I saw that the American version of The Office was on tonight, and I could not resist watching it. I know this might be an unfashionable opinion in the UK, but I thought it was not too bad. Obviously we have an attachment to the actors in the Brit version and a great familiarity with […]
Entries from June 14th, 2005
The Office – an American workplace
June 14th, 2005 · Comments Off on The Office – an American workplace · Life
Taking a break
June 14th, 2005 · Comments Off on Taking a break · Life
This evening I finally got round to putting a bit more content on my website. Nothing spectacular, but it keeps what meagre HTML skills I have in use. I did a page of all the concerts I have been to, and a list of all the places I have been to. This is partly so […]
Tags: Internet
Not guilty??
June 14th, 2005 · Comments Off on Not guilty?? · Life
Jayne and I heard the Michael Jackson verdict being read out live on the car radio. At the time we were cruising around town trying to find our 13 year-old girl. When Jayne went to pick her up from army cadets she was not there, the building was dark and the car park was empty. […]
The book meme
June 13th, 2005 · Comments Off on The book meme · Life
Well Bloggers4Labour tagged me, so I will try to rise to the challenge… 1) Total number of books I’ve owned Its hard to tell. A few years ago, in a moment of clarity, I got rid of a huge box of Star Trek books, and have lost a few along the way, and we gave […]
Town Planning – a PS
June 13th, 2005 · Comments Off on Town Planning – a PS · Life
Thinking about the earlier rant about all the toytown houses that spring up everywhere… Last week saw a lot of news coverage given over to “clone Britain”, referring to how all high streets look the same as they all have branches of the same chainstores in them. It occurred to me that the increased similarity […]
Tags: Town Planning
A day in the sun
June 13th, 2005 · Comments Off on A day in the sun · Life
We all went down to Eastbourne today for the Sussex Youth Games, or to give the full title ‘The BAA Gatwick Sussex Youth Games”. Credit where credit is due, when they are not making plans to build new runways on the edge of the town, BAA Gatwick are quite good neighbours. Apart from the youth […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Family·Gatwick·WSCC
Pink Floyd to reform at Live 8
June 12th, 2005 · Comments Off on Pink Floyd to reform at Live 8 · Music
If its on the BBC web site it must be true. I was beginning to think that Pink Floyd would never play again, let alone play with Roger Waters. Truly Bob Geldof has kissed the Blarney Stone to get that lot to play together. Its a shame that its on a packed bill and they […]
Tags: Live 8·Pink Floyd
More town planning
June 11th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Life
I’m back on the topic of town planning because I am still interested in it. This afternoon Jayne and I escaped from the kids for a while by going down to Three Bridges where Fairview Homes were holding a consultation on development on the current Crawley Leisure Centre site. One of the ways the council […]
One link leads to another
June 10th, 2005 · Comments Off on One link leads to another · Music
I was on the Bloggers 4 Labour site and something caught my eye about Jo’s Journal so I went there to read it.
Tags: Concerts·Gay/Lesbian·Internet·Links·WTF
New sounds
June 10th, 2005 · Comments Off on New sounds · Music
I got a parcel from Amazon today with a load of goodies to keep me occupied. First of all there is a CD by Amadou and Mariam called Dimanche a Bamako. They are a couple of Malian singers, who have collaborated with Manu Chao for their new album. I first heard about it on Councillor […]
Tags: DVD·iRiver·Kraftwerk·Shopping·World music
