Tonight I am on my own. Chrystal moved out to Hampshire last year, Chas is visiting his grandparents in Hastings and Jayne is also in Hastings, helping Frankie move there. This leaves me here in the grip of one of my most persistent fears – locking myself out of the house. I always worry about […]
Entries from April 26th, 2014
Runners and riders in Crawley
April 25th, 2014 · Comments Off on Runners and riders in Crawley · Politics
The nominations closed today for the council elections which means two important things: It will all be over in four weeks, one way or another We all know who we are standing against The full lists are not yet on the crawley council website as I write, but I’m sure they will be soon. Before […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Elections
Being a pioneer
April 20th, 2014 · 3 Comments · Life, Politics
I don’t usually join the Daily Mail/UKIP rant about political correctness gone mad or nanny state health & safetyism. As Stewart Lee says, political correctness is basically just being polite and respectful, and as far as H&S complaints are concerned I always want to ask the complainer whether it is safety or health that they […]
Tags: Language
Planespotting
April 14th, 2014 · Comments Off on Planespotting · Life, Technology
We had our grandson, Alfie, visiting over the weekend so I thought I would take him along to the Gatwick Aviation Museum to look at the planes there. In all the time I have lived here I have never got round to visiting before so I figured it was about time. I also decided to […]
Where does he get those wonderful toys?
April 7th, 2014 · Comments Off on Where does he get those wonderful toys? · Life
Right now I’m l’m listening to Prince’s soundtrack to the Batman film. I don’t care what anybody else thinks, but I liked that album when it came out and it is still good to listen to now. It got me to thinking about the Batman films, and thinking about two things in particular. Firstly it […]
Tags: Films
The Gatwick problem
April 6th, 2014 · Comments Off on The Gatwick problem · Politics
I popped down to the Hawth theatre today for the exhibition by Gatwick Airport Ltd. about possible expansion at the airport. As I arrived I could see that there was actually a queue to get in, and not a small one either – it must have been at least 10 metres. My immediate naive thought […]
Tags: Gatwick
Serious banking question
April 5th, 2014 · Comments Off on Serious banking question · Life
This is a serious question. I’m not trying to make a point about something, or make a joke or anything. It is something I noticed and don’t understand, and I don’t like not understanding stuff. When I do internet banking I can see the balance on my account, and then another figure for amount available. […]
Tags: Money
A Govial evening
April 4th, 2014 · Comments Off on A Govial evening · Politics
We had a Labour constituency meeting tonight, and given recent news stories I couldn’t resist proposing, under any other business, that we invite Michael Gove to Crawley and then leave the minutes with those remarks on a Town Hall photocopier. It would be incorrect to say that we are not enjoying all this, but I […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Tories
TV crossovers
April 2nd, 2014 · Comments Off on TV crossovers · Life
I quite like it when one TV show crosses over into another one. It always used to be a rare treat, just because it was so rare. If it still goes on then I don’t see much of it, probably because I don’t watch any of those evening-long charity telethons, and if I did then […]
Tags: TV
April Fool Crawley!
April 1st, 2014 · 2 Comments · Life
The worst thing about April Fool’s Day is how it makes you realise how ridiculous, strange or just unlikely the real news is. You see a story and think “ha ha. What a great joke, well done” and then straight afterwards you see another one that is even less likely and wonder: has the paper […]
Tags: April Fool·Local Papers
