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 […]
Entries from June 25th, 2008
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 […]
Tags: Funny·Newspapers
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Tags: Punk
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 […]
Tags: Football
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…
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tags: Football