Returned home from France to find a letter from West Sussex County Council:
Entries from May 20th, 2009
Comedy election material
May 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Politics
I got home from work today to find a pile of comedy election leaflets.
Waste of time
May 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life, Work
Got back from France just after 11pm tonight.  The whole trip turned out to be the biggest waste of time imaginable. I travelled on Monday so I could go to a couple of meetings on Tuesday, but the meetings got cancelled – notification came through mid-afternoon.  The only problem was that nobody could get hold […]
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The E word
May 18th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics
There is a letter going around, from various Labour party members to the NEC, which meets on Tuesday. The full letter is here, but the gist is that those of us spending our precious free time campaigning for the party, at our own expense, are not happy about the behaviour of some of our party’s […]
Tags: Greed
Copycat
May 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life
Rojo is avoiding us a bit at the moment. Earlier on today we noticed a lump at the base of his tail and rushed him to the vets, where we were told he had an abcess there. Now I know what that is like – although I didn’t get mine from fighting in the streets. […]
Tags: Pets
Not the Eurovision
May 16th, 2009 · Comments Off on Not the Eurovision · Music
I may watch part of Eurovision tonight, just to see how well Patricia Kaas does. I think I would be more likely to watch it if Germany entered Tanzwut in the competition.  In case anybody thought I had invented the idea of Tanzwut (the medieval metal band featuring bagpipes) here is proof that they exist: […]
Whole pieces
May 16th, 2009 · Comments Off on Whole pieces · Life
This evening I noticed that the cat food we have proudly boasts on the packaging that it includes “whole pieces of meat”. Hmm. Seems like a very flexible and meaningless term. Take a steak and it is a whole piece. Chop it into chunks for stewing and they are all whole pieces. All it reallt […]
Tags: Language
Suits you sir!
May 16th, 2009 · Comments Off on Suits you sir! · Life
I was in the big Tesco today and got distracted by jackets. I was rather taken with some nice, very light linen jackets because I like wearing them in summer. Didn’t get one because Jayne really doesn’t like them. Shame, as they actually had trousers to go with them. I could have worn it while […]
Tags: Shopping
The power of uninvention
May 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Life, Technology
I do sometimes wish I had the power of uninvention – that I was able to uninvent certain things which must have seemed like good ideas at the time, but turned out to have too many drawbacks, or which just personally inconvenience or annoy me  A few are just too obvious to mention, like […]
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Blues in Maude’s flat
May 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on Blues in Maude’s flat · Politics
I know I was supposed to have given up using song titles as titles for posts, but really… that one is just too good to not use.  It is just far too suitable when looking at the news of Francis Maude’s hasty re-arrangement of his finances, as reported on the West Sussex County Times website.
Tags: Greed·Local Papers