We are almost set up now, we have cellphones, a car, a school for the kids, a house, and I have a job. The only thing we don't have is an internet connection. So here I am in Maroochydore Library (Queensland) getting some long overdue 'Agenda time while on my laptop computer while my daughter and wife are surfing the internet on the library computers.

Hi all. Sorry I haven't done much 'Agenda time lately but I have important things to take care of at the moment like a phone, a car, a job, schools for the kids, and somewhere to live. I'm getting there _ I only have one of these tasks to complete!

Okay I want all my readers to read this carefully and think through all the implications then ignore everything and drive like a maniac to your nearest petrol station and fill your tank to the very brink; then do the same for any jerry-cans you've got and hey you got a bath - strap it to your roof and fill that too.

Back in November the 'Agenda was discussing a street market for Stourport. I know the 'Stourport Market' blog has been quiet since November - but I wondered if I could make a quick plug for something which is commented on in this debate.

I promised myself that I wouldn't blog about Australia unless I was comparing it with Wyre Forest, or it had something in common with Wyre Forest. Then I thought, 'hey rules are there to be broken'.

A long time ago in a valley not so far away... lived an Iron Age settlement.

I don't know why I bought this photo from ebay for my Ephemera Museum, I suppose I bought it because it was cheap. According to the back of the photo this is Les Farley, first place winner of the St. Michael's Scouts Junior Cross-Country Run (year unknown). The photographer was Mumford of Kidderminster.

Well Oliver Baldwin, son of Stanley Baldwin did. In 1939 Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin and Viscount Corvedale wrote to diplomat Robert Vansittart suggesting that a radio broadcast be send out to counter the propaganda being broadcast by Lord Haw-Haw. Here is the letter written 15 December 1939:

In Kidderminster Library there are two blue folders entitled 'KIDDERMINSTER HISTORY'. In them are previous studies and reference points for study into the history of Kidderminster. In one folder there's a single A4 page showing a timeline on the subject: 'Tank, Guns & Cannon in Brinton Park'. Here it is: