Young Rojo is in my bad books now. He has been trying the patience of the entire household for a while now, but I am ridiculously lenient with him and let him (literally) walk all over me. Tonight he came in when Chas got home, jumped on top of me, stuck his nose in my […]
Entries from September 24th, 2008
Say That Again
September 23rd, 2008 · 8 Comments · Politics
I’m very pleased with what Gordon Brown was saying today. Colletively we are very forgetful, and do need a reminder to those of us who are in the Labour party of why we joined in the first place. One of our problems down at the grassroots is that we are very demanding so it is […]
Tags: Class Warfare·Labour Party·Tories
Locked Out
September 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
D’oh! We just don’t like playing Watford in cup games do we?  They beat us 1-0 in the FA Cup last year and now they have won 1-0 again to knock us out of the League Cup. I’m not too upset though: it just means fewer opportunities for some of our more delicate players to […]
Talk To Ya Later
September 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Talk To Ya Later · Music
There has been a dramatic surge in traffic here over the last day or two. A quick check on the logs of incoming links shows that most of the new faces came here via http://www.bbc.co.uk/later/ and a quick look there shows that they have a little section on there now with links to blogs about […]
Tags: Pink Floyd·TV
Movin’ On Up
September 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Movin’ On Up · Work
One of the reasons I am not in Manchester enjoying Gordon Brown’s speech with all the other PPCs is a small matter of an office move. The construction of the new buildings has taken several years now: three? four? I’m not sure, but it is a long time. The actual moves of laboratories, workshops, test […]
Tags: Language
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
September 22nd, 2008 · 7 Comments · Music
I did enjoy seeing Metallica on Jools Holland last week. I’m especially glad that I watched the Friday show after having seen the live one because they played totally different songs, as did Carla Bruni and Sway. ((I was impressed by Sway))Â Kings of Leon might have played different songs but I would have found […]
Teenage Kicks
September 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments · Life
This month’s selection on Amazon’s Vine programme was a bit thin for me: I could choose up to two items from a list of… two items. One was an 800-page book. It took about nine years to write and I’m worried it might take me that long to read it, which might prevent me getting […]
A Sunday Smile
September 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on A Sunday Smile · Life
Dynamo Horsham did well this week in the Guardian fantasy football league. It was all looking a bit poor yesterday, but 6 out of the 11 first team were playing today and they all did OK. In fact the team picked up 147 points in the week, which is the 59th place for the week […]
Tags: Football
The Disappointed
September 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on The Disappointed · Music
Anyone unfamiliar with the history of Yes might think that a situation where the band were going out on tour with, not their original line-up but their most famous/successful line-up, except for the keyboard player being replaced by his son and the singer replaced by a tribute player was complicated. Of course we know that […]
Bring It On Home
September 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Bring It On Home · Life
Dear Football Association, can we play all our games at home please? Love & kisses, West Ham. Early days yet, but are we going to have a ‘fortress Upton Park’ season? So far we have won all three home games, giving the Hammers the best home record in the league. At the same time we […]
Tags: Crawley Town·Football·West Ham