The moribund Crawley UAF received an e-mail today from a concerned resident of Horsham. Itsaid: Hi there – the BNP are fielding a candidate in the up and coming Denne Ward by election in Horsham, West Sussex. What can be done to ensure this scum do not even get a toe hold? What indeed? I […]
Entries from November 29th, 2006
Gutters
November 29th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Work
Quiz time. Only one question. If you had a leaky roof what would you do? 1) fix the leak 2) put out buckets to catch the drips 3) install a comprehensive system of gutters inside the ceiling to catch the water and direct it out through holes in the wall.
Rijkswidget
November 29th, 2006 · Comments Off on Rijkswidget · Technology
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is really in a league of its own as far as official museum websites go. Most major museums have the ability to view their collections online (except the Museo del Prado which either does not have the facility or has it very well-hidden) but they are often only in low-res small […]
Tags: Art·Netherlands
Dreamspace?
November 29th, 2006 · Comments Off on Dreamspace? · Life
Been getting loads of visitors via Google’s image search for this picture: It is not even a very good photo of the Dreamspace installation at the Croydon World Party this summer. Is the sudden flurry of interest (24 of the last 100 visitors) a result of this story? Or are there a lot of fans […]
You shall go to the ball…
November 29th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Politics
It is not often these days that something happens which is genuinely surprising, but today I found something. I opened my post to find a letter inviting Jayne and I to the Mayor’s civic reception in January. It would not be an over-statement to say we were both shocked – but amused in equal measures. […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Family·WTF
Torchwood
November 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on Torchwood · Life
I am not going into any detail – I know there are some fans of the show who do not get BBC Three and will have to wait until it comes on BBC2 tomorrow, and they might read this – but this week’s Torchwood was superb. Overall I have found the series to be a […]
Tags: TV
The power of whingeing
November 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on The power of whingeing · Life
I was totally gobsmacked by this story in the Guardian today. Lets see if I have got this right… the entertainment at a cricket match included a song parody which accused us Brits of whingeing, so we (or our representatives out there in the ‘Barmy Army’) whinged about it, and got an apology. I though […]
Aston Villa?
November 24th, 2006 · 7 Comments · Music
When something happens once its just an occurence, when it happens twice its coincidence, but a third time and I think it could be the start of a trend. I am referring, naturally, to naming a band after a football team from another country. First there was Saint Etienne named after the French team of […]
Advertising Madness
November 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off on Advertising Madness · Music
Yesterday I saw a poster at Waterloo station to promote a new album by Jools Holland. Towards the bottom of the poster is a very prominent box which says something like “See the TV advert featuring VIC REEVES at www.someaddress.or.other” So we have a printed poster advertising a TV advert? Is that what you call […]
Deed Polls
November 23rd, 2006 · 6 Comments · Life
Last week Jayne and I went to the website for the UK Deed Poll Service and changed her nephew’s name for him – with his knowledge obviously. It was all terribly easy, and not very expensive either. Certainly a lot cheaper than getting personalised number plates for the car. (I think we can all see […]
