There was something in the paper the other day about a club called Guilty Pleasures. Not so much a club as a phenomenon now, with franchise spin-off clubs and tie-in albums. Its a bit like the School Disco thing, but supposedly without the irony.
There are people like Terry Hall and Jarvis Cocker playing records like [...]
Entries from February 28th, 2006
Guilty Pleasures
February 28th, 2006 · No Comments · Music
Tags: Nostalgia
Sicknotes
February 28th, 2006 · No Comments · Work
This is getting to be a habit.
I get to London for 8am on the basis that getting in early means I can leave early, and then the late shift call in sick so I have to hang around and cover the help desk until the night shift turn up at 8pm.
Whether we are just unlucky [...]
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Monkey World
February 26th, 2006 · No Comments · Life
I have mixed feelings about zoos. I know that its not good to have animals locked up in an artificial environment for us to gawp at, but then again I do like visiting the zoo to see my favourites (giraffes and fish).
I try and resist the temptation to anthropomorphise, but when you look at [...]
Tags: Seamus
Four go mad in Dorset
February 25th, 2006 · No Comments · Life
I normally try to take the whole family out for a meal whenever someone has a birthday.
This has been getting more expensive as the kids grow older and more likely to want to go to Zari’s or the Happy Meeting Place than Pizza Hut.
This week was Chrystal’s birthday and we asked her if she would [...]
So bad its good?
February 24th, 2006 · No Comments · Music
Spizz is so confident that he provides links to his competition. This thing is that this one could well be in the so-bad-its-brilliant category.Honestly. It is as naff as they come, but I can’t get it out of my head. Not a patch on ‘Three Lions’ but I can imagine it being [...]
Tags: Football·Spizzenergi
Where’s Captain Kirk?
February 24th, 2006 · No Comments · Music
Where indeed?While I would quite like to see this painting hanging on my wall, I’m not really in a position to go splashing out on original art at the moment.I will just have to make do with getting the live DVD or going to the concert in April. Looks like [...]
Tags: Spizzenergi
We are the champions!
February 24th, 2006 · No Comments · Life
It was close, going into extra time and penalties, but eventually our team won the quiz tonight.
I attribute our success to us having heard of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, and the music quiz having questions about Sid Vicious and Generation X.
Its a good job the others were pipped at the post as the competition was for [...]
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Vader Towers
February 24th, 2006 · No Comments · Life, Technology
Remember this scary building?
I was itching to take a picture of something – anything – today, now that the camera is back. So I went for a short walk at lunchtime to get a bit closer and get a better view of what we now call Vader Towers.
Here are the results.
In the first photo, the [...]
Bad quiz day
February 24th, 2006 · No Comments · Life
I have just been reading this post from Geraldine. Its not what I need to see right now.Jayne and I have to go to a quiz night tomorrow. To make matters worse Jim McGough will be there on another team. He is an absolute mine of trivia, facts and information. We don’t stand a [...]
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AGM Excitement
February 24th, 2006 · No Comments · Politics
Tonight we had our barely-quorate AGM of the Broadfield Labour party, with predictable results but (I hope) some unexpected consequences.
The predictable elements were the small attendance and the meandering chaotic conversations. The low attendance is not as much of a problem as it might seem; I know a few of the regular attendees were genuinely [...]
Tags: Labour Party
