Hmmm …
You know, I’m seriously tempted — tempted, mind — to start this post with “This is going to be quick”.
But I’ve a funny feeling it mite not be …
Schrödinger’s Post, is the term I think we can get away with using, here, possibly …
At any rate, you may have guessed it …
Which is handy.
What’s also nice to know is that I’ve heard from a friend of mine: whose sister has been referred here, by the Gazette!
Why, I’m not exactly sure, but it’s nice to know … !!
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But maybe that’s point for later … !!
At any rate, I’ve got admit, I was up town, earlier, and thought I’d look into Brentwood Library, to see how there machines are working.
Pure curiosity, I should add.
So, just as part of that curiosity, I’ve got to admit, I GIMPed up the poster you can see at the bottom of the pile, took it up to the library, and emailed to myself.
Which is possibly a bit geeky, I know, but those old Little Black Book designs were a touch iconic, I always think.
But, either way, while I’m disappointed they chose not to go with a Linux distro, I’ve got to admit that the reinstall of Windoze — and I didn’t think I’d say this — seems to have helped.
Still …
Never mind.
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Right, then, lets move on, shall we … ?
Yes, lets … !
Yes, I did, didn’t I … ?
But, at any rate, I do know something caught my eye in the Gazette, this week.
Now, Rethink have been doing some fantastic work, over the past few years: I’ve known people use it as both a print shop, and as service users.
So the Gazette running a story that the shop had lost it’s NHS funding?
That caught my eye.
And prompted me to write this …
Dear Sir,I’ve got to admit, I read your article about Rethink Reprographic’s loss of funding with a great deal of sadness.I’ve met plenty of people, over the years, who’ve been help by it and organisations like it. Both to get back into society, and as customers who need its printing services.Now I know that groups like Rethink, along withNACRO, who do similar work in rehabilitating former prisoners, as well as the club for the visually impaired that your paper mentioned, all do fantastic work with service users and with those — like Rethink Reprographic’s customers — who have to deal with them.Hearing about this …Especially given that those of us with mental health issues, criminal records or disabilities, find it hard enough to deal with the employment market, when even Brentwood Council is letting staff — temporary or otherwise — go.Well …Rethink — and charities like it — losing vital funding is understandable, under the general atmosphere of cuts.But is also a tragedy.And a criminal loss of funds.
And, yes, before you ask, I know that the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders aren’t maybe the best comparison to use.
But it’s still one I think is valid: after all, from what I’ve picked up, over the years, they done a few bits and bobs, themselves: just not as publicly.
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At any rate, that’s where I think I’ll leave things, for now.
But one last thing I will add is that today is the last day for those of us who wanted to object to the flats planned for the end of Saint James Road.
Hopefully, I’ll be able to let you know what happens, there, as soon as I hear.
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This is bad news about Rethink. I was in there a few weeks ago and they said Mr Pickles had visited and been impressed, so there were hopes the funding would not be cut.
ReplyDeleteGovernments are always complaining that people should find work, but it is extremely difficult when there are no services to help ill people get well enough to work.
Popular press like the Mail stirs up unrighteous anger in tax payers who conclude that anyone without a job for whatever reason must be a slacker, and then these people and papers say we get too much in benefits. I'd like to see them try to live on basic JSA or Incap for any length of time.
These people also think that anyone with mental illness must be a maniac, despite 1 in 4 people suffering from mental illness, and only journalists and Labour politicians actually are maniacs. And perhaps also the odd tyrant...
The papers also stir up hatred towards criminals regardless of circumstance. If someone has done the time and reformed he should be able to move on. I gave a certain person the benefit of the doubt, and I was not disappointed. People can and do change, and we should take them as we find them rather than judging them on past actions done for misunderstood reasons.
It is, of course, the fault of Labour that the country is in a mess. They wasted £billions with their incompetence and their obvious desire to ruin the country.
In 5 years perhaps the country's finances will be better, but with so many cuts in care and benefits will we survive to see it?