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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Essex'
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 · Comments Off on Reasons not to go back to Basildon… · 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.
Turkey
November 25th, 2007 · Comments Off on Turkey · Life
Today we either had an early Christmas dinner or a day-late Thanksgiving dinner. We went up to Essex to visit my sister for lunch and she was kind enough to cook turkey. I like turkey, but we never have it at home. For Christmas we usually have beef and pork. The afternoon was a bit […]
Essex Girls
September 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
As an Essex boy, from deepest South-East Essex, I was quite pleased to start reading a book called Starter for 10 and find that the main protagonist’s home town was Southend-on-Sea. The book is set in the early 80’s – around the same sort of time I used to spend a lot of time in […]
A pox on Essex
August 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on A pox on Essex · Life
How good of Jams to point out yet another claim to fame for the county of my birth… it deserves a round of applause. Or at least a dose of the clap.
Tags: Essex
Badger graphics
August 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
With all the to-ing and fro-ing to visit poorly relatives recently it made a change to go down to visit all the healthy ones tonight. My mother and sister both belong to a painting club and tonight they were having an exhibition in Southend to which we were invited. The place was even more packed […]
Going back home
May 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on Going back home · Life
We went up to Essex today – not actually to my old home in Basildon but to Southend, a little way down the road. (Southend. Home of the famous Kursaal, where Dr. Feelgood were filmed playing live in 1975, available on a superb DVD called Going Back Home.) We were there for my niece’s birthday […]
More anti-nazi activity
March 21st, 2006 · Comments Off on More anti-nazi activity · Politics
Not in Crawley, but in the place I grew up – Basildon. The UAF are out leafletting on Saturday and Sunday this weekend.
