The West Wiltshire Question

My Lovely Wife’s nephew and his girlfriend came to visit just after New Year. Their visit followed the earlier visit home of Bluebird. All three visitors were complaining vociferously about Michael Gove, his actual policies and the way he makes them.

Education is a devolved matter. The Scottish Parliament and Scottish Government handle education policy and local governments in Scotland deal with the provision of actual education. So far, so good. My vote and my efforts in civic society have as much of an influence on my son’s education as anyone else’s. 

My daughter lives in West Wiltshire.

In theory my Edinburgh MP has a vote on English education policy. In practise, I’m not sure how much of an interest he takes in the matter. I certainly have no say in the running of the local authority that is delivering my daughter’s education.

As a Scot, living and voting in Scotland, should I have?

On Music Recommendations

I have a wifi stereo and a Spotify account connected to it.

I often amuse myself by baffling my son with appropriate (or inappropriate) sound effects. Over the Christmas holiday the Captain and I were playing with his model railway. I queued up about an hour’s worth of train related sound effects on the stereo to create some atmosphere.

An email today from Spotify tells me that they would like to recommend three artists I might like.


Sound FX

Sound Effects Library

Sound Effect Kings.

I’ll definitely check them out.