At the campaign meeting the other night I mentioned that I did not, officially, know the result of my interview to join the local government panel. I was told I should have had a letter ages ago. This morning we found the letter on the kitchen floor, behind a chair. Todays lesson is that however […]
Entries from September 30th, 2005
Interview success
September 30th, 2005 · Comments Off on Interview success · Politics
Tags: Elections·Labour Party
The sights of Broadfield
September 30th, 2005 · Comments Off on The sights of Broadfield · Life
I had to go off to the tip today to throw away all the rubbish I have been accumulating at the side of the house. On the way back I decided to have a look at a couple of places in Broadfield I have not had much of a chance to visit. First of all […]
Traffic and speed (data not cars)
September 30th, 2005 · Comments Off on Traffic and speed (data not cars) · Technology
This morning I received an e-mail. (If Jo is reading this she might want to stop reading now. I know it winds her up.) It was from Telewest and said: Dear Customer, We’re pleased to tell you that we have upgraded your speed from 1Mb to up to 4Mb. We have also increased your upstream […]
We won an award!
September 30th, 2005 · Comments Off on We won an award! · Politics
Crawley CLP won an award at the party conference in Brighton. It was the John Prescott Membership Challenge for all the new members we managed to recruit over the summer. In the photo, with John Prescott, Ian McCartney and Matt Carter, are Laura Moffatt (MP for Crawley), Gillian Joyce (County councillor and delegate), Jack Harris […]
Tags: Labour Party
More from the Broadfield Forum
September 29th, 2005 · Comments Off on More from the Broadfield Forum · Life
I have had another thought about Tuesday’s Broadfield Forum. It is a useful meeting, but there are ways to make it more useful. I have already discussed how it could, and should, be more inclusive, particularly in the respect of not ignoring the Tollgate Hill area. Another improvement occurred to me while I was writing […]
Broadfield Post Office
September 29th, 2005 · Comments Off on Broadfield Post Office · Life
At Tuesday’s Broadfield Forum one of the invited guests was a chap called Adrian, who works for FTD Johns, the owners of the Broadfield Barton. He was able to give us the official story of what is going on with the Post Office, which is that it will re-open, but some legal matters are preventing […]
Bloggers4Labour on the town
September 29th, 2005 · Comments Off on Bloggers4Labour on the town · Life
A photo from last night in Brighton From left to right: Damian, Antonia, Jo, Andrew, Tom, and Jonathan. This was taken just before I disappeared in a panic, having forgotten to make a note of the times of the last train back home. (It was actually 23:37 and I got to the station at 23:22 […]
Birthday present
September 29th, 2005 · Comments Off on Birthday present · Life
Its not how much you spend, its the thought that counts apparently so thank you Scar for this birthday present. I think I may have told him “you shouldn’t have” or words to that effect.
Tags: Pets·Serial Killers
Ominous
September 28th, 2005 · Comments Off on Ominous · Technology
I was looking through the log files for my web site (www.circuitcity.co.uk) yesterday, and saw there were half a dozen visits from an IP address 21.26.69.6 which turns out to be Circuit City Stores Inc of Richmond, Virginia, who have the address www.circuitcity.com
Tags: Internet
Broadfield Forum
September 28th, 2005 · Comments Off on Broadfield Forum · Politics
This evening I went to a meeting of what is called the Broadfield Forum. This is supposed to be a meeting of concerned/involved/engaged residents of the area, hosted by the borough council and with other parties invited if either there is something they want from the residents or there is something the residents want from […]
