Most people who know me, know that I am no great fan of Christmas, but I have to admit that this year was quite emotional. Our youngest, Charlie, already knew he was getting a Slimline Playstation 2 from his real dad which he was looking forward to. What he didn’t know was that Jayne and […]
Entries from December 25th, 2004
Last day
December 22nd, 2004 · Comments Off on Last day · Work
Phew! Today was my last work day this year. I have been counting down the working hours for the last couple of weeks. Its not that I like Christmas especially (not since that year when I spent Xmas day alone as my then wife was working at the hospital, went out to call the family […]
Tags: Railways
Metro Bar
December 15th, 2004 · Comments Off on Metro Bar · Music
Saturday night I went up to London for a night out. I don’t do that often: after commuting for 5 weekdays, the last thing I want to do is take another train up there! The trouble is that I do like going to concerts and the people I want to see just don’t come to […]
Charity
December 15th, 2004 · Comments Off on Charity · Life
On Saturday I spent a couple of hours in the town centre collecting money for the Citizens Advice Bureau. People were not exactly queueing up to put money in the tins. It had crossed my mind that the CAB would make more if I just gave them the money I spent on the bus fare […]
Tags: CAB
Football
December 7th, 2004 · Comments Off on Football · Life
Tonight I had a meeting at 7pm at the Community Centre. It was only a meeting of the Finance sub-committee so did not last too long and I just had enough time to walk down the road to the Broadfield stadium to catch Crawley Town play Barnet in the Conference league. I managed to squeeze […]
Tags: BYCC·Crawley Town·Football
Christmas Shopping Hell
December 5th, 2004 · Comments Off on Christmas Shopping Hell · Life
This afternoon I ventured down to Crawley town centre to look for some presents for the wife. The place was heaving. In Argos all the machines for self-service were out of order and the queue for the tills snaked though the shop and reached all the way to the front door. Virgin and the Disney […]
Storage
December 4th, 2004 · Comments Off on Storage · Life
I’ve been thinking a bit about storage, maybe because I don’t have enough of it here. Modern houses just don’t seem to have the sorts of nooks and crannies for piling up junk that older places do – and I have a lot of junk! The main problem is with books, records, videos and stuff […]
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AIDS day
December 4th, 2004 · Comments Off on AIDS day · Life
This Wednesday was World AIDS day. This weekend there was a service at the Barn Church in Bewbush. Last year I went as one of my obligations as Deputy Mayor and, although I am not a religious person at all, I found it to be a pleasant service, and so I was looking forward to […]
