Boy is it windy out there tonight! In the time I have lived in Crawley I have noticed that it seems to be very prone to winds. When its not windy, its likely to be foggy. It must have taken a real genius to decide that its the ideal place for Britain’s second-busiest airport!
Entries from October 25th, 2005
Pimp My Ride
October 24th, 2005 · Comments Off on Pimp My Ride · Life
Pimp My Ride on MTV is one of our son’s obsessions on television, along with MTV Cribs, the rap shows, and umpteen American teen sitcoms. One day we will have to break the bad news to him that he is not a gansta, but in the meantime… At the end of each edition of Pimp […]
5-day gap
October 24th, 2005 · Comments Off on 5-day gap · Life
A five-day gap between posts… what was that about? dead Internet connection? Pressures of work? Short trip to foreign parts? Nothing so exciting. Just a bout of symptomless flu, which is one way of describing a week of listlessness with an inability to concentrate, but nothing serious enough to actually stay at home for. Or […]
Secret Crawley: No. 3 – Broadfield Park
October 23rd, 2005 · 5 Comments · Life
Not exactly a secret. As you can see from the sign, it is part of Crawley’s ‘Greenway’, but its not the most trodden part, the spokes at Ifield and Tilgate are much more heavily visited. Perhaps because they are prettier, although the fact they have pubs on the route may be a factor. Being owned […]
Ewe must be joking
October 18th, 2005 · Comments Off on Ewe must be joking · Politics
I don’t know if anyone saw this story about Havering council in Essex. The report of it in Private Eye’s Rotten Boroughs was even more lively.
Tags: Essex·Funny·Town Planning·WTF
Best web site ever?
October 18th, 2005 · Comments Off on Best web site ever? · Technology
I may as well instruct Telewest to turn off the Internet connection now – I can’t believe I am ever going to find anything better than this site.
Secret Crawley: No. 2 – Whalebone Plantation
October 18th, 2005 · 5 Comments · Life
Just over the road from Broadfield is a place called Whalebone Plantation. I think thats what its called anyway. Tucked away in the angle between the A23 into town and the M23 it looks from the outside as if its a tiny triangle of land, but its a real Tardis of a place. Accessible on […]
Tags: Crawley·Nature·Photos·Secret Crawley·Tilgate
Secret Crawley: No. 1 – Pease Pottage
October 16th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Life
This is a part of Crawley, actually a part of Broadfield, which often gets forgotten as its a little scrap of land separated from the rest of town by the A264. Its quite likely only by some historical fluke that it has ended up within Crawley’s boundaries instead of in Horsham district. But everyone has […]
Tags: Broadfield·Crawley·Nature·Pease Pottage·Photos·Secret Crawley
Chocolate
October 16th, 2005 · Comments Off on Chocolate · Life
I bought a Twix today. I am halfway through eating it now. It is the first chocolate I have had since a tiny bite-sized thing Wednesday night, and I can’t decribe how good it tastes!
Tags: Food
Trolley Dash in Broadfield
October 15th, 2005 · Comments Off on Trolley Dash in Broadfield · Politics
Last month we were doing some canvassing in Broadfield and noticed a lot of abandoned shopping trolleys in the housing estate behind the shops. Today we went out with Labour party colleagues from all over the town and collected them all up, which was quite fun. Just in case we needed more manpower we took […]
