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The status of the radio station Planet Rock is that it is still up for sale, with the deadline extended until the end of this month: basically nothing has changed for over a month. Its proving harder to sell than a two-bedroomed house in Letchworth. [Read more →]

It only seems like a week ago that I was looking out at the trees behind the house and wondering if they were ever going to get leaves this year.   I could still see through the branches to the houses on the other side of Tollgate Hill.    Now they are in full leaf and it feels like there is a veritable forest behind the house rather than a few-metre strip of trees. [Read more →]

While yesterday’s meeting was interesting - its always good hear about the plans for the company directly from the man at the top - it was just as illuminating to pick up things from colleagues outside the meeting.  I am not directly involved in the European Works Council so a lot of it was new to me, but one thing that came across very strongly was the difference between the status of unions in France and in the UK. [Read more →]

It has been a long day today, and it feels even longer.   I was staying overnight in Versailles so I could go to a meeting this morning and I got up extra early so I could go out and take some photos in the town before breakfast.   As it happens I was up before the sun - at 5am.  By my reckoning that means I have been up since 4 o’clock this morning, English time. [Read more →]

The end of the (Premier) football season was only slightly exciting for West Ham fans.  After seven of eight months lodged at number ten in the table there was a slight mathematical chance of slipping to eleventh on the last day - but only if Spurs beat Liverpool, which wasn’t going to happen was it? [Read more →]

On Friday we went down to K2 for Thomas Bennett’s Year 11 Record of Achievement ceremony.   I had not not been to one of these before - I missed Frankie’s and Chas’s school did something in the evening which was on a much smaller scale: he did go to a much smaller school. [Read more →]

I was at another quiz on Friday night.  This one was in aid of the Crawley Community Church building fund.  One of my colleagues at work is involved in the church and invited me to join his team.  I may be an atheist but I’m also a quiz whore [Read more →]

I read somewhere yesterday that Socrates was a trained sculptor.  I can’t remember exactly where I read it or what the context was, but its just the sort of odd thing I enjoy discovering.

I find hot weather quite uncomfortable so I’m quite happy for it to be overcast with the odd shower, but today is different.   Its Chrystal’s last day at school and we have to go and sit in the assembly hall for what will feel like hours while they all get their records of achievement and that sort of thing. [Read more →]

As a result of having bought some concert tickets online in the past I now get all sorts of regular e-mails from ticket agencies and venues and I’m used to seeing old names in the forthcoming attractions and thinking “are they still going?”.  This week I got something from the Carling group about whats coming to the Brixton and Islington Academies and the Shepherds Bush Empire.  Amongst the up-and-coming, fresh young artists listed are Golden Earring, Focus, Wishbone Ash, Billy Idol, the Groundhogs and… Fields of the Nephilim. (!) [Read more →]