Our company is getting to be like a departure lounge at the moment. It seems like every week there is a leaving do for someone who has successfully found a better job elsewhere. The last straw was this week when Dave announced that he had a job offer and was handing in his notice. Dave […]
Entries from May 12th, 2005
Back-to-work blues
May 8th, 2005 · Comments Off on Back-to-work blues · Work
What with the bank holiday monday and taking a couple of days off for the election, I have only gone into work for two days in the last nine. And now I am facing a whole 5 days in a row. Five days of dragging myself up to London on the train and back again, […]
Footie
May 8th, 2005 · Comments Off on Footie · Life
West Ham’s finish to the season is starting to make Laura Moffatt’s election victory in Crawley look like a stroll in the park! After flirting around the play-off places for months and dropping in and out of the top six places, the Hammers have finally managed to scrape in at the last minute by beating […]
Harlow
May 7th, 2005 · Comments Off on Harlow · Politics
The Harlow result is in and it is double good news. Firstly it is a Labour win, which is always good to see, and secondly the majority there is 97, so Crawley keeps its position as the most marginal constituency in the country!
Tags: Elections
Its all over at last!
May 7th, 2005 · Comments Off on Its all over at last! · Politics
When the count was suspended somewhere between 4:00am and 5:00am on Friday morning we came home and Jayne knocked up some bacon and eggs. We stayed up until the kids were up for school. It was Frankie’s last day and he was getting all dressed up in his new suit for the event, so Jayne […]
Tags: Broadfield·Crawley·Elections
Celebrations on hold in Crawley
May 6th, 2005 · Comments Off on Celebrations on hold in Crawley · Politics
The Crawley count went very slowly. The verification took forever and it was after 2am before the proper count even started. We ended up with a result too close to call. The first count showed Labour winning by 78 votes so there was obviously a recount. This uncovered a mixed bundle allocated to Labour and […]
Tags: Canvassing·Crawley·Elections
Home Cinema
May 4th, 2005 · Comments Off on Home Cinema · Life
I’m quite pleased with my home cinema equipment (which we used tonight to watch Dodgeball. I haven’t laughed so much since finding that site for doing your own Tory posters). Its just a Pioneer DVD player (also DVD-A and SACD), a Panasonic 36-inch CRT, and a Yamaha amp with 5.1 surround speakers, but its fine […]
Crawley Labour Blogs
May 4th, 2005 · Comments Off on Crawley Labour Blogs · Politics
Thanks to him putting a comment here, I found that another member of Crawley Labour pary has a blog now. It has a rather unfortunate emphasis on Fulham FC, but I will forgive him that because he mentioned this blog and Spizzenergi. I didn’t know he liked Spizz (actually he didn’t know himself until he […]
Tags: bloggers4labour·Blogging·Brighton·Internet·Spizzenergi
Iraq
May 4th, 2005 · Comments Off on Iraq · Politics
I had a sort of minor epiphany this afternoon. I was reading some blogs from Iraq which I ended up at via Bloggers4Labour and Harry’s Place, and I was particularly interested in this article on the Free Iraqi blog and all the comments which have been added to it by various people. What struck me […]
Tags: Blogging
Why do they do it?
May 1st, 2005 · Comments Off on Why do they do it? · Politics
I have been wondering today why on earth people stand for election. I know some of our councillors who are in rock-solid safe seats who are almost paralysed by worry as the day gets closer. How much worse must it be for parliamentary elections? It is never a good thing to fail, whether it is […]
Tags: Elections
