Yes, the bubbles song was echoing through the Skuds homestead this evening after West Ham notched up their first win since November 5th. It is true that Uriah Rennie made some poor decisions, mostly in our favour, and our defence did just about everything they could to give Fulham a chance in the second half, […]
Entries from January 23rd, 2006
I’m forever blowing bubbles!
January 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off on I’m forever blowing bubbles! · Life
Tags: Crawley Town·Football
Across the border
January 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Across the border · Life
Yesterday we went across to East Sussex for the father-in-law’s 60th birthday party. It did involve a lot of driving for me, which makes a change. I tend to drive very rarely and that is just the odd local trip. First of all I had to get across there in the first place and later […]
In-laws
January 21st, 2006 · Comments Off on In-laws · Life
This weekend I get the pleasures of the in-laws for two days running… Its the father-in-law’s 60th birthday party today and Jayne is organising a lot of it. Yesterday we had to go all the way over to Hurst Green to pick up his car, and today we use both cars to transport the huge […]
Tags: Family
My favourite car
January 21st, 2006 · Comments Off on My favourite car · Life
Unfortunately this is only a model, but one day I will get my hands on the real thing…
Global Jukebox
January 20th, 2006 · 6 Comments · Music, Technology
The idea of record companies putting all their obscure back catalogue up for sale on the Internet has some interesting possibilities, for us punters as well as a good return for them by really exploiting the long tail of the market. I don’t personally fancy any of the tracks mentioned in this story but I […]
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Wingspan
January 19th, 2006 · Comments Off on Wingspan · Music
I picked up a real bargain in HMV the other day – Wingspan for £4.99. Thats about 12.5p a track as it has 40 tracks on it.
Tags: Shopping
Sex offenders in school: a personal experience
January 19th, 2006 · Comments Off on Sex offenders in school: a personal experience · Life
All this attention on convicted sex offenders working in schools has had me reflecting on my own time at school. As far as I know, we had nobody on the staff who was ever convicted of any sort of sexual offence, but there were three or four of the teachers that I know of who […]
Tags: Nostalgia·Schooldays
Another council meeting
January 18th, 2006 · Comments Off on Another council meeting · Politics
Hows this for a crowd at a council meeting! It was not even a ‘proper’ council meeting – just a meeting of the executive committee. Even allowing for the fact that many of the people were only there for Nimby-ish reasons, it makes a change from the usual apathy in the town, and elsewhere. The […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Travellers
Windows Media Player
January 18th, 2006 · Comments Off on Windows Media Player · Technology
I feel so foolish. I have been using Windows Media Player for a couple of years to listen to CDs and to rip them to the hard drive for transfer to the iRiver. When I rip a new CD I go in My Music afterwards and edit the filenames to put the track number in […]
Crockatt & Powell
January 17th, 2006 · Comments Off on Crockatt & Powell · Life
First day back at work today after the non-event that was jury service, so at lunchtime I popped into the new bookshop which opened while I was off – Crockatt & Powell (The place Lisa keeps writing about.) It is a great improvement on the old place, which was a boarded-up grocers. It looks a […]
