I finally finished reading this book yesterday. Its a big book – 600 pages – and I was a bit worried when it arrived in the post as I had agreed to review it within a week but was about to go away camping for 4 days. Fortunately it was a real page-turner and I […]
Entries from August 13th, 2006
Our very own sex offender
August 13th, 2006 · Comments Off on Our very own sex offender · Life
This week’s Crawley News had a story about a sex offender going to court because he failed to notify them when he changed address, so that although he was on the various sex offenders’ registers the police did not know where he was. They should have asked us, because we knew. He was doing our […]
What a load of rubbish
August 13th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
Today and yesterday Charlie and I made several trips to the tip to get rid of the waste from our bathroom re-modelling. When we arrived at the tip in Metcalf Way we discovered that the new tip is open and the old one next door has closed down. The new one is so much better […]
Tags: Crawley·Town Planning·Travellers·WSCC
Biko
August 13th, 2006 · Comments Off on Biko · Music
I was on the final run to the tip today, with the car CD player set to random play on a disc stuffed full of loads of WMAs from my computer, and Manu Dibango's version of Peter Gabriel's classic anti-apartheid song Biko came on. Despite having heard it many times I was really struck by […]
Tags: World music
