Crawley, and especially Langley Green, has been bracing itself for the verdict in the fertiliser bomb trial, which finally arrived today. It is a sensitive time, but then so was the time of the raids and arrests and we managed that without any major disturbances of the peace. Last time the council and police managed […]
Entries from April 30th, 2007
The end of the World?
April 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
Campaigning allowing, I think I shall try to watch Horizon on BBC2 on Thursday night. It is all about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The LHC is that machine the boffins there are building to try and learn more about the conditions during the big bang. There is some concern that when the machine […]
Pointless but wonderful
April 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Technology
For all those heretics who used to have a Commodore C64 instead of the mighty ZX Spectrum, here is something which may bring back some memories – someone has written a theme to make his blog look like the command line interface from the C64. Having never had a C64 myself I can’t say how […]
The great escape?
April 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
With Charlton losing today and West Ham beating Wigan, survival is still a slight possibility for the Hammers. At the moment we are only in the relegation places by goal difference because we only beat Wigan 3-0. Had we beaten them 6-0 we would have been one place higher. Of course we are now relying […]
Tags: Crawley Town·Football·West Ham
Social Misfits
April 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
Another great photo from StefZ on Flickr. He has a good eye for quirky signs which feature quite a lot in his photostream and his blog has long been a favourite of mine. I have often thought that signs for disabled parking bays should have a similar touch of brutal honesty and say at the […]
Advertising does work after all
April 28th, 2007 · Comments Off on Advertising does work after all · Music
There is a series of adverts on TV for Orange mobile phones which are fascinating to watch. They are all set in a park where people keep appearing from behind other people using some very effective camera tricks, all to a gentle soundtrack of Devendra Banhart singing Little Yellow Spiders. It is often said […]
Tags: TV
UAF Meeting
April 28th, 2007 · Comments Off on UAF Meeting · Politics
The other day I had confirmation of the date for our Crawley/Horsham UAF meeting. It will be in the Friary, Crawley – right next to the bus and railway stations – on May 23rd. I will be trying to do my best to promote it to see if we can get a decent crowd, but […]
Tags: BNP·Crawley·Elections·Furnace Green·UAF
How much is a point worth?
April 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
The FA have decided not to dock any points from West Ham over the Mascherano/Tevez deal, but have imposed an enormous £5.5 million fine. The suggestion is that if the Hammers had been in mid-table obscurity and security we might have got some points deducted instead, perhaps with a smaller fine on top. Whether the […]
Tags: West Ham
Gay Poland
April 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Politics
I have to admit that when I saw the headline in the paper “Not in society’s interests to have more gay people, say Polish PM” my first thought was what’s he going to do about it? Stop them reproducing? After reading the article it appears they are just getting round to their Jenny Lives with […]
Tags: Gay/Lesbian
AGM tactical blunder
April 26th, 2007 · Comments Off on AGM tactical blunder · Politics
This evening I forgot one of the fundamental golden rules of attending AGMs – I got carried away and volunteered for something and now find myself on the committee of the Crawley Campaign Agaist Racism. The CCAR is a venerable organisation, now in its 31st year. Many of the firebrands who started it up are […]
