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Entries from July 22nd, 2007

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 […]

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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 […]

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Bins again

July 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Bins again · Politics

I am starting to doubt what we were told about bins at the Broadfield Forum the other day. One piece of evidence for bins causing rubbish seemed quite compelling: bins were removed from half the memorial gardens and the half without bins has less litter than the half with bins. This was in addition to […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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