Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

Richard Symonds has been having a moan about a suggestion that some new houses might have indicators installed which tell the inhabitants when the next bus is due outside.
I can't help thinking that if a certain house in Bewbush had such a gadget back in October 2005 it might have looked something like [...]

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I had chicken satay in the canteen at work (oops. Sorry. They like to call it a "staff restaurant").  I am pretty sure that satay is not supposed to be bright yellow…

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The good news is that there isn’t any. I know that some people see a denial as sign of a cover-up, but in this case its because the whole thing was made up.
If anyone tells you about a BBC story saying that there have been 15 deaths from bird flu, it is because they [...]

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This evening I watched what is probably the best film Sylvester Stallone has been in for the last ten years. Not Rocky Balboa: I haven’t seen that. I haven’t even seen the first 5 yet. It is a film from 2003 which I didn’t even know existed until I saw it in the three-for-twenty-quid racks [...]

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The kids are going paintballing tomorrow. It is at a place closer to home than where we normally go in Westerham, but I don’t have a clue where it is (the instructions have been lost in the post).
But thats not a problem because I have Google…
I knew the place was at Gatwick/Salfords so I [...]

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It was Chrystal’s 15th birthday today, and I’m afraid it could have been better for her. Instead of spoiling her in the evening, Jayne, Charlie and I had to go to our local branch AGM so Chrystal just went to Army Cadets as normal.
But looking on the bright side, the AGM was a bit [...]

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…well, sort of.
As with all types of taxation, it depends on how you look at it. I am one of the fortunate people who does not actually get much back for my tax. Being gainfully employed and generously rewarded I am not in need of many of the services offered as safety nets.
Some [...]

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I wanted to write something about this new BNP trade union, Solidarity - having seen it mentioned by Tom Watson, Mike Ion and others, but i was just too slow.
It turns out that johninnit has said just about everything I could want to say about it already.
He points out that anyone joining Solidarity is unlikely [...]

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I think the council were meeting today to decide on the level of council tax for this year. I don't know what happened. I don't even know what the Labour group intended to do about the Tory proposal to increase the borough part of the tax by 2%
My guess - and I realise its a [...]

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Richard’s comment on a previous post relates to a letter in today’s Crawley News, which I have now read, and it puts me in a bit of a fisking mood… and none of the following will be of the remotest interest to anyone outside Crawley, but never mind.
The background is that the newspaper two weeks [...]

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