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Entries from July 14th, 2008

State funeral planned for Thatcher

July 14th, 2008 · 43 Comments · Life, Politics

No prizes for guessing which newspaper headline got me most excited today…  it was this one in the Guardian.   The excitement passed when I realised that it was untrue: in my book a plan is not a plan if it has no date attached to it.    I do not think it is deserved though.  Surely […]

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More Broadfield Park

July 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life

What was going on at the park today?   My route home goes through the park now (no faster or easier than going up Pease Pottage Hill but its greener and traffic free) and this evening the place was full of police, with the lake surrounded by blue tape and a couple of Crawley Observer reporters […]

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Is this a record?

July 14th, 2008 · Comments Off on Is this a record? · Life

Today I received a “not read” e-mail notification.  My original e-mail was sent on Jan 19th and today the recipient deleted it, unread. Now that is somebody who has a serious mail backlog problem!

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Death Proof

July 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life

Last night we watched Death Proof, Tarantino’s half of the Grindhouse double-bill.   We saw the other half, Planet Terror, a while ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, and also enjoyed Tarantino’s other films so its a wonder it took so long to catch this one.

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Community spirit

July 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Life

There has been a fine example of community spirit where I live in the last week or two.   There is a woman here who had a heartbreaking loss when her baby died in a freak pushchair accident – the way I understand it the child fell out while shopping bags were being unloaded from the […]

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