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Entries from January 17th, 2011

Deserting the sinking ship

January 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on Deserting the sinking ship · Politics

It was with mixed feelings today that I read a Tweet from Councillor James Doyle of Worthing: Feeling very sad. Last day as a Liberal Democrat today, after 16 yrs. Hope natl party leadership begin to see sense soon, so I can rejoin I like James.  Jayne and I saw a lot of him and […]

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Adding insult to injury

January 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on Adding insult to injury · Life

I came home to find that while I was at work the internet was buzzing about an article Liz Jones wrote in the Mail on Sunday, with most of the fun happening with the Twitter hashtag #lizjonesreports attached to it. Do read the article.   It is unbelievably bad.  The Daily Mash tried to spoof it, […]

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Thanking Laura Moffatt

January 15th, 2011 · 11 Comments · Politics

Last night Jayne and I went out to the Arora hotel to a party that was being thrown to thank Laura Moffatt for her work as Crawley’s MP before she retired last year. It was supposed to be a surprise party, and if Laura did suspect anything she is not going to spoil anybody’s time […]

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BNP governor or not?

January 14th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Politics

It should be possible to find out information about school governors on either a school’s website or the local education authority’s website, but I am having trouble digging out information about Three Bridges Junior School’s governors.  Maybe I am losing my touch. The reason I was trying to look up governors is this:  I was […]

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The road to Wembley

January 10th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Life

Crawley Town’s FA Cup road might not go all the way to Wembley, but tonight they discovered that it will at least go as far as Torquay.   It would have been good to get a ‘glamour’ tie against Chelsea, Man Utd, Arsenal or someone like that (but please not West Ham!)  but on the other […]

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Security nonsense

January 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Security nonsense · Life

Last week we changed cars.  The idea was to trade down from a 2-litre estate to something a bit more economical to run in terms of tax, insurance and fuel consumption.  Being able to fit into smaller parking spaces would be a bonus. I set out with every intention of getting something like a Clio, […]

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Now that’s magic!

January 7th, 2011 · Comments Off on Now that’s magic! · Life

Still failed to drink any alcohol so far this year, but I’m doing well on the telly-watching.  I slumped on the sofa for a couple of hours this evening watching the film Wanted on DVD and then 90 minutes of actual, live, TV which was Penn & Teller.

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IBM 1401 A User’s Manual

January 6th, 2011 · Comments Off on IBM 1401 A User’s Manual · Music

The other day an album title on Spotify caught my eye amongst the 2010 releases: And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees by somebody called Johann Johannsson, another of those crazy Icelanders.  I had a little listen and it wasn’t really my kind of thing, or maybe I just wasn’t in […]

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Resolution fail

January 5th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Life

I don’t really do new year resolutions, but the closest I have got is that I decided I shall watch more TV and drink more alcohol this year.  So far I am not doing too well: it is now Jan 5th and I still haven’t found an excuse to have a drink.  In fact I […]

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