I watched Tuesday’s Later with Jools Holland this evening (still available on iPlayer). Good performances from LCD Soundsystem and Kelis. I thought Crowded House were a bit subdued, but I am still finding it hard to adjust to them without Paul Hester behind the drums. Also I was terminally distracted by Neil Finn’s ill-advised moustache […]
Entries from May 14th, 2010
They think it’s all over…
May 12th, 2010 · 15 Comments · Politics
Quite an eventful evening apparently. I missed the events because I was over in Horsham for a constituency meeting.  Somebody with a BlackBerry or iPhone or some other gadget let us know the main points so we were not completely in the dark, but I had to wait until getting home to find out any […]
Young Sherlock Holmes
May 11th, 2010 · Comments Off on Young Sherlock Holmes · Life
Having had a recent bad experience with a shoddy Sherlock Holmes film, I was more than a little wary about reading a novel about the exploits of Holmes as a teenager – Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud by Andrew Lane, which I got through Amazon’s Vine program. Fortunately the book turned out to be so […]
Tags: Books·Horsham·Reviews·Sherlock Holmes·Vine
More gratuitous cat photos
May 10th, 2010 · Comments Off on More gratuitous cat photos · Life
Just because it’s Monday.
Dream Team
May 10th, 2010 · Comments Off on Dream Team · Life
In all the excitement of the election I totally missed this event – Tony Carr’s testimonial. Joe Cole, John Terry, Frank Lampard, Rio Ferdinand all there in West Ham colours, Di Canio and Zola on the pitch together… it must have been a great night for the fans. A little depressing for the Hammers fans […]
Fantasy cabinet
May 9th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Politics
I do hope Gordon decides to withdraw and let the Tories and Lib Dems come to some sort of arrangement. Personally I think the Lib Dems would be silly to have any formal coalition: better for them to let the Tories form a minority government. With any luck they would be prevented from carrying out […]
Unanswered questions
May 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics
As Unity says over at Liberal Conspiracy, there are a few unanswered questions about the new expenses row featuring Nadine Dorries. I think the main ones are: What possessed the people in mid-Bedfordshire to vote for her anyway? Would they have still voted for her if this had been known before? (Sadly, yes they probably […]
Tags: Expenses
Do I kneel or do I bow?
May 9th, 2010 · Comments Off on Do I kneel or do I bow? · Life
For an atheist I seem to have been to quite a few places of worship in my time. There are the normal family weddings in anglican churches, the christening of a catholic friend’ s child and so on, but also a sikh friend at work always encourages us to visit his temple for major events. […]
How not to grow up
May 8th, 2010 · Comments Off on How not to grow up · Life
The book that got me through the later stages of the election campaign was How Not to Grow Up by Richard Herring. I kept it in my bag and read it at odd moments because it is the sort of thing you can dip into like that. I like to arrive early for things, so […]
Worst film ever?
May 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Life
I thought it would never happen but I have finally found a film that is worse than Forrest Gump!  It is called Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, although on the DVD box the first part is in tiny letters so it looks like it is just called Sherlock Homes. I also learned a new […]
Tags: DVD·Sherlock Holmes
