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Entries from December 9th, 2006

Doing the Lambeth Walk. Oi!

December 9th, 2006 · Comments Off on Doing the Lambeth Walk. Oi! · Work

This week I took a couple of lunchtime walks in the Vauxhall direction.  The first day I took the train to Vauxhall and them walked back to Waterloo. It was an opportunity to see from ground level a lot of the places which I see from the train window every day.  First of all I […]

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The Crawley News defence

December 9th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Life

I had an interesting e-mail from one of the Crawley News staff. A shame it wasn’t a comment on my post about the conflict between their editorial stance on escort agency advertising and their commercial policy to carry such adverts which could have generated some stimulating debate. Anyway, this e-mail makes a decent point. It […]

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Tories lose their majority

December 9th, 2006 · 12 Comments · Politics

Today a letter came through our door from our councillor, Marcella Head, to tell us that she has left the Tory party and joined the Liberal Democrats. This was unexpected but not a huge shock. I knew she was not entirely happy in the the Tory party, which was why I gave her a membership […]

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Define “greatest guitarist”

December 9th, 2006 · 6 Comments · Music

I came across this mini-rant earlier today, and it reminded me a bit of the debate about Sheryl Crow being the bass player in that BBC advert which we had here a couple of months ago. A quick warning: don’t read any further if you have a mouthful of drink. I will not be held […]

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