Yesterday evening I was driving behind a large, black, shiny 4×4 which had the number plate ORG454M. Brilliant. Almost certainly illegal, as all the spaces were removed, but still brilliant. Down in Australia you can have anything you want on your licence plates (subject to obscenity laws) and the best one I saw was a […]
Entries from June 30th, 2006
Crawley in bloom
June 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Life
Crawley Council usually put on a fine display for the Britain In Bloom competition with hanging baskets everywhere and troughs of flowers on the railings in the middle of the roads. Maybe its a bit over-the-top, and surely adds to the tax burden, but who really wants to live in a colourless place? This year […]
Tags: Art·Crawley·Crawley Council·Local Papers·Photos·Schooldays·Three Bridges·Traffic
Another false alarm?
June 28th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Music
The Q magazine published today has a full-page advert for the DVD of Pulse – the 1994 Pink Floyd concert: the one which was supposed to be out last October, which slipped to december, then January, then November 2006. I just checked on Amazon and they have a revised release date of July 10th 2006. […]
Tags: Concerts·DVD·Pink Floyd
More suspicious behaviour
June 28th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life
Morris Dancers!!, originally uploaded by Krypto. Andrew at Wongablog has spotted further suspicious behaviour on the streets of Britain. I imagine the phone call going something like this: “Hello 999, police please… hello police, there are a group of men carrying stout sticks facing up to each other in the High Street. They appear to […]
Gerrit Dou
June 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on Gerrit Dou · Life
This week’s revelation has been the paintings of Gerrit Dou. I have been overlooking his paintings in the National Gallery while rushing off to see the famous Rembrandts, Vermeers and de Hoochs, but today I stopped and looked at this example of what are called his ‘niche’ paintings. (An interior scene viewed through a window […]
Strandbeest sightings
June 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on Strandbeest sightings · Life
I came across the strandbeests by chance at lunchtime today. I had gone across the river with the intention of looking at the Dutch realist paintings in the National Gallery again, knowing that I would be tempted to have another gawp at the Joseph Wright of Derby painting. (I just love saying the name. Its […]
Tags: Art·Labour Party·London·Photos
The easiest job in the world?
June 27th, 2006 · Comments Off on The easiest job in the world? · Life
The story of Bruno the bear came to a sad end yesterday, but just pause for a moment to consider two facts from the story: The statement was made by Manfred Wölfl, “the Bavarian government’s bear specialist” Bruno was the first bear to wander into Germany for 170 years. I don’t think Herr Wölfl has […]
Tags: WTF
Some of my best friends are chicken-sexers
June 27th, 2006 · Comments Off on Some of my best friends are chicken-sexers · Life
Hats off to Luis Aragonés for a public statement of Cantona-esque weirdness. In a new twist on the old “some of my best friends are gay/black/Jewish” line, he said that he had: black, Gypsy and Japanese friends, including one whose job is to determine the sex of poultry in response to the old charge of […]
Tags: Racism·World Cup 2006·WTF
Lord of the Rings – the musical
June 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Music
I had to check that it was not April 1st when I read in the paper the other day that Lord of the Rings is to be made into a musical. Or rather, it already has been made into a musical in Canada, but is being transferred to London. I would like to think that […]
Tags: WTF
Total warfare
June 25th, 2006 · Comments Off on Total warfare · Life
That Holland v Portugal game made the USA/Italy game look tame, with something like 16 yellow cards and 4 players sent off. Ugly perhaps, but in the last 5 minutes I was rather hoping Holland would score so we could have another 30 minutes to further whittle down our opponents for next weekend. As it […]
