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Showing posts with label Clipsham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clipsham. Show all posts
Friday, February 11, 2022
Thursday, February 10, 2022
St Mary's Church Clipsham Rutland
St Mary's Church Clipsham Rutland
A friends family grave. A family with connections to the derelict Ram Jam Inn, North Road, Greetham, Rutland. it was The Winchelsea Arms up to 1871
Monday, December 17, 2012
The Olive Branch, Main Street, Clipsham, Rutland amongst seven pubs to lose Michelin star
The Olive Branch, Main Street, Clipsham, Rutland amongst seven pubs
to lose Michelin star
CHRISTOPHER HIRST: The Olive Branch, Main Street, Clipsham,
Rutland (01780 410355). £50-60 for two, for two courses with beer or cider
"If the Olive Branch has a failing, it is that of trying too hard"
Back to Basics
Seven pubs have lost Michelin Stars.
Coworth Park in Berkshire
The Olive Branch in Rutland
Beech House in Reading
Reads in Faversham
Sharrow Bay in Cumbria
Aubage du lac in Welwyn Garden City
Gauthier Soho in London
The Editor revealed that those establishments
that have lost a star this time should go back to basics
and refocus on their customers.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Monday, May 09, 2011
Polling Station, The Olive Branch, Clipsham, Rutland, Photograph
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Greetham, Stretton, Pickworth, Thistleton and Clipsham Posters
Guest post from Helen Pender
**What Helen has failed to mention here is this woman was very well spoken caked in expensive make up and intoxicated, leaving the Co-op and making her way to her little smart black car with another two bottles. She finished the conversation by saying she felt very sorry for Con. Weirs Wife. The Lady I am told gives very good book lectures when sober she never gave me her name pity.....
Greetham, Stretton, Pickworth, Thistleton and Clipsham
prospective candidate, Martin Brookes, in Greetham, Stretton, Clipsham, Pickworth and Thistleton. We motored up there on several occasions and found posters strewn in public places, one within yards of Roger Begy’s home on Greetham High Street. The most vile accusations were thrown at Martin Brookes throughout the campaign. One would have thought this was not a very clever thing to do in a two horse race. Wouldn’t one?
At a planning meeting 48 hours before the election Martin Brookes was able to ask Mr Begy why he hadn’t taken steps to distance himself from these posters. What was Begy’s reply? ‘I don’t read your blog.’ A classic example of a non sequitur!
The first posters were black and white, stapled or drawing pinned to bus stops, wooden poles, fences and most worrying of all in the official Parish notice board in Clipsham. At Clipsham, on the first occasion we spotted the notice, we thought we might remove it. But this is an official Parish notice board. We decided instead to track down the Parish Clerk and found the Parish Clerk for Clipsham mowing his lawn. We took him to his notice board. He rapidly read the poster and asked whether any of the accusations were true, picking out one particular accusation. I must commend the Parish Clerk for his speed-reading of a document he said he’d not seen before. No doubt Clipsham have a very able and erudite public servant in their midst. What a treasure he must be.
As usual Martin Brookes *wittered on at length in a convoluted explanation. Eventually I summed up more succinctly and the Parish Clerk said ‘Well I don’t understand it. There are a lot of funny things going on.’ I am not sure but did I sense a degree of disappointment in the Parish Clerk’s face when I offered my explanation?
*have you met Helen or read her blogs :-)
We were satisfied that no more posters would appear in the Official Parish notice board in Clipsham. How wrong we were. New coloured posters slightly amended were issued this week and wonder of wonders there, skewed with just one drawing pin, in the official Clipsham Parish notice board was a new poster! This new poster, presumably in a vicarious distancing of Roger Begy from the poster, proclaimed: “This poster produced by ‘The Friends of Greetham Ward’. It is NOT produced by the RCC, OTC, The Conservatives. The Cabbie nor any individual Society thus accused by Mr Bookes to date.” Well that certainly makes it clear who produced it. Doesn’t it?
However my congratulations go to a user of one of the bus stops in Greetham who had torn down the leaflet. This was found flapping in the hedge at the first bus stop in Greetham. A deep thank you goes to the upright citizen whose sense of fair play led him/her to tear this poster down.
BBC Radio Leicester appeared at the Count in Oakham on 6th May. I bumped into them as they returned from a coffee break and showed them one of the latest anonymous leaflets, which Martin Brookes had removed and cut out his photograph, using the top part as his own election poster. The reporter immediately said ‘Are you Helen?’ Hardly anyone reads my blog, she had clearly been briefed by someone. Who had briefed her and why? She wasn’t prepared to say.
She asked for a copy, so I went to the library and, only having a 20p piece made two copies. One of which I handed to BBC Radio Leicester. They opened the boot of their radio car and fiddled with a couple of switches, turning off their equipment as one reporter sat reading the leaflet in the back of her radio car. The mike was placed in the boot, but I was not interviewed. Despite this I began to suspect that I was being surreptitiously recorded. Isn’t it amazing how paranoid one can become when faced with an anonymous campaign?
They asked who was behind this campaign. My reply was that I didn’t know but it was funny that the poster had been issued in an area in which there were only two candidates. They asked whom I might suspect. I pointed out that these people hide behind their anonymity, but said that they behaved like terrorist cells, the campaign is coordinated and yet each anonymous cell appears to be acting autonomously and separately.
What I didn’t say was that living through this onslaught of anonymous tweets, blogs, postings and posters is a little like living in a third world country with a despotic and dubious band of autocrats determined to silence any voice of opposition. Shenanigans in the Kingdom of Swaziland sometimes pale into insignificance beside the Kingdom of Rutland.
Like my childhood home, Rutland appears determined to silence any opposition. In Swaziland the opposition is regularly locked up and false accusations levelled at political opponents. The newspapers in Swaziland are prevented from reporting anything but censored news. Whereas in Rutland…
Rumour has it that the new editor of one of our local newspapers is a Conservative who tried to stand for election on RCC but was prevented from doing so since she had only just moved back into the area and did not satisfy the residential requirements for prospective candidates. If what Gene Plews tells me is true, this is only interesting as a litmus test of the political allegiance of our local press.
The only independent and free press would seem to be our blogs. At least one of which has been hacked.** A local lady I bumped into recently said: ‘You have to stop otherwise they will destroy you. Your blogs and your emails will be changed. You just can’t win.’
The problem as I see it is – if I stop they will just grind me into the ground silently. Whether I blog and use email or take a vow of omerta, I will be silenced. Better by far to go out attempting, however vainly, to speak out, than to be silenced by fear of intimidation, which will continue come what may.
In the face of a despotic regime one should always struggle, however vainly, to speak out before one segues into oblivion. In the despotic Democratic Republic of Rutland let’s hope that we can find others with the courage to ensure that eventually the miscreants are traced and brought to justice.
**What Helen has failed to mention here is this woman was very well spoken caked in expensive make up and intoxicated, leaving the Co-op and making her way to her little smart black car with another two bottles. She finished the conversation by saying she felt very sorry for Con. Weirs Wife. The Lady I am told gives very good book lectures when sober she never gave me her name pity.....
Greetham, Stretton, Pickworth, Thistleton and Clipsham
prospective candidate, Martin Brookes, in Greetham, Stretton, Clipsham, Pickworth and Thistleton. We motored up there on several occasions and found posters strewn in public places, one within yards of Roger Begy’s home on Greetham High Street. The most vile accusations were thrown at Martin Brookes throughout the campaign. One would have thought this was not a very clever thing to do in a two horse race. Wouldn’t one?
At a planning meeting 48 hours before the election Martin Brookes was able to ask Mr Begy why he hadn’t taken steps to distance himself from these posters. What was Begy’s reply? ‘I don’t read your blog.’ A classic example of a non sequitur!
The first posters were black and white, stapled or drawing pinned to bus stops, wooden poles, fences and most worrying of all in the official Parish notice board in Clipsham. At Clipsham, on the first occasion we spotted the notice, we thought we might remove it. But this is an official Parish notice board. We decided instead to track down the Parish Clerk and found the Parish Clerk for Clipsham mowing his lawn. We took him to his notice board. He rapidly read the poster and asked whether any of the accusations were true, picking out one particular accusation. I must commend the Parish Clerk for his speed-reading of a document he said he’d not seen before. No doubt Clipsham have a very able and erudite public servant in their midst. What a treasure he must be.
As usual Martin Brookes *wittered on at length in a convoluted explanation. Eventually I summed up more succinctly and the Parish Clerk said ‘Well I don’t understand it. There are a lot of funny things going on.’ I am not sure but did I sense a degree of disappointment in the Parish Clerk’s face when I offered my explanation?
*have you met Helen or read her blogs :-)
We were satisfied that no more posters would appear in the Official Parish notice board in Clipsham. How wrong we were. New coloured posters slightly amended were issued this week and wonder of wonders there, skewed with just one drawing pin, in the official Clipsham Parish notice board was a new poster! This new poster, presumably in a vicarious distancing of Roger Begy from the poster, proclaimed: “This poster produced by ‘The Friends of Greetham Ward’. It is NOT produced by the RCC, OTC, The Conservatives. The Cabbie nor any individual Society thus accused by Mr Bookes to date.” Well that certainly makes it clear who produced it. Doesn’t it?
However my congratulations go to a user of one of the bus stops in Greetham who had torn down the leaflet. This was found flapping in the hedge at the first bus stop in Greetham. A deep thank you goes to the upright citizen whose sense of fair play led him/her to tear this poster down.
BBC Radio Leicester appeared at the Count in Oakham on 6th May. I bumped into them as they returned from a coffee break and showed them one of the latest anonymous leaflets, which Martin Brookes had removed and cut out his photograph, using the top part as his own election poster. The reporter immediately said ‘Are you Helen?’ Hardly anyone reads my blog, she had clearly been briefed by someone. Who had briefed her and why? She wasn’t prepared to say.
She asked for a copy, so I went to the library and, only having a 20p piece made two copies. One of which I handed to BBC Radio Leicester. They opened the boot of their radio car and fiddled with a couple of switches, turning off their equipment as one reporter sat reading the leaflet in the back of her radio car. The mike was placed in the boot, but I was not interviewed. Despite this I began to suspect that I was being surreptitiously recorded. Isn’t it amazing how paranoid one can become when faced with an anonymous campaign?
They asked who was behind this campaign. My reply was that I didn’t know but it was funny that the poster had been issued in an area in which there were only two candidates. They asked whom I might suspect. I pointed out that these people hide behind their anonymity, but said that they behaved like terrorist cells, the campaign is coordinated and yet each anonymous cell appears to be acting autonomously and separately.
What I didn’t say was that living through this onslaught of anonymous tweets, blogs, postings and posters is a little like living in a third world country with a despotic and dubious band of autocrats determined to silence any voice of opposition. Shenanigans in the Kingdom of Swaziland sometimes pale into insignificance beside the Kingdom of Rutland.
Like my childhood home, Rutland appears determined to silence any opposition. In Swaziland the opposition is regularly locked up and false accusations levelled at political opponents. The newspapers in Swaziland are prevented from reporting anything but censored news. Whereas in Rutland…
Rumour has it that the new editor of one of our local newspapers is a Conservative who tried to stand for election on RCC but was prevented from doing so since she had only just moved back into the area and did not satisfy the residential requirements for prospective candidates. If what Gene Plews tells me is true, this is only interesting as a litmus test of the political allegiance of our local press.
The only independent and free press would seem to be our blogs. At least one of which has been hacked.** A local lady I bumped into recently said: ‘You have to stop otherwise they will destroy you. Your blogs and your emails will be changed. You just can’t win.’
The problem as I see it is – if I stop they will just grind me into the ground silently. Whether I blog and use email or take a vow of omerta, I will be silenced. Better by far to go out attempting, however vainly, to speak out, than to be silenced by fear of intimidation, which will continue come what may.
In the face of a despotic regime one should always struggle, however vainly, to speak out before one segues into oblivion. In the despotic Democratic Republic of Rutland let’s hope that we can find others with the courage to ensure that eventually the miscreants are traced and brought to justice.
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Parish Clerk, Clipsham Parish Council, Clipsham, Rutland, Election Shame!
Parsih Clerk, Clipsham Parish Council, Clipsham, Rutland, Shame
The parish clerk had previously removed a poster from the parish councils official notice board. I photographed him for a previous blog.
For the last four days there has been a new poster on display produced by Conservative Roger Begy's supporters.
It is good to see after a kick up the rear from Geoff Pook he got his finger out and finally displayed the required legal notices of course not within the legal time frame the law requires but then rules don't really matter for Rutland County Council or Leicestershire police when it comes to harassing me! or ensuring Conservative Roger Begy does not loose his seat.
Special addition for Conservative Roger Begy.
You said I don't know where you live? so I could not with a witness seen or photographed a poster close to your home. Here is a reminder of your address taken from Rutland County Council website.
GREETHAM WARD
Representing: Clipsham, Greetham, Pickworth, Stretton and Thistleton
Mr Roger B Begy (Cons)
Lindow Cottage 25 Main Street Greetham Oakham Rutland LE15 7NJ
Telephone: 01572 812529
E-mail: rbegy@rutland.gov.uk
The parish clerk had previously removed a poster from the parish councils official notice board. I photographed him for a previous blog.
For the last four days there has been a new poster on display produced by Conservative Roger Begy's supporters.
It is good to see after a kick up the rear from Geoff Pook he got his finger out and finally displayed the required legal notices of course not within the legal time frame the law requires but then rules don't really matter for Rutland County Council or Leicestershire police when it comes to harassing me! or ensuring Conservative Roger Begy does not loose his seat.
Special addition for Conservative Roger Begy.
You said I don't know where you live? so I could not with a witness seen or photographed a poster close to your home. Here is a reminder of your address taken from Rutland County Council website.
GREETHAM WARD
Representing: Clipsham, Greetham, Pickworth, Stretton and Thistleton
Mr Roger B Begy (Cons)
Lindow Cottage 25 Main Street Greetham Oakham Rutland LE15 7NJ
Telephone: 01572 812529
E-mail: rbegy@rutland.gov.uk
Saturday, April 02, 2011
Stone works at Clipsham Hall Rutland home of Sir David Davenport-Handley
Stone works at Clipsham Hall Rutland home of Sir David Davenport-Handley
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Clipsham Rutland County Council Independent Candidate Martin Brookes Greetham Ward Election May 5th 2011
Clipsham Rutland County Council Independent Candidate.
Please Vote For change on May 5th 2011
My aim is to promote integrity and gain public confidence in Rutland County Council.
If elected, I will work full time for the benefit of the residents of the ward.
I have no money or hold any vested interests and would work hard for the benefit of all the community.
It was a pleasure to meet and talk to so many nice residents in Greetham.
I met and chatted with a couple of residents of Thistleton.
I look forward to canvassing all the villages very soon.
Quite a few residents have said they do not know their current ward Councillor.
Your current ward councillor is.
Please Vote For change on May 5th 2011
Independent Candidate Martin Brookes
If elected, I will work full time for the benefit of the residents of the ward.
I have no money or hold any vested interests and would work hard for the benefit of all the community.
It was a pleasure to meet and talk to so many nice residents in Greetham.
I met and chatted with a couple of residents of Thistleton.
I look forward to canvassing all the villages very soon.
Quite a few residents have said they do not know their current ward Councillor.
Your current ward councillor is.
Mr Roger B Begy (Conservative) - GREETHAM WARD (Leader of the Council)
May 5th 2011
If your not on the electoral register you need
to apply for registration.
The deadline for registering to vote in time for the
local elections in England on 5th May 2011 is Thursday
14th April 2011. You can find out more about who
can register and application forms at
Published by Martin Brookes 13 Willow Crescent Oakham Rutland LE15 6EQ
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Greetham Ward of the County of Rutland Nomination Vote May 5th 2011 Election Candidate, Rutland County Council
Today I was nominated by a Greetham resident to stand for Election
as a Independent Unitary Councillor for Greetham Ward of the county of Rutland.
The nomination was quickly seconded and assented by a further eight residents of Greetham, who I thank.
The ward includes:
Clipsham
Greetham
Pickworth
Stretton and
Thistleton.
Out of the twelve homes I visited, I was only rejected by two. One because the resident maybe nominating a friend across the road. Another said he could not sign anything and I must be a very brave person to stand against Roger Begy, I can't imagine why?
I am happy to accept the nomination as a Independent Candidate, my aim is to promote integrity and gain public confidence in Rutland County Council.
If elected I will work full time for the benefit of the residents of the ward.
I have no money or hold any vested interests and would work hard for the benefit of all the community.
It was a pleasure to meet and talk to so many nice residents in Greetham today.
I met and chatted with a couple of residents of Thistleton.
I look forward to canvassing all the villages very soon.
The current ward Councillor is
Mr Roger B Begy (Conservative) - GREETHAM WARD (Leader of the Council)
as a Independent Unitary Councillor for Greetham Ward of the county of Rutland.
The nomination was quickly seconded and assented by a further eight residents of Greetham, who I thank.
The ward includes:
Clipsham
Greetham
Pickworth
Stretton and
Thistleton.
Out of the twelve homes I visited, I was only rejected by two. One because the resident maybe nominating a friend across the road. Another said he could not sign anything and I must be a very brave person to stand against Roger Begy, I can't imagine why?
I am happy to accept the nomination as a Independent Candidate, my aim is to promote integrity and gain public confidence in Rutland County Council.
If elected I will work full time for the benefit of the residents of the ward.
I have no money or hold any vested interests and would work hard for the benefit of all the community.
It was a pleasure to meet and talk to so many nice residents in Greetham today.
I met and chatted with a couple of residents of Thistleton.
I look forward to canvassing all the villages very soon.
The current ward Councillor is
Mr Roger B Begy (Conservative) - GREETHAM WARD (Leader of the Council)
May 5th 2011
If your not on the electoral register you need
to apply for registration.
The deadline for registering to vote in time for the
local elections in England on 5th May 2011 is Thursday
14th April 2011. You can find out more about who
can register and application forms at
Published by Martin Brookes 13 Willow Crescent Oakham Rutland LE15 6EQ
Saturday, August 28, 2010
The Olive Branch Clipsham and A Rutland Hippo
You can find The Olive Branch pub in the middle of a smart Rutland village, Clipsham just two miles of the A1. The pub was originally three farm labourers cottages which were knocked together to make a pub in 1890. It had been the heart of the village community up until its closure in 1997.
Then reopened after a complete restoration.
The Olive Branch also
Sponsors a
Rutland
Hippo
And I have heard through the grape vine this
is not a bad place to have a drink and eat
The hippo through the grapvines
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