Maybe this time we will move. Last weekend we decided we had enough of living out of boxes, and would stop trying to find a house exchange. Someone had already arranged to come and look at our place so we said we would go ahead with that, not be too bothered if nothing came of […]
Entries from September 21st, 2010
Travelling without moving
September 21st, 2010 · Comments Off on Travelling without moving · Life
Tags: Books·Housing·Sherlock Holmes
Baby time
September 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Life
I must recommend this blog post by Andrew West about the dramatic arrival of his nephew. He has had a remarkable couple of years now: getting to appear on the fourth plinth last year, going to all sorts of places as the BHA’s photographer and therefore meeting and photographing lots of famous atheists, spending a […]
Tags: Links
So the secret is out
September 21st, 2010 · Comments Off on So the secret is out · Life
The other day I booked a couple of tickets for the Lyric comedy night in Hammersmith. I have been a couple of times now and seen people like Al Murray and Stewart Lee there and it is always a good, full evening of comedy at a reasonable price. It is also good to get back […]
Tags: Comedy
BBC hustings – too much, too late
September 17th, 2010 · Comments Off on BBC hustings – too much, too late · Politics
I watched the Labour leadership hustings on BBC’s Question Time tonight. It was the most I have enjoyed QT for a long time, but then it would have to be as I hardly ever watch it.  I think it would have been a lot more useful if it had been scheduled before a lot of […]
Tags: Elections·Labour Party·TV
Tax refund scam
September 13th, 2010 · Comments Off on Tax refund scam · Life
The only surprise is that it took this long for me to start receiving emails like this: Dear Customers, Please Note: After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of ?170 Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days […]
Tags: Spam
Council changes
September 13th, 2010 · 29 Comments · Politics
There are a few changes coming up in the local councils around here.  It would be nice to see some changes in the all-out district elections in Horsham and the one third of seats up for electin in Crawley next year (but don’t hold your breath for Horsham. Historically the only challenge to the Tories […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Elections·WSCC
All change in West Sussex
September 13th, 2010 · Comments Off on All change in West Sussex · Life
In the same month both the West Sussex County Times and West Sussex county council have revamped their websites. The council have gone for the big band and changed their live site, while the local paper launched the new version as a beta site alongside the old one. Having said that, they quickly ditched the […]
Tags: Design·Internet·Local Papers·WSCC
Job-sharing MPs
September 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Politics
Another story from the Argus, and some more attention-seeking from Caroline Lucas who thinks that MPs should be allowed to job share.  The principle seems to be that other jobs can be filled by two people job-sharing, so why not MPs, which is fine but MPs never tire of telling us that it is not […]
Time to leave Sussex?
September 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Life
Or even leave the country. This story from the Argus is practically an announcement for anybody who is a big girl’s blouse about spiders to move away. Surely one of the main reasons we put up with the miserable climate here is because it is the price to pay for not having the poisonous snakes […]
The Crazies
September 11th, 2010 · Comments Off on The Crazies · Life
As I had to go into town anyway this afternoon to pay in a cheque, I decided to have a browse in HMV. I came out with a nifty DVD of The Crazies, which has the 1973 original on a second disc. Watched the film tonight and really enjoyed it. I suspected that I would […]
