Over in Dallas, Texas there is a crime problem. Apparently it is the most dangerous city in the US with murders at a level four times as high as the average for the US. But the council has a cunning plan: as the article says “alarmed by rising gun crime in Dallas… …councillors have advanced […]
Entries from August 15th, 2006
The Langdon Players
August 15th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life
The Langdon Players were an amateur dramatics group which was active in Laindon, Essex in the 1950s/1960s. I don’t know when they started up although I believe they were around in the 1930s and I am not sure when they disappeared. All I do know is that several people who were involved in The Langdon […]
Time Travel
August 14th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
There were times last week when it felt like my holiday destination was actually 1950 rather than Dorset, although to be fair there were some things which were more late 70s. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Don’t we all sometimes look fondly back to simpler times?
Tags: Camping·Dorset·Family·Holidays·Nature·Nostalgia·Railways·Schooldays·Shopping·Town Planning
The Meaning of Night
August 13th, 2006 · Comments Off on The Meaning of Night · Life
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 […]
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
Fame and Fortune (part 3)
August 11th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life, Technology
First it was a magazine asking to use some of my photos, then it was Amazon asking me to review a book, and now its the BBC asking me if I would like to be interviewed on the radio about political blogging, with reference to the Labour party’s scheme for blogging at this year’s conference. […]
Tags: bloggers4labour·Blogging·Internet·Radio
Back to reality
August 10th, 2006 · Comments Off on Back to reality · Life
So. We return from our camping trip after days of seeing all sorts of things but being unable to Google them.. After unpacking I copied all my photos from the camera to the PC and started looking up Durlston, the Swanage Railway, John Mowlem, the TOG II tank, Corfe Castle and all sorts of other […]
Absence
August 10th, 2006 · Comments Off on Absence · Life
Eagle-eyed regular visitors, if there are any, will have noticed an absence of activity here recently. For a change this is not a result of idleness or ennui, but a result of me spending the last few nights in a tent in a field in Dorset. Camping is not my idea of a good time, […]
