Crawley and Horsham towns are only a few miles apart, the two parliamentary constituencies rub right against each other, but as far as representation goes they might as well be on different planets. Look no further than today’s activity in parliament to see the difference.
Laura Moffatt (Labour. Crawley) asked two questions in a debate, both [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Crawley'
Democracy never comes cheap
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
Steepest road in Crawley?
December 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
A chap in Hobbs Road is in the local paper complaining about the lack of a gritting bin in his road. Having had my own simlar experiences discussin grit bins with West Sussex council I have a lot of sympathy for him, but where I have to disagree is when he says it is the [...]
Prescott-tastic
December 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Politics
This evening I took Chrystal into Crawley town centre for a Labour Party fund-raising dinner. I was supposed to be taking Jayne, but her hip was playing up so Chrystal was a last-minute substitute.
The guest of honour was John Prescott. He was full of praise for Laura Moffatt and Gordon Brown. Not quite so full [...]
Tags: Crawley·Labour Party·Photos
Crawley’s contribution to troops’ security
December 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Politics
From the debate in Parliament today, this exchange between Crawley’s MP, Laura Moffatt, and the Prime Minister:
Meeting Mandelson
November 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics, Work
Today was the long-awaited official opening of the new site where I work. Personally I have been in the new buildings for just over a year, but the industrial building with all the labs and test and manufacturing facilities took longer to finish, and now the company has decided that enough of our operations have [...]
Tags: Crawley·Trade Unions
Northgate byelection – five days to go
October 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
I was back in Northgate again this morning. There were so many of us that, after two of the older members took a load of leaflets to deliver to one area, the rest of us had to split into three groups for canvassing. No doubt this will be spun as Labour getting desperate. I think [...]
Northgate byelection
October 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Politics
Next week there is a byelection in the Northgate ward of Crawley, following the resignation of a councillor. It could be interesting. The area used to be 100% Labour, but for the past 15(?) years it has had Lib Dem borough councillors and Labour county councillors, and earlier this year elected its first Tory to [...]
Tags: Crawley·Crawley Council·Elections
Crawley village
August 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
There has long been a light-hearted debate about whether the Maidenbower neighbourhood in Crawley is a village or an estate1 but now the BBC seem to be saying that Crawley itself is a village according to this story.
its an estate [↩]
Tags: Crawley·Crawley Down·Maidenbower·Photos
The Hawth – better than the O2 Arena?
August 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
The Performing Rights Society (PRS) have issued a press release which ‘reveals’ the 100 best music venues in the country. The list is topped by the Southbank Centre in London, and Crawley’s Hawth Theatre is at number 69, above such places as the Brixton Academy, the Roundhouse, the Carling Apollo, Manchester and the Cliffs Pavilion, [...]
Crawley from above
June 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
Earlier today I saw a description of how to do fake tilt-shift photos, using aerial photography from multimap and a website called TiltShiftMaker, so I thought I would have a go.
The results are not as good as using a proper tilt-shift lens. They are not even as good as taking a decent high-res photo and [...]
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