On Sunday we (me, Jayne, Chrystal and Charlie) went up to Essex to see an American football game. We are not mad sports fans, it is just that Frankie has started playing for Sussex Thunder, they were playing an away game in Billericay, and my family live up there so there were several birds to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Essex'
Sussex Thunder vs Essex Spartans
May 21st, 2012 · No Comments · Life
Tags: American football·Essex·Sport
Coming back home
December 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Today was the traditional post-christmas trip to Essex to see the family. As is also traditional, as soon as we get anywhere near the old manor I keep saying to myself “I remember when this was all fields”. Not a bad trip at all. All the queues for Lakeside were on the other side of [...]
Don’t it make you Feelgood
August 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Life, Music
This week’s Word podcast features the legend that is Wilko Johnson reminiscing, philosophising and playing a bit of guitar. At one point he talks about the dynamics of the relationships within Doctor Feelgood and whether there was any competition between him and Lee Brilleaux about who was the frontman and says: If we were a [...]
Tags: Essex
New ways to feel old
February 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life
There was another of life’s little milestones today. It is one thing when your own children hit eighteen, that is bad enough, but when your little sister’s kids reach eighteen… A much bigger milestone for my niece Annie though. We went back to Essex for her 18th birthday party tonight. It was a good family [...]
Best day of the year
December 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Yesterday was my favourite day of the year, one that I always look forward to. It does not always fall on the same date, but is normally a few days after December 25th. The timing depends on when the Northern sister can get time off work. It is the day we go up to Essex [...]
Tags: Bah Humbug!·Essex·Family
Reasons to be cheerful – part 100
August 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
A few more photos from and thoughts about Tuesday’s big event – Auntie Ivy’s 100th birthday party. In retrospect I wish I had taken the day off rather than going straight from work, hitting the rush hour traffic and getting there an hour late. Since my own commute is a mere five miles I underestimate [...]
100 not out!
August 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Arrived home from Essex after 1pm, and want to be in work by 7:30 in the morning, so not really any time to write about Auntie Ivy’s 100th birthday party tonight, nor to go through the 111 photos taken. Just this one photo for now, best wishes to Ivy and a curse on the M25 [...]
Don’t Cry Sister
December 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life
Going back to visit family in Essex, as we did at the weekend, is always a pleasure and especially at Christmas time. With Jane living up in Yorkshire it is not that often we all get together but Christmas is one of those times. It can get a bit mad though.
And on your left…
June 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
…is a pile of vomit from last night’s clubbers. Well I double-checked and triple-checked but today was June 2nd andnot April 1st, so I guess this story from today’s paper must be true, and Basildon really does have a pot of lottery money to set up a heritage trail.  On the face of it the [...]
Tags: Essex·Town Planning·WTF
Reasons not to go back to Basildon…
May 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
I lived in Basildon for the first 18 years of my life. It looks like the place has taken a turn for the worse since then, judging by this website (as found by Mike Ion). I’ve got issues with some of our local Tories, but almost without exception they are better than this one.
Have you heard of the categorisation of political activists into...