This does not appeal to me personally. I am not into dancing, except when I have got on the outside of a bottle of Breuilly and Rock El Casbah or Boogie Nights comes on the stereo, but this might appeal to those who have got hooked on Strictly Come Dancing: Time to dance brings you […]
Entries from November 29th, 2007
World AIDS Day
November 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
Does anyone know if there are any events in Crawley to mark World AIDS Day this weekend? Before its implosion and demise the charity Mid-Sussex Body Positive used to organise a church service, but I have heard of nothing happening now that MSBP has gone, and a look through this list of events reveals nothing […]
Corrections
November 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
If I find myself between jobs again at any time I think I shall pro-actively apply to the Crawley News for their obvious vacancy as a spell-checker/proof-reader/fact checker… Just in the few bits I have read this week I was distracted by: A picture of the youth was used on the front page with his […]
Tags: Local Papers·Newspapers
Feeling Tatt-y
November 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Feeling Tatt-y · Life, Music
Jayne already thinks I am making it up when I say that I have mild restless leg syndrome, so I don't think she is ready for me to hypochodriacally claim to have tatt. And I think she is right. Tatt is shorthand for 'tired all the time', and while that is true for me the […]
Tags: iRiver
Is Gordon our Steve McLaren?
November 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Politics
I am beginning to wonder if Tony Blair is going to turn out to be the Labour party's Sven Ericsson – hounded out of office after seeing his popularity plummet due to a monumental lapse of judgement (sending Theo Walcott to Germany/sending troops to Iraq) only to see his replacement start well and then lose […]
Tags: Labour Party
Griffin and Irving in Oxford
November 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Politics
I suspect I am out of line with most of the UAF, and with Antonia, but I am not in favour of the attempts to prevent David Irving and Nick Griffin speak at the Oxford Union. It would have been far better if the idiots there had not invited them along in the first place, […]
Its a free world
November 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life, Politics
Tonight I went across to Tilgate to see the film It’s A Free World, which was being shown free at the community centre with the director, Ken Loach, there to discuss it afterwards. I was a little worried as I was running late and thought I might not be able to get into the car […]
Tags: Films·Immigration·Tilgate
Lofty excursion
November 27th, 2007 · Comments Off on Lofty excursion · Life
For a while my loft was a thing of wonder. Everything was in boxes, all neatly piled up and in most cases labelled. Most of what was up there should really have been thrown out instead of hoarded, but at least it was hoarded tidily. For the last year or two I have left it […]
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Sweet smelling bands
November 27th, 2007 · Comments Off on Sweet smelling bands · Music
As far as I can make out this site is for real and there really is a production company with that name. It has made my day.
Language Skills
November 27th, 2007 · Comments Off on Language Skills · Life
I came across a great quote today. It was from Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys talking about his German language skills. I think I may have to steal it and use it to describe my own abilities in French: I’m not fluent. I can’t even get by as a tourist. But I like to […]
