The Isle of Wight has some fine roadsigns warning of ‘ducks in road’ or directing you to the dubious-sounding “landslip recreation park”. I was also fascinated by roadside adverts for a garlic festival which was described as “the Island’s largest garlic festival” – how many garlic festivals does one small island have anyway? But despite […]
Entries from July 31st, 2007
Local papers
July 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
Newsagents often have a board outside with whatever shock-horror headline the local paper can think up to generate excitement/fear/interest in that week’s edition. Sometimes they can’t generate quite as much excitement as they want… I wish I had managed to get a photo of it, but as we passed through Binstead on the way home […]
Tags: Isle of Wight·Local Papers·WTF
Holidays
July 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
The reason for the total lack of activity here (apart from Richard and Danivon bashing their heads together in the comments) is that I have been away on holiday. In a fit of misplaced optimism about the weather prospects we booked a week camping on the Isle of Wight and just got back yesterday. We […]
The first cut is the deepest
July 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off on The first cut is the deepest · Life
Despite the state of the weather at the moment, I have decided that summer is here because the school holidays have started and so last night I had the annual summer ritual of shaving all my hair off. Now a bald head is quite easy to maintain, just run the razor over it every night […]
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The Tory party: only Christians need apply?
July 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Politics
I have just written about how I think one of our councillors is not only a part-time councillor, but one who is probably in breach of some or other code of conduct in Adur and who stood under false pretenses, but there are some interesting minor details to it all. I can thoroughly recommend a […]
Told you so
July 22nd, 2007 · 19 Comments · Politics
In May we fought the election in Furnace Green ward with two main points. I’ll admit that ‘fought’ might be a bit of a strong word as we didn’t really do much there: knowing that it was unlikely to be a gain for us we only gave it a little time and only produced one […]
Umbrellas
July 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Umbrellas · Life
Umbrellas really wind me up. I was in Crawley town centre today when it started to rain, and not just a gentle shower but huge amounts of water coming down in torrents. Under those circumstances it makes sense to stick to the shopfronts where there are concrete or glass canopies to keep the rain off, […]
Tags: Shopping
Passing Out
July 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Passing Out · Life
On Friday Jayne went up to Bassingbourne to see our nephew’s passing out parade, which really was a literal case of it rainign on someone’s parade, because it was pissing down. The whole thing was filmed by the army and available for sale in DVD form an hour or so after the end of the […]
Tags: Family
Owl Wanted
July 21st, 2007 · Comments Off on Owl Wanted · Life
Found in the Marketplace section of Facebook: I need to borrow an owl for a few days; just for general owl things; getting it to fly silently, hunt owl-prey, the usual. If you’ve got a owl going spare, I’d love to borrow it. I’ll look after it well, honestly. I reckon its just someone who […]
Tags: WTF
