I’m going to blow my own trumpet a little bit here, because nobody else is going to think about us has-beens, and why should they?
Entries from June 29th, 2005
Council planning department praised
June 29th, 2005 · Comments Off on Council planning department praised · Politics
Council Meeting
June 29th, 2005 · Comments Off on Council Meeting · Politics
I went along to the council meeting last night, and I wasn’t alone. It seemed like half the Labour Party were in the public gallery and the overflow seating, as well as all the Respect/SWP lot, and a fairly large crowd of council ternants. Yes it was the special meeting for the council to decide […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Housing
Development Control Committee. Again.
June 28th, 2005 · Comments Off on Development Control Committee. Again. · Politics
Yesterday I went to another planning committee meeting, or as it is called these days ‘development control’. This time I was interested in an application for some flats and a shop just a hundred metres or so from our house, on the other side of Tollgate Hill, but it was really a wasted evening. When […]
Crawley Interfaith Network
June 27th, 2005 · 4 Comments · Life, Politics
Yesterday Jayne & I dragged the kids down to the launch of the Crawley Interfaith Network. On the one hand I feel a bit of a fraud going, not having any faith at all personally, but on the other hand I know a lot of the people involved, and support what they are trying to […]
Big Brother News
June 26th, 2005 · Comments Off on Big Brother News · Life
While we were at the Interfaith launch we were told that Eugene, who contested the Pound Hill seat with Jayne at the county elections in May, entered the Big Brother house last night. Now this puts me in a difficult position: normally I would do almost anything to avoid Big Brother, on the other hand […]
Tags: Interfaith·TV·WTF
Manic Saturday
June 26th, 2005 · Comments Off on Manic Saturday · Life, Music
To paraphrase Van Morrison: whatever happened to Saturday and so slow? It used to be that Saturdays would be a long stretch of idleness, starting with a student-scale lie-in, and with a long afternoon nap closley following. This is a reastion to a week of getting up at 6 for work. Today was rather eventful, […]
Tags: Family·Religion·TV·World music
Citizens Advice
June 24th, 2005 · Comments Off on Citizens Advice · Life
Today I went down to the Crawley CAB’s Annual General Meeting. Usually I cannot make it as it is held on a Friday lunchtime, but I happen to have a couple of days off this week and could therefore attend – now that I am standing down as a trustee. This year’s annual report has […]
Tags: Broadfield·CAB·Crawley·Crawley Council
John Hemming
June 24th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Politics
Quite a few Labour bloggers have referred to the John Hemming situation in Birmingham (the recently elected Lib Dem MP with a wife, pregnant girlfriend and graveyards full of skeletons in the closet) but surely Recess Monkey has come up with the best line about it. Recess Monkey can’t quite put his finger on why […]
Tags: bloggers4labour·Funny·Lib Dems
On Amazon today
June 24th, 2005 · Comments Off on On Amazon today · Music
There is a new double CD called New Waves (“45 original 45s from the post punk era”). I saw it advertised in the Guardian and had to look it up to see the tracklisting, partly to see how they squeezed 45 tracks onto a double CD and partly to see what was selected. Lesson 1 […]
Nazis
June 23rd, 2005 · Comments Off on Nazis · Politics
Its official. According to the Standards Board for England it is fine for councillors to refer to the BNP as ‘nazis’. In this ruling, released last week, their investigators said that Councillor Gavin Stollar of the Lib Dems, in refering to the BNP as nazis, did not make comments which were disrespectful or capable of […]
Tags: BNP·Local Government·Racism
