I don’t usually do requests. I am, after all, just a vain, self-indulgent, small-scale blogger and not a wedding DJ, but I will make an exception for Ron. Quite fitting too. In the context of Crawley Labour Party Ron is a hero, frittering away the golden years of his retirement [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Heroes'
Trevor Brooking is magic
September 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
Seeing Trev in the crowd at tonight’s England game reminded me… this is what Jayne managed to get for me when she found herself on the same ship as TB last month. Might have to get a really huge frame to put it in.
The Tolpuddle experience
July 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Politics
A few days have passed since visiting Tolpuddle so if I write about it now it is not fresh in my mind and I may have forgotten some details, but at least that stops me wittering on about total ephemera.
So anyway, here are some thoughts about the event, about the Labour movement in general and [...]
Tags: Dorset·Heroes·Photos·Trade Unions
Meeting Tony Benn
July 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Today I went down to Worthing for ‘an evening with Tony Benn’. This was a fundraiser for his grandaughter, Emily, who is the parliamentary candidate down there, and a very pleasant evening it was too.
Tags: Blogging·Heroes·Labour Party·Worthing
The Olivetti Chronicles
January 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
I make no secret of my affection for the late John Peel. I’m sure he would be the first to admit that he was far from perfect, but he was one of the few celebrities I could imagine seriously wanting to be. The most obvious reason for his becoming a national treasure was his radio [...]
The Final Countdown
November 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
After all the fuss about dancing competitions, premium phone line scandals, cat-naming competitions, and everything else, it is good to see a TV company making an anouncement that can only be good – Jeff Stelling is to take over Countdown! He may be virtually unknown, except to those who watch, or have ever watched, Sky [...]
Ted Rogers
April 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
It was very saddening to hear today that Ted Rogers died on Saturday. Not the Ted Rogers from the TV but the man many in Crawley think of as “the” Ted Rogers. I did not know him very well, having only met him properly in the last couple of years, but I had seen him [...]
Attenborough
February 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
Over at the Assistant Blog, Jonathan is heaping well-deserved praise in nearly equal quantities upon David Attenborough’s new series Life In Cold Blood and Nancy Banks-Smith’s review of it in the Guardian.
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