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Ted Rogers in the Guardian

April 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Ted Rogers in the Guardian · Life

The Crawley Observer gave almost a page to Ted Rogers this week and today’s Guardian featured an obituary in it’s ‘Other Lives’ section. What a great idea that feature is because it gives space to recognise the lives of those who were perhaps not known widely beyond a specific area or community of shared interests […]

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Oxygene

January 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Oxygene · Music

I was a little tempted to buy the Mail on Sunday today for the free CD of Oxygene because I thought I only had it on an old cassette.

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Great Modern Buildings – postscript

December 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Great Modern Buildings – postscript · Life

It was a bit anorak-ish of me to take an active interest in the Guardian’s series on Great Modern Buildings earlier this year. Still having all of those supplements is even worse, although I could blame it on a combination of a hoarding mentality and not getting round to recycling everything yet… …unless I actually […]

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Corrections

November 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life

If I find myself between jobs again at any time I think I shall pro-actively apply to the Crawley News for their obvious vacancy as a spell-checker/proof-reader/fact checker… Just in the few bits I have read this week I was distracted by: A picture of the youth was used on the front page with his […]

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1027 Albums

November 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off on 1027 Albums · Music

You can't please all the people, so everyone will feel that the Grauniad's 1000 albums to hear before you die list thingy is missing some essentials.  No point in getting worked up about it…  but here are some of the albums by artists they missed out, one for each letter of the alphabet: Apocalyptica – […]

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1000 albums

November 20th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Music

They are at it again.  Its another list. Another pointless list.  Another pointless and arbitrary list with no apparent purpose other than to stir up controversy and generate lots of comments on their blog.  Worst of all, it is as irresistible as it is pointless.  Of course, it is the Guardian's 1000 albums you must […]

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Beyond Easy

November 17th, 2007 · Comments Off on Beyond Easy · Life

The ‘killer sudoku’ in today’s Guardian was hellishly hard. The ‘futoshiki’ puzzle was described as ‘easy’. I think that ‘far too easy’ would be a more accurate description. I bet they didn’t make much profit from their 60p/min helpline today!

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Le Sudoku

November 15th, 2007 · Comments Off on Le Sudoku · Life

It sometimes feels like we are a bit obsessed with Sudoku, but I was surprised, I don’t nkow why,to see that the French share our interest. While visiting Calais at the weekend I could not believe how many sudoku books and magazines there were. I saw one bloke in the park doing a puzzle in […]

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Suspicious

November 8th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life

It is not often that something in a local newspaper is genuinely intriguing, but the story on the front page of this week’s Crawley Observer raises more questions than it answers. The gist of it is that a woman found a suspicious device under her car on Saturday and called the police. They closed the […]

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Arnos Grove??

October 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life

I was sharing some idle speculation with others, mostly Danivon, about which buildings would feature in the Guardian’s series of ‘Great Modern Buildings’ when neither of us were aware it was a two-week feature and not just one week. So I was a little peeved when it featured the Gherkin (his guess) instead of the […]

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