I have a very bad habit. I sometimes don’t open post for months. The thing is that every bill I have to pay regularly is on a direct debit so anything that looks like a bill is really just a statement of account requiring no action other than filing or shredding. When I do open […]
Entries from July 31st, 2011
Like a kid in a sweetshop?
July 28th, 2011 · Comments Off on Like a kid in a sweetshop? · Life
Seeing as I am off work this wek, just using up some holiday, and live just round the corner from the County Oak retail park, I went for a stroll this afternoon to look round the big shops. Actually, to be more accurate, I had to go to the pet shop to get yet another […]
We won a quiz
July 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on We won a quiz · Life
Jayne and I went to a fund-raising quiz at Crawley Labour Club last night. We formed a team with the chairs of Horsham and Crawley CLPs. My recent track record on quizzes has not been brilliant; a long string of second places is what it feels like.
Tags: Labour Party·Quiz
Expensive tastes
July 21st, 2011 · Comments Off on Expensive tastes · Life
Our local Sainsbury has been getting a revamp. It has made shopping a mixture of adventure and confusion. Every time you go there the car park has a different layout and so has the shop. Everything is in a different place each visit – even the ATMs and the front door. As a consequence, when […]
A cat food question
July 20th, 2011 · Comments Off on A cat food question · Life
I was feeding the cats this evening when something occurred to me. This is not an attempt at Michael McIntyre-style observational comedy, but a genuine question. Cat food comes in various flavours: beef, duck, lamb, turkey, salmon, chicken, tuna. None of this is part of a cat’s natural diet and the obvious question is why […]
Carmageddon
July 19th, 2011 · Comments Off on Carmageddon · Life
I caught the fringes of the hysteria in LA about the so-called ‘carmageddon’ over the weekend. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to read much more than the tales of panic and didn’t catch any of the actual details, so I had a few thoughts/questions:
Tags: Traffic
Another good reason to be in your union
July 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Another good reason to be in your union · Politics
Businesses around here are taking a bit of a beating already, especially the pharmaceutical industry, with SKB in Crawley and Novertis in Horsham both closing sites. A lot of the workers are going to find it hard to find jobs in the same industry without looking well outside the immediate area. The Novartis staff have […]
Tags: Trade Unions
Henry Smith and his hyperactive abstention
July 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Henry Smith and his hyperactive abstention · Politics
Does our MP, Henry Smith, support the increase in IMF lending capacity? Well the answer is yes. And no. At the vote in Parliament he voted for it and also voted against, effectively abstaining. Personally I don’t have a problem with abstention as such. If you don’t have enough knowledge of an issue to form […]
The scores on the (social networking) doors
July 12th, 2011 · Comments Off on The scores on the (social networking) doors · Life
Facebook: 181 ‘friends’ Twitter: 144 followers, following 80 Google+: 6 people in circles
Tags: Google Plus
For all the wrong reasons
July 12th, 2011 · Comments Off on For all the wrong reasons · Life
I set out from home this morning (or just after noon actually) thinking to myself “I have a rare midweek day off work and I’m heading back to Essex for all the wrong reasons” and immediately decided that if I ever wrote a novel that would be the opening line. But I was heading back […]
Tags: Family
