I had to satisfy my craving for satay tonight so I treated the household to some Chinese takeaway. The girls who work at our local place are from Malaysia, so they know a thing or two about satay, as does their brother who does the cooking. Unfortunately they are not in charge and so the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Broadfield Barton'
Special satay
September 10th, 2009 · Comments Off on Special satay · Uncategorized
Tags: Broadfield Barton·Food
Full employment
June 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life, Work
Full employment has reached this house for the first time. Today Chrystal received a job offer from the new Morrisons in Broadfield so she will be working weekends and evenings while she finishes off school – should pay for her driving lessons if nothing else.  We know a lot of people who will be working […]
Tags: Broadfield Barton·Family
Local Hero
January 4th, 2009 · Comments Off on Local Hero · Life
I know I spend a lot of time moaning about the queues in Somerfield, but then I do spend a lot of time in queues at Somerfield, but credit where it is due. On New Year’s Eve we heard that a youngster who went to primary school with Chrystal and who Jayne used to look […]
Tags: Broadfield Barton·Heroes
Chinese Rock
July 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on Chinese Rock · Life
Bad news: the best Chinese takeaway in Crawley is going to be closing down. Good news: the people who run it are moving across to Broadfield. From September the yummiest satay sauce in the world is going to be just down the road…Â this will not help my attempt to lose a few kilos…
That Ain’t The Way To Behave
July 27th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Life
Sometimes you just want to stick two fingers up to the world and everybody in it, and what better way to do it than this? Don’t you just feel that here is a 4×4 driven by somebody whose only regret in life is that his car isn’t big enough to block three disabled spaces at […]
Tags: Broadfield Barton·Parking
Bins again
July 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Bins again · Politics
I am starting to doubt what we were told about bins at the Broadfield Forum the other day. One piece of evidence for bins causing rubbish seemed quite compelling: bins were removed from half the memorial gardens and the half without bins has less litter than the half with bins. This was in addition to […]
Police presence
June 30th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
Good to see the police hanging around the Broadfield Barton this evening. One complaint we hear a lot is that you do not see the police around enough, which contributes to the fear of crime. Not so good that they were just sitting in their car, letching at a passing girl, and they were parked […]
Blue Barton
October 29th, 2006 · Comments Off on Blue Barton · Politics
During the last week the nasty steel canopies at our shopping parade have been getting a bit of a facelift. Workmen have been rubbing down all the patches where the old paint had flaked off and the metal was rusty, and applying new paint to the whole lot. I know that the parade, unlike the […]
Icelands
April 12th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
A new planning application in the High Street, has some implications for Broadfield’s shops. The owners of the building Iceland is in want to turn it into a bar or club. This means that anyone who wants to go there for bulk buying of frozen food will be coming down to Broadfield. The thing is, […]
Broadfield: a new tourist destination?
April 4th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Life, Politics
On Saturday we were trying to get people to sign a petition which Jayne has started to get the Post Office in Broadfield re-opened. “Trying” is not the right word there, because it did not take a lot of persuasion. What amazed me was how many of the people we stopped in the Broadfield Barton […]
