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January 29, 2010
Where is Robin Hood?
In the last week alone we have heard of palpable reductions in the public library service in Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Nottinghamshire, Southampton, Dorset, North Somerset and West Sussex and I am sure there are a lot of which we haven't heard.
Where is 'Delay'- the department of libraries and archives? They now have a huge and expensive interplanetary structure of regional engagement officers with cars, secretaries, employees. mobile phones, ibooks and all the things you need to get engaged with. They are claiming vast success rates at persuading local councils to behave and be good-- but I don't see it. Do you? They have missed all these. The library service is falling apart, gently like sand through the fingertips. They appear to be having no effect-- and they are stopping anyone else from doing the same job. Should we shut them down? Now? They are too frightened to answer emails-- Mrs Thatcher had the word "Frit" - she said
Posted by Perkins at January 29, 2010 9:24 AM
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Northamptonshire does not seem to be having too many problems, says I as a "public user" rather than an interested party, but the word for being frightened in the vernacular is "fritted".
Posted by: Hazel at January 31, 2010 1:46 PM
'Fritted', then. 'Delay' is too 'fritted' to answer emails
Posted by: Perkins at February 1, 2010 9:32 AM
Here in East Anglia a 'frit' is a bit of a fog - which seems appropriate enough in the circumstances
Posted by: Martyn at February 2, 2010 10:08 PM