Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

Excellent news! A new Robert Rankin book is imminent. It is called the Da-da-de-da-da Code and is, presumably, a piss-take of the Da Vinci Code.
And on that bombshell the readership neatly divides into those who haven’t a clue who Robert Rankin is and those who are already off to place an advance order…

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Later with Jools Holland returned to the TV last night. As usual it was a bit of a curate's egg, but always worth watching.  I specifically put it on to see Tinariwen, who played a couple of tracks from their new-ish album Aman Iman.  A great album which I got from eMusic.com as soon as [...]

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This evening I took the family out for a meal, and we went to Zari’s in Ifield. It was partly to unwind after all the exertions of electioneering and partly to thank the kids for all their help.
We had been there before, but this was the first time since their recent refurbishment.
The place seems [...]

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Alert readers will recognise this log. The last time a photo of it appeared here there was a terrapin on it.
This morning I walked down to K2 for the election count, taking the Greenway through Broadfield Park to get there.
As I reached the lake I saw a pair of canada geese with half a [...]

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The local elections in Crawley saw an overwhelming landslide victory once again for the none-of-the-above party. I believe that where I was standing there was a turnout of something like 44%, but other places were much lower. In the past we have had turnouts getting close to 10% in some areas.
Being involved in an [...]

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No need to go into great detail here - all the details are on the council’s website but there are different ways of looking at them.
As with all sets of results they can be interpreted several ways depending on how optimistic/pessimistic you are, how in touch with reality you are, what political persuasion you are [...]

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