PCSO Moll Whitlesey reported today 07th January 2016
Had some burglaries reported over last 24 hrs – one got in through unlocked door and other was failed attempt on patio doors
Happened in Bassenhally Rd and Hemmerley Drive.
Be aware and look after/inform your neighbours.
‘The Library is partially open’
– Naturally NO councillor informed me of such I had to find out myself….. am I surprised!
Hopefully it will evolve for ALL to benefit!
click on link to take you there…. www.whittleseytc.com
From Far Away…..Wishing a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year.
Hope we are a Flood Free, Whittlesey for 2016
Greetings from ‘The Thambapanni Retreat’ in Unawatuna – Sri Lanka’
Roy & Connie
So every now and then it’s time to be a bit less serious – Now I have a story…It is called…
‘Esmeralda – The Emu – Egg’
‘Esmeralda’ came about around 10 days ago, born near Stratford-Upon-Avon, she is beautiful, emerald coloured and weighed 562 grams…. What will we do with such a colourful egg?.
‘Esmeralda’ is around the size of 6 large chicken eggs, so we decided to ‘Bake Off’ and make a very special Cake.
Connie (My wife) hasn’t made one of these for around 10 years!!!!…The cake is an Austrian ‘Gugelhupf’ (several spellings) …. some know it as a ‘Marble Cake’ Pic 1 shows the size of ‘Esmeralda’ sitting on a collectable ‘Sooty Egg Cup’.
We now need some serious ‘tools’ 
to tackle the job in hand….More Info
needed, and sure enough there are plenty
of helpful advice on YouTube™
Charge up the drill and make sure all the
‘bits’ are sharp enough to tackle the job.
Carefully drill a ‘pilot hole’ – not too bad..
Only ‘One Hole’ – this takes great expertise – the boy scouts always used ‘Two Holes’
It takes a lot of patience to get all the ingredients out….Next the ‘secret mixture’ for a ‘Classic Austrian Gugelhulf’
Sometime later – ‘Esmeralda’ is transformed into the ‘Classical Cake’ ours with ‘ Cocoa Swirl’.
Moral of the story could read……
Cake built from Australian Emu Egg
Cooked by Connie…Malaysian Chinese
For Roy of Austrian decent
My Grandmothers maiden name was’ Brandhoffer’
My descendants were the ‘Hapsburgs’
We will enjoy our very special cake.
Merry ChristmasRoy and Connie Gerstner
On a wet, dark night 15 Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinators attended the quarterly meeting.
In attendance also PC Rem Kajzer & PCSO Ian Moll
For the record Ian gave out a parking ticket on the way to the meeting.
We covered a variety of minor issues and concerns.
Two new potential co-ordinators attended
We welcome everyone and our next meeting will be held on
Tuesday March 15th @ 7:00 Grosvenor House (Whittlesey Town Council Offices)
Note PVSO Moll is NOT a Traffic Warden, but when he orders his ‘Ticket Book’
He orders 4 at a time!
For many years the group have a Christmas ‘meeting’ which now consists of a ‘quiz’ and some nice festive food. The group is so fortunate to have very good friends and sponsors.
This year (a rest for me) the present management have organised another fantastic Christmas do at St Andrews Hall. About 25 friends and members attended and Chairman Fred Mills gave a good shortish quiz which everyone enjoyed……and they cleared up after themselves at the end.
As usual click on photo to enlarge.
Just returned from the WTC Planning meeting (Agenda posted 2 days ago) I the ONLY member of the public present – NO one from the StreetLife Forum?.
I advised the committee that I take the occasional photo and would be audio recording the meeting (Which anyone can do).
Towards the end of the meeting Cllr David Mason informed the committee, that he has been in telephone contact with David Mills the communications manager for Sainsburys.
Mr Mills apologised to WTC in the respect of not informing them (WTC) of notices prior to being released into the public domain.
Cllr Mason then asked where Sainsburys were in building a supermarket, Mr Mills initially came up with the excuse that there were access issues ongoing, however the Council, FDC and Cambs highways have all said that these ‘issues’ had already been resolved.
Next Mr Mills stated “ That” Sainsburys were also looking at the ‘viability’ of building a store in Whittlesey – Now that is the first time I and many others have actually heard the word ‘viability’.
We all know that ALL supermarkets are seriously re-assessing their build programs and in many cases have already cancelled some.
The ‘travesty’ a word I use often is that after 5 or 6 years of wrangling with various applications/developers we/all in Whittlesey have NO new supermarket now or in the immediate future. One the +ve side, I am a big fan of what we have, and whilst there is NO Big Bully supermarket – our local shops/stores have a chance of survival.
My disappointment being that NO one else attended this meeting, and like with many other council meetings only a very ‘few’ usual members of the public attend.
(l-r) Cllrs Windle, Whitwell, Mason + Clerk Mason, Clerk Jolly, Mrs Mayor & Butcher
Fenland District Council has at long last obtained a conviction for Fly-Tipping, it is their ‘first’ success… If course I realise there has to be good evidence in order to prosecute, in this case the lowlife came all the way from Huntingdon to dump their rubbish in our area.
Here is two photos of more Fly-Tipping which occurred yesterday along Benwick Road.
If you see anyone Fly-Tipping please report it to FDC, your evidence can be used to get a conviction. If possible take a photo, but do not approach the suspects and put yourself in danger, if you think you are in ‘any’ danger call 999
Lets find these people.
Rubbish, household items, and some asbestos piping….
Blighting our landscape and ruining our environment.
The Planning committee of Whittlesey Town Council meets tomorrow at 10:30 at WTC Offices – this because of the number of applications received just before Christmas.
Attached is the agenda.
From January, I hope that the Whittlesey Town Council Website will be up and running, and ‘everyone’ will be able to access, meeting dates/agendas/minutes etc.
As usual click on picture to enlarge…..
NHW meeting at Whittlesey Town Council Offices on Grosvenor Road, (The White Building opposite the ‘new bus station’) at 7pm (Use side door)
A lot of questions posed on Street Life® have been answered so many times at Neighbourhood Watch Meetings over the years.
Speeding/Speedwatch/Anti-social behaviour, Minor crime, Street Lighting, Cyclists on Pathways, Illegal parking, Inconsiderate parking and many other issues.
We don’t ‘always’ get things done, but at least the Police are made aware of our ‘local issues’.
We in turn can be the eyes and ears for our Neighbours and Community.
One ‘small result’ last week being a motorcycle semi-abandoned along Church Street, so much so, there was a ‘foot of leaves’ around it, – a quick check on the DVLA told that some of its documents were out of date, although a Highways/DVLA or FDC issue, a contact with our PCSO, had the ‘problem’ sorted within a day….The Motorcycle has since been taken off the road by its owner.
Now ‘we’ don’t always get such quick results – but at least on this occasion restores a little more confidence in our association with our local Policing Team.
It is hoped that our relatively new Sergeant will be attending tomorrow evening – it is an open meeting anyone can attend….Please come along, don’t rely on ‘rumour’ rely of facts.
