I now live in a purely ceremonial county now that Bedfordshire County Council no longer exists. I can’t say I’m particularly sad to see it go as the good services seemed to come from Mid Bedfordshire District Council and the…
New café in Sandy
Yay: a new café called the Perfect Cup opened on Monday in Sandy, taking over the former premises of Stead and Simpson across the road from Budgens, and I went to have a visit. It’s a very good location to…
Sandy on the web
Sometimes for the sake of it and sometimes not, I have been creating Sandy, Bedfordshire sites all over the web on social networking sites. I started with Facebook, as documented earlier; I have also created a group on Flickr, as…
Pictures of Sandy
I have started putting some pictures I have of Sandy onto flickr. They are all tagged sandy and bedfordshire and all appear in the Bedfordshire group. I might look into setting up a Sandy group at some point. The Sandy…
Sandy on Facebook
Dismayed by the poor geographical coverage of the UK on Facebook, I requested Sandy as a new geographical region. After several weeks of silence, I am presuming that they are not going to approve that one. This week I asked…
New coffee shop in Sandy
Hooray, there is a new café in Sandy, Archie & Mabel’s. We went in there on Friday to see what it was like, and again on Sunday in order to make sure they are encouraged to stay open on Sundays,…
Water and information shortage
There was a water cut in Sandy yesterday. I thought the shower had just conked out. We had some water in the tanks for the bath and so forth so I didn’t think much of it and went to work.…
Pete’s cornershop under new management
On Christmas Eve, I noticed that Pete’s newsagent/off-licence/corner shop, the Sandy landmark at the end of our road, has now changed hands. It is now open till ten in the evening (not till eight as before), and was apparently open…
Two of everything in Sandy
Following my post earlier this year pointing out that there are two Lloyds chemists a few doors down from eachother, two Forbuoys newsagents across the market square from eachother, and two Budgens, stevepsandy was good enough to write a couple…
Walk it
Simon Brunning points out a new service called Walk It which gives directions for pedestrians, much in the same manner as Google Maps does for cars. Mr Brunning gives a good overview of it, especially pointing out its fault in…