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I’m publishing this post to provide interested users with a link to my website’s Garendon page, where you’ll find some useful information on public access to the Garendon Park development . Just follow the link. Amongst other things on the website page, you’ll find a detailed description of which footpaths are currently accessible, as well as some history of the development and what is planned for public amenties there.  I’ll aim to provide regular updates over the next few months as the developers progress the construction of the new road, since this is likely to have a significant effect on public access. The plan shown below (Fig. 1) was published at the start of the development project by Persimmon, and indicates the intended layout of the Park after development is complete. Feel free to have a look round the rest of the website while you're there - there's plenty of interest to look at, and a lot of useful stuff available to download as well... Why have I bothered to...

  I first published this blog in late 2023 when the realisation that vaping was harmful to teenage lungs was becoming more widespread, and the authorities were finally waking up to the fact that they needed to do something.  All the evidence that has emerged since then has tended to confirm our suspicions - i.e. that long-term vaping does impair lung function, and is likely to be doing so irreversibly. We should thus only be permitting the use of vapes strictly as an aid to stop smoking, and only for as long as is necessary to 'kick the habit'. If we fail to restrict availability, and don't manage to convince our kids as to the dangers, we will be condemning a whole generation to breathing problems in their middle and later years, with the serious burden that will put on our NHS as a result.  There are already reports of worried parents seeing real and lasting damage actually requiring hospitalisation happening to their addicted kids, and the recent legislation banning ...

  The world of online e-reading has become a confusing place over recent years, with a 'battle royal' raging between the publishing industry and internet users as more and more content goes online.  The industry are desperately trying to preserve their income streams in the face of increased online access to e-publications of all sorts which are outside their control, but the 'shadow' libraries are continually finding ways to outwit them..... It would seem obvious that a new publishing model is long overdue, with some alternative arrangement for internet access when a book is first published, and a better deal for struggling authors on whom we all depend for our fiction. Until the publishers accept this, and act accordingly, they will continue to lose ground; their business model will continue to struggle, and could eventually fail altogether. In an attempt to unravel some of the complexity of accessing reading material online while this battle continues, here is ...