Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

Good to see the police hanging around the Broadfield Barton this evening. One complaint we hear a lot is that you do not see the police around enough, which contributes to the fear of crime.
Not so good that they were just sitting in their car, letching at a passing girl, and they were parked [...]

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The recent wet weather has brought a huge number of slugs and snails into the garden and I have been unable to resist trying to photograph them at night.
This is my favourite snap so far where, without regard for personal safety, I put myself directly into the path of a charging snail to get a [...]

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Although I dislike meetings and can get easily bored by them, I really feel guilty when I miss ones I should be at, and I feel especially guilty if I miss a meeting I am supposed to be chairing.
Tonight, after having previously written up agendas, e-mailed some and physically gone all round Broadfield delivering the [...]

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I found about this from the family-friendly Paul Burgin, who in turn found out about it from the x-rated Rachel.
It appears that I am inappropriate for children because I mention death (3 times),hell (twice) and murder (once) - unavoidable when discussing films as I have been recently.
Well… unavoidable when you like zombie films.
Presumably the rating [...]

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At about this time each year I have a fit of conflicting emotions about Glastonbury. On the one hand I see some of the TV coverage and really wish I was there to soak up the vibes and see some great performances, but then I see pictures of the huge queues just to get water [...]

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The story about the purity ring sort of impinged on the fringes of my consciousness this week, meaning that I saw the headlines and didn’t bother reading the story, expecting it to be nothing more than a remix of the British Airways cross and countless other examples of religious maniacs thwarted in their attempts to [...]

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To say that I was pleased to see the Guardian’s list of 1000 films to see before you die skipped over Forrest Gump would be an enormous understatement. I am led to believe that some people actually like it, but for me it is the worst film I have ever seen. The only [...]

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Today the Guardian started a week-long series of pull-outs listing “1000 films to see before you die” which, like most such lists, is surely calculated to stir up controversy. Or to make anyone who takes such things too seriously feel woefully inadequate for not having seen L’Atalante.
I will be mildly interested to see how many [...]

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The papers have had a recent glut of stories about Facebook and which famous people have which other famous people listed as friends, so I thought I would have a look at it myself, despite being a bit sceptical of all these social networking sites.
It turns out to be extremely easy to sign up, but [...]

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Another thing in the papers I was throwing out, was a letter from a member of the public praising a retiring councillor. I can remember being a bit surprised by this letter at the time (May 30th again) because very few normal citizens even know the name of their local councillor, and even fewer [...]

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