Well that is what I thought it looked like anyway… There is a painting at the Rijksmuseum called Self Portrait with Landscape by Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen. When it popped up on my screen in the brilliant Rijkswidget it really did look like a nineteenth-century laptop!
Entries from February 11th, 2007
Classic cinema
February 11th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life, Politics
Yesterday a story in the paper asked ‘Where did all the great movies go?’ The gist of the article was that twenty years ago you could see lots of worthy, classic films on terrestrial TV channels, but now they pander more to the lowest common denominator. Something like that anyway. I can see what the […]
Pot at school
February 11th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Politics
If Dave Cameron smoked a few joints at school then good luck to him, but he still deserves some criticism: not for having a sly puff but for the sheer precociousness of doing it at school and not waiting until university as tradition demands. I doubt if anyone at my (state) school had ever seen […]
Tags: Drugs
Baby books
February 10th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
I had a surreal moment today in Sussex Stationers, and I was so glad to find that Jayne was thinking exactly the same thing as me. Either I am not weird or at least I am not alone in my weirdness… We were looking at the books on the racks, specifically the paperback of a […]
Partially processed
February 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
It is probably not a good idea to dwell too much on the methods used in modern food production, but the current bird flu-related events in Suffolk are making some level of exposure unavoidable. Plenty of people have commented on how the film of Bernard Mathews’ facility shows how the place is much more of […]
Tags: Food·Language·Medicine/Health
(S)no(w) rubbish collection
February 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
Thursday’s light dusting of snow merely made me get to work about 2 minutes later than normal. Traffic was very light and it was only the need to drive a bit slower than normal which held us up. Everyone else seemed to be able to get in OK as well. Even Chrystal’s school was open […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Traffic·Weather
West Ham out of the cup?
February 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
As if it is not bad enough getting knocked out of the FA cup by Watford, it now looks like there is a possibility of us being kicked out of next year’s cup already. Its all to do with Premier League rules about teams not fielding players who are owned by a third party and […]
The invisible man
February 8th, 2007 · Comments Off on The invisible man · Politics
I don’t know whether I have upset the Labour party or just disappeared off its radar or what, but I heard something funny today. A friend of ours wanted to join the Labour party but does not have a bank account – more common than you might expect in this part of town – so […]
Tags: Labour Party
Braced
February 8th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life, Work
With every single weather forecaster predicting snow tomorrow I can't help having a small part of me expect to wake up to brilliant sunshine, but in a way I hope it does snow now that the chances are it will only add 2 minutes to my journey into work. I am quite looking forward to […]
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Tory hereditary peer talking sense!
February 8th, 2007 · Comments Off on Tory hereditary peer talking sense! · Politics
Isn't it great to have your prejudices challenged? In my formative years I heard so much rubbish talked by Tories that I grew to assume that they never said anything sensible. At the same time my preconception of hereditary peers was that they were either dust-shrouded barely-twitching dinosaurs or young hooray-Henries and in either case […]
