an organisation which collects data for private and government subscribers. Much of the information they collect results in the blacklisting of totally innocent workers, who have been unable to obtain or maintain jobs because of the inaccuracy of the League’s data. It is now a matter of public record that the League was set up by former intelligence agents and that since its inception it maintained official links with MI5 and Special Branch.

In the UK companies concerned about employing trade union activists, former tribunal litigants or political militants can contact an organisation called CAPRiM. This organisation was formerly called The Economic League. It reportedly went into liquidation two years ago, but has now risen pheonix-like from the ashes and has a registered address in Redditch, Worcestershire. What CAPRiM does is probably unlawful under the Data Protection Act, although its predecessor always claimed that its records were kept on card indexes. The Employment Relations Act 1999 outlawed ‘blacklisting’, but we await the necessary secondary legislation to make the Act bite. Meanwhile CAPRiM operates as a legitimate business, is active in the Institute of Directors and sits on the management board of a leading Business School.

Not just my paranoid rantings you know! Please check out “The Journal of Information, Law and Technology” They have covered the New Code of Practice – S51 (3) (b) of The Data Protection Act 1998 at:

http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/news00-2.html

and …..

For the giggle, thought i would include and extract from Hansard, to show that the state of affairs, continued.

Written Answers to Questions: Wednesday 8 February 1989

Economic League

Mr. Alton : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Economic League is registered under the Data Protection Act 1984.

Mr. Renton : The Economic League has a single entry in the data protection register, a copy of which is in the Library, covering its processing of personal data for the administration of the organisation.

Mr. Alton : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will seek to enact legislation to ensure that people blacklisted by the Economic League can obtain access to the files that have caused their blacklisting to check that information.

Mr. Renton : No.

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm198889/cmhansrd/1989-02-08/Writtens-1.html

The Economic League was set up in 1919 to fight Bolshevism and intervened in industrial relations

However, it wound up in 1994 after complaints of it holding inaccurate information on individuals; under data law it would have had to open its files. It had 40 current Labour MPs on its files, including the chancellor, Gordon Brown, and prominent trade unionists, as well as journalists and thousands of shopfloor workers.

Now again, open for business as: CAPRiM

Left blacklist man joins euro fight – Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/EMU/Story/0,2763,366293,00.html

A Nottingham ‘Landscape’

Took these from the top of St Marys church tower, in the middle of the city of Nottingham.

A ‘Free Art Space’

Since Im interested in graffitti, thought I would include this snap, for the jolley

Bloody Hell!

Since the last post, telling you of the collapse of the ‘archive links’ in this blog. I have been seeking advice and knowledge on how to fix it!

So many shot in the dark and different ‘routines’.

Anyway, suddenly, this morning. all’s well again. Have learned nothing from the fault and the excersice at all. I just works now, ’till the next time ……..

temp fault: i hope!

You may have noticed the archives links [on the left] from the previous weeks, have disappeared !!

Oh no!. This it’s a glitch and has got to do with the archive rebuilding.

Until it all back on, you can still view any previous enrties you want, by this link to the index. cheers.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tash.lodge/Blog/Blog_Links.htm