Roots

 It's a strange year this year of the water rabbit ... 

Plans laid down , dashed to pieces and subsequent re drafts and contingency put into action , only to have to be honed and revised add lib in accordance with the temperament of the tide ...

Such is my experience with the old saying " the best laid plans of mice and men can often go awry " that I have sort of found a stoic comfort in being constantly on the road 

The rolling stone gathers no moss ....but these days I'm quite partial to a bit of moss ,I have been wrestling internally for a decade about how unwelcome I have been made to feel in this my native land - only by the bureaucrats and the adminz , the political and the management classes ....   but the more I have travelled around the more it appears to me that the favouritism that is granted by ' the mate from the council ' is indicative , not of proficiency in any given discipline ...well other than filling in funding applications and kissing ass 

It's been due to this seemingly corrupt little landscape that over the past ten years and more I've wandered from country to country ...  Looking for the perfect place to be ..the ideal location to sit and hide while the whole world eats itself 

But , whilst in this nomadic pilgrimage, I have bumped into so many souls , fellow travellers and static natives alike ...I have previously written about the many campfire reflections with the children of the world's countries and customs - each of us searching for our place in this burgeoning international community of wreckheads and lost souls 

I drew the conclusion a long while ago , that what all this direction less , rudder less near idealistic and hedonistic pursuit is futile ...

Paradise lost isn't out there ...and all of us of various ages all running away from the injustices of our own countries is just nuts , looking for an ideal out there somewhere , in a hammock , soaked in rum on some beach somewhere with room service and a soundtrack of your choice ?? Is that really what we are all looking for ?? 

Personally I doubt it , I've tried excessive indulgence of many kinds    .... The inevitability is always a hangover , of one form or another ... 

And yet , as great as travel is for a person ... certainly as beneficial a pursuit as reading - but that is to say , that if you spend all of your time reading mills and boon novels then you probably aren't going to be as well rounded an individual as someone with a more diverse reading habit 

The same is true of travel , trust me ...if you go somewhere , somewhere you don't even speak the language and you have a credit card and a plane ticket home - ok you might have a nice time , enjoy the weather and some time off - go to that same place without the return flight home , or the credit card for emergencies ....or either , you'll have a wholly different experience, sure it might be challenging ...but it will certainly render the more rounded individual at the end of it.

There is a common reflection that is batted around by the well seasoned traveller though ...and it's sling the lines of - the problem with travelling extensively is you start to loose a sense that you belong in a single place , that any one place can encapsulate ' home ' - because there are so many beautiful places and beautiful people out there in the world , even in comfortable surroundings you nostalgically ling for the smell of the jungle , the smell of the sea , the smell of the desert ....so you are always in a mild state of longing 

So to turn another phrase ...you get the travelling bug , and so the whole conundrum begins again 

It's nice to travel - but it's nice to belong too 

It's with this in mind that this little reflection came to fruition ... 

The spoils of war are going to yield a permanent rural retreat in South West Devon - this off-grid smallholding will be the u.k base of operations from this summer 

All of the cargo containers and scattered pop up enterprises will be in house in our beautiful and bespoke education facility in Devon 

At the same time - all of our scattered interests throughout Europe and North Africa will also be condensed into our brand new 3 floors bespoke arts facility in Nieuwmarkt Amsterdam ! 

Going back to the schedule of 3 weeks of the month sailing / farming in the u.k 

One week of the month in Amsterdam 

Plus the touring schedule .... 

So keep an eye on this ...it might be, once again, quite extraordinary xx

Conversation with labour councillor in Plymouth city council

 Dated 02/03/2023

That's excellent that you recall the situation 

That's fair enough ... It was a disasterously executed situation that has been expertly mishandled 

I was just wondering , seeing as you ended up under Tara Wilkinson's management, and having offered testament to suggest that you are on a friend's basis with Tudor Evans 

Given the basis off my experiences with both PATH and Tudor Evans

You might have been able to offer some notion of insight , perhaps would want to divulge anything at this stage 

This is going to be a colossal legal proceeding and I absolutely begrudge having to go through it , but there are wrongs that must be set right

I have had a message exchange with Nabs .....however if he does remain in position after being temporarily suspended for using again 

It was John Hamblyn that backed up Clare Stevens at on courses erroneous allegations against ' controversial ' visuals within the art room 

John has been given a million pound building ...despite his valliant efforts to do everything via zoom 

So there is a gross misjustice here

Yes I know ...Tara is travelling 

Lee reece sold all his properties and moved to Thailand ....

Its all a bit of a mess isn't it

That's quite alright though 

I do appreciate you offering your insight at this stage 

As I say this is going to be an arduous task to whittle out some interesting individuals within some very serious public service positions 

I hope that you and your affiliates can find scope to offer this oversight your support

Well ...

It's an interesting old tale ..cross party and interdepartmental which is a hell of a lot of a little single concerned citizen to do all on there lonesome ....especially being subject to the trauma involved ...personally 

I am calling for a public enquiry into organizations Mal administrations that resulted in deaths , unlawful evictions , assaults but security services , frustrated environmental health complaints - the absolute degree of demonstrable stress that I went through for others behalf during the lockdowns 

I am accusing a collusive air of hostilities and disdain against my absolutely correct appraisals of ongoing situations as they stood at the time could possibly have been garnered from a previous legal battle with the council , on a professional or private altercation in the passed which resulted in catastrophic administrative failings and required parliamentary oversight in the end ( expertly valuable consultation ) 

I would appreciate cooperation from all parties for both the professional conduct and personal conduct of less meritable individuals 

Out of curiousity, who might you or I speak to ?

Ha ha ha ....oh dear I have no end of droning complaint I assure you ...it's become rather time consuming , it might have turned me into a bitter old crank 

So I am seeking allies of course , but I have a shocking mistrust 😆 

Well Tudor was requested to intervene in the original dispute way back in 2013 ...

Its since those considerations at the time that I feel somewhat .... purposefully overlooked shall we say 

Every authoritative  insistance that I have colourfully contested since , in every instance quite justifiably so ...seems to have compounded this attitude of disdain and avoidance 

It seems quite remarkable that parallel projects of mediocre management seem to be excessively supported , while my own work - be that designing buildings - painting pictures - rendering syllabus for charities - running mining extractions for precious metals - or building dinosaurs - or it seems involved in litigations ( the average value for the aforementioned tends to be valued at around £180 per hour - regardless of activity - and can be easily demonstrated ) remain in seeming contempt despite my apparently ' whispered ' notoriety for the works that I have been engaged in anytime I try to do anything in this city 

Sorry , there is a lit if ground to cover x

....or it seems engaged in litigations

I would be very happy to hear his thoughts , 

Plymouth city council are I believe still on notice for pending legal action after the esculative complaints procedure during the lockdowns

I am in the process of petitioning for summons so a friendly conversation might be prudent before we all have to give testimony ..

Dear Richard Bingley and Plymouth city council

 Sent 04/03/2023

Good Evening Richard 

Please do excuse the late hour - but it's just the nature of my day 

I am sure you are aware that I am raising multiple complaints against , well this entire network of cross party interdepartmental Facebook friends and henparty networks 

Because , well let's be fair ...there's a couple of organisations under your current remit that have taken the abundant and demonstrable piss here 

So I'm coming in to bat 

You may consider this my official complaint ( dumbfounded as you may well feign to be ) 

I don't have a great deal I'd entertain ... But if you were looking settle out of court 

It would probably be better for all parties given the current state of the city and it's tenuous condition 

I can just get on with what I do back over in the Netherlands and elsewhere , and just leave you to whatever the hell it is that you think your doing 

Regards 

Aaron ( Artby ) Valerio

Dear Tudor Evans and Plymouth City Council

 Good Evening Tudor 

We have been in contact before and I am relatively ' prolific ' I think at this stage 

I just wanted to make contact as a courtesy really 

Who knows how many strange and ethereal administrators run through the murky depths of Plymouth city council's darkened corridors 

But I think I've spoken to mist of them , I've sent that Bingley guy a version of my official complaint ( I'm doing this in an unorthodox fashion - but most of my exchanges with this funny little organisation and it's subsidiaries and cross party , interdepartmental network of Facebook friends ) 

I'm chucking all of my experiences with your organization into a job lot , rounding it up into a formal complaint - but there's not really much room to manoeuvre I feel 

In 2013 my official complaint was in hindsight  obviously quashed ...that cost me a lot of time , money and even a marriage in the end , over a couple of grand you were trying to squeeze me for in business rates 

I have easy grounds to believe the social network that would frequent the RAOB social club on north hill would be able to verify one way or another - what raised the frustrations with the community arts project that was being run at the time ....

And now , oncourse south west , in collusion with Shekinah regrettably decided to illegitimately dismiss me from both a teacher training qualification and vocational placement ( that I had written - no less ) 

I am sure most of this is well within your sphere of leadership and influence , so I'm confident that you are perfectly aware of the miscellaneous 

In closing I will just add , it may be worth reflecting in hindsight - what contributions and contracts might have been rendered had I just been left to get on with a little painting / building dinosaurs / urban farming - rer ruralization, if amid the travels that I was consequently forced to take I hadn't proven ...that in almost any city in the world I can have an easier time than I can in my home town of Plymouth 

Regards Aaron ( Artby ) Valerio

Keeping your side of the street clean

 The Original Arts Hole and the lockdown years - 

The Original Arts Hole - Tree house 2.0 

So I got back from Amsterdam in the Friday ( which was already in partial lockdown already - and some of the looks we were getting as we sat there in the floor of the airport eating our sandwiches was already a terrified and judgemental look ) 

On the Monday that great far sack of belligerent wind issued the national instruments for the lockdown 

Now at this time , my girlfriend was living in temporary accomodation due to a housing dispute with her former tenency that had effectively rendered her as ' homeless ' 

I was living in a remarkable set of circumstances - 

As I'm sure I've previously mentioned I acquired a yacht through barter to act as a housing option and logistics and delivery option for the ever diminishing trade here in the UK , it's a small vessel, a little 30" GRP  but just enough for a fall back position when needed 

A friend of mine was working as a tutor for a local charity and training provider delivering construction skills courses for the probation and rehabilitation services in the city and suggested that I pop along to volunteer a day or two 

So this I did willingly , of course that's again where things just sort of doing out of control, it's a good thing I do keep such a stringent set of records ( indeed these days everytime I have a meeting with one of these government departments you need to be recording the whole time like some kind of conspiracy theory crazy that lives in a bunker  .... I am reflecting on the caricature in eighties and nineties media representations of course  

So I'm offered a flat , 

Im offered a roommate ...a live in recovering alcoholic that is only supposed to be with me for a few weeks while he is building routines and getting back into the swing of things ( actually he was a lovely guy and despite us being stuck together for most of and certainly the height of the pandemic - we did become friends ) 

The building we are staying in  was in a dire state of repair and comprised 3 flats over 3 floors , in a converted mid terrace thing in a deplorable part of town   ( remember I do still have and am spending my weekends down in a wooded tidal estuary - I'm not a big fan of company at the best of times ) the building itself was in such a dire state of repair that quite honestly it was just squalor 

 The tenant in the ground floor , an elderly couple of wavering disposition , the woman Joyce actually died of sepsis a part of the reason that I instigated the official environmental health complaint against the landlord , the charity managing the property and the local council , after Joyce died the partner Adrian was really in a bad way - drinking heavily and going down hill , a matter that I assure you was not left unreported ....

The tenant in the top floor was a Albanian street dealer - who was just a constant pain in the arse ...

So there's me ...a volunteer a couple of days a week with a local teaching outfit , suddenly looking after a grown man prone to bouts of alcoholism and withdrawal 

The guy on the ground floor is audibly loosing his shit in a palpably melancholic state 

Every time the guy upstairs plays his music at 3 am or has a shower which then runs down the walls of your living room ...

My girlfriend is in a state of apparent and incendiary distress , under threat of eviction for not paying her water rates to the homeless charity that is providing her temporary accomodation , as a result is being rather quarrelsome

I'm writing a syllabus for the training provider that I have been volunteering for in the hope that under my own little project -operation reintegration into this crazy ass society , I might find a little point of gainful employment to hide in while the economy keeps collapsing 

They didn't have a position - straight off ....so I actually opted to render one 

Then we go into lockdown ....

And everything went thermo nuclear - imagine if you will , my experiences during this time- I assure you there are a volume of emails and recorded evidence to testament those dark years , so I'll not labour over it in this little rant 

But the pint I am so circuitously getting around to making is 

How do you keep your shit together under such circumstances - 

Quite honestly, gardening and painting made quite the difference amid that little forced social dynamic.

The middle flat of the 3 we had no ground floor access , but we did have a fire escape , it was no mean feat acquiring all of the plants and things that were needed but over a very short time , just so I could feel like I was sitting in a treehouse while I was having my little cigarettes amongst all of that insanity , maintaining what I could of my chill , before the next drama erupted 

I know everyone suffered during those years ...some , more than others 

So a scoff at the idea of mindfulness courses being delivered in seminar style , of positivity practices online via zoom and all the rest of it ....

Its amazing what a person can do , and yet receive zero credit for .... I have become very much accustomed to being completely unappreciated in my time , for some people that would be enough to deter any further course of action 

But when you have some how managed to turn what most would consider to be a mild ADHD condition into a viable vocation ....then what's a little PTSD in the mix 

Official legal notice 😅

typing fast , on commute with sweaty hands ...keeping an eye out for cancelations and platform changes. busy thoughts from too much coffee ...too much distance , and too much stress. 

 no, i still don't know what is going on with my kidnapped legal advisor or my awol partner. but ive become somewhat accustomed to this . ...

Hopefully this will be a slightly more articulate version than the one I spat out in the facebook field while trying to munch a Sandwich earlier. 

 The Original Arts Hole - yes before the Australian division started doing you tube videos. the Arts Hole Mining Co. and conservation concern .... 

 when i moved out to this little spot of land during the pandemic i had the advantage of knowing it well ( indeed its quite a commuters map scape in my minds eye these days ) . set in an area of outstanding natural beauty , historic and environmental importance, as i wondered around I've managed to cobble together an interesting collection of granted permissions that effectively constitute mineral rights.

 cool, i like shiny rocks and spending a day wandering around in a beautiful place, well thats just the sort of thing that humans have done for thousands of years at least - pre t v - pre phone - pre written word.

 ill retain these little mineral right concessions , just so hopefully i can keep a little voice amid mass landholdings...just a in case someone wants to build a little to much too fast in this pretty little place. 

 MiNING : the purposeful extraction of valuable and or useful materials. 

 so I thought it would be interesting to Pop this out into this little bit of digital ether. now I've had freedom of information request completely disregarded in the past - one instance was a request for the body cam footage from an incident that i was unfortunately assaulted while interrupting an unlawful evictions during the Pandemic.

 I've just been made aware though, of yet another of our difficult to access rights to legal due process. " The Data Subject Access Request for information". i know this isn't your usual means of accessing a complaints procedure but its a visible public forum and so as a real time statement - dated and recorded ...i see no reason why this cant be entertained . I am sure that enough of the councilors that are currently officially avoiding comment - or even speaking to me at all ,- democratic processes eh ! but i am making this as public and uncomfortable for the little table of gossip that has seemingly managed to render rather expensive and distressing inconveniences. and I know that yiu are keeping an eye in my little outbursts as they unfurl - in the vain hope of sidestepping one liability or indeed indicting me for one . so here in this perfectly public forum despite the apparently reduced audience these days ( i wonder if i can implicate facebook for compounding loss of earning ). before I release a barrage of emails for your and third and fourth party considerations. i wonder if you might like to publicly acknowledge this formal. Data Subject Access Request for information. as well as a parallel freedom of information request for the release if any materials that

    plymouth city council 

 Plymouth city centre company 

 Plymouth community connections

    Plymouths access to Housing

    ShekinahMission 

( And the broader and unfortunately named homelessness alliance and affiliates ) 

 oncourse southwest 

 RAOB social club ( plymouth ) 

 Nova Homes 

Re :Start 

Plymouth lettings agency 

( As well as any other half brained subcontract that might well be relevant ) 

 Unfortunately as well as Devon and Cornwall constabulary service - although they themselves are not directly implicated in my considerations I do believe there are corroborations that might be ratified this way  

    i formally request the release of all and any materials concerning my name : my trading name:my company name and or any assigned descriptive designation used in communication concerning the aforementioned since our original point of dispute at Belliver Industrial estate and my affiliations with the occupy protest campaign I look forward to hearing from you and sifting through the notebooks worth of data that I am awaiting to receive 

   A valerio