As Was -From High To Low Pollution Energy Use

Heating Norms

I’ve been reading some of the very pessimistic views concerning climate change, and thinking back to what was normal whilst I was a child in the 1950s.

That is before the effects of the clean Air Act came into being.

Homes were heated by coal, and coal deliveries were a normal.

Then we had paraffin heaters, with cans of paraffin in our homes.

100 watt lighbulbs were normal. No energy saving bulbs were available.

There was No double glazing and condensation would produce a sheet of ice inside of the window overnight.

Other Norms

Other things which were very common included bedsits in which there was a gas cooker in the same room people slept in. That’s no longer legal.

So it shows just how things can be made much better.

Now

What we now have is very little time to push for all the other changes which need to be made.

We need to make these changes with more activists who combine life style with campaigning.

Collective Memories

Something which many people don’t think about when it comes to the effects of aging.

Many of ones friends are no longer around, or are unable to easily keep in touch due to medical reasons.

But the worst thing is loosing your collective memories. That goes for the loss of remembering people one used to know.

Thus the question:- ‘do you remember?’ will never be answered.

I’ve been thinking back to my involvement in YAPPU ( Youth Assessment of the Peace Pledge ) in the early 1970s and those who where involved in it.

I wonder just what happened to Jim Steer and Vic Groves.

Anyone know just where they might be ?

Torness 1979 & 2026

Occupation

I was on the Torness demonstration during the spring of 1979.

That was as part of an occupation of the site where the reactor was being built.

10,000 people on the demonstration and 2,500 of us who occupied the site.

Now

As predicted the site is just not safe.

The newly highlighted problem is Asbestos, as highlighted by the ONR

https://www.onr.org.uk/news/all-news/2026/06/onr-issues-four-improvement-notices-following-asbestos-related-shortfalls-at-torness

Not So Ancient Bob

For those of you who have been watching Bob Lambert being quized at the spycops inquiry this week.

He pretending to be this very ancient and infirmed individual.

He is only 74 . Born during March of 1952.

He keeps replying to the questions asked:-

” I can’t Recall”

” Not that I can recall”

and

“I don’t understand the question”.

In contrast –

I was born on November 3rd 1949. So I’m 76.

( Remember how I became a first time buyer at the end of last year.)

So I have a different take on getting older.

Thus I’m not impressed with the game Bob is playing.

New Vegan Action In Carlisle.

Having spent a lot of time sorting out my new flat, and finding out about the area I live in it’s now time to start looking at just what I can do.

Thus I am now looking at what the vegan options are in the city.

This is what has just been covered on this in the Carlisle local press, which is the News and Star.

https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/26138251.vegan-activist-claims-carlisles-vegan-options-limited/

Next task is to find and join with other vegans in the city.

Very Soon

Over the last couple of months I have been very busy.

Being a First Time buyer at 76 and moving into to a flat in Carlisle has been somewhat challenging.

Unpacking everything has also been a challenge. Though I have at last managed to resort all of my books and donated a lot of them to a charity shop.

Now I will soon be able to get back to some more campaign work and start on a few new projects.

What I am now trying to do is make contact with any vegans in the city and pacifists in the region.

There is a real need for a Vegan shop and cafe in Carlisle.

Ditto there is a need to set up a pacifist group.

So any contacts to make this happen would be most appreciated.

Ecological Damage Information Needed.

It’s Not Logical.

In many of the current news reports and commentaries about the Trump bombings, wars in the middle east, and the shipping delays are focused upon the price of oil.

Not that we need to use oil if an ecologically transport system was in place.

Yet very little information is available about the ecological damage being done right now.

The same applies to the war between Russia and the Ukraine.

We need to focus upon this information as a part of our peace campaigning activities.

Over The Last Couple Of Months

During the last few months I have had a lot to focus upon, and thus been unable to add much to my blog,

During November I finally purchased my new flat which is in the centre Carlisle.

That has been a real first for me, as I am a first time buyer at 76.

I’m currently in the process of moving in, unpacking boxes, making contacts, and finding out about the area.

The long term aim is to engage in campaigning throughout Cumbria and get over to Northumberland which is not that far away.

Sideways Derailment

The train derailment which happened this week in Cumbria is the kind of thing that might take place at any time that a DRS nukiller waste train passes by.

We have been very lucky so far that it has not occurred.

There might be a speed limit on the waste flask trains, but there is no such low speed limit on passenger trains passing by.

This is just one of the railway safety regulations which we need to focus upon.