I am writing this while sitting in a hotel room in Doncaster of all places. The reason is that I have to be in our offices in Donny at 9:00 tomorrow for some training on a new switch we are having installed. (Thats a telephone switch AKA a PABX. Not a simple on/off switch. Even […]
Entries from July 18th, 2006
World Party
July 18th, 2006 · Comments Off on World Party · Music
On Saturday we went up to Croydon for the World Party, which is a one-day free festival. Jayne and I took Charlie with us – the first time he has been to any sort of concert – and met up with fellow Labour blogger Danivon and his girlfriend, and an old work colleague and his […]
Tags: Concerts·Food·Local Government·London·Photos·World music
Redwatch
July 17th, 2006 · 10 Comments · Politics
The other day I noticed a surge in visits from a site called Redwatch. Surge is probably over-stating it a bit: as at yesterday I had 16 hits from 9 different IP addresses. Not much of a surge really. More of a blip. But I thought I would head over to Redwatch to see what […]
Tags: BNP·Crime/ASB·Internet·Links·Racism·Redwatch·Religion·UAF
Croydon Council
July 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
Just like Crawley, Croydon council changed hands from Labour to Conservative. Just like in Crawley, the Labour party is worried about possible cuts to services and facilities. On Saturday I was at the Croydon World Party in Lloyd Park. This event was started off while the council was Labour-controlled and has grown to be quite […]
Racism at Bar Med?
July 15th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life
Last week’s Crawley Observer filled its front page with a story about the police looking into allegations of racist door policies at the Bar Med in Crawley’s High Street. This week it is followed up on page two with a much smaller piece containing the following: A number of clubbers (presumably non-white) have contacted the […]
Tags: Crawley·Local Papers·Newspapers·Racism
Carnival season
July 15th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life, Work
We are now getting into the season of carnivals, festivals and fetes. With all the coverage of T in the Park, anticipation for the Croydon World Party, and adverts for umpteen different festivals a much more local event crept up on me today. I was on the phone to someone at work and could not […]
Tags: London·Lower Marsh·Photos
Juve
July 15th, 2006 · Comments Off on Juve · Life
Wow. Relegation and a 30-point deduction. At least now when we look at Crawley Town’s 10-point deduction for the new season in the Conference we can tell ourselves that it could be worse, although somehow I suspect Juve will cope a bit better than the Red Devils.
Tags: Crawley Town·Football
Diary Clash
July 14th, 2006 · Comments Off on Diary Clash · Music
After looking forward to the Croydon World Party for months now, I realised yesterday that it clashes with the Broadfield community centre fete – the highlight of Broadfield’s social calendar as any fule no. Also it clashes with Crawley Town’s friendly against Milwall – and how often do you see “Millwall” and “friendly” in the […]
Blogs Today
July 13th, 2006 · Comments Off on Blogs Today · Technology
I think that the Blogs Today site is quite new, but it looks interesting. It is traditional, possibly even mandatory, for WordPress users to look down their noses a bit at a set-up which is free, very easy to use and under the ownership of a newspaper company, but it does have a lot going […]
Tags: Blogger·Blogging·Newspapers·Wordpress
West Sussex schools
July 13th, 2006 · Comments Off on West Sussex schools · Politics
I was going to mention this a week ago, but Richard Symonds has beaten me to it on his new blog. (One of an astonishing 27 which he has under his profile on Blogger! That is a serious habit – or would be if more than 2 of them were ever updated.) Anyway, West Sussex […]
Tags: Education·Food·Schooldays·WSCC
