A Slight Sprinkling

It has been an odd sort of couple of days on the weather-front here. Mostly mild. The sun has  shone and on the whole quite cold out of the sun. The television weather forecast for the last couple of weeks have promised snow, which, up to a point has been correct, as the north of England and Scotland seemed to have have quite a few inches over the past few days, but this corner of England seems to have escaped. But this afternoon, at around 3 o'clock there was a fair fall of the white stuff, but it didn't last long and certainly hasn't settled, not to the extent that it would interfere with transport in and around Milton Keynes, delaying trains and inconveniencing motorists. It went very over-cast and quite dark around 1 0'clock and I would have said we would have had a fairly torrential rain storm, but it never happened. As I write this at 3.45 p.m. it is again reasonably over cast but it's not clear whether we'll get sufficient snow over-night to mean the Academy is closed for the day.

As regards the incident I reported in yesterday's post about the Immigration Enforcement Officers in Eaglestone: I have no further information to report and there have been no further incidents, or at least from what I could see from our kitchen window. As soon as I have more on this matter I will endeavour to write it up on this blog.

Immigration Enforcement Officers In Eaglestone

I just went into the kitchen to do some washing-up at the sink at around 9.15 this morning, when I looked out of the window and saw three vehicles parked in the road immediately in front of our house. One is a police car and two of them are mini-busses with 'Home Office' and 'Immigration Enforcement' emblazoned along their sides. As I looked I couldn't but notice around eight or ten police officers walking into one of the side closes off Golden Drive. So one puts two-and-two together and thinks 'what on earth is going on?' Is someone going to be arrested for being an illegal immigrant or something? Or a gang of people going to be bundled into the mini-busses and be driven off to be interrogated?  Are they going to end up in Yarlswoood  Immigration Detention Centre? Which is just outside Bedford and only a few miles away from Milton Keynes? I am keeping a keen eye on developments and will post on here as things unfold.

A little later. . .

I didn't see exactly what happened later on during the morning. I saw two police officers come out of the close and drive away in the police car. The two Immigration Enforcement vehicles had gone when I next looked out of the window, so I can't saw what happened as regards anyone being detained, carted off in hand-cuffs, or whatever. Maybe there'll be something in the local press, the Milton Keynes Citizen, the B.B.C.'s local television news programme "Look East" or I.T.V. Anglia's "About Anglia."