Over the weekend it has been hard to ignore Michael Jackson. His name was on the front of all the papers in the newsagents, his songs were all over the radio and there was an unfeasibly large display of his greatest hits in HMV. On top of that there was Q magazine with Jackson all [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Doh!'
Drop ‘em
June 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
What a clumsy day it was today. This morning I dropped and broke a cereal bowl while drying it. Later on I was putting the kettle on and knocked over a cup that still had some old coffee in it. When I was doing dinner I dropped the lid from the olive oil bottle and [...]
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For the chop
March 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
At last - a provider of social housing that has a worse attitude to its tenants than Crawley borough council who may have lied to their tenants and tried to coerce them but have never (as far as I know) resorted to outright blatant threats.
This card was sent out to tenants of a housing association [...]
Bring me the head of Prawo Jazdy
February 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
I have not really caught up with the last week’s news yet, but I did greatly enjoy this story from Ireland, which falls in the you-couldn’t-make-it-up category.
Taking a tumble
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Life, Technology
We had an engineer come round today to look at our tumble drier. Normally I would have a go myself: I like to take stuff apart in the vain hope there is something really obvious that even somebody with no spare parts, knowledge of the machinery or engineering talent could fix. Never happened so far, [...]
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Sidi ‘h’ Bibi
December 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Music
A short clip of Manu Chao doing the song Sidi ‘h’ Bibi in London last night.
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Actually, that is not quite right. It is not Manu Chao singing but the percussionist coming to the front for this song. He used to play in Manu’s old [...]
Accidents Will Happen
December 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
The big story from the world of theatre this week is, as far as the UK is concerned, David Tennant missing from the RSC’s production of Hamlet because of a back problem. I imagine that it really does hurt and that he would be on stage if he was at all able to be, so [...]
Watcher of the Skies
December 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments · Life
This always seems to happen. There was a major astronomical event yesterday and I was oblivious to it until afterwards. It’s the same with the perseid showers most years: if by some miracle I remember they are happening its a really foggy and/or rainy night.
Questions And Answers
November 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Life, Work
There is a saying in politics that goes along the lines of ‘don’t ask a question unless you are sure of what the answer is’. Today I discovered the hard way that it applies in other areas too.
Up On The Hill
October 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
It really has all been going on up here on Tolgate Hill. First of all that big fire on Sunday, and then yesterday there was an obstruction in the road as I came home from work. Right opposite where the fire was there was a tow truck blocking half of the road. It was reversed [...]
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