After posting about the playground video, I made a mental connection with an earlier post about Redwatch and Dadsplace. In the case of the Tilgate playground the police and council managed to get something, which is probably not illegal, removed from a website within a day or two of learning about it. In the case […]
Entries from August 2nd, 2006
Crawley is well and truly on the map now.
August 2nd, 2006 · 4 Comments · Life
That video of the young girls flying off a roundabout in the playground at Tilgate has put Crawley well in the public eye, both here and abroad. The town already has a bit of a reputation as a ‘chav town‘ and this will do nothing to help. The original video had something like 2 million […]
Tags: Crawley·Crawley Council·Internet·Newspapers·Tilgate·TV
Something new to worry about
August 2nd, 2006 · 1 Comment · Life
Already we are burdened with worrying about global poverty, the spread of AIDS and malaria in Africa, WWIII starting in the Middle-East, water shortages, rising fuel prices, fundamental inequalities of opportunity in education leading to more general inequalities in society, and a million other things, so yet one more thing to worry about is far […]
Fire Station
August 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Fire Station · Politics
I may have to venture out into the unpleasantly hot weather[*] with my camera and do another ‘secret Crawley’ post on the land next to Cheals roundabout, while it is still there. The county council want to relocate the fire station there, on what the Crawley News describes as ‘precious land’. The borough council’s planning […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Town Planning·WSCC
Fame and Fortune (part 2)
August 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Fame and Fortune (part 2) · Life
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s news that a Croydon-based free listings magazine wants to use some of my photos, I have now been asked by a globally-famous company to write a pre-publication review of a new book. Again there is nothing so vulgar as any sort of payment involved, but I do get a […]
