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Entries from June 25th, 2008

Standing down

June 25th, 2008 · Comments Off on Standing down · Life

Last night we went to the AGM of the local community centre, where Jayne stood down as chair after a year.  She previously did the job for the maximum three years, but back then she was not a school governor, independent custody visitor and an on-call appropriate adult for youth offenders.  I have been saying […]

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Happiness Tsar

June 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on Happiness Tsar · Life

No its not Tom Watson, but a chap called Richard Layard.  I must admit I had never heard of him and didn’t know that such a thing as a ‘happiness tsar’ even existed, but that’s not the point.  There was a story about him in the G2 section of today’s Guardian, that led me down […]

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Idle speculation

June 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Life

I was thinking about Doctor Who earlier – something I am likely to do a lot of this week while I look forward to seeing Davros, Daleks, and all sorts of goodies on Saturday – and my train of thought started wandering, as it so often does.

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I knew it had ‘World’ in it somewhere

June 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Music

Quite a while ago I heard a track on the radio that immediately rang a bell with me: “Ah. The theme music from World in Action” I thought.  I decided I would procure the track so I immediately looked up World in Action on Wikipedia.  Sure enough, there was a section on the title sequence […]

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I wanna be sedated

June 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Music

The Ramones have been described in many ways, but I wonder if the best word to sum them up would be “aspirational”?  For reasons we don’t need to go into now, I was looking through the track listings of their albums and was struck by the number of song titles that say “I wanna” in […]

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Balls of steel?

June 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Balls of steel? · Life

Well I certainly can’t claim to have crystal balls, not after any of my predictions this year.  I was sure Croatia would beat Turkey, and sure Holland would beat Russia.  I was also quite confident that Labour would win in Broadfield South and Lewis Hamilton would win the Canadian Grand Prix.  With such an infallible […]

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Dance group

June 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Jane

Dance group, originally uploaded by Skuds’ Sister. This is by way of testing the blog this button on Flickr. Dance music was great while there was dancing – when it was just music I recalled that I don’t much like any dance music, in whatever language…

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Bradford Mela

June 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Bradford Mela · Jane, Music

After living here for seven years we finally got round to going to the Bradford Mela.  Every other year we seem to have had someone getting married/throwing a party/generally inviting us somewhere else on the Mela weekend and last year it was cancelled (fixture off due to waterlogged pitch…) so this year we made a […]

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Manic Friday

June 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life, Music, Work

It was a bit manic today.  Charlie needed to go to hospital to have his hand looked at, but it was a very short-notice appointment.  I decided to drop him off there on my way to work, rather than have him take a one-hour bus ride or the train; just to make sure he got […]

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Sick as a parrot

June 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Sick as a parrot · Life

With hindsight it was, perhaps, inevitable that the team which spared England the heartbreak of going to the Euro 2008 tournament only to crash out on penalties at the quarter-final should crash out of the quarter final themselves. On penalties.  With £25 of work sweepstakes riding on them I was rooting for Croatia, so it […]

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