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Entries from August 31st, 2006

Gobsmacked again!

August 31st, 2006 · Comments Off on Gobsmacked again! · Life

The other football news is overshadowed by the last-minute transfer deals, but is far from trivial for those of us in Crawley. Although full details of yesterday’s meeting have not been made public, Crawley Town FC’s creditors have agreed to accept the SA Retail Group’s revised offer of 50p in the pound and will not […]

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Gobsmacked!

August 31st, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life

No wonder he is smiling All day at work the talk has been about West Ham signing Tevez and Mascherano from Corinthians. Even though it looked like a one-year loan deal with a chance of them moving on early it still seemed too good to be true. I had a quick look at the BBC’s […]

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Book meme misery

August 31st, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life

I have seen this book meme thing going around like a case of avian flu and been keeping my head down, hoping that everyone has forgotten about me – but Paulie found me out. My mind goes blank at this sort of thing and its tempting to cop-out and just give the Porridge answer (“I […]

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Throwbacks?

August 30th, 2006 · Comments Off on Throwbacks? · Politics

I found this story in today’s paper totally amazing. Apparently some firefighters in Scotland are facing disciplinary hearings because they refused to hand out fire safety leaflets at the Glasgow gay pride march. Just when it looked like things were getting better and we might be starting to grow up as a society. One of […]

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Train strike – PS

August 29th, 2006 · 7 Comments · Politics

Surely I am not the only one who finds this quote from Keith Norman, the Aslef General Secretary, to be ever so slightly ironically amusing? I believe the company is using its passengers to try to score points over the union. I am only sorry that the public will suffer, rather than this appalling management.

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Domestic fleas and the far right

August 29th, 2006 · Comments Off on Domestic fleas and the far right · Life

Why is it that flea treatments for domestic pets all have brand names that sound like they could be the titles of BNP newspapers? (eg Frontline and Stronghold)

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Train strikes

August 29th, 2006 · Comments Off on Train strikes · Work

Having been on holiday for a week I didn’t realise that there was a rail strike today. It was only on South West Trains but since they provide all the services to Waterloo (except for Eurostar of course) it was very quiet at work today. Apparently the strike was because managers drove some trains during […]

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What I did on my holidays – Wednesday afternoon

August 26th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life

The end of the trip, and a continuation of the plan to exhaust the children. After a much-needed Dorset cream tea at Studlands to help us recover from the damp of Kimmeridge Bay, we were going to go into Corfe Castle village to see the model village and let Charlie climb a few huge hills […]

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Dolphin Watching

August 26th, 2006 · Comments Off on Dolphin Watching · Life

We didn’t see any dolphins…

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What I did on my holidays – Wednesday morning

August 26th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life

Wednesday morning I was woken by torrential rain. Having no clock or watch in the sleeping part of the tent I got up and Jayne and I sat outside under the gazebo and had a coffee, wondering if it would ever stop raining. Then we dug out a watch and found out that it was […]

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