I picked a good day to take a day’s holiday from work today. After what seems like weeks of relentless rain and high winds it was sunny and warm, which was just as well because I had decided to spend part of my day off helping with canvassing in Crawley and had been dreading going [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Broadfield'
I’m black and I’m proud
January 8th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Life
I am trying to resist the temptation to write about the weather, but really nothing much else is happening here. Today I decided to spend the day at home reviewing a huge pile of HR policies instead of walking either one mile or five miles to work (depending on whether the buses are running). I [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Local Papers·Weather·WSCC
A bit of a trek
January 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Sometimes even I am astonished by my naivety. Perhaps misplaced optimism is a better alternative.
After last night’s walk I knew there would be no buses up Tollgate Hill (no problem as I don’t want them anyway) but I just sort of presumed the more level roads would be better anyway and that the main roads [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Buses·Fastway·Weather
Snowbound
December 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
Our car has not moved from where it was abandoned parked on Friday – halfway down our road, pointing uphill.
Actually that is only half-true. The truth is even worse, and a little more embarrassing. I did move it on Saturday morning. I got it far enough uphill to turn around, then I went off to [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Driving·Weather
Hotting up
December 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics
Must be an election on the horizon or something. I have started to get a flurry of messages, calls and emails asking for contact details from the party and from people wanting to make sure they can arrange hustings at short notice. Also a request for volunteers for a live phone-in politics show that wanted [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Elections
Feels Like Fire
October 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
When Charlie came home last night he told us about all the fire engines, police cars and ambulances at the other end of Tollgate Hill, and it turns out he was not exaggerating. One thing neither the Observer story nor the News story mentions is the puppies…
Tags: Broadfield
Roundabout
August 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
While walking back from the shops today I noticed that there are some roadworks on Woodman’s Hill. Dare we hope that these are the long-overdue traffic-calming measures that were part of the S106 planning conditions on the Highwood Park development?
Just after that previous post I got a tip-off from Jim McGough that this work was [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Photos·Town Planning·Traffic
Outside The Wall
August 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
There are quite a few walls built like this in the neighbourhood where I live but not, fortunately, in my street.
Either it is a serious design flaw or they were just built wrong, but either way they fall down really easily. They all have alternating sections of brick wall and wooden fencing and I sometimes [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Crawley·Photos
So thats what it was about
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
Apparently the old bill were at the park yesterday because of a ‘vicious brawl’ according to the Observer. Sounds like if I had left work an hour earlier I would have been an eye-witness. Or maybe a victim.
Elsewhere on their website is the story I mentioned about the baby who died and the local reaction [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Local Papers
More Broadfield Park
July 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
What was going on at the park today? My route home goes through the park now (no faster or easier than going up Pease Pottage Hill but its greener and traffic free) and this evening the place was full of police, with the lake surrounded by blue tape and a couple of Crawley Observer reporters [...]
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