After a thoroughly damp and miserable day yesterday the weather turned glorious for today’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in Crawley, a case of the luck of the Irish perhaps? This parade is one of the fixed points in the civic calendar and one of the events that celebrates the town’s multiculturalism, with participation not limited […]
Entries Tagged as 'Crawley'
Decisions, decisions, decisions
March 18th, 2010 · Comments Off on Decisions, decisions, decisions · Politics
With Laura Moffatt’s decision to not stand at the impending election, Crawley Labour party has some big decisions to make. Well just the one decision really, but it is a big one. Despite what anyone might think, I am not really in the loop with all this. I declined the chance to go onto Crawley […]
Tags: Crawley·Elections·Labour Party
Crawley says hello!
March 16th, 2010 · Comments Off on Crawley says hello! · Technology
Someone is excited to see the Google Street View car View Larger Map
Tags: Crawley·Street View
The end of an era
March 15th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Politics
I got home from work today, fired up the PC, and the first thing that caught my eye on Twitter was news that Crawley’s MP, Laura Moffat, is standing down. I have very mixed views about this.
On the map at last
March 11th, 2010 · Comments Off on On the map at last · Technology
Google have finally published all the Street View pictures of Crawley and Horsham on Google Maps. The rest of Sussex too I suppose, but I have been looking through the local area first.
Democracy never comes cheap
January 26th, 2010 · Comments Off on Democracy never comes cheap · Politics
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, […]
Steepest road in Crawley?
December 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Steepest road in Crawley? · 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 […]
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 · Comments Off on Meeting Mandelson · 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
