This a follow-up to last week’s piece about parking. On one of my little lunchtime walks I took a short cut through a council estate off Bayliss Rd in Lambeth. I had been past dozens of times, but had never actually been in it. As you can imagine, parking spaces are a valuable commodity in […]
Entries from January 24th, 2007
Partial solution
January 24th, 2007 · Comments Off on Partial solution · Life
Tags: Cars·London·Parking·Town Planning
Last Ticket
January 24th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Work
Here it is – my last railway season ticket. I hope so anyway. It runs out next week, so I have 6 days to decide whether to just dump it in the recycling, keep it for posterity, or devise a suitable ceremonial destruction. The big question though is do I hang on to the photocard? […]
Bloody Vikings!
January 24th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Technology
I think I can live without Lordi ringtones. I don’t want to buy Cialis online – or even offline: I spend enough time in bed at the weekend as it is. And I have no interest in Texas hold’em poker, so I am getting a bit pissed off with the several hundred spam comments on […]
Recreating Art
January 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
I saw this photo the other day on Flickr. It is the result of a group of people in Beloit, Wisconsin who tried to recreate a painting of Seurat’s called Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte – or Un dimanche après-midi à l’Ile de la Grande Jatte if you want to get […]
Don’t believe everything you see in the papers
January 21st, 2007 · Comments Off on Don’t believe everything you see in the papers · Life
This article in today’s paper really wound me up. (No link. For some reason the link on their website isn’t working) It is not that I necessarily disagree with Charles Saumarez Smith’s opinions about public funding for the arts, or the effect free admission has had on museum visits or anything like that. No… what […]
Tags: Art·Newspapers
The official BNP line on Big Brother
January 21st, 2007 · 5 Comments · Politics
I have not watched Celebrity Big Brother, apart from a bit of the first one to make sure Teddy Sheringham wasn’t on it, but there is so much written about it that I sometimes feel as if I have seen it. Doing a search on Big Brother stories on the Guardian web site, sorted in […]
Scrum down at the National
January 18th, 2007 · Comments Off on Scrum down at the National · Life
I finally got round to visiting the Velzquez exhibition at the National Gallery today. I already cocked-up on dates and missed the Holbein exhibition at the Tate so I was determined not to miss this, even though it meant going in the morning to queue up to buy a ticket for entry in the afternoon. […]
Invasion of Iran
January 18th, 2007 · 9 Comments · Politics
I am often stopped in the streets by people eager to hear my opinions on the Iran situation. Well, OK, I am often stopped on the streets and asked for the price of a cup of tea, and I am exaggerating Anyway, I was reading something in the paper at the weekend about the possibility […]
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Rare praise for the railways
January 18th, 2007 · Comments Off on Rare praise for the railways · Life, Work
I know I complain about the railways, railway companies, railway staff, rail unions, rail passengers, railway stations, in fact everything to do with railways, a little bit. It is an occupational hazard if your occupation involves commuting by train for 20 years. Today I want to heap a little praise for a change. This year […]
Parking
January 18th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Life
Today I came across this brilliant site. It is a blog about bad/inconsiderate parking in the garage at somebody’s workplace. Some fine examples of appalling parking in an attempt to name & shame. Can we have the same thing for County Mall please? Or any of the car parks in Crawley. With particular emphasis on […]
